American Idol star Carrie Underwood will perform Ray Charles' America The Beautiful. The Village People will no doubt perform YMCA, their 1970s hit that Trump loves to dance to at his rallies ...

Louisiana musicians Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle joined the Super Bowl LIX pre-game festivities Sunday with a ...

The "Soul Bossa Nova" artist, who worked with acts including Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, died in November at 91 years old of ...

Prior to the game, Trombone and Lauren paid tribute to the Grammy Award-winning singer Ray Charles by giving a jazzy spin to his hit 1972 song America the Beautiful. A video of the duo singing the ...

Ward. The combination of Ward's melody and Bates's poem was first entitled "America the Beautiful" in 1910. One of the most notable modern-day performances of the song was by Ray Charles ...

Lauren Daigle was joined by her fellow Louisiana native Trombone Shorty for a New Orleans-flavored take on “America the Beautiful” ahead of the 2025 Super Bowl.

But Ray Charles was the one to steal the show with his rendition of “America the Beautiful”. Charles was greeted with loud cheers from the crowd as Sinatra helped him walk to the piano.

Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle, both Louisiana natives, delivered a rousing rendition of “America the Beautiful” prior to Super Bowl LIX Sunday in New Orleans. The performance rounded out a ...