Billie Holiday: Personal Playlist: Peter Stormare's obsession with Billie Holiday

ORG In the liner notes to A Tribute to Billie Holiday executive producer, Peter Stormare talks about how he first got turned on to the legendary singer. It was 1970 and he was a teenager in Sweden. Jimi Hendrix, "one of the gods of rock and roll," had“I'm not sure what I'm going to sing in South Africa, but for sure a lot of the Billie Holiday repertoire.” This refers to her Grammy winning CD titled Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee

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