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Podcast: Pop Break Today
Episode: Talking the Coda: Billie Holiday with Valentina Shelton
Description: Welcome back to Talking the Coda, a podcast that examines musical artists whose careers were cut short, either by a death, break-up, retirement, or any other circumstance. When a prominent musician stops making music suddenly, there is often a mystique surrounding the work they did finish in their time. In many cases, a musician with a short career can be especially influential because of the sense of loss, of what the artist could have been if they had more time.
Each month, Luke Martin (co-host of last year’s Pod on the Rooftops mini-series on the band Ge...