Gunna, Camila Cabello and Lizzo to play ‘SNL’ in April

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Saturday Night Live have announced the names set to host and perform during the first three shows in April.On April 2, host Jerrod Carmichael will be joined by musical guest Gunna, while the following weekend on April 9, Camila Cabello will perform as Jake Gyllenhaal hosts.

Lizzo will take on both hosting and performing duties on April 16, doubling up as the episode’s host and musical guest.Lizzo recently appeared at SXSW, where she made a keynote speech in which she hit out at Texas’ anti-transgender legislation and abortion policies.Elsewhere during the talk, she confirmed a new album was coming “very, very soon”, saying she was headed home after the event to work on mastering the record. “It’s good.

I worked real hard on it, so it better be good,” she said.Last month, during an interview with Variety, Lizzo called the album “one of the most musically badass, daring and sophisticated bodies of work I’ve done to date” and said she was “shocked” that it’s a “love album”.Cabello, meanwhile, is set to celebrate the release of her new album ‘Familia’ with an “immersive” TikTok concert..