Do yourself a favor and watch this: Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she absolutely blisters the paint off ...

We’d made it through “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Ledisi), “America the Beautiful” (Lauren Daigle and Trombone Shorty), and “Hold My Hand” (Lady Gaga, evidently prerecorded), not to ...

Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have included a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn penned in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a civil rights ...

Ledisi performs “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.(Staff Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) ORG XMIT ...

The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans students stirred audiences. It also stirred controversy, something James Weldon Johnson was not unaccustomed Why ...

The halftime show followed pregame musical performances that put an emphasis of the big game’s Big Easy setting. New Orleans native Ledisi sang a powerful version of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the ...

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Jon Batiste put an Orleanian twist on the national anthem to kick off Super Bowl 2025.. The seven-time Grammy winner sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the field at Caesars Superdome in New ...

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday.. The R&B singer stood on a ...

High School Choir Joins Ledisi For Super Bowl Performance. In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson penned the poem that would become the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Gaining ground as ...

Ledisi took to the field at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday to deliver a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”. Ledisi, a New Orleans native, was joined during the pregame portion of ...