Overview
- Beam will deliver ASL interpretations alongside Charlie Puth for “The Star-Spangled Banner” and Coco Jones for “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
- Deaf performer Julian Ortiz is slated to sign “America the Beautiful” with Brandi Carlile as part of the pregame program.
- Celimar Rivera Cosme will sign the entire Apple Music Halftime Show in Puerto Rican Sign Language during Bad Bunny’s headlining set, a first for the Super Bowl.
- The signed elements are presented with Alexis Kashar of LOVE SIGN and Howard Rosenblum of Deaf Equality, according to the NFL.
- Beam, deaf since age 3, co-founded the Wild Zappers, directed the National Deaf Dance Theatre, and has long advocated for the Black Deaf community, including serving as National Black Deaf Advocates president.