Ledisi, a singer and composer winner of the Grammy Award, sang “raising each voice and sings” as part of the festivities prior to the Super Bowl Lix game.
The Native of New Orleans sang the song, also known as the Black National Anthem, in Caesars Superdome when fans anticipated the start of the game between Kansas City and Philadelphia Eagles chiefs.
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Ledisi performs “Levante Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl Lix. (Photo AP/Brynn Anderson)
She won a Grammy for the best traditional R&B performance for the song “Anything for You”.
Jon Batiste made the National Anthem and Lauren Daigle performed “America The Beautiful”.
The performance of the Black National Anthem has been a source of dismay for fans since the NFL decided to insent the song before the Super Bowl to end the 2020 season. Fans were not happy with that again and made their voices heard in the social networks.
Ledisi performs “lift each voice and sing” before the Super Bowl Lix. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
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Andra Day sang the song at the Super Bowl Lviii in Las Vegas.
The NFL began playing the Black National Anthem in the 2020 season after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. The incident began a wave of actions against racial injustice in the United States.
The previous artists of the Super Bowl Lix, from the left, Ledisi, Troy Andrews, known as Trombone Shorty, Lauren Daigle and Jon Batiste perch at a press conference, on February 6, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt York)
The NAACP began to promote “lift each voice and sings” like the National Black Anthem in 1917.
