Lizzo

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Film & TV

Acting · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she later moved to Houston, Texas, where she began performing before moving to Minneapolis, where she began her recording career in hip hop music. Prior to signing with Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released two studio…

Known for

• The Roast of Kevin Hart — Self - Roaster2026
• The LPC Files - Episode 1 — phone case2026
• Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty — Self2025
• Songs & Stories with Kelly Clarkson — Self2025
• The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year's Special — Self (archive footage)2024
• Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl — Self2024
• Therapuss — Self2024
• Special — Herself2023
• Love, Lizzo — Self2022
• Lizzo: Live in Concert — Self2022

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

United States

Active from

1988

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,767,040

Total plays

56,613,609

Melissa Vivianne Jefferson (born April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper and singer. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl Prty, The Clerb, Ellypseas, and Absynthe. Her debut album, Lizzobangers, was released in 2013. In 2015, she released her sophomore album, Big Grrrl Small World. Born in Detroit in the late 80’s, Lizzo spent much of her formative years in the church <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lizzo

via Last.fm · Lizzo

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A portrait of the Higgs boson by the CMS experiment ten years after the discovery

   · 2022 · cited 343x

2. Precision luminosity measurement in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\hbox {TeV}$$ in 2015 and 2016 at CMS

   · 2021 · cited 190x

3. Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at √<i>s</i> = 13 TeV

   · 2020 · cited 190x

4. Electron and photon reconstruction and identification with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

   · 2021 · cited 154x

5. Search for resonant and nonresonant new phenomena in high-mass dilepton final states at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

   · 2021 · cited 123x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “"And what I'm doing is stepping into my confidence and my power to create my own beauty standard. And one day that will just be the standard."”
• “" I feel like women who are smaller aren't really given the opportunities to be body-positive or role models either because we've been conditioned to believe that women are using their bodies for the male gaze."”
• “"You realize that people truly care about you and they’ll help you, and they don’t mind helping you."”
• “"I take self-love very seriously. And I take it seriously because when I was younger, I wanted to change everything about myself"”
• “"I like to make music that you can use to motivate yourself, because I’m going to be singing that every single day on stage. I’m not trying to sing no curses in my life."”
• “"I think that’s part of the prejudice lens that most human beings are kind of taught to build. Very judgmental. Everyone’s really mean to themselves and to others"”

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Key facts

Person.name

Lizzo

Person.image

File:Lizzo September 2025.png

Person.caption

Lizzo in 2025

Person.education

University of Houston

Person.birth_name

Melissa Viviane Jefferson

Person.birth_place

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Person.years_active

2011–present

Person.works

Discography

Person.awards

Full list

Musical artist.embed

yes

Musical artist.instruments

Vocals

Musical artist.origin

Houston, Texas, U.S.

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official website

lizzomusic.com

Image

Lizzo September 2025.png

via Wikidata · CC0