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This People's Choice Awards quality has america feeling good arsenic hell.
Music superstar Lizzo volition beryllium honored with this year's People's Champion Award astatine the 2022 PCAs connected Dec. 6 for her contributions to euphony and TV, arsenic good arsenic her committedness to championing diverseness and inclusion for people of each races, genders, sexualities and sizes.
The five-time PCAs nominee—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—follows successful the footsteps of past recipients Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Tyler Perry, P!nk and Bryan Stevenson.
"Lizzo is not lone an incredibly talented performer and groundbreaking entertainer, she is besides a relation exemplary and inspiration to fans worldwide," said Cassandra Tryon—SVP, Entertainment Live Events, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming—on Nov. 11. "She leads with kindness, advocates for inclusivity, and champions accrued diverseness and equity successful the manufacture and beyond. Her committedness to breaking barriers and empowering others to usage their ain voices to make alteration makes her a existent People's Champion."
Lizzo became a household sanction with the merchandise of her RIAA platinum-certified 2019 medium CUZ I LOVE YOU, which deed #4 connected the Billboard 200 illustration and featured deed songs similar "Juice," "Good As Hell" and "Tempo" featuring Missy Elliott.
The medium took location a 2020 Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, with "Jerome" besides winning Best Traditional R&B Performance.
The 34-year-old became the 3rd pistillate rapper without a featured creator to deed #1 connected Billboard's "Hot 100" with her iconic tune "Truth Hurts," arsenic good arsenic the archetypal Black solo pistillate R&B vocalist to bash truthful since 2012. The opus dominated the charts for 7 weeks, cementing her arsenic the longest-running #1 ever held by a pistillate rapper.
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As if "Truth Hurts" hadn't made capable history, the opus was besides named by Rolling Stone arsenic 1 of their "500 Greatest Songs Of All Time" and earned Lizzo her 3rd 2020 Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.
Since her 2019 album's success, Lizzo made waves again with her earworm anthem "About Damn Time" and her 2022 medium Special. She was named Time and Entertainment Weekly's "Entertainer of the Year" successful 2019 and has gone connected to look connected the covers of publications specified arsenic Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, Vogue, British Vogue, Billboard, Variety and more.
She has besides performed connected respective awards and TV stages, from Saturday Night Live and the Grammys to the BET Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, to sanction a few.
Most recently, Lizzo earned a 2022 Emmy Award for her Amazon Prime Video world bid Lizzo's Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, a contention show to find dancers for her latest tour. And erstwhile she's not posting hilarious videos connected TikTok, Lizzo's continuing to marque a sanction for herself successful the satellite of manner with her shapewear marque YITTY, which features a scope of sizes from 6X to XS.
Hosted by Kenan Thompson, the 2022 People's Choice Awards aerial Thursday, Dec. 6, astatine 8 p.m. connected NBC and E!.
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Watch the 2022 People's Choice Awards Tuesday, Dec. 6, connected NBC and E!.
