US singer Lizzo dazzled audience members on stage during a concert on Tuesday in Washington, DC, by playing a 200-year-old crystal flute that was formerly owned by former US President James Madison.
The Library of Congress gave the trained flutist and singer permission to use the instrument, which was brought onto the stage by a police escort.
It’s like playing out of a wine glass, she observed as she examined it on stage. Then she began to play a few notes and shook her lower body.
She handed it back to a representative who put it back in its case, beaming, “I just twerked and played James Madison’s flute from the 1800s!”
No one has ever heard what it sounds like… now you do, the Houston-raised Juice singer said after releasing the video on her social media platforms.
“As a flute player, this is iconic, and I will never be over it,” she later remarked.
The BBC was informed by a Library of Congress representative that the flute may have once in the past, most likely during Madison’s time, been performed in public on a rare and unique occasion.
The Library’s curator, who has been employed there since 1993, had never heard the flute played live before Lizzo picked it up.
Tuesday night, the Library of Congress tweeted to certify that the flute had been safely returned after her historic performance.
They added, “We recently conducted a DNA test.” Turns out: It’s 100% that [crystal] flute, as expressed in the play-on-words from Lizzo’s popular song Truth Hurts.
The TikTok smash, About Damn Time, was featured on Lizzo’s fourth album, Special, which won a Grammy. Lizzo is presently touring the US in support of Special.
She rewrote the words to her new song, Grrrls, earlier this summer in response to fan complaints that it contained an ableist insult.
Along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, James Madison, who served as America’s fourth president from 1809 to 1817, significantly aided in the passage of the Constitution by authoring The Federalist Papers. He was referred to be the Father of the Constitution in later years.
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