The countdown is on to Sunday’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas, and here’s what we do know: Usher will take the stage for the halftime show, and he won’t do it alone. The superstar told Vogue that the night has been “specifically curated in my mind to have R&B take the main stage,” and that surprise performers will represent the R&B genre. “Not just R&B music,” he said. “But R&B performance, R&B connection, R&B spirit.”
The performer also said that he wanted to use his moment in the spotlight to pay homage to Black artists who laid the foundation for stars like him to have successful music careers, Us Weekly reports. “I think about what our country has kind of represented for Black artists,” he said during an appearance on Good Morning America. “[Those artists] having to at some point go through kitchens to even be able to perform for an audience, but they had to leave back through that same door, fear for their lives as they went to the next state to do the same thing. So I’m coming through the front door with this one.”
