The NBA announces Gladys Knight to sing the National Anthem at the 2021 NBA All-Star game! What better choice there beside Gladys Knight.
The NBA announces the legendary Gladys Knight will do the honors of singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the State Farm Arena. It’s only fitting organizers booked the woman behind “Midnight Train to Georgia” to sing the national anthem!
“The rendition will honor NAACP leader and Black national anthem songwriter James Weldon Johnson, who is also a Clark Atlanta alumnus,” the NBA says. Throughout the game, members of the Divine Nine fraternities and sororities, a prestigious group of nine historically Black Greek letter organizations, will introduce Atlanta’s most reputable step teams from Spelman College and Morehouse College.”