Posted on 01/14/2005 6:10:30 PM PST by Borges
NEW YORK - Alicia Keys will sing "America the Beautiful" prior to this year's Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. It will be just the third time the song is sung at the Super Bowl — previously performed only by Vicki Carr and Ray Charles. Accompanying Keys will be 150 students from the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, which Charles attended as a youth in 1937.
"I'm very excited to be playing at the Super Bowl for the first time especially because I will be singing a song made famous by an artist I admire, miss and respect, Ray Charles, along with the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind," said Keys in a statement released Thursday. "I know that this is going to be a very touching and memorable moment."
The game's halftime show will feature a performance by Paul McCartney. Last year's mid-game celebration with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake produced widespread controversy after Jackson's breast was exposed.
This year's game, Super Bowl XXXIX, takes place Feb. 6 at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville.
Earlier this week, Keys, 23, announced a tour of 34 U.S. cities that will kick off in South Carolina on Feb. 25. The R&B singer and piano player is currently nominated for eight Grammys.
very nice choice...I'd love it if she played the piano at the same time.
For a moment I thought the content was gone but its here it seems.
She's only 23?! I remember seeing her on SNL back in '99 or so. Wow. I feel old -- REALLY old!
Oh, brother. Retire already.
LOL
Actually, I am very tired of naked Hollywood you know whats. Isn't there someone out there who can really sing without having to resort to being naked?
In other words; what happened to talent?
Alicia Keyes is a piano player. She's good.
America the Beautiful? I'm gonna sue, nobody can sing that, it will offend the rest of the world! /sarcasm
Jealous?
THANK YOU!
Alright Alicia, another product from the MTV (empty-V) holocaust. The holocaust that destroyed all music as we use to know it. You go girl, you talk "ghetto" and shake that head as you oversing incredibly bad music.
I just hope she sings something I know and leaves her clothes on. Whoa! Strike that very last thought ---- my second childhood, you know!!!
She won't sound ghetto on national tv. She talks that way on BET just so she won't get buried in hate mail that she doesn't want to be black. trust me I know! LOL
Great same broad that said America stinks - blacks shouldnt do anything for the US because it did nothing for them etc etc etc
Singing along are students from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. Presumably they'll lean more towards the blind kids on mike. But, hey, the passed-over deaf kids at least get the thrill of hearing their classmates sing on national TV.
Uhh. Well, probably not.
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