Andra Day Is No Newcomer The Black Women in Hollywood honoree has been a star for years. Andra Day’s debut performance as a wounded jazz singer in The United States vs Billie Holidaywowed mainstream critics and audiences this year, but she’s been a star in our eyes for a long time. Day entered the music industry over a decade ago with a unique musical style and a fresh aesthetic. Her highly anticipated debut album, Cheers to the Fall, debuted during the summer of 2015. Featuring production from Raphael Saadiq, the body of work was the sonic equivalent of the cool pompadour and cat-eye that turned Day into many Black girls’ style crushes.“I like to say I was established in the cities, dragged through the decades and picked up a couple of things [from every era],” she told ESSENCE when she first appeared on the cover in 2016. That same year she was honored as one of ESSENCE’s Black Women in Music alongside Jazmine Sullivan.