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Amandla Stenberg’s jazz roots made her a perfect fit for Netflix series The Eddy

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Amandla Stenberg was the perfect choice to star in Damien Chazelle’s new Netflix jazz club drama The Eddy, because she’s named after a Miles Davis album.The actress reveals her mother was a big fan of Davis and when she learned the title of his Amandla album was inspired by an anti-apartheid “rally cry” in South Africa, she knew she had found her daughter’s name.“I was named after a Miles Davis album, and that album was named after a concept that is very powerful and big, which is ‘Amandla’ in South African means power to the people,” Stenberg explained during a recent SAG Foundation Conversations interview.“It’s an anti-apartheid rally cry there.

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