Jhene Aiko Kicks Off Tremendous Bowl 2022 With ‘America the Stunning’

Bringing down the home. Jhené Aiko helped kick off Tremendous Bowl LVI with a surprising efficiency of “America the Stunning.”

The “Mattress Peace” songstress, 33, belted out the patriotic tune with accompaniment from harpist Gracie Sprout, who relies in Los Angeles.

When the Grammy nominee introduced her Tremendous Bowl look earlier in February, she identified that she has a private connection to each of the cities represented within the sport. “My Daddy’s from Cincinnati … Mother is from L.A.,” she wrote by way of Instagram. “SEE YOU THERE!”

The “Born Drained” singer was within the crowd final month when the Los Angeles Rams received the NFC championship sport in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers. She and her boyfriend, Huge Sean, made headlines once they have been misidentified as Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. on the Jumbotron throughout the occasion.

“@bigsean do you get mistaken for me as usually as I get mistaken for you?” the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 44, wrote by way of Instagram alongside a screenshot of the error. The Merciless Intentions actress additionally identified that her husband, 45, wasn’t even on the sport along with her — she attended along with her pal Elsa Collins.

Aiko isn’t scheduled to carry out throughout the halftime present, however she beforehand collaborated with certainly one of its stars, Kendrick Lamar, on the monitor “Keep Prepared (What a Life)” from her 2013 EP, Sail Out, and “Rising Aside (To Get Nearer)” from his 2010 mixtape, Overly Devoted. The “Humble” rapper, 34, is headlining the present alongside Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Mary J. Blige.

When Aiko and the Pulitzer Prize winner collaborated the primary time, she had by no means heard of him, however the pair clicked instantly. “It was really easy, so natural,” she advised HipHopDX in November 2012. “At one level, he had by chance picked up my cellphone and noticed my notes as a result of we have been writing to the identical music. He was like, ‘Your notes appear like my notes. That’s loopy!’ He was confused. It regarded acquainted to him.”

Final 12 months, the “None of Your Concern” songstress named one other halftime present performer as certainly one of her high 5 rappers of all time: Eminem.

“He’s actually one of many individuals who impressed me to actually care about my phrases when I’m writing,” Aiko mentioned of the “Lose Your self” artist, 49, in a 2018 interview with WWD. “Once I was youthful, me and my brother [Miyagi] shared an enormous love for Eminem, simply studying his lyrics. He would put them in a pamphlet and so they learn virtually like inappropriate Dr. Seuss poems. Watching him carry out was an unreal feeling for me, as a result of my brother handed away again in 2012. … So, each time I see Eminem, it jogs my memory of my brother.”