Audiences on Monday got a first look at Andra Day as Billie Holiday with the release of the first trailer for a hotly anticipated biopic.

Directed by Lee Daniels, The United States vs. Billie Holiday takes an intimate look at the legendary jazz vocalist. The film is billed as a portrait of a fierce trailblazer whose defiance through music helped usher in the civil rights movement and had been intended for a theatrical run before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. It now is slated for a Feb. 26 release on Hulu.

Whether you are new to the story and legacy of Billie Holiday or know every note she ever sang, I do hope our celebration of this complex woman does justice to a great musical legend and civil rights activist whose artistry resonates as well today, as it did 80 years ago, Daniels, whose credits include the 2009 film Precious and the Fox TV series Empire, said in a press release. Hulu releasing this film and giving it a platform to be seen nationwide is a blessing, because as recent events reveal, our country has much work to do in fulfilling its promise of a more perfect union.

Holiday rose to fame in Harlems nightclub scene and, in 1938, became one of the first Black women to front an all-white band. Her recordings of songs like God Bless the Child and Ill Be Seeing You remain standards.