A biography for Andra Dayhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.”
“I am happy that I can challenge myself in various fields.”
“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.”
“Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.”
“I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.”
“I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.”
“I'm excited for the audiences to hear the title track, 'Cheers to the Fall,' plus 'Red Flags' and 'Rearview.'”
“I use this GPB glycogen protein balancing conditioner by Aubrey Organics that I love.”
“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.”
“I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.”
“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.”
“My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.”
“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.”
“I went to a performing arts school, and we studied musical theater, jazz vocal performance, and they kind of start you out on those things because they feel like it is a good foundation, and it was.”
“I was actually discovered by Kai Millard and Stevie Wonder.”
“It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.”
“I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.”