Don’t cease!
Jon Batiste’s nationwide anthem efficiency clocked in at 120 seconds, in accordance with John Ewing of BetMGM.
The Grammy-winning singer, 38, delighted viewers when he took to the sector at Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans for Tremendous Bowl LIX on Sunday, February 9, earlier than returning champs the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs took on the Philadelphia Eagles.
Batiste performed the piano as he belted out “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Alicia Keys nonetheless holds the document for the longest Nationwide Anthem efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl. When she sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Tremendous Bowl XLVII in 2013, her rendition was two minutes and 36 seconds. It was additionally the final time New Orleans hosted the sport.
She knocked off the earlier document holder, Natalie Cole, who sang it for 2 minutes and 33 seconds in 1994.
Final 12 months’s nationwide anthem crooner was nation star Reba McEntire, who clocked in at one minute and 36 seconds at Tremendous Bowl LVIII.
Batiste was introduced because the Nationwide Anthem performer by the NFL and Roc Nation by way of social media in November.
Following the announcement, the Louisiana native shared a message in regards to the honor.
“Music is the ultimate unifier,” Batiste wrote. “Coming home for National Anthem-Batiste xo @nfl @rocnation.”
The “I Need You” singer celebrated his current Grammy wins along with his spouse, Suleika Jaouad, from residence after revealing her most cancers had returned for the third time.
“On this lazy Sunday, life is good,” Suleika captioned a joint Instagram submit of the couple on the sofa as a substitute of on the award present. “We’re so honored to win the Grammy for Best Music Film (and also for Song Written For Visual Media too!). We couldn’t make it to the ceremony but we’re beaming love from our couch to yours, and sending gratitude to all who made this film possible.”
Fellow Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar may even be hitting the sector through the massive recreation.
After successful 5 gramophones on the award present on February 2 for his Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Lamar obtained prepared for one more massive occasion — Tremendous Bowl halftime.
Forward of the large day, Lamar revealed that SZA (additionally a Grammy winner) could be performing with him.
The chums and collaborators are co-headlining the 2025 Grand Nationwide Tour, slated to kick off in Minnesota on April 19.
About Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime, Jesse Collins, the chief producer of the present, instructed NBC Information, “Everybody will agree this can be a halftime present like none different in Tremendous Bowl halftime historical past.
“The creative concept is really something brilliant, spectacular and special. In all of our years of doing this — and I think every show that we’ve done has been amazing — but I have never seen an artist take this creative approach to it.”
