Additionally, the Crescent City’s own Ledisi delivered a soulful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ahead of Super Bowl LIX. In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson penned the poem ...

Ledisi, backed by Adam Blackstone and the BBE All-Star band, performed a tribute, fresh off of her sweeping Super Bowl rendition of the Black National Anthem earlier this month. Earlier in the ...

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short ...

Drew Brees already knows who will win Super Bowl LIX: "The most desperate team wins" Ledisi likes to control her destiny. When she failed to get a recording deal in 1999, the singer teamed up with ...

Grammy-winning R&B singer and New Orleans native Ledisi took the stage at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans for a “Lift Every Voice and Sing” performance ahead of the 2025 Super Bowl.

February’s Columbia concert announcements included an R&B staple at Township Auditorium and a 2000s rock throwback at rock ...

Ledisi, a Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as part of Super Bowl LIX’s pregame festivities. The New Orleans native sang the song, otherwise known as ...

Ledisi and Daigle on a long black couch. Andrews and Daigle discussed their collaboration on “America the Beautiful.” “I think me and Lauren put together a very New Orleans brass band ...

Batiste, 38, grew up in Metairie, Louisiana, and learned his craft at an early age absorbing the musical techniques of family members Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, Milton Batiste from ...

The singer, whose full name is Ledisi Anibade Young, said that she is "overwhelmed" and "honored" to sing the hymn Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...