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,

The Grammy-winning rapper and singer is set to play her first leading role in Rosetta, a biopic about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering musician known as the "Godmother of Rock & Roll." In addition to starring in the the Amazon MGM Studios project,

Grammy Award-winning singer Lizzo will make her lead acting debut, playing Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Amazon MGM Studios’ “Rosetta.”