Award-winning pop star to sing national anthem at Super Bowl

Charlie Puth the multiplatinum-selling pop star known for See You Again One Call Away and other hits will perform the national anthem at Super Bowl XL at Levi s Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb The announcement was made by the NFL on Sunday Puth a New Jersey native who has been nominated for a number of Grammy Awards follows in the footsteps of such previous Super Bowl national anthem singers as Billy Joel Jennifer Hudson Carrie Underwood Alicia Keys Idina Menzel Reba McEntire and Chris Stapleton Lady Gaga performed the anthem at Super Bowl X in which was the last time the NFL s championship tournament was held at Levi s Stadium The timing of this Super Bowl spotlight works out quite well for -year-old Puth who is set to release a new album dubbed Whatever s Clever in It s his first new studio album since s Charlie The NFL has also declared the performers for the other two big vocal showcases that happen just before the tournament the trilling of America the Beautiful and Lift Every Voice and Sing Related Articles Review Is Sarah McLachlan s voice still better than ice cream Vans Warped Tour announces schedule with global expansion Holiday arts Catch these Bay Area stage shows Bay Area events calendar for Nov through Dec weekly editions San Jose stakes claim as home of st official Grateful Dead concert Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlilie an -time Grammy winner who mixes folk country rock and other sounds in her songs will sing America the Beautiful Carlile will later return to the Bay Area to perform a big show at Chase Center in San Francisco on March Visit chasecenter com for more information Coco Jones the Grammy-winning R B artist who circulated the debut album Why Not More earlier this year will perform Lift Every Voice and Sing a song that is known as the Black national anthem