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When she performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime LVII Show, the 35-year-old pop superstar made her long-awaited return to the stage after 7 long years. Rihanna also made headlines when she announced on stage that she was pregnant for the second time. Now, the mother of one will be on stage again at the 95th Academy Awards, which will be held on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and broadcast live on ABC. Find out more about her act by reading on.
Rihanna, Tems, Ludwig Goransson, and the film’s director, Ryan Coogler, all helped write “Lift Me Up.” This year, the ballad is up for best original song at the Oscars. This is Rihanna’s first nomination for an Academy Award.
“Hold My Hand,” which was written by Lady Gaga and BloodPop for “Top Gun: Maverick,” is also up for best original song. Songs from the movies “Tell It Like a Woman,” “RRR,” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” were also nominated.
This year, “Wakanda Forever” is up for five Oscars, and its star, Angela Bassett, is the first person to be nominated for acting in a Marvel movie. Bassett was nominated once before for her role as Tina Turner in the biopic “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” about Turner, which came out in 1993.
What will Rihanna perform at the 2023 Oscars?
Rihanna will sing “Lift Me Up” from Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” during the Oscars telecast on March 12, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Thursday. This will be her first performance since breaking a record at the Super Bowl Halftime show in 2023.
In the Best Original Song category, Rihanna is nominated for the first time for her hit song “Lift Me Up” from Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” This is for the first time she has been nominated for an Oscar. Since her 2016 album ANTI, this was the first song she had made in 6 years. She also sang the song “Born Again” for Black Panther 2 and dedicated it to the late Chadwick Boseman, who played Black Panther and died of cancer in August 2020.
Ludwig Göransson, the composer of Raise Me Up, told The Hollywood Reporter how Rihanna was persuaded to sing. He said they had begun learning about the plot and music they desired earlier. Ludwig said they sought musicians who best embodied the music.
Rihanna was mentioned since the Ryan Coogler film about parenthood contains strong female characters. He acknowledged that Rihanna was pregnant with A$AP Rocky. After seeing the movie’s rough cut and talking to Coogler, she agreed to perform the song.
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