Minnesota Hip-Hop Expat Lizzo to present a rock legend in New Biopic

Lizzo less than a week after getting her own star to the Wall of First Avenue in her former hometown, another kind of leading role in Hollywood has announced.

The ex-Minnesotan hip-hop and R&B singer/rapper will play one of the earliest pioneers from rock ‘n’ roll, sister Rosetta Tharpe, in a new biopic for Amazon MGM Studios. Simply with the title “Rosetta”, the film Lizzo counts as one of its producers together with the Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.

“Black people have made rock n roll yeaaaah,” wrote Lizzo in a social media post in which the film project was announced.

Variety Magazine also reported that the film is written by two established female filmmakers Natalie Chaidez (“The Flight Attendant”) and Kwynn Perry (“Tigerbelles”). In an early description, the film states “a crucial time in her life – one of the groundbreaking innovations, defiant passion and secret love. When you destroy the musical boundaries with her characteristic guitar sound, Rosetta has to hide your love for another woman, and ultimately transform a wedding into one of most legal concerts in history in history.

This will be Lizzo’s second film role after a small actor appeared in the “Hustlers” of 2019 2019 in a episode of the “Star Wars” television series “The Mandalorian”.

Lizzo showed that she was already ready for a big facet last week to portray Tharpe at her first Avenue under -play -gig: she played a guitar through the first three songs in her set.

Tharpe popular in the 1930s to 1950s and was just as known for their guitar skills as their singing and helped to merge southern gospel music into curious hybrid music, which would become known as a rock’n’roll. She had a big influence on early rock suppliers such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and of course Elvis Presley. The British soul singer Yolo portrayed her in BAZ Luhrmanns 2022 Biopic “Elvis”.

Before Lizzo, in the Twin Cities everywhere from the Park Square Theater (where sounds of blackness Vet Jamecia Bennett portrayed her in the play “Marie and Rosetta” to in the twin cities “Marie and Rosetta”, which had been applied by Alt-Twangers The Jayhawks (who often applied Tharpe Up My Heads, in the Twin cities, which in the play “Current Marie and Rosetta and often applied Tharpe up my heads”.