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Watch St. Vincent Cover Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life”

By Danielle Chelosky

7:36 PM EDT on October 29, 2025

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 25: St. Vincent performs onstage during The 2025 New Yorker Festival at Webster Hall on October 25, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker)

St. Vincent has a wide array of covers up her sleeve: RihannaToolLou ReedMetallica. The past couple nights, she performed Billy Strayhorn’s 1948 jazz standard “Lush Life.”

On Saturday (Oct. 27), the indie rocker played the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT, and the following night she took the stage at NYC’s Cafe Carlyle, where she’s performing again tonight. Both nights she sang “Lush Life.” Watch the Ridgefield performance below.

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