This article is the list of awards and nominations received by an American jazz and swing music singer Billie Holiday.
Grammy Hall of Fame Singer Billie Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Year Recorded Title Genre Label Year inducted Notes 1941 "(In My) Solitude" Jazz (single) Okeh (Columbia) 2021This induction ties Billie Holiday with Ella Fitzgerald for having the most entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame by a female artist 1937 "My Man" Jazz (single) Brunswick (Columbia) 2018 1956 Lady Sings the Blues Jazz (album) Clef (Verve) 2016 1949 "Crazy He Calls Me" Jazz (single) Decca 2010 1944 "Embraceable You" Jazz (single) Commodore 2005 1958 Lady in Satin Jazz (album) Columbia 2000 1945 "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" Jazz (single) Decca 1989 1939 "Strange Fruit" Jazz (single) Commodore 1978 Listed also in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002 1941 "God Bless the Child" Jazz (single) Okeh (Columbia) 1976
Best Historical Album The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979.
Year Title Label Result 2002 Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday Columbia 1933–1944 Winner 1994 The Complete Billie Holiday Verve 1945–1959 Winner 1992 Billie Holiday — The Complete Decca Recordings Verve 1944–1950 Winner 1980 Billie Holiday — Giants of Jazz Time-Life Winner
Other honors Year Award Honors Notes 2004 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame Inducted Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducted Category: "Early Influence" 1997 ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Inducted 1947 Esquire Magazine Gold Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award 1946 Esquire Magazine Silver Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award 1945 Esquire Magazine Silver Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award 1944 Esquire Magazine Gold Award Best Leading Female Vocalist Jazz award
Tributes 1972, Diana Ross portrayed Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues, which is loosely based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name. The film earned Ross a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Singer Miki Howard released the Holiday tribute album, Miki Sings Billie: A Tribute to Billie Holiday in 1993. Miki Howard also portrayed Lady Day in a club scene in the 1992 motion picture " Malcolm X " starring Denzel Washington. Paula Jai Parker portrayed Holiday in a Season 7 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel, entitled "God Bless the Child," the title derived from a song which Holiday had written and performed.Touched by an Angel: God Bless the Child Episode Summary on . Tv.com (2008-06-25). Retrieved on 2010-11-13. Jazz pianist Mal Waldron performed as Holiday's accompanist and released several tribute albums including: Left Alone (Bethlehem, 1959) Blues for Lady Day (Black Lion, 1972) Left Alone '86 with Jackie McLean (Paddle Wheel, 1986) No More Tears (For Lady Day) (Timeless, 1989) Billie Hollidy, Croatian National Theatre in Split by A.Ostojić & Ksenia Prohaska (2006) Argentinean comic artists Carlos Sampayo and José Antonio Muñoz made a graphic novel on her life, titled Billie Holiday (Fantagraphics Books, 1991; Spanish edition: Ojo de Pez, Buenos Aires, 2007). Holiday is the primary character in the play and later the film Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway (she received a Tony Award for her performance) and in the film.
Honors 1987, Billie Holiday was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. 1993, R&B singer Miki Howard released an album dedicated to Holiday titled Miki Sings Billie. 1994, the United States Postal Service introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp. 1999, Holiday ranked No. 6 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll. 2000, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2011, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Over the years, there have been many tributes to Billie Holiday, including "The Day Lady Died", a 1959 poem by Frank O'Hara, and Langston Hughes' poem "Song for Billie Holiday". In 1970 Frank Sinatra recorded the song Lady Day as a tribute. In 1988 the group U2 released "Angel of Harlem" in her honor. "My Only Friend" by The Magnetic Fields is a tribute to Billie Holiday. Arthur Phillips features Holiday's 1953 concert in New York in his novel The Song is You (2009).
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