Latifah To Sing At Super Bowl Pre-Game

Queen Latifah will sing America the Beautiful as part of Super Bowl XLVIII pregame festivities at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday, Feb. 2, the NFL and Fox announced Monday. The performance will be televised live on Fox prior to kickoff.

More than 164 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year’s Super Bowl. The pregame show, including the National Anthem and America the Beautiful, and Super Bowl XLVIII will be broadcast worldwide.

Queen Latifah, host of the The Queen Latifah Show, is a musician, actress, a label president, an author and entrepreneur, Queen Latifah is a Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning artist as well as an Emmy and Academy Award nominee.

New Jersey-native Queen Latifah will return to the Super Bowl after first singing it at Super Bowl XLIV. The NFL previously announced that Renée Fleming will perform the National Anthem, Amber Zion will perform in American Sign Language the National Anthem and America the Beautiful and Bruno Mars will perform in the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show.

The pregame and halftime shows are an NFL Network Production and will be executive produced by Ricky Kirshner.