Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I am very excited to bring you my guest this week.

Her name is Andra Day.

She's the recent Golden Globe winner for Best Actress in a Drama and the Academy Award

nominee for Best Actress for her role in the United States versus Billy Holiday.

A film directed by Lee Daniels in which Andra plays the lead character.

Some things to know about her.

First of all, most importantly, this is Andra's first ever acting job.

First ever, she wins the Golden Globe for Best Actress, gets an Academy Award nomination

her first time out.

Not an easy role playing Billy Holiday, the icon, the legend.

She had to get the singing voice right, the speaking voice right, but as you'll hear,

Oliver went through a lot for this part.

Billy Holiday faced challenges of drugs and alcohol and physical abuse from men in her

life.

She had to put her body through this, did Andra Day, to make the role convincing.

And my goodness, did she ever pull it off?

She started as a singer.

As many of you know, she got the hit song Rise Up offer 2015 album Rise Up has since become

an anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Her stage name Andra Day comes from Billy Holiday, who was known as Lady Day because as a young

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