Versatile performer John Batiste sang the national anthem before the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles confronted 2025 Super Bowl Sunday, February 9th, in New Orleans.
The multi-grammy winner opened the game with an active rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” He told Entertainment Tonight last month that he hopes his performance will “continue the test of time.”
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There’s everything you need to know about being from Louisiana.
Who is John Batiste?
Batiste, 38, is a Grammy and Oscar winner, former bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” from 2015 to 2022.
Batiste comes from a family with deep roots in the New Orleans jazz community and began playing drums at the age of eight on the Batiste Brothers Band. He attended Juilliard School in New York. Baptiste also plays piano, keyboards, melodica and guitar.
His documentary, “American Symphony,” won a Grammy Award for Best Music Film this month, and his song, “It Never Deate Away,” was won from a Best Song documentary written for Visual Media. Batiste has won a total of seven Grammy Awards in his professional career.
Who sang the national anthem for the previous Super Bowl game?
Last year, country music icon Reba McEntire I sang the national anthem At the Super Bowl.
Who else sang at the 2025 Super Bowl?
Trombone Shorty played “America The Beautiful” along with Grammy-winning vocalist Lauren Daigle. Ledisi colloquially says, “Lift and sing all the voices,” Black National Anthem. Along with Batiste, the four performers are all natives of Louisiana.
The Halftime Show featured rappers Kendrick Lamar, The person who played some of his old hits, including “Humiliation.” and “DNA”. Like songs from his new album, including “Luther” along with the singer SZA.
Lamar closed the show with a Grammy Awards record and a song from the year “Not We Are.”
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