The Super Bowl is the biggest event in sports, and it goes beyond the football game itself. While, at its core, it determines that years NFL champion, it has grown into a ma sive spectacle with its own major platform. The entire event is enormous. It is one of the biggest marketing days of the year, with companies expected to bring their A-game with commercials. It has also expanded to include an opening ceremony, several pregame music performances and a halftime show. Those performances are significant, but not just for the person or group singing. To Elie Okobo Jersey be more acce sible to fans, the NFL has begun utilizing an American Sign Language translator for the pregame performances of America the Beautiful, The Star-Spangled Banner and Lift Every Voice. Fred Beam, a deaf performing artist, will sign both the national anthem and Lift Every Voice. Here is more on Beam, who will be signing the national anthem at the 2026 Super Bowl. MORE : Who is Fred Beam? Beam is a deaf performing artist. He became deaf at the age of three from complications from chicken pox and high fever. Beam was drawn to the arts at an early age, with a proclivity for dance and drawing. He talked in an interview with about how he won a local art competition at Temple Terrace Arts festival and "that gave me the validation that I was a true artist." Over the years, Beam has focused more of his work on dance and the performing arts. He is the director, choreographer and dancer in two internationally touring companies. He is part of the Wild Zappers, an all deaf male dance company, and the National Deaf Dance Theater. Beam was a pioneer in creating ASL music/dance videos, per . Beam performed in the first Black Deaf Play "I Didn't Hear That Color," and he was also the first deaf actor to play Othello in the Shakespeare play. Jevon Carter Jersey