{"id":792155,"date":"2019-01-17T18:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780922"},"modified":"2019-01-17T18:58:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:58:48","slug":"gladys-knight-tapped-to-perform-national-anthem-at-super-bowl-liii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/gladys-knight-tapped-to-perform-national-anthem-at-super-bowl-liii\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladys Knight Tapped to Perform National Anthem at Super Bowl LIII"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gladys Knight<\/a> has been tapped to perform the National Anthem during the Super Bowl LIII pregame festivities on February 3rd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in Atlanta, Georgia, the NFL announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to use my voice to unite and represent our country and my hometown of Atlanta,\u201d the songstress said in a statement. \u201cThe NFL recently announced their new social justice platform Inspire Change, and I am honored to be a part of its inaugural year.\u201d The Inspire Change<\/a> initiative is intended to highlight players, owners and the NFL\u2019s collaborative efforts to \u201ccreate positive change in communities across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knight joins Big Boi, who will perform during the halftime show<\/a> alongside Maroon 5 and Travis Scott, in representing their hometown during the Super Bowl events. Some controversy has surrounded this year\u2019s Super Bowl performance lineup, with several artists boycotting events related to the game, including Rihanna<\/a> and Cardi B turning down<\/a> the halftime show in support of Colin Kaepernick. Scott\u2019s appearance was reportedly contingent on the NFL making a joint $500,000 charitable donation to Van Jones\u2019 social justice organization, Dream Corps.<\/p>\n

Several other music events are scheduled leading up to the Big Game. On Saturday, February 2nd,\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0hosts Rolling Stone Live: Atlanta<\/a> at Goat Farm Arts Center, which features performances by Ludacris\u00a0and Young Thug, as well as Gunna and Lil Keed. The event will also showcase DJ sets from the Roots\u2019 Questlove. Meanwhile, Aerosmith, Bruno Mars and Cardi B are set to perform during the three-day\u00a0Super Bowl Music Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gladys Knight has been tapped to perform the National Anthem during the Super Bowl LIII pregame festivities on February 3rd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in Atlanta, Georgia, the NFL announced. \u201cI am proud to use my voice to unite and represent our country and my hometown of Atlanta,\u201d the songstress said in a statement. \u201cThe NFL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:43:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}