Lover Man

Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer nicknamed “Lady Day”. Known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. ‘Lover Man’ is a 1941 popular song written by Jimmy Davis, Roger (“Ram”) Ramirez, and James Sherman which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989. It reached No. 5 on the R&B chart and No. 16 on pop in 1945. The album includes many more of her most famous songs like ‘Solitude’ and ‘Porgy’.