It’s an enormous week for Grammy-winning R&B star and former Minnesotan Lizzo. Her new actuality sequence “Watch Out for the Huge Grrrls” will debut Friday on Amazon Prime Video. And on Monday, “Saturday Night time Dwell” producers introduced she would carry out double obligation as each host and musical visitor on the venerable sketch comedy present on April 16.
Born Melissa Viviane Jefferson in Detroit, Lizzo had already adopted her stage identify when she spent the early half of the ’10s residing in Minneapolis and making an attempt to launch her profession. After her 2016 breakthrough single “Good as Hell” went quadruple platinum, Lizzo moved to Los Angeles to begin work on her major-label debut, “Cuz I Love You.” It went platinum and earned Lizzo eight Grammy nominations and three wins on the ceremony in January 2020.
“Watch Out for the Huge Grrrls” is a aggressive actuality present that sees Lizzo trying to find plus-size dancers to affix her backup dancer group, Huge Grrrls, for an upcoming world tour. “Ladies that appear to be me don’t get illustration,” she mentioned within the sequence’ trailer. “Time to tug up my sleeves and discover them myself.”
All eight episodes of the present — a few of which was shot in and across the Twin Cities — shall be obtainable for streaming on Friday. Lizzo, who can be an government producer, signed a cope with Amazon in 2020 to develop a sequence of recent initiatives.
Lizzo made her “Saturday Night time Dwell” debut as musical visitor on the ultimate episode of 2019. When she pulls double obligation on the present subsequent month, she’ll be a part of an elite group of musicians who’ve completed the identical on “SNL,” together with Dolly Parton, Mick Jagger, Garth Brooks, Sting, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Woman Gaga, Billie Eilish, Drake and Harry Kinds.
Final August, Lizzo launched the only “Rumors,” her first new music in additional than two years. She is anticipated to announce an album and tour within the coming weeks.