L.A. Times - Entertainment — When the jazz and blues legend Billie Holiday offers a compliment about a singer, one tends to take note. For Holiday, the vocalist Kay Starr, who died at her Bel Air home on Thursday at 94, was “the only white woman who could sing the blues... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — When the jazz and blues legend Billie Holiday offers a compliment about a singer, one tends to take note. For Holiday, the vocalist Kay Starr, who died at her Bel Air home on Thursday at 94, was “the only white woman who could sing the blues... more info

New York Times — Ms. Starr found fame in the big-band era, hit it big as a pop and country artist, and continued her career well into her later years. more info