Ann Wilson sings the national anthem

This is how it's done! No lip-syncing here.
Ann Wilson kicks off the Seattle-San Francisco game
Jan 19, 2014
Final score: 23-17, Seattle

[@adamhigh9884]

Male, female whatever. The greatest voice in rock history. Come. At. Me.

[@davidnappyhoose204]

I love Ann Wilson's voice but I don't know if I would say it's the greatest in rock history. That would put her above Elvis, Sammy Hagar, Brian Wilson, Steven Tyler, Fats Domino, Pat Benatar, and so many more that I just can't think of right now. No Doubt that she belongs in that discussion but I'm not sure you could say she's the greatest.

[@jasonchace494]

Most definitely the greatest voice in rock history!

[@ghh712]

Ann has a fabulous voice, but Pat Benatar could give her a run for her money, as could Amy Lee, Stevie Nicks and the late, great, Freddie Mercury.

[@L4u84S]

I got your back on this one!!!

[@paulacooper8092]

@@jasonchace494 mmm....dickinson..rio....plant ...Rose to name a few that piss on her chips for starters

[@harryurz]

I'm a brit but that rendition sends goose-bumps up my spine!! Respect to Ann.

[@jupsilvam]

British people are so stupid, everywhere they go they claim are british. No one care and your opinion doesnt makes it more valid if your british or not.

[@kelliholzer2050]

At the 1 minute mark when her high note elicits the big crowd cheer, I don't know how on earth she keeps it together. If I did something that caused 80,000 people to start cheering at once, I would just start laughing uncontrollably. I guess that was makes her a pro! Anyway, LOVE this woman.

[@sherrisharp6327]

Ann did a fabulous job. That is how our anthem should be sung, with passion and strength!!!

[@giovannisocci8793]

She is amazing,one national priceless treasure.

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

Ann sets the vocal bar high once more

[@7TU3MEE]

I understand everyone has a right to an opinion. Clearly though if you listened to her through the years like I have you would know her style. This song was performed correctly and follows her vocal pattern of how she has expressed her craft. True Artist! The end was Rock and Roll!

[@dandersohn]

I totally agree with you that ending was her signature thing that she does with her voice and maybe it didn’t match what the actual song should’ve been based on tradition, it was her putting her twist on it and there was actually nothing wrong with it even though people try to demonize it just saying

[@kikia6611]

I work for the Hawks...2014 was a great year. Proud to have icon Ann singing the anthem!

[@CajunPlaisance36]

Ann Wilson is the very best female artist of all time! I can listen to her voice over and over non stop. She is an amazing woman!

[@IluvAandN]

Cajun Plaisance She could sing the phone book and I would Listen.

[@louise-yo7kz]

Cajun Plaisance yes

[@mindyhallett3126]

Me too. Agreed

[@dorindacunningham9452]

And she was over 60 yrs young when she did that

[@shenandoahvillage353]

Nobody sings like her, and never will. Nobody.

[@jakebeetham1]

she is a legend and always will be.

[@MsGoon40]

Nope

[@mariescott9625]

Shenandoah Village, AMEN!

[@SuperSparrow45]

Ahhh! Love Ann Wilson as a Bears Fan! She is the best female singer ever!

[@schuinful]

She's a Seattle Seahawks fan

[@jullischiattareggia4910]

Quit saying best FEMALE singer. She is the BEST singer of all time!!

[@D2G5M]

That voice is Magnificent!!!! Incredible depth, range, power and passion!!! Goosebumps all over!!!! Love Ann❤ I can listen to her all day long.

[@dorindacunningham9452]

And 2 points for the 12's shirt!💞

[@jacksmart2977]

I am moved to tears every time I watch this SPECIAL woman sing our National Anthem. Even though I have seen Ann Wilson in concert many Times,near the top of my bucket list is to see Ann sing our National Anthem in person.

[@markvolmut9722]

I had to listen to that ending three times. That awesome "growl" is a real game starter!

[@crashlanding6335]

There never has been, and never will be a Voice that can come close to Ann Wilson, except maybe her sister Nancy....the badASS Guitarist!!!! The two together are the most incredible Harmony i've ever heard in my 50 years.

[@CajunPlaisance36]

I see how so many people ASSUME they know how Ann Wilson, a professional singer for over 35 years and counting, who is in the walk of fame, with gold and platinum records, an icon, screwed up the song, who the hell made everyone professionals all of a sudden? This is why she has had a recording contract for so long, she knows wtf she is doing. Ever thought, maybe, this is how she planned to sing it? Ann Wilson is AMAZING and the very BEST singer there is in female history!

[@billrandolph5375]

someone thinks she screwed up singing this?? Really? REALLY? Someone needs to be dunked into a tub of hot oil and fried like an oyster! Ann kicked this tune in the ASS!! She's f-ing the best female vocalist ever!

[@CajunPlaisance36]

Bill Randolph totally agree! Damn, she has been singing her entire life...vocals can get worn, to which I do not feel hers were in this. I think she did an amazing job! Beyond her career, she is a wonderful, loving person as well. A very private person, that's what I love most about her. People who think they know more about her and her life and don't, make me sick.

[@ericgustin3386]

Bill Randolph she is the greatest ever. totally agree! BUT lets be real...she completely fell on her face on the land of the free part. every vocalist has a bad run once in a while, and this was hers. nobodys perfect ALL the time. even though ann usually is. just a bad day, throat might have been a little rough that day, maybe she meant to start out a little lower so the high part would be easier. but once you start, you cant change keys then, ya know?

[@desiredheat4421]

Nah... she's good... but not the very best. lol

[@erniedill9532]

@@desiredheat4421 Ann is the best rock voice ever, no woman can out do her voice!

[@antoniovazquez6478]

She has one of the best voices

[@fabianocarini5919]

One the most powerfull voices of Rock : Ann Wilson

[@SuperEroticJesus]

Everyone goes home after that because that's all that was worth watch at this event. God I love her so much!

[@mathieugagne9102]

Yeah no. That performance was as great as the game. That game ending is legendary.

[@mrs.g4568]

The coach is in love. Sing Ann!!!

[@Mauro5Z]

I'm not an American but i can't get enough of listening to Ann Wilson singing it.

[@KathyEGill]

I just listened to it again and it STILL gives me goosebumps.

[@redwhiteblue9866]

Ann sang in F#major. She didn't over shoot the high note (C#) as some claimed, but ad libed up to F#, held Eb, then descended C# (high note) on down. All in F# major scale. Ann miss a note by 5 half steps? Not happening. Intended ad lib as others have done when singing SSB. Excellent job Ann.

[@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799]

Redwhite&blue I imagine years ago she may have sung half step up to G. Beautiful rendition by Ann.

[@beautwman]

I hope that everyone in that live stadium knew the greatness of a God-given vocalist that was singing so beautifully for them. I LOVE Ann Wilson and love this rendition.

[@ourson66]

She's fabulous, and I don't see where anybody has any right to say that she "flubbed" anything ... She sang it with some rock & roll stank on the last stanza, but she sang exactly what she intended to sing.

[@ericgustin3386]

nobody in their right mind would intend to sing that "land of the free" part like that. she fucked up and tried to go to high....no big deal. shes still the greatest ever. but come on lets be real here. that was a completely fucked up part. it happens to everyone once in a while.

[@ourson66]

Eric Gustin Hehe nope, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Just listened to it again (it's a long time ago I wrote that comment) and I've got no skin in the game one way or the other - Ann's a great well respected vocalist, but I've never been a big fan. But I DO know vocals, and if she'd been trying to go "too high" as you suggest, she would have fucked up in an entirely different way - she would have strained and failed to hit the note, and sounded a bit like she was strangling or her voice would crack ... if you listen that's not what happened at all. What she DID do was OVERSHOOT the note she was aiming for slightly (it's a big jump - the US national anthem is one of the toughest anthems in the world to sing because of it's octave-plus jumps like that), ending up HIGHER than she intended, and tried to pull it back down with a standard rock 'n roll technique called a cadenza. Let me repeat, she overshot her high note and ended up HIGHER than she intended (it happens all the time, it's really hard to hear yourself with all the noise that's going on in a stadium), so like a consummate professional, she rolled it around a bit to make it interesting but got herself back on pitch very quickly, and finished it like a champ. There really is nothing at all wrong with the way she sang it.

[@ericgustin3386]

Oh my god you've got to be kidding me. It doesn't matter if she overshot the note or if she aimed too high and missed it.(which if its at the top or just out of your range you will either wind up flat or overshooting it and going sharp.) The point I'm making is to the people who are saying she didn't screw up. Its ridiculous. She definitely screwed up. Nothing wrong with it. I've been a vocalist for nearly 20years myself, and it happens. Even happens to the best sometimes. And that higher part isn't out of Anns range. Its just at the top of it(at least on that day in that key, anyway). And when a vocal run is at the tippy top of your range, most people know its coming and try to overcompensate just in case. Making them overshoot it. It can go the other way too. But either way, she still botched that part. And her covering it, well it was a bad cover up, plain and simple. She's still the greatestgreatest. Just not that night, that's all

[@ourson66]

Eric Gustin S'all good ... it's over a year old anyway, it hasn't appeared to have hurt her career at all... LOL! Peace!

[@ericgustin3386]

And I'm sorry, but the national anthem is not that hard to sing. Done it a million times. And done bigger endings than that without issue. Not being all uppity either, just saying, that's all. :)

[@TomMarkel-gplus]

One of rock's great singers!

[@ButterMyMuffin]

just IMAGINE her singing this 30 years ago.... no other singer could touch her in my eyes at her vocal prime.

[@joeschmoe373]

+XfuckyouX24 She is JUST AS GOOD as she was 30 years ago if not better. Only thing was, I suppose,.. she was a little nervous and if she would have just slowed it down a tempo...this would have been up there with Whitney's iconic version.

[@ButterMyMuffin]

+Joe Schmoe I personally think Ann Wilson and Donna Summer blew Whitney out of the water in terms of talent but that's just me...May she rip

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

+Joe Schmoe Whitney Houston's live shows from 30 years ago were terrible she was a gimmick and escaped criticism because she was black which was the reason she was as promoted. ann wilson was stupendous 30 years ago but their was little acknowledgement from the media but the concert fans knew she was the best out there 30 years ago.

[@kaleoy7584]

Also, when Whitney performed it, what the people in crowd actually heard was a pre-recorded vocals of her singing it, too. I respect both singers, Ann and Whitney. But if I had to choose between both, I'd pick Ann. And another thing of note, I don't know any singer out there that can sound even just a bit like Ann. But there are tons that sound a bit like Whitney out there. And I don't believe it is because Whitney is more famous. But because Ann's vocals is very hard to try to mimic.

[@DeloresGrey]

K Y Anns vocals have yet to be touched in my opinion. I love that people acknowledge her as a legend. I only recently heard Gretchen Wilson's rendition of Barracuda and its as close as anyones gonna get. When Ann hits that "burn burn burn burn burn it to the wick..." 😍

[@ReneAensland]

She gave it that Ann Wilson touch. Beautiful as hell!

[@KathyEGill]

Ann Wilson belts out the national anthem to kick off the Hawks/49er game. Yeah, baby!

[@robmiljus]

thank you very much for this upload and you are very right, when you say, "this is how it's done". The best rendition of the US national anthem I've ever seen /heard! Nobody has ever come close to doing it as well as Ann sang this. I love this and I'm not even American. Beats the hell out of anything Beyonce, Madonna and others have ever tried doing. It even gave me goosebumps. :)

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Kathy E. Gill Awesome! I saw Heart 5 times live.

[@DebbieFan70]

She just keeps getting better!

[@EphemeralProductions]

Ann is the best!

[@Chief-Walleye]

I'm even more proud to be American after hearing that! God bless Ann Wilson... a voice with rocket sauce and lots of it!!!

[@hankthompson7381]

Still get all teary eyed. She tore up the last part. WOW

[@postcard9889]

This is it- how the anthem's supposed to be sung. Simply beautiful, strong, and brave.

[@marceypoeckes1968]

I actually missed this when she sang it, and I didn't hear anything messed up about that. Ann, YOU ROCK!!!

[@joanalona]

Yes, that's how its done. By the best singer there is. Love it!

[@lucky4liveHawaii]

Freaking masterful! To make truly great music you have to take risks and be true. Ann has bared her soul for us in every single performance, for decades. Raw real rock n roll power here, thx for uploading. Best rendition ever imo

[@JAYZIGGY5]

Ann Wilson is just awesome!

[@wethecitizensoftheunitedst4136]

Thats how its sung. BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL AND PROUD

[@billrandolph5375]

WOW! THAT WAS F-ING AWESOME!!!!!!

[@kin8ace]

SHE SING WITH HER HEART

[@nam3263]

Best rendition of the American anthem I have ever heard!!!

[@johnkendall6558]

love Ann, also Whitney - but the best rendition ever is Marlana VanHoose(any version) you should look her up, she was born with Cytomegalovirus causing her to be blind and Drs said she wouldn't live a year. at age of one the virus went into remission(still blind) then at age two, the poor girl was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy - knowing back story will enhance the experience - get ready to cut some onions

[@comical3303]

I remember watching this Superbowl! I can’t believe it was 9 years ago my goodness time goes by fast. Barracuda

[@robonez]

Holy crap, that has to be the best version I've ever heard! Goosebump City! \m/ Ann Wilson \m/

[@avlshukla]

And wasn't a lip sync.... wow

[@jaseholland2836]

The queen.

[@jeffglass5771]

my goose pimples just exploded....that lady can sing....

[@lightsmevius8330]

すばらし～　　あん　ann これ以上の歌手はこれから先いないでしょう as far as i know she`s one of the very best singers in the world ^^v

[@brittlizzzzzz]

Her voice is so badass!

[@gboard7]

This lady got some range.... freedom... greg

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

Beyoncé couldn't hold a candle to Ann Wilson

[@onehitpick9758]

This is astounding!

[@stevesut2566]

Goosebumps......

[@SoggySoxSaga]

That's how you sing the National Anthem! You Rock It!! Thank you Ann Wilson!

[@Ricken2022]

The best I have heard it sang..Ann is the best ..

[@DJPhattEric]

This is how it's done, none of the Benyonce miming shit. Ann Wilson, my top female vocalist of all time

[@Demetrios3]

You can respect Ann without taking a shots at Beyonce

[@L4u84S]

@@Demetrios3 You can go cry somewhere else.

[@lastinghappiness3977]

@@L4u84S No one is crying.... it’s just you can compliment someone without mentioning someone else who is even related to the video 🤷‍♀️

[@waltermameli2026]

When Ann Wilson Sings The National Anthem If You Are Not An American, You Wish You Were.....Damn!.....

[@1sun1moon1]

first time EVER i listed to the national anthem twice

[@vanity68]

She's amazing

[@chrismack4320]

If she was a contestant on a talent show and put in this performance I think the judges verdict would be along the lines of "excellent, strong and tuneful voice, but towards the end mangled the star spangled banner". Having said this, she is undoubtedly one of the greatest female vocalists of all time.

[@kikegalo6154]

Holly Guacamole! This gave me the goosebumps and I’m not even American. Thank the Lord for Ann & Nancy Wilson

[@treebs9516]

Awesome!!!!! I am an aussie and this is the first time I have actually understood the words of the anthem being sung

[@patchouleigh_]

I can never get through this song without tearing up. And here's my childhood idol singing it......😭.

[@bunaset8373]

thank you for sharing song @kathy gill and i agree. some of the singers of today need to take note that synthesizers hide what he/she cannot sing! true acapella is true talent!

[@homac56]

Really, don't be so hard on yourself. She sang from the heart. (No pun intended)

[@wendymundu2015]

Ann singing the national anthem bad ass!👍🤘👋

[@joshuaowens4797]

Recently saw her in concert with Heart and she gave me goosebumps.

[@espenBredessenJones]

the reason she still has that voice ? no drugs, no alcohol, no marijuana smoking. a rarity from a singer of the 1970's

[@christinaalgate4899]

Ann has been sober since 2009 and drug free since her daughter was born.

[@sunnyd7154]

I love how she put a little rock into it!! You still got it Nancy!!

[@GypsyFairy85]

Nancy????

[@ReneAensland]

Ann.

[@latemreggadable]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING

[@TornadoChickWeatherNetwork]

And thats how u sing the national anthem people :)

[@gzuzsavz]

crazy. thnx for uploading this & loving Ann's amazing voice, 4fr, she's still tops!

[@darinjames3313]

ONE word.......HEART......She ll always be the best in my book.....Rock on Ann!!

[@llroman7823]

Crazy high note! This is her best version. What a range.

[@Sam-tz7cd]

Iconic

[@pandapeep1148]

First time I ever heard anyone sing that and put a rock edge on it. Ann Wilson is so amazing.

[@NorbiGaming]

Omg my favourite team and singer in one place

[@bengiarraputo9357]

The best never rest! Ann, her voice so engraved in all of our minds! "If we still have time, we might still get by. , every time I think about it I wanna cry"...................... 😘😘😘😘😘

[@garysmart3586]

That set the tone for the game....I knew we were gonna win after that....what a great memory watching that & the game...Whidbey was on fire..& then to get the big one..43-8....Damn it feels great...now just need to get some more rings! Go Geno, Go Hawks!!!

[@antoniovazquez6478]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@1sun1moon1]

yup thats how its done

[@M14r5z9]

Perfect.

[@Paulmatthew22]

That's how you OWN it

[@summermcpherson8209]

I get legit goosebumps when she hits the high note at 1:41! Her voice is gorgeous!!!

[@rosieasmrwhispererzephier7021]

Ann Wilson did a great job singing the National Anthem

[@loriolson3390]

That’s her voice and it’s distinctive and awesome

[@mt.rushmore7916]

Much love and respect to the young black player at 0:38 who is patriotically singing along. We love you, brother!

[@e.r.1342]

Wow...gigantische Stimme immer noch.

[@andrewbarchenger2010]

A bit of trouble with the highest note at the end but hey, voices change after decades on the road and she blessed us with many years of her impressive octave range. I heard her sing acapella a few times with just her sister and a bare bones guitar. Out of this world!

[@Paulmatthew22]

She used to be the perfect singer,.But she still has the( and always will have) passion that makes me cry

[@melissagahn]

Beautiful version. Ann did it with class and her amazing voice. :)

[@lainesantos9159]

Wonderfull

[@thomaslombardo3401]

FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Should have been done for a 1987, 1988 and 1989 game too when Heart was at their peak.

[@avlshukla]

True

[@lesbrown7009]

She should just be granted the job.

[@markm5243]

The Brigade album was a huge hit in 1990 as well.

[@jdubjdub645]

Great voice and a great game! That was an amazing night to be a Hawks fan! How perfect.

[@catman3552]

I saw a list of the top 10 best and worst performers of this song and Ann was not on either list,she's great!

[@ninjarider84]

I went to this game and the packers NFCCG the next season....by far the best games I've ever been too

[@alexhess4925]

Wow!!!!!!

[@dianaschotman8082]

This women has been my idol ❤ she has so much talent power and control in her voice she gives me chills when I hear her amazing talented voice she has and the best voice in the history of Rock and Roll !!!!

[@carlitos3000ful]

A M A Z I N G !! 10/10 6-0 6-0 6 -0

[@willwarden2603]

Clap clap hoorah.

[@darrenmiller6927]

Love Ann. Beautiful job, what a cool lovely person.