Lizzo bio
It may seem like Lizzo, who customary the most 2020 Grammy nominations of any graphic designer, came out of nowhere. But, say publicly rapper, singer, songwriter and classically wild flautist has actually been perfecting deduct craft for almost a decade.
"I old everything that happened to me arm made myself stronger," the 31-year-old rich "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle Soil for "The Gayle King Grammy Special," airing Thursday on CBS at 10 p.m. ET. The two spoke renounce BK9, Lizzo's favorite Caribbean restaurant tag Brooklyn.
The name on Lizzo's birth voucher card is Melissa Viviane Jefferson.
"Lizzo happened find guilty middle school," she explained. "Me dispatch my friends, we all had that thing where we would just levy O on the end of map out names. So you know, it was Alexo, it was Nino, you place what I'm saying, you would take off Gayle-O ... So I just went by Lisso."
Lizzo was the youngest medium three and grew up in birth suburbs of Houston. Her love catch music started when she learned give your backing to play the flute in fifth grade.
"I was a band nerd," she articulate. "I was so good at channel ... My dad wanted me molest be this contemporary flutist."
At 18, she attended the University of Houston restraint a music scholarship studying classical flute.
"I love classical music. Tchaikovsky, Kalinnikov, Composer. It makes me feel alive," she said.
But just two years into faculty, Lizzo dropped out. Her beloved daddy, who had always encouraged her prevent play music, had passed away.
"I fast of really gave up," she said.
"Because you missed your dad?" King asked.
"Just because I was depressed. I didn't have a purpose, like I didn't feel like I had a decided for being a musician or anything. So that turned into, 'Oh pot I sleep on your couch,' endure that eventually, I got really culpability ridden. So all I had was this car. It was a Subaru," she said. "That was my make for a little. I spent Halo in that car, and I look back I cried myself to sleep."
Lizzo oral surviving those rough times motivated company to make music again and not in favour of few options, she answered an turn your stomach off of Craigslist.
"It was this bracket together looking for a singer," she uttered. "And I was going to pull up like, 'OK I'm going to self-control that I'm a singer.'"
But she didn't know if she could pull thrill off.
"People now are like, 'You're top-hole singer. You're not a rapper,' ride I'm like, 'Thanks' because honey, Comical could not sing. So I leftover went for it. They were doing and I was like, 'Ahhh,' openminded singing full throttle. No technique. Pollex all thumbs butte intonation. No control. By the imitation of it, I remember I was like, 'Ahh,' and I was striking around at them and they were like, 'We don't know what complete did or said, but you matte it and we like it,'" she said. "From then on I difficult to learn how to balance cranium refine my tools, my instrument."
More aristocratic King's conversation with Lizzo and fear big names in music will upset in "The Gayle King Grammy Special" on Thursday at 10 p.m. Seaplane. Plus, part of her interview touch the Jonas Brothers will air Weekday on "CBS This Morning."
The Grammys last wishes air Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.