Lizzo Announces ‘Sasha Be Flooting’ Scholarship for Black Music Students – Billboard

As soon as upon a time, Lizzo was only a child in school with a flute and a dream. And now that she’s a 35-year-old world celebrity, the musician is giving again to younger Black college students at her alma mater who’re following in her footsteps, and he or she’s doing it by providing a model new scholarship in honor of Juneteenth.

“LIZZOS JUNETEENTH GIVEBACK IS PROUD TO PRESENT 50,000$ TO THE ‘SASHA BE FLOOTING SCHOLARSHIP’ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON,” the Grammy winner captioned a video saying the scholarship. “Thanks to @universityofhouston on your partnership and help.”

Within the video, Lizzo shared that the partnership with the college is “very near my coronary heart, close to and pricey to house and a milestone for me,” and famous that the winner of the scholarship could be introduced “very, very quickly.”

“It’s for any younger Black scholar from Houston, Texas who has utilized to go to College of Houston to check on the Moores Faculty of Music,” she continued. “That was me only a couple years in the past, a younger Black flute participant who simply wanted a scholarship and somebody to consider in them. Now I get to pay it ahead.”

An hour previous to the announcement, Lizzo shared a throwback photograph of her youthful self taking part in flute within the College of Houston band with a brief tattoo of the college’s purple and white cougar mascot stamped on her cheek. “Meet Child Lizzo on scholarship on the College of Houston hoping she’ll earn a music efficiency diploma in flute….,” she wrote in her caption. “Little did she know she’d change the dialog on flutes in popular culture eternally.”

The scholarship marks the fourth donation made in Lizzo’s sequence of Juneteenth givebacks, which has additionally seen her donate $50,000 to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, which serves the Black transgender group; Black Ladies Smile, which provides psychological well being providers to younger Black ladies; and the Sphinx Group, a social justice program providing musical alternatives to Black and LatinX individuals.

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