How Much She Got Paid For Super Bowl Performance
She’s behind many great and powerful songs. Andra Day’s net worth is a testament to how much she’s devoted to her craft. The singer and actress has had many hits like “Rise Up” that speak true to a lot of struggles, but overcoming challenges to be your best self.
She talked about how she was gravitating to music and her certain style when she was up and coming. “When I graduated everyone was like you got to do pop and R&B to make it, like very contemporary pop and R&B,” she told Paste. “I tried for a little while but I just realized my voice wasn’t quite fitting some of the records that I was doing. So that’s when I started to incorporate more jazz back into what I do and the soul music that my father had me listen to when I was young. And that’s when it really clicked for me. That’s exactly where I wanted to be.”
She continued, “I had not been making great decisions and was concerned about the trajectory of things. For me everything is a spiritual thing so I just took that time to work on my relationship with God and just me as a person.”
So what is Andra Day’s net worth? Read more to find out.
Andra Day Net Worth
Andra Day’s net worth is estimated to be around $4 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Her debut studio album Cheers to the Fall reached #3 on the US R&B chart, #6 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and #48 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Day is very vocal about her process and her blessings. She told InStyle, “Somebody was trying to tell me the other day, ‘Just make sure you don’t get typecast, because you don’t want to always be playing the powerful Black woman.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I do. I also am one.'”
She talked to Access Hollywood about how proceeds from her single “Make Your Troubles Go Away,” went to COVID-19 relief during the height of the pandemic. “I always say that having a desire for change and being committed to change is two different things. You have to be willing to put your money, your vote, and your action where your heart is.
Andra Day Super Bowl Salary
Andra Day will perform the Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice And Sing” at Super Bowl LVIII. It was previously reported that Super Bowl Halftime performers do not get paid. However, NFL’s vice president of communications, Brian McCarthy, clarified to Newsweek, “The NFL covers all costs associated with the show and does pay the performers’ union scale. There is not an appearance fee, but the artists are indeed paid union scale.” The union scale is the minimum amount that bosses have to pay performers. It’s estimated that it’s “a fraction of the six- and seven-figure sums” the artists typically earn, according to Forbes.
According to National Football League spokesperson Joanna Hunter, Super Bowl Halftime Show performers aren’t paid but the NFL does cover the expenses for their performance. “We do not pay the artists,” Hunter told Forbes in 2016. “We cover expenses and production costs.”
Andra Day on playing Billie Holliday
As she prepared for her role as jazz legend Billie Holiday for The United States vs. Billie Holiday, “Her voice is a scroll,” she told The New York Times. “And her whole experience is written on it. Every time she slammed heroin, every time she did a speedball, every time she stood up against the government, every time she was hit or she dragged a cigarette, everything’s written there.”
To achieve that Billie’s signature tone, Day smoked and drank. “It was definitely a transformation emotionally, spiritually and physically,” she said. All that hard work paid off as she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress – Drama, a BET Award for Best Actress, and received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She also won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
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