Usher will headline the Super Bowl 58 halftime show in Las Vegas on February 11, but he isn’t the only singer football fans will see perform as part of the 2024 Big Game festivities. Here’s who will be performing at Super Bowl 2024 on Sunday, when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers square off.
“You know, everybody says they want to win a Grammy, or they want to win an Oscar, or a Tony, or an Emmy. A Super Bowl is something that everybody wants to play,” he said. “And here it is. It happened.”
The eight-time Grammy winner has been a hot ticket in Las Vegas for the past year, with a residency that has exceeded all expectations, and he says the greats who came before him are always in his thoughts.
“I mean the history of African Americans who had to perform here and couldn’t go through the actual casinos… now, to be here, the residency, it’s like, man. What a whirlwind,” he said, commenting.
In an interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King, Usher shared some advice he received from JAY-Z, the Super Bowl’s live music and entertainment strategist.
“He left it to me to, you know, make sure that I didn’t miss the culture. That’s the one thing that he said. ‘You know, we’re doing this for the culture,'” Usher said. “‘I want you to play the ones that we — that we love, that we know you for. Give ’em the moments that they, you know, look forward to seeing,'” like, ‘Go for the culture.’ And I’m like, ‘All right, I got you.'”
The NFL has not yet announced whether any other artists will join Usher on stage
Shaheem Sanchez will also give an American Sign Language version of the halftime performance. In late January, the NFL announced Tiësto would be the “first in-game DJ” for the Super Bowl. According to the Associated Press, Tiësto will not perform at the Super Bowl due to an undisclosed family matter.
The NFL has not yet announced whether any other artists will join Usher on stage.
Usher previously performed at the Super Bowl as a guest during the Black Eyed Peas’ halftime show in 2011.
Reba McEntire, a country music icon and Grammy Award winner, will sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. While this is McEntire’s first Super Bowl performance, she said that she has been singing the national anthem for decades and is confident in her preparation.
“You just warm up like you do a concert and sing it about five or six times, and get in there and do it,” McEntire said.
There will also be American Sign Language performances for each song
McEntire isn’t the only one singing before the game starts. As part of the pregame performances, rapper Post Malone will perform “America the Beautiful” and singer Andra Day will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black national anthem.
“Peace and blessings!!!” Performing the Anthem at the Super Bowl, yall! Grateful! “Thank you, God,” Day wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
There will also be American Sign Language performances for each song. Daniel Durant, who first appeared in the film “CODA,” will perform the national anthem in American Sign Language. Anjel Piñero, an actress, model, and dancer, will sign “America the Beautiful,” while Shaheem Sanchez, an actor and choreographer, will sign “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Full list of performers at the Super Bowl 2024
- Usher will headline the half-time show. The NFL has not yet announced whether any other artists will join Usher on stage.
- Reba McEntire, the country music icon, will perform the national anthem during her first Super Bowl appearance.
- Daniel Durant, the actor, will perform the national anthem in American Sign Language.
- Post Malone: The rapper will perform “America the Beautiful.”
- Anjel Piñero, actress, model, and dancer, will perform “America the Beautiful” using American Sign Language.
- Andra Day will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
- Shaheem Sanchez, an actor and choreographer, will sign Lift Every Voice and Sing in an American Sign Language performance.
