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Blues singer Lady A speaks out after country band Lady Antebellum changes its name: ‘This is my life’

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A blues singer from Seattle, Wash., who goes by Lady A -- real name Anita White -- is speaking out after the Grammy-winning country music band Lady Antebellum recently changed its name to the moniker she's been using for over two decades. “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 Rolling Stone in an interview published on Friday.

She continued: “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." White went on to say that "it’s.

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