R ecording artist Lizzo is set to make her movie debut in Amazon MGM Studios' music biopic, “Rosetta,” the "Godmother of Rock ...

Lizzo stars in Amazon’s ‘Rosetta,’ honoring rock pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. See how the film reclaims her legacy at ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe continued to surprise people with her music. In the mid-1940s, she worked with a trio that introduced a new genre of music called "Boogie Woogie".

Rosetta Tharpe was born in Cotton Plant, Ark., on March 20, 1915, to Katie Bell Nubin Atkins, an evangelist, singer and mandolin player for the Church of God in Christ. Her father was Willis Atkins.

She married minister Thomas A. Thorpe in 1934. The marriage was short-lived; after their divorce, Rosetta kept the last name, changing the spelling to “Tharpe” for use as her stage name. Later, in the ...

The woman featured is none other than Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the “Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” who has one of the more enviable legacies in music. Her musical disciples and descendants ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is set to be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of fame on May 5. Gayle Wald says the musician would be tickled by the honor.

When Sister Rosetta Tharpe died in 1973, at the age of fifty-eight, she was buried in an unmarked grave outside of Philadelphia. Once, she had been the biggest star in gospel music. She was the ...

The song is about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Brant found videos of her on YouTube, “which fueled my interest even further. What an out-of-time quality those videos have.

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 ...

It wasn’t until 2018 that Sister Rosetta Tharpe was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, acting as a much-needed if inadequate corrective of sorts to the lack of recognition the industry ...

As Hawaii and Northern California struggle with unprecedented rainfall, Day to Day offers a musical interlude for rainy days — "Didn't It Rain" by the late gospel legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe.