Charlie Puth’s stirring Super Bowl National Anthem is indebted to Whitney Houston
We salute our icon. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Charlie Puth did his homework. The pop music wunderkid sang the “Star-Spangled Banner” at the 2026 Super Bowl, delivering a rendition of the National Anthem that was musically complex and moving. It begins simply with Puth playing a Rhodes electric keyboard, before a a choir, orchestra…