Lizzo honored late music icon Tina Turner with a spectacular moment in Phoenix on Wednesday night.
“As a black girl in a rock band, I wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the queen of rock ‘n’ roll,” she said. “And remember this: there would be no rock ‘n’ roll without Tina Turner.”
She then launched into “Proud Mary,” one of Turner’s signature tunes, complete with some Turner-inspired dance moves, as much of the sold-out Footprint Center chanted:
“Proud Mary” was a 1969 hit by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Ike and Tina Turner reworked the song and it became a hit for them two years later, and a staple of Tina Turner’s live shows for the rest of her career:
Lizzo’s tribute to Turner was also caught by fans in the arena on Wednesday night:
