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Carrie Underwood ‘honored’ to perform at Trump’s inauguration: ‘I love our country’

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Carrie Underwood will perform at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on January 20 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. American Idol judge will sing “America the Beautiful,” Yahoo Entertainment can confirm.

“I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event,” Underwood said in a statement. “I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future.”

Underwood has been publicly apolitical throughout her decades-long career.

“I feel like more and more people are trying to pin me down politically,” she told the Guardian in 2019. ‘I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. It’s insane. Everyone tries to sum everything up. and put a bow on it, as if it were black and white.

The Oklahoma native gave an example about the public reaction to her 2018 song “The Bullet.”

“People immediately said, ‘Oh, you have a song about gun control,’” she told the outlet. “It was more about the lives that were changed because of something terrible that happened. And it kind of irritates me when people take a song or something that I said and try to put me in a box or force me to take a side or something. It’s a discussion – A long discussion.”

Underwood will be joined for her performance by the Armed Forces Choir and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club. The moment will take place after Vice President-elect JD Vance takes his oath of office and just before Trump is sworn in.

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Underwood is by far the biggest star Trump has courted to date. It took a long time for his inauguration in 2017 list of celebrities who declined to participate, including Elton John, Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion and David Foster.

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