The following month Time named her one of 14 music artists to watch in 2014. In October 2013, Lizzo won City Pages ' "Picked to Click" award for best new Twin Cities artist. Lizzo toured the US and UK in the fall of 2013 opening for Har Mar Superstar, and additionally sang with his band. Music videos were created for the songs "Batches & Cookies", "Faded", "Bus Passes and Happy Meals", and "Paris". Killian Fox of The Guardian gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "At times joyfully nonsensical, Lizzo's stream-of-consciousness rhymes can also be lethally pointed." The album topped Star Tribune's "Twin Cities Critics Tally 2013" list.
Lizzo's hip-hop-focused debut album, Lizzobangers, produced by Lazerbeak and Ryan Olson, was released on October 15, 2013. In 2013, Lizzo was one of five artists to form the hip-hop group Grrrl Prty, which released two EPs before playing their final show at Rock the Garden and disbanding in 2016. In 2012, the Chalice released their first album, We Are the Chalice, which was locally successful. During this time she helped form a three-piece all-female rap/R&B group: the Chalice. While living in Minneapolis, Lizzo performed with groups including the electro soul-pop duo, Lizzo & the Larva Ink. Career 2011–2015: Career beginnings and Lizzobangers She dropped out of college and moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2011. 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.
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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.
Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, flutist, and actress.
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