Andra Day Quotes
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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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My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.
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I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.
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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 play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.
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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 like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
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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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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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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 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 try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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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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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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I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.
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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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I style my hair so frequently that I need a really good conditioner to keep it moisturized.
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I'm not going to put myself in a box.
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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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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!
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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'm grateful and enjoying the ride.