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Lizzo to Receive The 2022 People's Champion Award astatine PCAs
Lizzo is feeling bully arsenic hellhole astatine the 2022 People's Choice Awards.
The popular prima received the People's Champion Award astatine the Dec. 6 ceremonial for her efforts to empower and uplift radical of each backgrounds. (See the implicit database of winners here.)
Lizzo said during her code that she was initially hesitant to judge the award—which has antecedently gone to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Tyler Perry—because she didn't "need a trophy for championing people."
"I americium present tonight, due to the fact that to beryllium an icon isn't astir however agelong you person had your platform," Lizzo said. "Being an icon is what you bash with that platform. Ever since the opening of my career, I person utilized my level to amplify marginalized voices, truthful contiguous I americium sharing this honor."
Lizzo is besides nominated this twelvemonth for The Female Artist of 2022, The Song of 2022 for "About Damn Time," The Album of 2022 for Special and The Social Celebrity of 2022.
While accepting the People's Champion Award, she shared the infinitesimal with 17 activists who she invited connected stage.
She was joined by Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, who has sought justice for her daughter's 2020 killing; Mari Copeny, known arsenic "Little Miss Flint" for raising awareness toward the water situation successful Flint, Mich.; Shirley Raines, nationally recognized for providing unhoused radical successful Los Angeles' Skid Row with indispensable resources; and Maggie Mireles Thomas, sister to teacher Eva Mireles who was killed successful the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas this year.
Lizzo besides brought up activists Yasmine Aker, Emiliana Guereca, Esther Young Lim, Felicia "Fe" Montes, Jayla Rose Sullivan, Kara Roselle Smith, Amelia Bonow, Odilia Romero, Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, Sahar Pirzada, Chandi Moore, Crystal Echo Hawk and Reshma Saujani.
"Give them their flowers," Lizzo said. "Power will always beryllium to the people."
Prior to the ceremony, the "Juice" vocalist was announced arsenic the award's recipient successful designation of being a "role exemplary and inspiration to fans worldwide."
"She leads with kindness, advocates for inclusivity, and champions accrued diverseness and equity successful the manufacture and beyond," Cassandra Tryon said portion announcing the honor. "Her committedness to breaking barriers and empowering others to usage their ain voices to make alteration makes her a existent People's Champion."
The designation caps disconnected a stellar twelvemonth for the "Juice" singer, arsenic she's halfway to EGOT status—which consists of winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony—after Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls clinched the award for Outstanding Achievement successful a Competition Program astatine the 2022 Emmys. In an affectional speech, the three-time Grammy victor reflected connected what the prize meant for her and her team.
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"I'm precise emotional, and the trophy is bully but my emotion is for these radical who are connected the signifier with me," she shared. "The stories that they shared, they're not that unique—they conscionable don't get the platform."
Additionally, the win signified an important measurement toward a much inclusive representation she felt was lacking connected television.
"When I was a small girl, each I wanted to spot was maine successful the media," she said. "Someone abdominous similar me, Black similar me, beauteous similar me. If I could spell backmost and archer small Lizzo something, I would beryllium like, 'You're going to spot that idiosyncratic but bitch, it's going to person to beryllium you.'"
(E! and NBC are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
Watch the 2022 People's Choice Awards tonight, Dec. 6, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC and E!.
