The band announced their new name to distance themselves from the slavery-era history of their original name, but another artist already uses the moniker.
Not everyone is dancing about Lady Antebellum’s sudden name change to Lady A.
The Nashville-based band announced their new name yesterday in a bid to distance themselves from the slavery-era history of their original name. But there’s another artist using the moniker already.
Seattle resident Anita White, 61, goes by the stage name Lady A, and she’s been doing so for almost two decades while releasing blues albums. White got her start as a gospel performer at church services and took up the Lady A name in the ’80s. Lady A plans to release her next full-length album, “Lady A: Live in New Orleans,” on July 18, which also happens to be her birthday.
