Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday Cover) ft. Tonina | Brian Owens
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2021
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"Strange Fruit" (Billy Holiday Cover) ft. Brian Owens and Tonina.
For Black History Month, I'm sharing a duet from the forthcoming Homegrown Soul ft. Tonina. Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" is both beautiful and powerful. With everything going on, the soul of this song that was written so long ago still resonates in our society today. To perform it in that space, at Earthdance Farm, was the perfect setting for song such as this.
This duet is from a content series called Homegrown Soul. The arts community has been hit hard by COVID-19 and its resulting health and safety restrictions. Venues are closed, artists unable to perform and stage professionals, producers, and agents are unable to earn a living. The Homegrown Soul initiative - spearheaded by Brian Owens and Shelley Dotson (Hurley Creative Consulting) - was created with the aim to give artists a platform to perform, venues unique content to share with their patrons, and patrons the opportunity to support the artists and venues they love. Learn about future Homegrown Soul performances and purchase tickets at homegrownsoul.org.
Tonina is a singer, songwriter, bassist, music journalist and poet from St. Louis, Missouri who performs her original music along with her arrangements of covers in both Spanish and English. Tonina comes from a family of music lovers that exposed her to many music styles, from funk, soul, and jazz to classical music.
"Strange Fruit" is a song written by Abel Meeropol, recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939, while the poem the lyrics were drawn from was published in 1937. It protests the lynching of Black Americans, with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the Southern United States at the turn of the 20th century.
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Music and love define the artistry of singer, songwriter and dedicated community activist Brian Owens. These qualities radiate from all of his work, including his duet with five time Grammy-winning and legendary vocalist Michael McDonald on SOUL OF FERGUSON, and the heartfelt interpretation of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come," which Owens filmed and recorded with his father, Thomas Owens. Their powerful performance ignited the internet and has received more than 100 million views on Facebook and RUclips. Owens and McDonald appear as featured guests on an episode of SANBORN SESSIONS, hosted by award-winning saxophonist, composer and arranger David Sanborn from his home studio in New York. Additionally, Owens serves as the Community Music Artist in Residence with the E. Desmond Lee Fine Arts Collaborative at the University of Missouri St. Louis. For more information, as well as tour dates, visit BrianOwensSoul.com. 
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Where's the love the button!! Tears and happiness and sadness..I love this so much
What a powerful new interpretation! A must hear!
Majestic....thanks
Wow what Voices....❤❤
Such a powerful song!! You two give it the passion and beauty it deserves. Thank u for this. ❤️💪🏾🙏🏾💯
Can't top this! Spot on.
That was Dope AF,🤗
Pure Unadulterated GOLD. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
You gems💎put the Raw in Awe!! 😳👍💗💗💗💗💗
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Magnifique ❤
Such a beautiful song and blend between you two
Wow... deep
Such a moving cover of this song... Beautifully done especially for such a challenging, emotional and needed song. We must NEVER forget
So hard to comment on this song. In one hand it’s heartbreaking. The other it touches my soul. Thank you 🙏🏼
Not to many songs can do that.
👍💯💗💗
Thank you for expressing perfectly my exact reaction!
Des frissons merci 🤩 plein de bonne chose pour vous madame une voix sublime monsieur aussi
Amazing 🤩
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cold
It blows my mind. Why did I not hear this before? It takes me.
That's an astronomical duet I didn't expect to witness!
Me encanto...!!!
Beautiful, beautiful I can't even talk about it,
💯👍🏽
Beautifully sang 😌 I felt every note.🔥🔥😎
♥️
Gracias!🙏
Beautiful is all I can say. 💯❤️
So amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
❤❤💋
Beautiful rendition of Lady Day's song, i'm sure she is smiling down on them saying well done, well done!!!!
I am infatuated 🥰
amazing, indescribably beautiful ...
💞
Wow wow wow love this
Continue trazendo fé 🙏🏾
Wow!
That bass ❤❤❤ but what a deep text from a shamefull time in history, my heart bleeds when I think of it 😢
Maravilha 👍
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We must never forget was has happened in the past, sadly it still happens today.
🥲 amazing !!!!
I love this put me in peace helps me reconnect with myself surely there's somebody out there that knows what I'm saying awesome
❤😭🙏🐞🍀🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Nice
je salue les prestations de open car elles mefascinent beaucoup
So powerful
Bendiciones a los dos, soy latina, y amo esta cancion, me llega al alma, Paz y bien para el mundo!!!!!
We all need to learn the meaning behind this song if we don’t know!
Fantastic! I'd love to know who the cinematographer was for this piece. *Also, as a Kranzberg Artist in residence, would love to use this in upcoming project ! GORGEOUS!
This was cool. I couldn’t understand a word she was saying but it was still cool.
Thank you for this haunting but beautiful rendition.
Sad, this song is still relevant when we think of current victims like Ahmaud Arbery. 😢
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Clearly these two are talented; I can see myself vibing in their audience; HOWEVER, I didn't like this performance. Considering the subject matter, their version seemed a bit too upbeat. It seems they connected with the music, but not the lyrics. 🤷🏾♀️
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