Underwood to Sing National Anthem at Super Bowl XLIV
Published: 2010-02-02
The National Football League and CBS announced Jan. 28 that Northeastern State University alumnus Carrie Underwood will sing the national anthem during the pregame festivities for Super Bowl XLIV.
Underwood achieved national fame when she won the fourth American Idol singing competition in 2005. Today she is a four-time Grammy Award winner, the 2009 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year and a three-time Country Music Association and ACM Female Vocalist of the Year.
She is the first country artist to ever record 11 consecutive No. 1 singles and her 11 million U.S. album sales are the most for any winner of American Idol.
Underwood returned to NSU after her American Idol victory and graduated magna cum laude in Mass Communication in 2006. She was also named Outstanding Senior for 2006 and inducted into the NSU Hall of Fame