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 would travel the world as a rockstar. Her small church would move a few times, a final upgrade landing it at 40th and South State streets, where it was named Roberts Temple ...

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 ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, guitar-playing American gospel singer, gives an impromptu performance in a lounge at London Airport, following her arrival from New York on Nov. 21, 1957. AP PHOTO ...

The name and music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Mar 20, 1915 - Oct 9, 1973) has been making the rounds in this centennial year of her birth. The American ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Mainly, Chapman, Johnson, West and the rest of the “Shout Sister Shout” team hope the show will embody the message on Tharpe’s epitaph after she died in 1973 in Philadelphia at 58: ...