Rihanna will perform at the Oscars

Rihanna will perform the Oscar-nominated song "Lift Me Up" from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" during of the 95th Academy Awards, executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars will air live on ABC and stream worldwide on Sunday, March 12.

"Lift Me Up", with music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson and the lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler, is nominated for Original Song. This is Rihanna's first Oscar nomination.

Rihanna, who hasn't released a new album since 2016's 'Anti', made the one from the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this month - although her musical performance was somewhat overshadowed by the fact that she revealed she was several months pregnant with her second child. Rihanna made no reference to it during the show, but was obviously pregnant, and reps confirmed the news to Variety shortly after the performance.

While many actors and celebrities have presented or accepted Oscar awards while pregnant, Catherine Zeta -Jones is the only other name in recent memory to perform a musical number at the Oscars while pregnant. Jones was eight months pregnant when she performed "I Move On" from "Chicago" at the 2003 Oscars with Queen Latifah. Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress that year, and she gave birth to daughter Carys a few weeks later.

The 95th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 12 at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised in live on ABC and in over 200 territories around the world.

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