One mild October evening in 2001, my ABC News pals Kayce and Peter Jennings hosted a party in their elegant New York apartment to celebrate the book I’d just published, a history of the song, “America ...

Poet and Wellesley College scholar Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful," in 1895. (Courtesy John de Graaf) "O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..." These words from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No “Joke”: Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered ...

America’s natural wonders provide places of restoration, reinvention and triumph — where author Cheryl Strayed found healing hiking the enchanted Pacific Crest Trail, Theodore Roosevelt cultivated a ...

Brandi Carlile sang to her heart’s content. The artist rocked the stage at the Super Bowl 2026 pregame show with an emotional acoustic rendition of “America the Beautiful.” Carlile performed with deaf ...

In the minutes leading up to the Super Bowl LX showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, an 11-time Grammy winner born and raised in the Seattle area stepped onto the field to ...

What was once a familiar patriotic song sounds so fresh on the largest stage in entertainment? Brandi Carlile walked onto the field at Levi stadium before the start of Super Bowl LX with an acoustic ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif — Brandi Carlile used her stellar vocals Sunday to perform "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl LX pregame show in Santa Clara, where the Seattle Seahawks and New England ...

“America the Beautiful” was born in Colorado. When Katharine Lee Bates stood atop Pikes Peak in 1893, she gave us words that still define who we are: spacious skies, purple mountain majesties, from ...

More Super Bowl LX performers include Green Day, Coco Jones, Charlie Puth and Bad Bunny, who's handling the halftime show Brandi Carlile performed "America the Beautiful" at Super Bowl LX The ...