{"id":11615,"date":"2019-01-18T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2019-01-18T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:37:16","slug":"empress-of-soul-and-atlanta-native-gladys-knight-to-sing-super-bowl-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/empress-of-soul-and-atlanta-native-gladys-knight-to-sing-super-bowl-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Empress of Soul&#8217; and Atlanta native Gladys Knight to sing Super Bowl national anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gladys Knight to Sing Super Bowl LIII National Anthem\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4F-4-MjHG2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Atlanta Business Chronicle<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/bio\/39380\/Eric+Mandel\">Eric Mandel<\/a> &nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Digital Producer , Atlanta Business Chronicle &#8212; 1\/17\/2018             <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>The musical guests have been a major source of intrigue in this year&#8217;s event, primarily because of the <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/news\/2018\/12\/18\/more-musicians-appear-interested-in-performing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>reported difficulties<\/em><\/a><em>  in finding performers for the halftime show. Multiple singers and  celebrities publicly stood in solidarity with ex-NFL quarterback&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/search\/results?q=Colin Kaepernick\"><em>Colin Kaepernick<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;who  became a lightning rod of controversy over his decision in 2016 to  kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality. He became a  free agent in March of 2017 and hasn&#8217;t found a job in the NFL since. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am proud to use my voice to unite and represent our country in my hometown of Atlanta,&#8221; Knight said in a news release.  &#8230;&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Knight said it was &#8220;Midnight Train to Georgia,&#8221; released in 1973, that  lifted her career to new heights. And that the Super Bowl performance is  an extension of that. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>&#8220;Here we are, we&#8217;re still here. And  I&#8217;m in Georgia, singing the national anthem, at the Super Bowl,&#8221; she  said. &#8220;I hope that this anthem will touch people in a different way.  We&#8217;ve been singing it forever, but this time, I would hope that they  would feel it so deeply that it wold lift them to a higher place. That&#8217;s  what I feel when I sing this song.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including video at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/news\/2019\/01\/17\/empress-of-soul-and-atlanta-native-gladys-knight.html\">https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/news\/2019\/01\/17\/empress-of-soul-and-atlanta-native-gladys-knight.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Business Chronicle, by Eric Mandel &nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Digital Producer , Atlanta Business Chronicle &#8212; 1\/17\/2018 Excerpts: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. The musical guests have been a major source of intrigue in this year&#8217;s event, primarily because of the reported difficulties in finding performers for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/empress-of-soul-and-atlanta-native-gladys-knight-to-sing-super-bowl-national-anthem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11618,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}