- Our next performer teamed up with Walmart to donate $100,000
to six music, arts and mental health organizations
as part of Walmart's commitment
to celebrate Black music
and support the community, our community.
So whether it's old-school or new school,
Black music has always been at the center of the sound,
and so has Ms. Tina Turner, honey.
Now, before we bring out our next performer,
we're going to take it nice and easy,
but we never take it nice and easy.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Oscar-nominated,
the Golden Globe-winner
and tonight's best actress winner, Andra Day.
- [singing] Southern trees
Bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the root
Black, Black bodies swinging
In the southern breeze
Strange fruit, strange fruit
Hanging from the poplar trees
Say, say, say, say
Say a prayer for me
Strange fruit come down off the tree
Cut it down under your feet
Juicy fruit, so bittersweet
Fruit stand tall, these roots go deep
Strange fruit bustin' on these leaves
Ancestors don't take defeat
Left the scent of victory
In the air, tigress and tweed
Oh-ooh, Lenthéric, you carry it
I'm tired, grin, bear it
The truth of these, you carry it
Future, you and your chariot
Say a prayer for me
'Cause I don't get no sleep
Say a prayer for me
Mm, say, say, say
Chariot
But I been rallyin' the troops
Chariots aflame in line behind my Masi' coupe
Damu at these roots
It's thick, too, made big fruit, big vines
Always pressin' that line
So full of love and light
The truth is black and white
Say a prayer for me
Because I don't get no sleep
Say a prayer for me
Mm, say, say, say
Oh, say a prayer for me, yeah
Oh-ooh, oh-ooh