--- title: The Choir Singer Stole the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show description: A choir singer was the real most valuable player at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show. canonical: https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-04T02:19:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T01:09:47.000Z og:title: This Is the Breakout Star of the Super Bowl Halftime Show og:description: She was arguably the most valuable player in the chorus og:url: https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e23233d92f219ef/6989446d656a3fd03dbd68dc/superbowlhalftimeshow2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4332 og:image:height: 2437 og:image:alt: Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Breakout Star of the Super Bowl Halftime Show twitter:description: She was arguably the most valuable player in the chorus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e23233d92f219ef/6989446d656a3fd03dbd68dc/superbowlhalftimeshow2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Choir Singer Nearly Stole the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show > Sponsored content. 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She was arguably the most valuable player in the chorus_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:09 AM UTCPublished: Feb 4, 2019 2:19 AM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:09 AM UTCPublished: Feb 4, 2019 2:19 AM UTC The praise came in thick during the 2019 [Super Bowl Halftime Show](http://time.com/5501622/maroon-5-travis-scott-super-bowl-53/) for one of the most valuable players in choir. For many tuning into [Super Bowl 53](http://time.com/5511271/adam-levine-super-bowl-2019/), it’s all about the halftime show festivities, which only got interrupted by a football game where the New England Patriots battled and defeated the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta. The spectacle had shirtless [Maroon 5’s Adam Levine](http://time.com/5511271/adam-levine-super-bowl-2019/), _Astroworld_ rapper [Travis Scott](http://time.com/5501622/maroon-5-travis-scott-super-bowl-53/), and Outkast rapper Big Boi rolling in bedecked in a fur coat in a luxury motor vehicle. [Plus SpongeBob](http://time.com/5516450/spongebob-super-bowl/), of course. But the lineup didn’t end there. A gospel choir enrobed in blue made a splash, and the internet latched onto one woman in particular who provided one of the most unexpected and refreshing moments of the evening. She had pipes, she had power, and she was a bright beam of light that infused the show with energy for people across the internet where she of course did not go unnoticed. Twitter erupted over the singer who belted out and the tweets came rolling in. See below as fans expressed enthusiasm galore for her contributions, even wanting her to sing nonstop. > [](https://twitter.com/TracyEGilchrist/status/1092232681876639744) > [](https://twitter.com/artipatel/status/1092230141478985728) > [](https://twitter.com/Lukonway/status/1092231669459963906) > [](https://twitter.com/ohheyjenna/status/1092230095631249409) > [](https://twitter.com/gracehelbig/status/1092238040850849793) > [](https://twitter.com/artipatel/status/1092230141478985728) > [](https://twitter.com/kciesemier/status/1092230112072908800) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/"},"headline":"This Choir Singer Nearly Stole the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show","datePublished":"2019-02-04T02:19:07.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T01:09:47.000Z","description":"She was arguably the most valuable player in the chorus","url":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","onetime","Super Bowl 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e23233d92f219ef/6989446d656a3fd03dbd68dc/superbowlhalftimeshow2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e23233d92f219ef/6989446d656a3fd03dbd68dc/superbowlhalftimeshow2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show","caption":"Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/","name":"This Choir Singer Nearly Stole the 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"She was arguably the most valuable player in the chorus","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5514205/super-bowl-halftime-show-twitter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```