Evening offered within the framework of the Nancy Jazz Pulsations in partnership with TB2C, unique session of “Billie”. Duration: 1h32mn. Genre: musical documentary. Billie Holiday is one of the greatest voices of all time. She was the first icon of the protest against racism which won her powerful enemies. At the end of the 1960s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl began an official biography of the artist. She collects 200 hours of incredible testimonies: Charles Mingus Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms, Count Basie, her lovers, her lawyers, her pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her …. But Linda’s book didn’t never been completed and the tapes have remained unseen … until now. “Billie” is the story of the singer who changed the face of American music and the journalist who died trying to tell the story of Lady as she was.
