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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!'

- Andra Day

Good, See, Our, Surreal

That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.

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Queen, Behind, Note, Versatility

I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

- Andra Day

Love, Fur, Been, Slippers

At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.

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Young, Study, Ballerina, Prima

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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Voice, Big, Spoke, None

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

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Soul, Resonates, Your, Helps

I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.

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Before, Very, Willing, Early

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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Journey, Listening, Always, Mac

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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Body, Beehive, Works, Tease

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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Voice, Some, Couple, Diego

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.

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San Diego, Always, San, Diego

I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.

- Andra Day

Love, Reason, Here, Amazing Things

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

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Pain, Grow, Guilt, Cope

When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.

- Andra Day

Voice, Jazz, I Think, Ella

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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Listening, Dealing, Stories, Struck

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

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Love, Want, Other, Unconditional

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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Jazz, Always, Like, Everything Else

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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Through, Established, Couple, Decades

My sister and I - she's a musician - we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she'll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we'll just start singing and doing stuff.

- Andra Day

Play, Doing, Sometimes, Unconventional

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

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Music, Help, Dancer, Transition

I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.

- Andra Day

Love, I Love, Eclectic, Phoenix

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

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Like, Singers, Idols, Gloss

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

- Andra Day

Listen, Here, About, Possibility

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.

- Andra Day

Through, Joining, Undeniable, Communities

I try to avoid hairspray, gel, and heat as much as I can - I will use a pomade or a very heavy conditioner to style it the way that I want it.

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Heat, Will, Very, Hairspray

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

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Truth, How, Pursue, Precarious

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

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Soul, Play, Jazz, Hip-Hop

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

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Song, Over, Very, Spiritual Person

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

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Love, Everybody, I Love, Hip-Hop

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

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Girl, Fan, Southern, Hip-Hop

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