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This U.S. Navy veteran will sing the national anthem before the Kansas City Chiefs game with the Philadelphia Eagles on November 20.
Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. [ 2 ]
Jennifer Hudson sings the national anthem at Super Bowl XLIII.. The U.S. national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been performed at all but one Super Bowl since its first year in 1967; Vikki Carr sang "America the Beautiful" in place of the anthem at Super Bowl XI in 1977.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
The NAACP adopted the hymn as the Black national anthem in 1919 — years before the “Star Spangled Banner” became the official national anthem of the U.S. in 1931.
US national anthem sung over the years. January 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM. Watch and listen to the US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, performed at presidential inaugurations since 1961.
Artists will join Super Bowl halftime show headliner Usher at the Allegiant Stadum
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...