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Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday
Josh White
Nina Simone
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Robert Wyatt
Sting
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Siouxsie Sioux
Siouxsie & The Banshees
This song is so intrinsically linked to Billie Holiday that it's brave of others to record it. Do any of them come close to portraying the sentiment behind the song though?


Josh White
Despite intimidation by Billie this black blues/folk singer recorded this version in the early 40s.


Nina Simone
A passionate version from another jazz legend and black civil rights campaigner.


Robert Wyatt
From his 1986 compilation album and the track which inspired Clive Langer to write the music for "Shipbuilding".


Sting
Shortly after Meeropol's death, the former Police frontman recorded this for an Amnesty International charity CD.


UB40
The Brum band give the song a reggae makeover on their Signing Off album.

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