Singing in style! Country crooner Chris Stapleton kicked off Super Bowl LVII with a rousing rendition of the national anthem.The “Tennessee Whiskey” singer, 44, performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, before the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles took the field to start the game.
Stapleton was accompanied by CODA star Troy Kotsur, the Oscar-winning actor, who performed the anthem in American Sign Language (ASL).Stapleton played an electric guitar as he crooned and Kotsur signed.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni and player Travis Kelce both shed tears during the performance, which ended with a military flyover, piloted by all women for the first time.The Grammy Award winner was also joined on the stage by Babyface and Sheryl Lee Ralph, who were tasked with singing “America the Beautiful” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” respectively, before the big game. Colin Denny and Justina Miles, for their parts, signed the classic songs in ASL.Stapleton joins the ranks of fellow country music peers to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the Super Bowl, including Luke Bryan and Mickey Guyton.The “Nobody to Blame” crooner, for his part, initially rose to fame in January 2014 when he was first signed as a solo artist.
15 years earlier, Stapleton moved to Nashville and began working as a songwriter for other artists.“I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time,” Stapleton told Rolling Stone in August 2014. “And sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they’re for other people.
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