New Orleans school choirs team up to perform on Super Bowl Sunday

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A phone call in early January changed everything for Jessica Harvey, the choir and vocal music instructor at KIPP New Orleans High Schools.

“We were coming off winter break and I get a phone call from a Super Bowl official saying we want your choir from KIPP New Orleans to sing. And I was like, ok great, let’s go. And then they said we need 125 voices and that’s when I knew this was so much bigger than me, than my school,” said Jessica Harvey.

Now, Harvey holds another title—director of the Greater New Orleans High School Choral Collective, a 125-student choir made up of singers from 12 different schools. Their voices will unite on Super Bowl Sunday, performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” alongside New Orleans native and Grammy Award-winning artist Ledisi.

“The song that they are performing is a song, a hymn, of their background, their ancestry,” said Jessica Harvey.

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