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Carrie Underwood Will Sing ‘America the Stunning’ at Trump’s Inauguration


The singer Carrie Underwood mentioned Monday that she would carry out subsequent week at President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.

“I like our nation and am honored to have been requested to sing on the Inauguration and to be a small a part of this historic occasion,” Ms. Underwood mentioned in an announcement on Monday. “I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time once we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and seeking to the long run.”

Ms. Underwood, whose profession was launched when she received “American Idol” in 2005, will sing “America the Stunning” with an accompaniment from the Armed Forces Refrain and the US Naval Academy Glee Membership, in accordance a duplicate of the inaugural program obtained by The New York Instances.

After she sings, Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of workplace to Mr. Trump.

Ms. Underwood’s settlement to carry out will lend star energy to the occasion. Eight years in the past there have been days of headlines of singers making it clear that they might not be acting at Mr. Trump’s first inauguration. The Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and Elton John had been amongst those that mentioned that they might not seem, and after it was introduced that the Rockettes would carry out inner tensions throughout the dance troupe burst into public view.

A variety of different occasions and events, many that includes musical acts, shall be held across the inauguration.

Victor Willis, the final surviving founding member of the Village Individuals, introduced on Fb on Monday that the group had accepted an invite to take part in Mr. Trump’s inaugural actions. Mr. Trump had made the Village Individuals track “Y.M.C.A.” a marketing campaign anthem of kinds, taking part in it at his rallies and marketing campaign occasions.

Charlie Kirk, the founder and chief of the pro-Trump, youth-focused group Turning Level USA, mentioned on social media that the Village Individuals would carry out on the Turning Level Inaugural-eve Ball.

Mr. Willis wrote on Fb that the choice wouldn’t make some followers pleased nonetheless, “we imagine that music is to be carried out with out regard to politics,” he mentioned. “Our track ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is a world anthem that hopefully helps deliver the nation collectively after a tumultuous and divided marketing campaign the place our most well-liked candidate misplaced.”

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

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