Jazmine Sullivan, Eric Church’s national anthem scores
Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church obtained Sunday’s Super Bowl 55 off to a low-key begin.
The unlikely duo carried out “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the high of the sport, which pits the Kansas City Chiefs towards the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Wearing a purple jacket and taking part in guitar, Church started the anthem solo, quietly singing along with his soulful twang. The tune actually took off when Sullivan, wanting gorgeous in a jeweled headpiece and cream-colored pantsuit, joined in, effortlessly harmonizing with Church and displaying off her gorgeous vocal vary.
The two artists had by no means collaborated earlier than Sunday’s sport, held at Raymond Jones Stadium in Tampa, Florida, with a scaled-back crowd of 25,000 fans because of COVID-19 restrictions. Sullivan advised Entertainment Tonight in late January that she had by no means met Church, however was excited to mix their respective R&B and nation sounds.
“We definitely come from two totally different, um, everything,” Sullivan mentioned. “But, I’m excited. I think it will be cool to blend the different sounds of music and just show some unity. I just hope that it brings unity and it shows that you can be from two different parts of life and come together for a good common cause.”
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The efficiency was higher than Christina Aguilera’s lyric-flubbing rendition in 2011, though it did not attain the highly effective vocal heights of pop stars Lady Gaga (2016) and Demi Lovato (2020) at current bowl video games. And, in fact, nothing can ever high Whitney Houston‘s astonishing “Star-Spangled Banner” 30 years in the past at the 1991 Super Bowl, a model so iconic that it grew to become successful single in itself, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The final Super Bowl to function an anthem duet was in 2006, but its memorable for all of the unsuitable causes. The legendary Aretha Franklin was mismatched with the extra subdued Aaron Neville, for a torpid efficiency that not even Franklin’s mighty voice may save.
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Sullivan is a 12-time Grammy-nominated singer who hit the Top 5 on Billboard’s mainstream R&B/hip-hop airplay chart in 2008, with singles “Need U Bad” and “Bust Your Windows.” The 33-year-old just lately returned after a six-year break between albums with final month’s “Heaux Tales,” that includes collaborations with H.E.R. and Anderson .Paak.
Chuch, in the meantime, is gearing as much as launch a triple album venture this spring titled “Heart & Soul.” The new music, written pre-COVID shutdowns, will roll out beginning April 16 with first album “Heart.” The 43-year-old launched two new songs, “Lynyrd Skynyrd Jones” and “Lone Wolf,” on Friday.
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