![]() At the age of 21, after the death of her father, she lived out of her car for a year as she tried to break into the music industry. In college, she studied classical music concentrating on flute at the University of Houston. At this time she acquired the nickname "Lizzo", a variant of "Lissa" inspired by Jay-Z's " Izzo (H.O.V.A.)". ![]() At the age of 14, she formed a musical group called Cornrow Clique with her friends. She was classically trained as a flutist by Claudia Momen for eight years, from the age of ten until she graduated Alief Elsik High School in Alief in 2006, where she had started rapping. ![]() When she was ten, her family relocated to Houston, Texas. Melissa Viviane Jefferson was born in Detroit, Michigan. In addition to her four Grammy Awards, she has also won a Billboard Music Award, a BET Award, and two Soul Train Music Awards. In 2019, Time named Lizzo as "Entertainer of the Year" for her meteoric rise and contributions to music. She is also the host of the Amazon Prime Video reality television series Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program. Her fourth studio album Special (2022) was preceded by its lead single " About Damn Time", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and made Lizzo the first Black female singer since Whitney Houston in 1994 to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.Īside from rapping and singing, Lizzo has also worked as an actor: she served as a voice actor in the animated film UglyDolls (2019) and appeared in the crime comedy-drama film Hustlers (2019). In 2021, Lizzo released the single " Rumors" (featuring Cardi B), which debuted in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. Lizzo received eight nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, the most for any artist that year, including nominations for each of the "Big Four" categories and eventually won the awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Pop Solo Performance for "Truth Hurts", and Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song " Jerome". Around this time, her 2016 single " Good as Hell" also climbed the charts, reaching the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and became the longest-leading solo song by a female rapper. The deluxe version of the album included Lizzo's 2017 single " Truth Hurts" which became a viral sleeper hit two years after its initial release. The album spawned the singles " Juice" and " Tempo". Lizzo attained mainstream success with the release of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You (2019), which peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200. Lizzo's first major-label EP, Coconut Oil, was released in 2016. Prior to signing with Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released two studio albums, Lizzobangers (2013) and Big Grrrl Small World (2015). After college she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she began her recording career in hip hop music. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her family when she was ten years old. ![]() It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, flutist, and actress. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. Then, having reached the heights, this all-but-divine race perished in a single night, and nothing was preserved above ground.Īlta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star Altair. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system. In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. ![]()
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