Reba McEntire to sing national anthem at Super Bowl; Post Malone to perform as well
Country Music Hall of Famer Reba McEntire, multi-genre crossover sensation Post Malone and R&B star Andra Day will respectively perform the "Star-Spangled Banner," "America The Beautiful" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the NFL's Super Bowl 58 on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.
Previously announced is that Vegas-familiar pop superstar Usher will perform during the Apple Music Halftime Show at the American Football Conference vs. National Football Conference championship showdown.
The "Star Spangled Banner" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing," America's anthems, will be produced and arranged by Adam Blackstone, an Emmy Award-winning musical director/producer.
Pre-game show American Sign Language performances will be provided by actor Daniel Durant, who starred in the Academy Award-winning movie "Coda," actress, model and dancer Anjel Piñero and actor and choreographer Shaheem Sanchez.
Sanchez also will perform the ASL version of Usher's halftime show.
Continuing for the fifth year since 2019, Jay-Z and Roc Nation will executive produce the Super Bowl's halftime festivities.
Nashville's continuing Super Bowl influence
For Nashville area music fans, the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" continues to be a new hallmark of the Super Bowl's presentation.
Impressively, an average of every four years since the Super Bowl's 1967 inception, a country music favorite has sung the national anthem.
In 2021, Eric Church joined Jazmine Sullivan in a performance, while a year later, Mickey Guyton performed the anthem solo. In 2023, Chris Stapleton was tabbed for the job.
McEntire's assumption of the role in 2024 extends a tradition back 50 years to Charley Pride's performance for Super Bowl VIII at Houston's Rice Stadium.
Since then, country favorites including Aaron Neville (1990 and 2006), Garth Brooks (1993), Faith Hill (2000), The Chicks (2003), Carrie Underwood (2010), Kelly Clarkson (2012) and Luke Bryan (2017) have all been national anthem performers.
Post Malone's embrace of country music
Country music has always been a favorite of Texas native Post Malone.
In 2021, the "Rockstar" artist performed Sturgill Simposon's "You Can Have the Crown" and Brad Paisley's "I'm Gonna Miss Her" on Matthew McConaughey's "We're Texas" fundraising event organized to raise money for damages caused by Winter Storm Uri.
More recently, he's been seen in Nashville alongside the likes of Brad Paisley, plus Big Loud Records-signed artists including ERNEST, HARDY and Morgan Wallen and BMG-distributed -- and similarly cross-genre superstar -- performer Jelly Roll.
Rumors persist that a long-teased country-inspired release from Malone could be forthcoming.
At the 2023 Country Music Association Awards, Malone added fuel to that fire by jumping in on the CMA Awards tribute to country legend Joe Diffie and performing Diffie's hit "Pickup Man" with HARDY and Wallen.
For more information on Super Bowl 58, visit https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl/event-info.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Super Bowl: Reba McEntire, Post Malone among pregame performers
