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portada Billie Holiday
Type
Physical Book
Category
Arte y Fotografía
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781681120935
Edition No.
01

Billie Holiday

Carlos Sampayo (Author) · Nbm Publishing Company · Hardcover

Billie Holiday - Carlos Sampayo

Arte y fotografía

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Synopsis "Billie Holiday"

Born in Philadelphua in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation, Muñoz and Sampayo trace, through the undertones of racism, and in the wake of the blues, the slow drift of a singer who expressed the deepest emotions in jazz. By internationally renowned Argentine artists, featuring Muñoz' strikingly raw heavy blacks, this is not just a biography but a spell-binding art book tribute.
Carlos Sampayo
  (Author)
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(Buenos Aires, 1943), escritor y guionista, es autor de novelas, relatos cortos, poesía y guiones de historieta y de cine. También es especialista en jazz, tema sobre el que ha publicado ensayos y ficciones, y dirigido y coordinado enciclopedias, como Maestros del jazz, Diccionario del jazz y Los cien mejores discos de jazz. Su obra ha sido ampliamente publicada en América y en Europa. En 1974, conoció a su compatriota José Muñoz, con el que comenzó a dar vida al célebre detective Alack Sinner. Sampayo ha colaborado con Igort en una biografía en historieta de Fats Waller, y con Oscar Zárate, en los libros Tres artistas en París, Fly blues y La faille. Actualmente vive entre Barcelona y Buenos Aires.
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