Rihanna to perform Lift Me Up at the Oscars

Rihanna Navy rejoice: the Super Bowl halftime amusement volition not beryllium the past that we spot of the Barbadian singer.

The euphony superstar is scheduled to execute Lift Me Up during the biggest nighttime successful Hollywood - the Oscars.

The song, created with Tems, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson, was featured connected the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack.

It has been nominated for champion archetypal song, marking Rihanna's archetypal Oscar nod.

The 95th Academy Awards ceremonial volition beryllium broadcast connected 12 March and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

Earlier this month, Rihanna dazzled Super Bowl viewers with a soaring, solo half-time show, successful which she publically revealed her 2nd gestation with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky.

The 13-minute show was highly anticipated by Rihanna's fans, galore of whom had not seen her execute since she graced the Grammys signifier successful 2018 to execute 'Wild Thoughts' with DJ Khaled.

In the past fewer years, Rihanna has taken a interruption from euphony to absorption connected her concern ventures, similar her Fenty Beauty make-up marque and her Savage X Fenty lingerie line.

Lift Me Up marks the archetypal solo opus Rihanna has recorded since her past album, ANTI, which was released successful 2016.

Speaking astir her instrumentality to euphony aft a seven-year hiatus, Rihanna said she is astatine a constituent wherever she wants to research creatively.

"I'm feeling unfastened to exploring, discovering, creating things that are new, things that are different, things that are off, weird. Might not ever marque consciousness to my fans … I privation to person amusive with music," Rihanna said up of her Super Bowl performance.

With a show astatine the Oscars, Rihanna joins the likes of Beyonce and Lady Gaga, who some dazzled arsenic philharmonic guests connected the Academy Award signifier successful caller years.

Her song, Lift Me Up, volition vie for the champion archetypal opus rubric against Lady Gaga, who is up for her fourth-ever information for Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick.

Other nominees for champion archetypal opus see Diane Warren for Applause from the movie Tell It Like a Woman; This Is A Life from Ryan Lott, Mitski and David Byrne from the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once; and Naatu Naatu by M M Keeravaani and Chandrabose from the Indian enactment movie RRR.

Rihanna is simply a nine-time Grammy Award winner. She has 8 multi-platinum albums and 14 singles that person reached fig 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 chart.