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Rebecca Ferguson - I will perform at Trump's inauguration if I can sing "Strange Fruit"...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38491238/rebecca-ferguson-asked-to-perform-at-donald-trumps-inauguration-ceremonyRebecca Ferguson says she's been asked to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony.
The singer tweeted she would "graciously accept" the invitation from the American president-elect if she can perform Strange Fruit.
"[It's] a song that has huge historical importance, a song that was blacklisted in the United States," she posted.
Strange Fruit was originally recorded by Billie Holiday but was written as a poem by Abel Meeropol.
(For those who may not know, Strange Fruit was song about lynchings of black ppl)
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(BTW...another reason people should remember Abel Meeropol, who wrote under the name "Lewis Allan"
the first name given to his two stillborn sons), is that Abel and his wife adopted the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg when the Rosenbergs were executed for allegedly giving the Soviet Union the secrets of the hydrogen bomb(while Julius probably did SOME low level spying for the USSR-Ethel was totally innocent, for the record-it was actually Klaus Fuchs who gave that information to the Soviets, as he admitted once he was safely back in East Berlin).
