After they co-wrote about 10 potential tunes for the new movie, it was “Shug Avery” — performed by Fantasia and Colman Domingo (Mister) — that made the final cut.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/entertainment/the-color-purple-music-how-it-danced-from-broadway-to-movie/

And she's been cast in an adaptation of "The Color Purple," as Shug Avery.

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Miss Celie and Miss Shug Avery become dear friends and decide to move away together, and this finally allows Celie to leave her terrible relationship with Mister which she was forced into by her own father.

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That moment occurs between Celie, a poor Black woman living in the rural South in the early 1900s, and Shug Avery, a free-spirited jazz-blues singer who is also the longtime mistress of Celie’s husband.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-12-21/the-color-purple-celie-shug-queerness-musical-movie-alice-walker