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Andra Day is Billie Holiday
Andra Day is Billie Holiday
As the lead in Lee Daniels' new Billie Holiday biopic, actress Andra Day delivers a supernova performance, which brings the lady of blues' many facets into dazzling focus in our V128 Cover Story.
As the lead in Lee Daniels' new Billie Holiday biopic, actress Andra Day delivers a supernova performance, which brings the lady of blues' many facets into dazzling focus in our V128 Cover Story.
January 12, 2021
This cover story appears in the V128 issue, now available for pre-order.
Billie Holiday’s life was so immense, so soaked in motley experiences, that it can be hard to grasp as a whole. In part, this is why the general populous knows only fragments of the Philadelphia-born jazz and blues singer’s story: She struggled so heavily with drugs that they eventually cost her her life, and that she was one of the few Black artists to “make it” in the ‘40s and ‘50s, when aggressively racist Jim Crow laws still governed much of the U.S. She suffered so deeply from heartbreak that she has become an international symbol of it.