Andra Day Performs Moving Rendition of the Black National Anthem ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ Ahead of Super Bowl

“It’s an honor,” said the Grammy winner of performing the anthem at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas before the Chiefs and 49ers took the field

Andra Day took the crowd even higher with her pregame performance.

The Grammy winner, 39, sang the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ahead of Super Bowl LVII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

Before the Chiefs and the 49ers took the field, Day belted out the uplifting gospel song, which is commonly known as the Black national anthem and was originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900.