verished youth on the Southside of Chicago through a massively impressive career in music, film and television where he worked beside legends such as Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson, among many others. In conjunction with the autobiography, Rhino Reco

is by the contemporary poet Evie Shockley, and it's called "you can say that again, billie." It's a brilliant and beautiful poem that speaks back to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and evokes a whole history of gender and race in the American South. You are the ideal reader for this poem. We would use what we fil