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24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes At home in Los Angeles, the star of “United States vs. Billie Holiday” finds inspiration in African music and the autobiography of Assata Shakur. Andra Day on hearing Billie Holiday’s voice for the first time: “It changed my idea of what a great singer was.”Credit.Phylicia J. L. Munn for The New York Times March 2, 2021 The singer-songwriter Andra Day was 11 when she first heard Billie Holiday’s voice. “I heard ‘Sugar’ and I heard ‘Strange Fruit.’ It changed my idea of what a great singer was,” she said. When she began performing, she chose a stage name her given name is Cassandra Monique Batie that paid homage to Holiday’s sobriquet, the Lady Day. And a few years ago, when she learned Lee Daniels would soon direct a Holiday biopic, Day, who had never acted professionally before, knew that she had to audition.

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