Lizzo is "excited and honoured" to play rock' n' roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the upcoming biopic Rosetta. A director has not yet been announced, while screenwriters Natalie Chaidez and Kwynn Perry are attached to pen the script.

Lizzo is set to play rock & roll pioneer Sister Roestta Tharp in a new film in development by Amazon MGM Studios, per Deadline. A brilliant guitarist and singer, Tharpe was a major influence to scores of rockers,

Less than a week after getting her own star on the wall of First Avenue in her former hometown, Lizzo has announced a different kind of starring role out in Hollywood. The ex-Minnesotan hip-hop and R&B singer/rapper is going to play one of rock ’n’ roll’s earliest pioneers and most groundbreaking women,