{"id":310041,"date":"2025-11-27T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310041\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:25:07","slug":"nfl-thanksgiving-national-anthem-singers-cece-winans-renee-elise-goldsberry-x-to-perform-before-2025-football-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310041\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Thanksgiving national anthem singers: CeCe Winans, Renee Elise Goldsberry, X to perform before 2025 football games"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Thanksgiving national anthem singers: CeCe Winans, Renee Elise Goldsberry, X to perform before 2025 football games<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NFL is a Thanksgiving staple, but the league’s holiday games have become even more of a spectacle in recent years with a greater emphasis on musical performances.<\/p>\n

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While the halftime shows will draw the most buzz \u2014 Post Malone is among the artists taking the stage on Turkey Day \u2014 the national anthems will also feature some well-known names.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect anyone to match Aretha Franklin\u2019s record-setting four-minute, 34-second national anthem performance at Ford Field in 2016, but Thursday\u2019s anthems will still carry added meaning on one of America\u2019s most widely celebrated holidays.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about the national anthem singers for the NFL\u2019s Thanksgiving slate.<\/p>\n

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NFL Thanksgiving national anthem singers 2024Lions vs. Packers: CeCe Winans<\/p>\n

Cece Winans is a 17-time Grammy Award winning gospel singer who was born in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Part of the Winans musical family, which includes BeBe Winans and Mario Winans among other gospel and R&B singers, Cece Winans primarily focuses on gospel music and was part of a musical duo with BeBe for 15 years.<\/p>\n

In addition to 17 Grammy Awards, Winans has won three Billboard Music Awards and a whopping 35 Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association. Despite her longstanding connection to Detroit, Thanksgiving is set to be Winans’ first performance at a Detroit Lions<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

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Cowboys vs. Chiefs: TBD<\/p>\n

The national anthem singer for Thursday’s game between the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> and Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n

MORE:Thanksgiving record for every NFL team<\/a><\/p>\n

Bengals vs. Ravens: Renee Elise Goldsberry<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens<\/a> announced Renee Elise Goldsberry as their national anthem performer for their Thanksgiving game against the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Goldsberry is an actress and singer who played Angelica Schuyler in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” when it first debuted on Broadway. Her work in the role earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, while the cast received a Grammy Award for its music.<\/p>\n

In addition to her work on stage, Goldsberry has made a handful of film and TV appearances, including a role on “Ally McBeal” from 1997-2002 and three appearances on “Law & Order.”<\/p>\n

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Goldsberry doesn’t have a known connection to Baltimore. She was born in California and raised in Houston and Detroit, but she will get the night started at M&T Bank Stadium before the nightcap of the NFL’s Thanksgiving schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Thanksgiving national anthem singers: CeCe Winans, Renee Elise Goldsberry, X to perform before 2025 football games originally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[138611,4851,49,48,133575,8825,13268,3163,1443,138613,77708,138612,514,12105,23633,5457,138610,82,130653],"class_list":["post-310041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-bebe-winans","tag-bengals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cece-winans","tag-chiefs","tag-cowboys","tag-detroit-lions","tag-houston","tag-mario-winans","tag-national-anthem","tag-national-anthems","tag-nfl","tag-packers","tag-post-malone","tag-ravens","tag-renee-elise-goldsberry","tag-sports","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}