Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
2022 Grammys Honour Stephen Sondheim, Taylor Hawkins And More In Emotional ‘In Memoriam’ Segment
etcanada.comThe world dealt with the loss of some musical powerhouses over the past year, and the 2022 Grammy Awards remembered those we’ve lost with a touching In Memoriam segment.
Host Trevor Noah introduced the segment with a special tribute to Taylor Hawkins, sharing, “This was the moment of the show when I was supposed to be introducing the Foo Fighters.
We would have been celebrating with them as they won three Grammy Awards earlier today.” “But they, of course, are not here due to the tragic passing of their legendary drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
Out thoughts go out to Taylor’s family, his friends, the Foo Fighters family and all of their friends around the world,” he continued. “We would like to take a moment now to remember Taylor.” The show then played a heartbreaking video montage of Hawkins’ many memorable concert performances set to the band’s emotional hit, “My Hero.” Hawkins tragically died on March 25 at the age of 50, and Foo Fighters subsequently canceled all their planned performances.
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