I’ve been playing a 1963 Maton FyrByrd guitar since I was 14 years old. It’s Australian designed and made with the unique sharkbite body, and pickups named cool, midway and hi-fi. With only 1,160 of ...

The story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe — the singer and guitarist often called the godmother of rock-and roll — was untold for so long that any attempt to bring it to life had to be seismic. An ...

American rapper and singer Lizzo will play the lead role in Rosetta, an upcoming biopic about the life of rock'n'roll pioneer Sister Rostetta Tharpe. The film will be made by Amazon Studios in ...

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Lizzo is set to star as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in a Forest Whitaker-prouced biopic about the rock and roll pioneer's life.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is a late-arriving challenger to the conventional wisdom, having first appeared on the scene in the 1930s and dying relatively forgotten, in this country at least, in 1973.

EXCLUSIVE: Live Nation Productions has tapped Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys) to pen a feature centered on “Godmother of Rock and Roll” Sister Rosetta Tharpe, with rock ...

A new biopic on Cotton Plant native Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in the works, and this one’s got some serious artistic muscle behind it: Oscar-nominated director Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Mick Jagger ...

Culture OppArt May 20, 2025 Honoring Sister Rosetta Tharpe A Harlem mural highlights a rock ’n’ roll originator.

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Grammy winner Lizzo will be taking up the guitar to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer who was one of the first to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B audiences, in ...

Lizzo will play Sister Rosetta Tharpe—a gospel singer and rock and roll pioneer—in a new biopic currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios.

Lizzo is set to play her first leading role in 'Rosetta,' a biopic about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering music artist known as the 'Godmother of Rock & Roll.' ...