R&B singer Usher has promised to roller skate during his Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas on Sunday he would recreate a skating sequence that had become a viral highlight of his recent Vegas residency he said and the show would be a crescendo marking a new beginning in his 30-year career previous
Super Bowl halftime show performers include Katie Perry Prince and Beyonce but Usher will be the first independent artist to take the stage having left his previous record label RCA to sell release his album coming home this weekend interviewed by Apple music’s the Desco Alexis he ducked several questions
About his set list it definitely has been a challenge to squeeze 30 years into 13 minutes Usher said eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses he had been very mindful of my past and the songs I feel people know me for as well as iconic dance routines from his career asked
About potential guest performers Usher hinted he would be joined by singers who featured on songs that became hit records that gave me the greatest point of reference said the singer whose collaborators include Beyonce JayZ Alicia Keys and Lil John Usher will play at the allegiance Stadium as the Kansas
City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers he follows Rihanna who performed the 2023 halftime show while pregnant in 2022 is All-Star team of Dr Dre Kendrick Lamar Mary J blig Snoop Dog Eminem and 50 Cent Usher himself has previously appeared on the Super Bowl stage as a
Special guest with the blackeyed piece in 2011 he performed a breathtaking leap over Will I Am Landing in the splits country singer Reba McIntyre will perform America’s national anthem post Malone Will Sing America the Beautiful and Andre day will conclude the pregame concert with lift every voice and sing
Often called the black national anthem while dance musician Testo will be the Super Bowl’s first ever a game DJ Usher Raymond 4 started singing in church in Tennessee at the age of nine he joined a group called New Beginning a year later and they recorded an album in 1991 which
Only came out after Usher hit the big time after the family moved to Atlanta Usher was spotted at talent show and signed by LA Reid the executive who also discovered TLC Tony Braxton and Outcast his first song call me a Mac appeared on the soundtrack to the Tupac Shakur and
Janet Jackson film Poetic Justice when he was just 15 years old but his debut album produced by P Diddy tanked he tried again with producer Germaine Dupri who made his name working with De Brat and Mariah Carey together they figured out a sound for Usher’s second album my
Way that combined his buttery smooth tener with stuttering hip-hop beats that allowed him to show off his skills as a Dancer the first single you make me wna was only held off the US number one spot by Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana Candle in the Wind in
1997 the followup nice and slow made it to the top and dher never looked back over the next decade he sold 80 million records worldwide won eight Grammy Awards and scored four consecutive Us number ones yeah burn confessions point2 and may Buu which are all but guaranteed
To feature in his Super Bowl performance the 2010s were less kind the title of his eighth album Hard to Love was unintentionally prophetic but his reputation as a dazzling live performer remained after a stint as a judge on The Voice he launched a Las Vegas residency in 2022 culminating in 100 soldout shows
And ultimately the Super Bowl Usher will take to the stage Midway through the Super Bowl on Sunday the match will start at 23:30 UK time 15:30 in Las Vegas depending on how the game progresses halftime will be about an hour and a half or 2 hours into the
Action that puts Usher’s performance at around 1 to 1:30 UK time 17 to 1730 in Las Vegas in the US the match will be screened on CBS and stream streamed on Paramount plus viewers in the UK can follow it on itv1 and ivx from 2245 if you don’t want to stay up and
Watch the concert live the NFL typically puts the whole show on YouTube immediately after its broadcast and apple music subscribers can watch it back in spatial audio the Super Bowl is always the most watched program on us television and the halftime show regularly pulls in more viewers than the
Match itself Rihanna got the biggest ever audience in 2022 with 12 21 million people tuning in even when the bookings aren’t as Stellar like Maroon 5 in 2019 the viewership has been close to 100 million the platform is so big that many performers including Rihanna play for no
Fee Usher is definitely aware of the opportunity he’s announced a new album and a US tour to coincide with his performance fans are already clamoring for UK dates it may have escaped your attention because the media has barely mentioned it but Taylor Swift have currently dating Kansas City player
Travis Kelce she’s attended more than 10 of his games over the course of the season but her attendance at the Super Bowl is in doubt because she’s playing a concert in Tokyo the night before asked about her plans Kelsey said Swift was focused on entertaining the crowd in
Japan and making sure she’s ready for her performances but the Super Bowl we will just worry about if she can make it the Japanese Embassy in Washington weighed in on the question saying that due to the time difference between the US and Japan Swift could make the 12-hour flight and comfortably arrive in
Las Vegas before the Super Bowl begins meanwhile right-wing conspiracy theorists have claimed the Super Bowl has been rigged in order to help Swift who has endorsed Democratic politicians and Kelsey who appeared in ads for fizer’s co9 vaccine clinch victory for Joe Biden in the forthcoming US presidential election the claims have
Been shot down by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell who said the idea that this is within a script this is pre-planned is just nonsense
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