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This year the NFL has enlisted Jennifer Hudson, to perform the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, on the 1st of February. The Oscar-winning singer will take the stage in front of the biggest TV audience of the year three months after her mother Darnell Donerson, brother Jason Hudson, and nephew Julian King were murdered in their Chicago home on the 28th of October. This will be the first time since the tragedy that she will sing in public.
The 27-year-old best supporting actress of 2006 is not the first Oscar winner who sings at the Super Bowl. In 1999, Cher, who won the 1987 best actress award for "Moonstruck," performed the national anthem. The following year, Phil Collins did the same just weeks before winning an Oscar for the song "You'll Be In My Heart" from "Tarzan." In 2005, Paul McCartney also performed together with the other three Beatles — George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr after having won the 1970 original song score Oscar for "Let It Be." Prince sang the anthem in 2007 after the 1984 song score win for "Purple Rain."
The "Dreamgirls" star and former "American Idol" contestant, who was nominated for four Grammy awards for her debut album, will step back into the spotlight a few days after the Super Bowl, when she will sing at the Grammys' MusiCares event honoring Neil Diamond on the 6th of February.
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