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 legend Mick ...

Live Nation Productions announced Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is slated to write the script for a new film on the life of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor has been tapped by Live Nation Productions to write an upcoming feature about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock and Roll.

News comes today from Deadline that yet another feature-length on Cotton Plant native Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in the works, and this one’s got some serious artistic muscle behind it ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. At the induction ceremony, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard led a musical tribute to Tharpe. The musician was ...

Lizzo is set to take on her first leading film role as she portrays the legendary Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming biopic, “Rosetta.” Known as the “Godmother of Rock ...

The “Love In Real Life” singer will star as Sister Rosetta Tharpe in Rosetta, a biopic from Amazon MGM Studios about the gospel legend and “Godmother of Rock and Roll” that’s being ...

The 36-year-old has been tapped, E! News has learned, to play rock and roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in a new biopic currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Rosetta—on which Lizzo ...

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 ...

Interest in Tharpe has grown in recent years. Back in 2011, BBC4 screened a documentary, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock N’ Roll. She was finally inducted into the Rock N’ Roll ...