When speaking about versatile entertainers, Queen Latifah‘s identify positively makes the record. The Grammy-winning rapper and Oscar-nominated actress reminded New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium of her expertise with a successful rendition of the nationwide anthem on the New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys recreation on Sunday night time (Sep. 10).
Donning a spiffy ivory checkered pantsuit, Queen Latifah soared by way of a shifting jazz and musical theater-informed association of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The New Jersey native was relaxed behind the microphone, delivering a pitch-perfect efficiency that elicited impassioned cheers from the packed stadium by the ultimate word.
Queen’s efficiency drew some shock on social media from viewers who weren’t conscious of her singing skills. Along with her hip-hop profession — which yielded the Grammy-winning “U.N.I.T.Y.” and All Hail the Queen, which was chosen for preservation in america Nationwide Recording Registry by the Library of Congress earlier this yr — Queen Latifah has dabbled in jazz, movie and tv.
In 2004, she launched The Dana Owens album, a covers set that reached No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Grammy nomination for greatest jazz vocal album. A second jazz album, Trav’lin’ Gentle, adopted in 2008, incomes a Grammy nomination for greatest conventional pop vocal album. Years earlier than Queen tried her hand at jazz, she earned her first Academy Award nomination for her dazzling efficiency in 2002’s Chicago. The artist, who gained an Emmy in 2016 for producing the acclaimed Bessie tv film, presently stars in The Equalizer on CBS.
Watch Queen Latifah carry out the nationwide anthem beneath:
