After graduating from Alief Elsik High School in 2006, she studied classical music focusing on flute at the University of Houston. At this time she acquired the nickname "Lizzo", a variant of "Lissa" inspired by Jay-Z's " Izzo (H.O.V.A.)". At the age of 14, she formed a musical group called Cornrow Clique with her friends. She was classically trained as a flutist by renowned music teacher Claudia Momen from the age of 10 until she graduated Alief Elsik High School in Alief, Houston, where she also started rapping. When she was ten, her family relocated to Houston, Texas. Melissa Viviane Jefferson was born in Detroit, Michigan.
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Born in Detroit, Michigan, she later moved to Houston, Texas, where she began performing before moving to Minneapolis, where she began her recording career in hip hop music. Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer, rapper and songwriter.