Lizzo has had an unimaginable 2022. Not solely did she snag one more No. 1 single with “About Damn Time,” however her size-inclusive clothes line, Yitty, is totally popping off. As the yr winds down, she’s including one other accomplishment to her endless listing. On Dec. 6, the singer was honored with the folks’s champion award on the People’s Choice Awards, the place her mom, Shari Johnson-Jefferson, introduced her with the distinguished award. And FYI, they’re, like, precise twins.
In a press launch saying the distinction (by way of Variety), Cassandra Tryon, senior vice chairman of leisure reside occasions for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, stated, “[Lizzo] leads with kindness, advocates for inclusivity and champions elevated variety and fairness within the business and past. Her dedication to breaking limitations and empowering others to make use of their very own voices to create change makes her a real ‘People’s Champion.'”
Lizzo actually embodied these phrases throughout her acceptance speech. Instead of specializing in herself, she used your entire length of her speech to raise up 17 activist girls from all totally different walks of life and their causes, explaining, “If I’m the folks’s champ, I do not want a trophy for championing folks.”
She spotlighted activists like Amariyanna Copeny (aka Little Miss Flint), who’s been preventing for everybody in Flint, MI, and throughout the nation to have secure consuming water; Maggie Mireles, who’s preventing gun violence in colleges after her schoolteacher sister, Eva Mireles, died defending college students throughout the Uvalde, TX, college taking pictures; and extra.
The “Am I Ready” singer was additionally nominated in 5 further classes on the PCAs: the competitors present of 2022 for “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls,” feminine artist of 2022, track of 2022 for “About Damn Time,” album of 2022 for “Special,” and social superstar of 2022. The singer took house the track of 2022 honor and stored that acceptance speech brief and candy. She sang the enduring, uplifting lyrics of “About Damn Time” that go, “Oh, I’ve been so down and underneath stress. I’m manner too tremendous to be this pressured. Oh, I’m not the woman I used to be or was. Uh, b*tch, I may be higher.”
Check out Lizzo’s transferring speech and the 17 inspiring activists she spotlighted forward.