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“Strange Fruit” remains one of Holiday’s most popular and well-known recordings.
Each night, Holiday would perform the song only once, without an encore, after which the lights would go out. Not everyone was impressed. Some of the cafe’s patrons promptly stood up and walked out as she began to sing it, but the power and audacity of the performance wowed others in the crowd.
