Andra Day is an American singer, songwriter and actress from San Diego, California. Her debut album, Cheers to the Fall, was released in 2015 and peaked at number 48 on the US Billboard 200 chart. She has performed at the 2015 BET Awards and the closing ceremonies of the 2015 Special Olympics.
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Andra Day is an American singer, songwriter and actress from San Diego, California. Her debut album, Cheers to the Fall, was released in 2015 and peaked at number 48 on the US Billboard 200 chart. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the album’s main single, ‘Rise Up’, was nominated. Day appeared alongside Stevie Wonder, who is partially credited for her discovery, in an ad for Apple TV in late 2015. Day was signed in 2011 to a development deal with Buskin Records founded by Jeffrey Evans, who Day asked to be her manager in 2013. On July 11, 2019, Day was inducted as an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
She has performed at the 2015 BET Awards and the closing ceremonies of the 2015 Special Olympics. She also performed Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi Goddam’ for the soundtrack for the Netflix documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? Her first national tour took place in August and September 2015 when she opened up for Lenny Kravitz. In May 2016, she entered into an agreement with A&E to perform on their Race for the White House special, Shining Light: The Race For The White House. In November 2015, she sang in an Apple TV commercial in which she sang StevieWonder’s ‘Someday at Christmas’
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