by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman
March 17, 2026
The e-book will deal with “Lil Lizzo” and the invention of her ardour for the flute.
Lizzo is sharing extra about her “origin story” with the flute by a brand new youngsters’s e-book.
The “Good as Hell” singer has authored a youngsters’s novel, “Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin,” making her the newest celeb youngsters’s e-book writer. She introduced the information and confirmed off the e-book’s cowl to Gayle King on CBS Mornings.
“Everybody at all times asks me my origin story with the flute,” defined the Grammy winner on her inspiration to pen the e-book. “They’re like, ‘why flute, how flute?’ This tells the real-life story of how I began enjoying the flute.”
Whereas a youngsters’s e-book is a brand new lane for the singer-songwriter, she says the love of writing allowed her to tackle the enterprise.
“I like writing. Like, I’ve at all times wished to jot down ‘The Nice American Novel.’ I used to say that after I was a child. And that was earlier than the music took over,” she informed King.
As an alternative of the following basic in literature, nevertheless, Lizzo opted to jot down Billboard hits. Now, she has returned to her preliminary writing roots whereas inspiring youngsters to comply with their hearts, simply as she did with the flute.
She known as the novel a “lovely marriage of all the pieces that’s me.” As for the e-book’s title, Lizzo took inspiration from one other artist’s alter ego. She in contrast Beyoncé’s on-stage persona, Sasha Fierce, to how she felt when she started to play the flute.
“Sasha, there was a time, so there was, Beyoncé is like such an inspiration to me, particularly after I was youthful rising up,” stated Lizzo. “And she or he had her alter ego. She was like, I’m Beyoncé, however then on stage I’m Sasha Fierce. And I used to be like, oh, that’s so humorous as a result of to me I felt just like the flute.”
Due to her grind to turn out to be a rapper, the 37-year-old entertainer felt she needed to break up that persona from her life as a flutist. Thus, she created her personal model of “Sasha Fierce,” named “Sasha B. Flootin,” that younger readers will quickly uncover.
She continued,” I had break up into two completely different worlds after I was going to varsity for flute. And after I wished to be a rapper within the Houston scene. I felt like I had to decide on between the 2. So I used to be like Sasha, or the flute might be my alter ego.”
Lizzo says the youngsters’s e-book will even encourage youngsters to construct confidence and discover their voice. The Houston native needs little readers to discover all their passions and belief themselves to pursue their desires.
“It is a story about discovering your voice. And the one solution to discover your voice is by being your self and trusting your self,” Lizzo stated. “ It doesn’t matter the place you’re, who you realize. On the finish of the day, it’s at all times going to be about you. And by the top of the story, hopefully.”
For followers ready to get their palms on Lizzo’s newest undertaking, “Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’” will launch Sept. 8.
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