Andra Day, Chadwick Boseman and More Create History at Golden Globes – See Complete List Of Winners

The Golden Globe winners were announced this Sunday, marking the best in cinema from the year 2020. While the ‘Best Picture – Drama’ award was nabbed by Frances McDormand’s ‘Nomadland’, the ‘Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy’ award went to Sasha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.’ But the big history-making winners were Chadwick Boseman … “Andra Day, Chadwick Boseman and More Create History at Golden Globes – See Complete List Of Winners”

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Andra Day Lost 39 Lbs. to Play Billie Holiday in Biopic: ‘Asked God to give me pain and trauma’ [Trailer Inside]

Andra Day wants you to know that she put herself through quite a transformation to step into the shoes of the late Billie Holiday. The singer and actress, who’s played the iconic jazz and blues songstress in a new Hulu biopic, stated that she had to shed a lot of weight to look like the … “Andra Day Lost 39 Lbs. to Play Billie Holiday in Biopic: ‘Asked God to give me pain and trauma’ [Trailer Inside]”

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Mamie Smith – The First African-American Female to Make a Vocal Blues Recording in 1920

Before Aretha Franklin, before Billie Holiday and before Ella Fitzgerald, there was another pioneering female artist whose work as a recording artist set a precedent for female artists of color, back in the day. Her name was – Mamie Smith, and you don’t hear much about her by the masses and in popular culture of … “Mamie Smith – The First African-American Female to Make a Vocal Blues Recording in 1920”

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