A blues singer who has been performing as Lady A for more than 20 years is calling out the group formerly known as Lady Antebellum for adopting the same name.
“Lady A is my brand, I’ve used it for over 20 years, and I’m proud of what I’ve done,” White told Rolling Stone. “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.
Representatives for the country group Lady A did not immediately respond Friday to the Los Angeles Times’ request for comment.
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