List of awards and nominations received by Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday in 1947

Grammy

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Hall of Fame

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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."[1]

Year Recorded Title Genre Label Year inducted Notes
1941 "(In My) Solitude" Jazz (single) Okeh (Columbia) 2021 This induction ties Billie Holiday with Ella Fitzgerald for having the most entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame by a female artist[2]
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 Album Album

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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

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Year Award Honors Notes
2004 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame[3] Inducted Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York
2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducted Category: "Early Influence"
1997 ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame[4] 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

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Honors

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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".

References

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  1. ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Archived from the original on 2011-01-22. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  2. ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.org. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  3. ^ "Webcast Schedule". Jazzatlincolncentrer.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  4. ^ [1] Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Touched by an Angel: God Bless the Child Episode Summary on Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Tv.com (2008-06-25). Retrieved on 2010-11-13.
  6. ^ "Anton Arsen Ostojić / Ksenija Prohaska: LADY SINGS THE BLUES / HNK Split, 11. 02. 2006". Arhiva.hnk-split.hr. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
  7. ^ "Holiday, Billie". National Women’s Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  8. ^ "Biography". Fasinatra.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.