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    Super Bowl LV: Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan Make Historical National Anthem Performance

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    The ‘Guys Like Me’ crooner and the ‘Bust Your Windows’ hitmaker team up as the first duet to sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at the big game in over a decade.

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan made a historical national anthem performance at the Super Bowl LV. The two singers paired up as the first duet to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” at the big game in over a decade.
    The country music singer and the R&B star, who are both multiple Grammy-nominated artists, blended their vocals beautifully as they sang in Tampa at the Raymond James Stadium on Sunday, February 7, before Tampa Bay Buccaneers took on the Kansas City Chiefs. The “Need U Bad” songstress stood front and center while the “How ‘Bout You” hitmaker was right behind her.
    Church kicked off the performance, strumming his guitar and showed off his raspy vocals. Sullivan later joined in, with her raspy, but also heavy and rich vocals. They finished the song singing together, showing their perfect teamwork, while most players were standing, wearing masks with a hand over their heart.
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    The last time a duet performed national anthem at the Super Bowl was when Aretha Franklin and Aaron Neville joined forces to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” in 2006. They were joined by Dr. John on the piano as they sang at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, before the game between Seattle Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers.
    Also performing before the kickoff of Super Bowl LV was H.E.R.. The Grammy-winning singer delivered a powerful rendition of “America the Beautiful” from an elevated platform near the stands while strumming her guitar.
    Giving it her own unique spins, the “I Can’t Breathe” singer slowed down the tempo of what is normally a pretty high energy song. Her performance was soulful, while also giving major rock vibes, which brought the audience to their feet.
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    The Weeknd will later perform the halftime show. The performance will be “roughly 12-13 minutes long” and the “Starboy” singer will perform on the stage built within the stadium for the safety of workers and players amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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      Eric Church Breaks Vows to Never Sing National Anthem Publicly Thanks to Jazmine Sullivan

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      When speaking about his upcoming Super Bowl LV collaboration with the RnB singer, the ‘Record Year’ hitmaker admits he initially came close to turning down the offer.

      Jan 29, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Country star Eric Church reneged on a vow never to sing the U.S. National Anthem in public in order to score a Super Bowl duet with R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan.
      The “Record Year” hitmaker admits he was always nervous to tackle “The Star-Spangled Banner” because he doesn’t think he has the vocal ability to pull off the tune, but after hearing Sullivan sing, he jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with her.
      In an interview on Apple Music Country, Church admits he came close to turning down the Super Bowl invite.
      “Let me tell you something. She may be the best singer. I was floored,” he gushed in the chat, which is set to premiere on Friday, January 29.
      “And you know what, the best thing about this, no matter what happens, because that’s a nervy thing that we got to do, but what a fan, I’m a fan (of Sullivan’s). I’ve went in and listened to everything she did (sic). And I had heard her name, but full disclosure, I had not listened (to her songs).”
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      The unlikely duo, which has yet to meet, was suggested by producer Adam Blackstone, and prior to hearing Sullivan’s work, Church wasn’t that keen, reports People.com.
      “Here’s what I said… I’ve said this forever, ‘I will never ever sing the national anthem.’ It’s so hard. Except (for) the Super Bowl…,” he shared. “I mean, I’m not Chris Stapleton. I fully assumed they’re never going to ask me. So, this is the first.”
      “My first response was, ‘Mm-mm. I’m a stylist, not a vocalist,’ ” he added. “I heard it (duet proposal) and I thought, ‘That’s cool, that sounds like me.’ And then I heard her (Sullivan) and I’m not missing a chance to sing with her. And that was it.”
      “Once I heard her voice, I said, ‘OK, I’m in.’ ”
      The duet partners will be hitting the stage together in Tampa, Florida on 7 February, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will take on the Kansas City Chiefs for the Super Bowl title.

      The Weeknd will be performing the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

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      CMA Awards 2020: Maren Morris Wins Big, Eric Church Rounds Out Full Winner List

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      The ‘My Church’ songstress bags three major awards including Female Vocalist of the Year, while the ‘Drink in My Hand’ crooner is honored with the top prize of Entertainer of the Year.

      Nov 12, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Maren Morris has come out victorious at the 54th Annual Country Music Association Awards. The 30-year-old singer dominated the full winner list with three awards, including a win for Female Vocalist of the Year.
      The “My Church” songstress beat out other strong contenders, including Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Kacey Musgraves and Carrie Underwood for the title. She also scored Single of the Year and Song of the Year for her hit single “The Bones”.
      Also scoring multiple gongs was Luke Combs, who was named Male Vocalist of the Year and earned Album of the Year for his second studio album “What You See Is What You Get”, which was released in November last year.
      Eric Church, meanwhile, was honored with the top prize of Entertainer of the Year. “It’s going to be music that brings us out of this,” he said in his acceptance speech. “Music is going to save the entire world.” It marked his first win in the category after previously nominated three times for the title.

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      Other winners included Old Dominion as Vocal Group of the Year, Dan + Shay as Vocal Duo of the Year, Morgan Wallen as New Artist of the Year and Jenee Fleenor as Musician of the Year. Charley Pride was additionally presented with Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.
      Carly Pearce and Lee Brice were announced prior to the Wednesday, November 11 live show as the winners of Musical Event of the Year for their collaboration “I Hope You’re Happy Now”, while Miranda Lambert won Music Video of the Year early for her “Bluebird” clip.
      Brice was supposed to perform “I Hope You’re Happy Now” with Pearce at the event, but he had to drop out of the event after testing positive for COVID-19. Charles Kelley of Lady A (previously Lady Antebellum) was tapped to fill in for Brice and taped his performance with Pearce, but later the trio was also forced to pull out at last minute after an “immediate family member” tested positive for the virus.
      The 2020 CMA Awards was held at Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee with Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker as the hosts.
      Full Winner List of 2020 CMA Awards

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      Eric Church Reached Out to Johnny Cash's Children Ahead of 2020 ACM Awards Performance

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      Executive producer RAC Clark reveals that the ‘Springsteen’ hitmaker wrote a letter to Rosanne and John Carter Cash to clear the incorporation of ‘Ragged Old Flag’ into ‘Stick That in Your Country’.
      Sep 30, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Singer Eric Church only managed to pull off his performance at the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards by penning a letter to Johnny Cash’s two artist children to secure the rights to his work.
      Church moved fans by incorporating Cash’s “Ragged Old Flag” into his single “Stick That in Your Country Song” for the recent prizegiving, but the event’s executive producer, RAC Clark, reveals the set almost didn’t happen, because they were having trouble clearing the sample use with the late legend’s estate.
      “As we got into it, we found the Cash estate and publishers are very protective,” Clark explained to Country Aircheck.
      “No matter how much talking I did trying to get it cleared, it was a corporate wall.”

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      Clark suggested Church make a last-ditch attempt by appealing to fellow musicians Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash – two of Johnny’s five kids, and the personal touch worked.
      “I’m never going to share that letter, but it’s the reason that performance aired,” Clark said. “(Church’s) passion about what he wanted to say and why allowed them (Cash’s children) to entrust him with their father’s legacy.”
      The producer added, “Part of my job is to bring these things (performance ideas) to life, but this was Eric’s vision. He pushed it over the top, and boy, did he deliver.”
      At the 55th Annual ACM Awards, which took place on September 16, Church kicked off his performance by strumming on a dark stage. Footage of Cash reciting “Ragged Old Flag” later played on the screen behind him, while the “Desperate Man” belted out his own song as an image of the American flag waving behind him.

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      Eric Church Makes His Collaborators 'Uncomfortable' During the Making of New Album

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      The ‘Hell on the Heart’ crooner compares the making of his upcoming studio installment to the horror movie ‘The Shining’ because he wants to do ‘something nuts.’
      Feb 23, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Eric Church purposely made his collaborators “uncomfortable” while they worked on his upcoming album.
      The country music star is putting the finishing touched on the follow-up to 2018’s “Desperate Man”, and during a Q&A with radio personality Lon Helton during Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday, February 20, 2020, how opened up on his unusual working method.
      “I felt like it was time to do something nuts,” he said, describing how he took up residency in a restaurant converted into a studio in Banner Elk, North Carolina.
      “The goal was to write and record 28 songs in 28 days. I’d write a song in the morning, we’d cut it that night,” he explained. “We removed all the barriers. Chase that as hard as you can, move on. For me, it’s as far out there as I have gotten.”
      The “Hell on the Heart” hitmaker said he immersed himself in the isolation, describing the situation as, “kind of like (horror movie) The Shining,” in which a frustrated writer seeks out inspiration by taking a caretaker’s job in an isolated mountain resort.
      “Looking back at what came out of it, everyone needed to be uncomfortable. The writers had no clue what they were in for. All that is what made it great.”
      The new album follows a string of guest appearances from the star, including the Keith Urban collaboration “We Were”, and Luke Combs’ new single “Does to Me”.

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