Lizzo announced as keynote speaker at South by Southwest Festival

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Lizzo has been tapped to deliver one of the Keynote addresses at this year’s South By Southwest Conference and Festivals, which will run from March 11 to March 20 in Austin, Texas and online.

In the announcement, Lizzo is described as a “global superstar, three-time Grammy Award-winning artist and executive producer of Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrls, a new unscripted series premiering this spring on Prime Video.”

In August of 2020, Lizzo announced a deal with Amazon Prime Video that would see her creating TV series for the streaming service. Last year, she