Lizzo is set to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the mother of rock and roll, in a new biopic for Amazon MGM Studios. Here’s what we know.

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,