Lizzo to play rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in upcoming biopic

Lizzo has been tapped to painting rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in an upcoming biopic – discover out extra beneath.

• READ MORE: Lizzo – ‘Particular’ overview: joyful celebrity uplifts with confident, self-empowering bops

Deadline Hollywood has reported that Amazon MGM Studios is creating Rosetta, an upcoming biopic primarily based on the life and profession of the legendary Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel musician who broke boundaries and paved the best way for rock ‘n’ roll music.

Rosetta has but to obtain a launch date, and a director has not been introduced to helm the movie. Nonetheless, it has been revealed by Deadline that among the many biopic’s producers are actor Forest Whitaker and Lizzo herself.

Per Deadline, Rosetta will “seize a pivotal interval in Thrape’s life — one among groundbreaking innovation, defiant ardour and secret love. As she shatters musical boundaries together with her signature guitar sound, she should navigate societal constraints, conceal her love for an additional lady and in the end rework a marriage into one of the crucial legendary live shows in historical past: the primary stadium present.”

Sister Rosetta Tharpe influenced the who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll music, together with the likes of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Johnny Money and Bob Dylan to call a number of.

Although this would be the first movie made about Tharpe, it gained’t mark the primary time she’s been featured in films. Again in 2022, she was portrayed by British musician Yola in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame again in 2018 within the Early Influences class with Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Questlove and extra performing a canopy of ‘That’s All’ in her honour.

As for Lizzo, she’s had two movie roles so far. In 2019, she voiced the position of Lydia within the animated movie UglyDolls earlier than making her appearing debut that very same yr in Hustlers.

Lizzo not too long ago revealed that her new album ‘Love In Actual Life’ is “completed” and he or she is ready to carry out on Saturday Night time Reside. It comes after she beforehand launched the LP’s title observe because the lead single final month, and has since gone on to drop the unapologetic tune ‘Nonetheless Dangerous’. The album has but to obtain a launch date.