Andra Day Quotes
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I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.
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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 think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you're humble.
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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 feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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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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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 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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I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.
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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 family wasn't in the music business, but they loved 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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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
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I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.
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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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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.
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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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Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.
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The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.
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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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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
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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.