Who is singing at the Super Bowl 2025 pregame show? National anthem performer and more
Sunday's main event, unless you're really into football, is Kendrick Lamar as the star of the Super Bowl 2025 Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will battle it out before and after the Pulitzer-Prize-winning hip-hop legend takes the field.
But just before the game gets underway, music's biggest stage will also feature award-winning artists performing the national anthem, 'America the Beautiful' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the Black national anthem.
More than 100 million people likely will be tuning in on Sunday, Feb. 9.
Here's what they can expect to see before kickoff.
Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem at Super Bowl 2025.
Batiste was born in Metairie, Louisiana, which is part of the New Orleans metropolitan area.
Batiste appeared nightly with his band, Stay Human, as musical director on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" from 2015 to 2022.
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In 2020, he co-composed the score for the Pixar animated film "Soul," for which he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award and a BAFTA Film Award (all shared with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross). In 2022, Batiste won Album of the Year at the Grammys for "We Are."
A week before the Super Bowl, he added two more Grammys to his total, winning Best Music Film for 'American Symphony' and Best Song Written for Visual Media for 'It Never Went Away' (from 'American Symphony').
Trombone Shorty and Christian singer Lauren Daigle will collaborate for "America the Beautiful."
Trombone Shorty picked up his first Grammy in 2022 for featured contributions to Batiste's "We Are."
Daigle has topped Billboard's Christian album chart with all four albums she's released. The two-time Grammy winner also won Favorite Artist – Contemporary Inspirational four years in a row at the American Music Awards.
Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Ledisi has portrayed Mahalia Jackson in two films — "Selma (2014) and "Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story" (2022).
In 2021, she picked up her first Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
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Super Bowl 2025 will feature American Sign Language performances by Stephanie Nogueras, Matt Maxey and Otis Jones IV.
Nogueras will interpret the "Star-Spangled Banner" as performed by Jon Batiste and "America the Beautiful" as performed by Lauren Daigle with Trombone Shorty.
Jones will sign "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with Ledisi.
Maxey will deliver the ASL rendition of Kendrick Lamar's halftime show.
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The Super Bowl will be broadcast live on Fox.
It will also stream on Fubo TV and other streaming services that carry FOX.
Kickoff is slated for 4:30 p.m. MST (6:30 p.m. ET) on Sunday, Feb. 9.
Programming should start 30 minutes prior to kickoff, so you'll need to tune in early if you want to hear those pregame entertainers.
Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more. He did the same in Pittsburgh for more than a decade. Follow him on X and Instagram @edmasley and on Facebook as Ed Masley. Email him at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com.
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