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Andra Day – United States vs Billie Holiday (Warner Bros): “Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known professionally as Andra Day, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. In 2015, she released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the single, “Rise Up”, was nominated for Best R&B Performance. To promote “Rise Up”, she performed the song on The View, the performance earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Day also appeared alongside Stevie Wonder, who is partially credited for her discovery, in an ad for Apple TV in late 2015. In 2021, she portrayed Billie Holiday in the biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her stage name was inspired by Holiday, whose nickname was “Lady Day”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andra Day) Her style is absolutely a match with Holiday’s! Click here and scroll down to listen to the songs on this release.
Bill always made everything so much fun, said friend Joe Tarquini. He was always the bravest of the group, protector of everyone, always there to make everybody laugh. Because of the pandemic and social distancing concerns, organizers put together most of the vigil online and with Plymouth Area Community Television. On the Town Green, where some community members also gathered, about 1,000 paper lanterns were lined up right in front of pictures of the two young men, hockey sticks and jerseys. Joey and Billy were really just natural born leaders and they were the best of all of us, said friend Mike Fahie. The good do die young, and the effect they had in their 23 years will be felt forever.