Academy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans.

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Francis Scott Key was a lawyer and poet from Frederick ... He set it to the tune of a familiar drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven, written by British composer John Stafford Smith.