The series of pregame canonical songs at Super Bowl 57 has begun, with “Abbot Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Ralph, wearing a flowing red velvet gown, began the song dubbed the Black national anthem as a reflective ballad, and it became a soaring hymn as it went on, with military-style drums joining her and a choir dressed all in white chiming in behind her on the field at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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