EXCLUSIVE: Live Nation Productions has tapped Oscar nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys) to pen a feature centered on ...

Live Nation Productions is bringing the story of one of music’s most groundbreaking pioneers to the screen: Sister Rosetta ...

Live Nation Productions announced Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is slated to write the script for a new film on the life of Sister ...

A new biopic on Cotton Plant native Sister Rosetta Tharpe is in the works, and this one’s got some serious artistic muscle ...

Live Nation Productions has tapped Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor to write the script for a Rosetta Tharpe biopic. Tharpe is known as ...

The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe puts it, the song specifically references what was happening in the mid-1940s: WWII was ending; the atomic bomb was dropped in ...

Friday would have marked the 94th birthday of pioneering singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was a major influence on two generations of rock and soul musicians, but Tharpe is ...

According to her biography on AllMusic, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was “widely acclaimed among the greatest Sanctified gospel singers of her generation; a flamboyant performer whose music often ...

1936-37 – Rosetta Tharpe and her husband are a popular act in southern Florida, especially at Miami Temple COGIC, where radio earns her local celebrity. 1938 – “Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...

Additional material will come from the Gayle Wald biography, Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll ...

Rising to fame in the ’30s and ’40s, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a trailblazing gospel guitarist and singer whose fearless transgressions of musical boundaries laid the foundation for rock and roll ...