Sister Rosetta Tharpe is commonly dubbed “the godmother of rock ‘n’ roll” for her use of pioneering guitar method, 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 reviews that they’ve tapped Lizzo as its lead.
Lizzo can also be billed as a producer on Rosetta, together with Kevin Beisler, Important 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 together with her then-unconventional electrical guitar distortion, whereas additionally navigating the strife that got here with being a queer Black lady in mid-century America.
Lizzo, in the meantime, is within the course of of constructing her skilled comeback after going through a number of lawsuits in 2023 for sexual harassment and making a hostile work surroundings. She’s shared the singles “Love In Actual Life” and “Nonetheless Dangerous,” and he or she’s again to doing a little reside reveals, together with an look on SNL subsequent month. She’s been taking part in guitar a bit at these gigs. I suppose she’s training.
