{"id":502173,"date":"2026-10-20T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:09","slug":"alanis-morissette-larussell-perform-at-valkyries-wnba-finals-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502173\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette, LaRussell perform at Valkyries WNBA Finals game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alanis Morissette<\/a> has accomplished so much during her platinum-plus-selling career, including recording one of the best-selling albums of all time (1995\u2019s \u201cJagged Little Pill\u201d), fashioning several Top 40 singles, co-creating a successful Broadway musical (also called \u201cJagged Little Pill\u201d) and winning multiple Grammys and other notable awards.<\/p>\n

To that list, Morissette can now include singing the national anthem at the first-ever WNBA Finals run for the Golden State Valkyries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And this Canadian-born artist, who spent years living in the Bay Area before recently relocating to the Los Angeles area, did a terrific job with the national anthem. Indeed, it was a definite highlight in a night that \u2014 at least sports-wise for the hometown fans \u2014 was rather short of them as the Valkyries fell to the Atlanta Dream by a score of 79-65 during this Game 2 at Chase Center in San Francisco. The best-of-seven series will no move to Atlanta tied at 1-1.<\/p>\n

Morissette\u2019s vocals were quite strong, approaching what one hears on her now-iconic \u201990s works, and she handled each and every verse of the national anthem with precision and care. She slowed the song down a bit, especially toward the end, and really took some liberties with how she uttered the words \u2014 for example, stretching out the word \u201cbanner\u201d by several syllables.<\/p>\n

The crowd definitely loved the version and showered the \u201cYou Oughta Know\u201d singer with appreciation as she closed the song.<\/p>\n

\"AlanisAlanis Morissette sings the national anthem before Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n

Another musical highlight of the night came when rising Vallejo hip-hop star LaRussell performed the halftime show. He showed a ton of charisma and stage presence as he rapped his way through a short set that included \u201cI Got Flavor\u201d and other songs.<\/p>\n

Fellow Bay Area hip-hop talents Too $hort and Mista F.A.B. were sitting courtside and watching LaRussell, who was accompanied by several of the team\u2019s dance team members during the performance.<\/p>\n

\"RapperRapper LaRussell, of Vallejo, performs during halftime of Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)
\n\"RapperRapper LaRussell, of Vallejo, performs during halftime of Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)
\n\"RapperRapper LaRussell, of Vallejo, performs during halftime of Game 2 of the WNBA Finals at the Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026. (Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette has accomplished so much during her platinum-plus-selling career, including recording one of the best-selling albums of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,18739,100,101,103,102,104,106,105,94685,127,420,53199],"class_list":["post-502173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-social-alert","tag-sports","tag-things-to-do","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}