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.
Songs For Screens: Raphael Saadiq on Creating HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ Score (Over Zoom) and Upcoming Aretha Franklin Doc
variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorHBO’s “Lovecraft Country” has already made history for its entirely online orchestral score, co-composed by Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq.But for noted musical multitasker Saadiq – with a resume that includes a Grammy (and 15 nominations), a 2018 Oscar nom, nine studio albums (five as a solo act, four with previous group Tony!
Toni! Toné!) and countless hits as a writer/producer for artists like D’Angelo, Solange, Mary J. Blige and John Legend — the creative challenge was par for the course.Saadiq began working on the “Lovecraft” score with Karpman shortly after wrapping the majority of his work on Nat Geo’s upcoming “Genius: Aretha” series starring Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, which he also completed.
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