Super Bowl: Ledisi Performs “Lift Every Voice and Sing” With 125 New Orleans Students
Ledisi took to the field at Super Bowl Lix on Sunday to deliver a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Ledisi, a New Orleans native, was joined during the pregame portion of the game by 125 youth choir members from the Greater New Orleans High School Chorale Collective to perform the song in honor of its 125th anniversary.
The song, which is referred to as “The Black National Anthem,” was written in 1900 by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson as a poem, with music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, according to the NAACP website. The song was first performed that year by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at a segregated school in Florida where James Weldon Johnson served as principal. That performance also was part of a celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Watch Ledisi’s Super Bowl performance below.
.@ledisi and 125 New Orleans high school students perform “Lift...
Ledisi, a New Orleans native, was joined during the pregame portion of the game by 125 youth choir members from the Greater New Orleans High School Chorale Collective to perform the song in honor of its 125th anniversary.
The song, which is referred to as “The Black National Anthem,” was written in 1900 by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson as a poem, with music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, according to the NAACP website. The song was first performed that year by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at a segregated school in Florida where James Weldon Johnson served as principal. That performance also was part of a celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Watch Ledisi’s Super Bowl performance below.
.@ledisi and 125 New Orleans high school students perform “Lift...
- 2/9/2025
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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