Salon.com > halftime show http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Beyoncé sings National Anthem live in New Orleans http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/beyonce_sings_national_anthem_live_in_new_orleans/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/31/beyonce_sings_national_anthem_live_in_new_orleans/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13187361 Beyoncé's had a busy year -- the singer, performing at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, delivered a memorable, and memorably less-than-live, rendition of the National Anthem at Barack Obama's inauguration last week. For the first time since the lip-syncing scandal, the singer opened the floor to questions at a pre-Super Bowl press conference in New Orleans -- but not before belting a live rendition of the National Anthem to assembled reporters.

 

The a cappella anthem didn't stop the questions from a generally reverent press. "Did any sound come out of your vocal chords during the inauguration?" asked the most aggressive of the group.

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