Rihanna to perform at the 2023 Oscars

Fresh off her comeback Super Bowl halftime performance, Rihanna has delighted her fanbase with an exciting announcement.

Fresh off her electric Super Bowl halftime performance earlier this month, Oscar nominee Rihanna will perform at the awards ceremony on March 13.

The Barbadian singer, 35, will sing Lift Me Up — the theme from the Marvel film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday.

Rihanna — who is pregnant with her second child — wrote the song with Tems, Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson.

The track is nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar. It’s Rihanna’s first Academy Award nomination.

Barbadian singer Rihanna performs during the halftime show of Super Bowl. Picture: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

The other nominees for Best Original Song are Applause from Tell It Like a Woman by Diane Warren, Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick by Lady Gaga and BloodPop, Naatu Naatu from RRR by M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose and Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski’s track This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The Oscars, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Rihanna rocked the house during the February 13 Super Bowl halftime show, where she unveiled her baby bump and sang a medley of her greatest hits from over the years.

Her 13-minute performance included Rude Boy, Umbrella and Work.

Rihanna’s song is nominated for an Oscar. Picture: VALERIE MACON / AFP

However, the cosmetics mogul was also accused of lip-synching. A few social media users alleged she didn’t sing live.

“Amazing how Rihanna is able to keep singing even when she puts the mic aside and doesn’t move her lips at all,” one viewer snarked.

“Too bad Rihanna is lip-synching,” another claimed, adding footage of her cover of Kanye West’s song “All of the Lights,” in which her lips and the lyrics don’t match up.

“You know I love you but that’s the worst lips sinc [sic] ever. OMG,” penned one person, while someone else wrote, “Lip-synching at the Super Bowl should not be allowed.”

The Academy that hosts the Oscars noted Rihanna is a nine-time Grammy Award winner who boasts eight multi-platinum albums and 14 singles that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Academy promised to announce more Oscars performers in the coming weeks.

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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