Mar. 15, 2025
Andra Dayis anxiously awaiting her 2024 Super Bowl performance!
All of the aforementionedartists are performingduring different segments at the annual sporting event, with Day, 39, taking on “Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day in Las Vegas on Feb. 8, 2024.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation
Speaking on stage before press during a livestream, the host referenced the song as “the Black national anthem.
Mar. 15, 2025
Andra Day at Billboard Women in Music 2024 held at YouTube Theater on March 6, 2024 in Inglewood.Photo:Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty
Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty
Andra Daydoesn’t live her life based on what others think.
On Wednesday, the “Rise Up” singer spoke exclusively to PEOPLE at theBillboard Women in Music Awardsat the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California abouther recent 2024 Super Bowl performance.
Day stole the show with her rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is also known as “The Black National Anthem” before kickoff, however, it wasn’t without a bit of backlash — though she isn’t concerned with the critics.
Mar. 15, 2025
Andra Day singing at the 2024 Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024.Photo:CBS
CBS
Andra Daytook the crowd even higher with her pregame performance.
The Grammy winner, 39, sang the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ahead ofSuper BowlLVII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Andra Day performing at the 2024 Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024.Jamie Squire/Getty
Jamie Squire/Getty
See PEOPLE’s full coverage of theSuper Bowl LVIIas it broadcasts live on CBS from the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Mar. 15, 2025
Andra Day performing at the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, 2024.Photo:Jamie Squire/GettyAndra Daywas ready for her close up at the 2024 Super Bowl.Day, 39, wasamong the artists who performedbefore the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers faced off in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.Daybelted out “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”otherwise known as the Black national anthem, wearing an oversize taupe suit with black buttons and matching shoes, plus gold jewelry including Simone I.
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Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi arrive for the David Foster Foundation Gala in 2017.Photo:Andrew Chin/Getty
Andrew Chin/Getty
Andre Agassi andSteffi Grafare a lovematch.
Agassi, who was previously married to actressBrooke Shields, once toldForbes Indiathat the “highest point of his life” was when Graf accepted his marriage proposal.
“She was the hardest to win,” he declared.
Speaking toThe Cutin 2014, Agassi noted that he respected Graf “from a distance and marveled at her" early on.