Sister Rosetta Tharpe is commonly dubbed “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll” for her use of pioneering guitar approach, bridging the hole between gospel and secular music within the course of. Her life and legendary profession have been the topic of a 2011 documentary and served as inspiration for the 2016 off-Broadway play Marie And Rosetta. Now, Amazon MGM Studios is at the moment growing a biopic concerning the musician, and Deadline experiences that they’ve tapped Lizzo as its lead.
Lizzo can be billed as a producer on Rosetta, together with Kevin Beisler, Vital Productions’ Nina Yang Bongiovi, and Forest Whitaker. The screenplay will come from Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant, Queen Of The South) and Kwynn Perry (Tigerbelles, The Burned Photograph). The movie will doc “a pivotal interval” in Tharpe’s life, upending the norms of each gospel and R&B along with her then-unconventional electrical guitar distortion, whereas additionally navigating the strife that got here with being a queer Black girl in mid-century America.
Lizzo, in the meantime, is within the course of of creating her skilled comeback after going through a number of lawsuits in 2023 for sexual harassment and making a hostile work atmosphere. She’s shared the singles “Love In Actual Life” and “Nonetheless Unhealthy,” and she or he’s again to doing a little stay reveals, together with an look on SNL subsequent month. She’s been enjoying guitar a bit at these gigs. I suppose she’s working towards.