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Andra Day: Tiny Desk Concert

Day was born to perform: She's able to channel the likes of Nina Simone and Billie Holiday in songs that feel candid and vulnerable, but not understated.

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San Diego awards Andra Day 'Key to the City,' declares 'Andra Day Month'


San Diego awards Andra Day 'Key to the City,' declares 'Andra Day Month'
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Friday, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and City Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe presented Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter and actress, Andra Day, with a Key to the City.
Day was also recognized with a City Council proclamation for "Andra Day Month" in the City of San Diego.
Day, a native San Diegan and graduate of the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, was honored for her acting accomplishments, more recently winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in the biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." She became the second Black woman to ever win this award after Whoopi Goldberg.

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Brad Pitt has Andra Day on his 'radar' after the two were 'flirting backstage' at the Oscars


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'They were flirting backstage and are believed to have swapped numbers,' the insider continued. 'It could be just professional, but some of Brad’s pals have been talking about what a great couple they would make.'
Day first rose to prominence with the release of her acclaimed 2015 R&B album Cheers To The Fall, but she's become known more recently for her work on the big screen.
Getting to know each other: Pitt was allegedly 'flirting backstage' with Day at the Oscars and they're 'believed to have swapped numbers,' the insider said. She was nominated for Best Actress for The United States Vs. Billie Holiday

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'We are not hanging on a tree any more': Andra Day defies the racism that killed her idol


‘We are not hanging on a tree any more’: Andra Day defies the racism that killed her idol
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Harry Anslinger was right to fear
Strange Fruit. When the man who would hunt Billie Holiday to her grave was running his vicious empire at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the late 1930s, those 14 terse lines were probably the most horrific ever sung on an American stage.
More than 80 years later, when Andra Day sang of “Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze” for Lee Daniels’ film,

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her debut album is called "cheers to the fall" singing the powerful anthem "rise up. please welcome andra day. ♪ broken down and tired ♪ of living life on a merry go round ♪ ♪ you can find a fighter but i can see you walking out ♪ ♪ ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ we can walk it out ♪ ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ and i'll rise up ♪ i'll rise like the day ♪ i'll rise up ♪ i'll rise unafraid ♪ and i'll do it a thousand

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