Djeneba Aduayom Focuses on Andra Day as Billie Holiday for V Magazine #128 Spring 2021

Djeneba Aduayom Focuses on Andra Day as Billie Holiday for V Magazine #128 Spring 2021

Actor, singer and songwriter Andra Day plays Billie Holiday in the new Lee Daniels’ Billie Holiday biopic playing on Hulu February 28th, and appears here in a preview of her fashion story and interview in V Magazine’s issue #128.

Patti Wilson styles Day in Prada with support from What Katie Did retro lingerie and Cartier jewelry, in images by Djeneba Aduayom. [IG]/ Hair by Lacy Redway; makeup by Porsche Cooper

Mathias Rosenzweig interviews both Lee Daniels and Andra Day in advance of V#128 Spring 2021 arriving in subscriber’s mailboxes. You can pre-order this important issue here.

‘United States vs. Billie Holiday’ follows the unlikely romance between the jazz great Billie Holiday and Jimmy Fletcher, the FBI street agent man of color on the beat of America’s drug culture. Just as artists of every discipline and skin color were accused of being Communists in the 1950s, Black musicians were of particular interest to the FBI and Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

It became the job of Jimmy Fletcher to take down Billie Holiday, especially when she refused to stop singing that damn song.

Note: Photographer Djeneba Aduayom was interviewed by the Washington Post in August 2020: With her dreamlike self portraits, Djeneba Aduayom seeks to create an escape from reality.