Super Bowl - Ledisi sings Lift Every Voice and Sing with 125 New Orleans students

Ledisi and 125 youth choir members from the Greater New Orleans High School Chorale Collective join together to perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” honoring the hymn’s 125th anniversary at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana, creating a powerful and unifying moment. In a time when the country seems divided, this moment marked a pivotal point in Black History for viewers worldwide, as shared on the NFL Instagram page.

 

 

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The Grammy-award-winning singer and New Orleans native radiated beauty dressed in an all-white ensemble and cascading curls as she belted each note of the iconic song powerfully and flawlessly.

 

What does the performance by Ledisi and the students of the New Orleans High School Chorale Collective in honoring the hymns’ 125th anniversary mean to you?

 

Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty

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