Singing the National Anthem in public comes with a lot of pressure. Some of the notes are notoriously difficult to hit, and everyone in the place is standing at attention, listening to every word.
Add 70,000 or so fans at a nationally televised NFL game, and the pressure just grows.
Throw in the little fact that the hottest pop singer on the planet just might be in attendance, and the pressure would make most performers think twice.
Not CitiLimitz. The Chattanooga trio of brothers, who will sing the anthem a cappella before Monday night’s Jaguars-Chiefs matchup, say they’re looking forward to it.
“Yeah, that’s all right. No pressure is on us, really, we are used to it,” said A.T. Toran. “We are gonna come and do our thing, we’re ready for it.”
CitiLimitz will perform the National Anthem before Monday night’s Jaguars-Chiefs game in Jacksonville.
A.T. said he’s been singing with his brothers Dre and Marion his entire life. The whole family is musical, he said. Their grandfather, a preacher and gospel singer, taught them to harmonize. As a teen, their father was in a Chattanooga group with future R&B star Usher.
They started performing locally and online when they were around 12 and caught the eye of Ellen DeGeneres’ producers, who gave the trio a spot on “The Ellen Show” in 2019.
“Me and Dre, we never really wanted to sing, we were more into sports,” A.T. said. “After our first show together, we never wanted to turn back.”
They spent the next few years working on their sound, and the hard work paid off. Just this summer, CitiLimitz reached the quarterfinals of the most recent season of “America’s Got Talent,” performing K-Ci and Jojo’s “All My Life” for their audition and wrapping up with Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” in the quarterfinals.
A.T. said they learned a lot from the whole “America’s Got Talent” experience. “Stick to your guts,” he said. “Go for what you believe in, honestly. That’s pretty much how I can sum that up. Fight for it.”
It was while they were on the show that their agent called about the National Anthem opportunity. They’ve performed the song before a couple of WNBA games in Atlanta and once at a high school game, but never before a packed NFL stadium. They aren’t saying which brother has to handle that tricky “rockets’ red glare” line. “We got that all together together,” A.T. said. “Trust us.”
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Citi Limitz: Band singing National Anthem before Jaguars-Chiefs game
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