Ledisi sings powerful “lift each vote and sing” on the Super Bowl 2025

Last‘s performance of’ lift each vote and sing ‘before 2025 Super Bowl Moved the audience near and far.

On Sunday, February 9th. Before Philadelphia Eagles takes on the Kansas City Chiefs at Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans, the 52-year-old Grammy singer performed that hymn, often called the black national anthem.

Ledisi, whose full name is Ledisi Anibade Young, wore a floating white dress when she took the center in the field accompanied by a New Orlean youth shoes dressed in yellow clothes. When she belted the notes for the song flawlessly, several employees and audiences could be seen respectfully to engage with the song.

The native of New Orleans who is known for his R&B and Jazz albums, won 2020 Grammy for best traditional R&B performance for his song “Anything for you.”

Ledisi also has actors to boast about. She portrayed Evangelium icon Mahalia Jackson twice in the biopic in 2014 Selma and Remember me: Mahalia Jackson storyA musical drama in 2022.

At the Apple Music Super Bowl Lix Halftime Show press conference on Thursday Ledisi said she is “overwhelmed” and “honored” to perform “Lift each vote and sing.”

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“I feel that I am in line with greatness to stand at this moment and sing that song,” she added and was suffocated. The song, which was adapted from a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson, turns 125 this year.

She also talked about what was happening in her mind moment before she performed.

“I’m just going to keep thinking about this little girl from Holly Grove who cycled, singing with her family singing, moving to Oakland, then walks around the world on larger scenes and then comes back here the whole circle, at home and wants to show to show I am here here and to get that moment, Ledisi said.

She added that she is thinking about, “my grandparents, my family, my cousins, my new family … I think about family and society. And then I’m going to tell you the story.”

Join Ledisi on the field before kickoff is Jon Batiste performs the national anthem, along with Thrombone cards And Christian music singers Lauren Daigle With its reproduction of “America The Beautiful.”

Later, Kendrick Lamar and SZA will take the stage during half time.

Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will meet in the Super Bowl 2025 and will be broadcast on Fox on Sunday 9 February at 18:30.