Rihanna has done it again. After her success at the Super Bowl Halftime Show exactly one month ago, she has once again conquered a stage, and it has been none other than the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, in Los Angeles (California). In front of great faces from the world of cinema, the one from Barbados delighted the spectators with an impeccable and emotional performance of Lift Me Up, the soundtrack of the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The businesswoman also managed to get the public on their feet.
The truth is that Rihanna’s impressive career has accumulated nine Grammys, twelve Billboard Music Awards, thirteen American Music Awards and eight People’s Choice Awards. She just lacked the Oscar. She had the opportunity this Sunday, nominated for ‘Best Original Song’ at the 2023 Oscar Awards gala for her Lift Me Up, soundtrack to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This single meant her return to her music seven years after her last album, Anti, which was released in 2019. Finally, she could not take the award, since it was awarded to Naatu Naatu, from the movie rr But if he took the heat of the public.
Before finding out if he would win the award at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, the Barbadian star took the stage at the Dolby Theater to perform the song, a ‘rhythm and blues’ ballad that pays homage to the late actor Chadwick. Boseman, protagonist of the first Black Panther film and other feature films in the Marvel universe.
Dressed in a spectacular black design that revealed her advanced state of pregnancy – a pregnancy that she announced, by the way, during her performance at the Super Bowl -, the artist has managed to get the public on its feet thanks to the waste of voice and emotion with those who have interpreted the song. Social networks have quickly applauded her performance. “Impeccable as always at the vocal level,” expressed a user. “Undisputed queen,” writes another. She also showed her admiration for Rihanna Cate Blanchett, who couldn’t stop jumping after her performance.
Rihanna was nominated in the category along with another big name in the world of the music industry: Lady Gaga. The interpreter of songs like Born this way or Judas, was nominated for her Hold My Hand from her, Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, and she also took the stage. Other performances were that of Sofia Carson and Diane Warren to interpret the theme of Applause, from the movie Tell It like a Woman. Another of the expected performances was that of Chandrabose to interpret Naatu Naatu, the main theme of the Indian film RRR, the first Indian song to be nominated in this category and awarded.
