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| Alicia Keys [FILE PHOTO: José Goulão/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0] |
New York: Fourteen-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys will sing the National Anthem as part of Super Bowl XLVII pregame
festivities at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on February 3, the
NFL and CBS has confirmed. The performance will be televised live on CBS prior
to kickoff.
More than 111.3 million viewers in the U.S. watched last
year's Super Bowl, the most-watched television program in history. The pregame
show and Super Bowl XLVII will be broadcast worldwide.
Keys returns to the Super Bowl for a third time, the most by
any performer in Super Bowl history. She took the stage to sing "America
the Beautiful" with 150 students from the Florida School for the Deaf and
the Blind prior to Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville on February 6, 2005 and
then returned to perform as part of the Super Bowl XLII Pregame Show in Arizona
on February 3, 2008. Keys' latest album, Girl on Fire, recently debuted at
number one on the Billboard album chart.
Keys is among many great performers who have been honored
with singing the Super Bowl National Anthem including: Kelly Clarkson, Billy
Joel, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Harry Connick, Jr., Garth
Brooks, Natalie Cole, Luther Vandross, Jewel, Cher, Faith Hill, Mariah Carey,
Dixie Chicks and many more.