Andra Day Quotes
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The reach of Coke and McDonald's is undeniable, and I'm thrilled these iconic brands are joining forces to inspire local communities through messages of peace and motivation in unique ways. It's an added bonus that they are using the lyrics to 'Rise Up' as a part of those messages.
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
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For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.
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I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.
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I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
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I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.
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I'm grateful for the fans who've been there from the beginning and am excited about how we've grown and how we've evolved now.
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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
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My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
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As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.
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I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'
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My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.
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I'm not going to put myself in a box.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
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Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
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I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.