{"id":5907,"date":"2014-04-03T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2014-04-03T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T04:38:23","slug":"darius-rucker-and-daughtry-to-perform-national-anthem-at-ncaa-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/03\/darius-rucker-and-daughtry-to-perform-national-anthem-at-ncaa-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker and Daughtry to perform national anthem at NCAA Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5919\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/400px-Daughtry_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5919\" alt=\"Chris Daughtry in Indianapolis, 2013. (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/400px-Daughtry_2013.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/400px-Daughtry_2013.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/400px-Daughtry_2013-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Daughtry in Indianapolis, 2013. (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; Award-winning country singer-songwriter Darius Rucker and multi-platinum recording artist Chris Daughtry will perform the national anthem at the NCAA Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Rucker will sing the anthem before Monday&#8217;s championship game, when he will be accompanied by the Jazz Singers vocal ensemble from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performance and Visual Arts in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Daughtry will perform before Saturday&#8217;s games. He will be backed by the Fort McHenry drum and fife corps in celebration of the 200th anniversary of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rucker first broke into the mainstream music scene in the mid-1990s as the frontman of the band Hootie &amp; The Blowfish. He released his third country album last year.<\/p>\n<p>Daughtry and his band have had four No. 1 hits, selling over 8 million albums worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; Award-winning country singer-songwriter Darius Rucker and multi-platinum recording artist Chris Daughtry will perform the national anthem at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[1648,1649,601,1650],"class_list":["post-5907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","tag-bkc","tag-final","tag-four","tag-nation","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}