![]() Performs America the Beautiful! #SBLVI /QtTOcG4nSA Jhené Aiko performs “America the Beautiful” before the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, Feb. “America the Beautiful” has not always been a Super Bowl staple it became part of the pregame ceremony only starting in 2009. There has been some call over the years for Francis Scott Key’s anthem to be replaced with this less warlike song, but the compromise that America seemingly has accepted is to have both songs performed before the most important sporting events… often joined at football games by “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a 1900 hymn that began to be regarded as a Black national anthem as early as the 1910s. ![]() "Lift Every Voice and Sing" performed by and Youth Orchestra Los Angeles. ![]() Mary Mary performed outside SoFi Stadium, making use of L.A.’s abundant sunshine (and presumably being toweled off by makeup artists in the record-breaking heat) for an especially scenic rendition of the song, accompanied by the L.A. People think Jhené Aiko is taking shots at Ariana Grande for her relationship with Big Sean in None of Your Concern. Phil’s Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (aka YOLA), conducted by Thomas Wilkins.
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