Music Director

ADAM BLACKSTONE

MODERATED BY SETH DUDOWSKY

(Head of Music at National Football League (NFL))

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A

Thursday, August 11, 6:30PM (PT)

The NFL, Roc Nation, and Pepsi assembled a lineup of trailblazing musicals for the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar took the world’s biggest stage at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022

The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show marked the first time these five multi-award-winning artists performed together on stage, exciting music fans worldwide and holding a special significance for the greater Los Angeles community, as they hosted the Super Bowl for the first time in nearly 30 years. Collectively, these artists have been awarded 43 Grammys and have created 11 No. 1 Billboard albums.

The Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show is the most-watched musical performance of the year, the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show averaged 103.4 million viewers. Past halftime performances include The Weeknd, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Prince, Madonna, and more. Not Rated | 15mins

Terence Blanchard is a two-time Oscar nominee and six-time Grammy winner who has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for almost 20 Spike Lee projects over three decades, ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke to the latest Lee film, Da 5 Bloods (which earned Blanchard his second Oscar nomination), Blanchard has interwoven beautiful melodies that created strong backdrops to human stories. Blanchard previously received an Oscar nomination for his original score for Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. More recently, Blanchard has composed his second opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of celebrated writer and The New York Times columnist Charles Blow, the first opera composed by an African American composer to premiere at the Met. Blanchard’s first opera, Champion also premiered to critical acclaim in 2013 and will be coming to the Met in April 2023. Some of Blanchard’s other film and television credits include Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, 25th Hour, and Inside Man; Kasi Lemmons’ films, Eve’s Bayou and Harriet;  Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami…; the critically acclaimed drama series Perry Mason; HBO’s NYC Epicenters 9/11 – 2021½ documentary miniseries produced and directed by Spike Lee; the Apple TV+ series Swagger; and Apple TV’s docuseries They Call Me Magic for which he received an Emmy nomination and Father of the Bride directed by Gaz Alazraki.  Upcoming film projects include The Woman King directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood starring Viola Davis which is being released on September 16, 2022; A Jazzman’s Life written, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry for which Blanchard arranged and produced songs and is scheduled for release in Fall 2022; and the Apple TV+ documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues which is directed by Sacha Jenkins and produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Documentaries and will be released in Fall 2022.

In his thirtieth year as a recording leader, Blanchard delivers Absence, a masterwork of sonic zest in collaboration with his longtime E-Collective band and the acclaimed Turtle Island Quartet.

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Wednesday, August 10, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.

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