Since Lady Antebellum are now Lady A, what does that mean for the blues singer of the same name? Anita White, 61, a Black blues singer who has gone by Lady A for over 20 years, chatted with Rolling Stone about the recent name change, saying she is “not happy” about it. “This is my life.
Lady A is my brand, I’ve used it for over 20 years, and I’m proud of what I’ve done,” White told the magazine. “This is too much right now.
They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before.
It shouldn’t have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it.” In light of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Lady
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