In a production filled with music, dance, and creative vision, six-time Grammy Award nominee Nnenna Freelon pays tribute to the legendary Billie Holiday in her critically acclaimed show "Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Life of Bille Holiday."

The project was conceived by Freelon and choreographer Ronald K. Brown, who, along with the dance company Evidence, gave new life to the Holiday-associated songs. Beloved songs such as "God Bless The Child," "All of Me," and "Strange Fruit" are heard and seen like never before, with Freelon, her quintet, and Evidence interpretting them with sincere artistic vision and inventiveness.

Fueled by Freelon's dynamic vocals and her driving band, the dancers of Evidence jump, twist, leap, and groove to the music, giving it flesh and vigor. Each song is a story told through the movement of Freelon's voice in the dancers. Filled with energy, sensuality, and beauty, "Blueprint of a Lady" is a production like no other.

"If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." Living by the words of Billie Holiday herself, Freelon reinvents the idea of a tribute.

Says Freelon, "Sometimes when you do a tribute, people think, 'Well, gee, you don't sound much like her.' It's not that kind of tribute. It's a tribute to what she stood for." Drive, confidence, pain, success, struggle, heartache, sin, forgiveness -it's all there for the audience to experience. Freelon and Evidence don't shy away from the dark side of the legedary Holiday, they shed light on it, giving meaning and perspective to the good and bad times of Holiday's life.

The tough-to-please audience at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York sure loved it, giving "Blueprint of a Lady" two standing ovations. The combination of international jazz star Nnenna Freelon and the brilliant choreography Ronald K. Brown make for one spectacular production.

Says Freelon, "I hope Billie is smiling on us. I kind of feel her on my shoulder saying, 'You go girl.'"

Click here to view the BET Productions segment on "Blueprint of a Lady."