Brantley Gilbert shares why he's performing at Turning Point USA's alternate halftime show

Country euphony vocalist Brantley Gilbert was tapped to execute astatine Turning Point USA’s "All-American Halftime Show" connected Sunday to antagonistic against Bad Bunny’s spectacle astatine Super Bowl LX.

Gilbert volition beryllium 1 of 4 singers astatine the Turning Point USA event. Kid Rock is the headliner on with Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. Gilbert has been singing professionally since 2007 and released his debut medium successful 2009.

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Brantley Gilbert performs for fans earlier the commencement of the NASCAR Toyota - Save Mart 350 contention astatine Sonoma Raceway connected June 12, 2022. (Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports)

He whitethorn not beryllium a household sanction for immoderate Americans and shot fans. He addressed those who were asking who helium was and wherefore helium was performing astatine the event.

"I’m a songwriter who grew up, and inactive lives successful Jackson County, GA, whose extremity successful the euphony concern was to merchantability retired the section theatre a fewer miles from my location and someway marque my surviving penning songs," helium said successful a statement. "I’m a recovering addict with the past of each the atrocious choices that travel with it. I’m not arrogant of those choices, but I americium arrogant of the prime I’ve made to unrecorded successful different direction.

"I stock my communicative done my music, successful hopes that it whitethorn assistance and animate others successful their darkest hour. I’m a Christian, and I emotion our country, contempt its flaws. I’ve dedicated portion of my beingness to the men and women who combat for it, and the families of those who gave their beingness for it. Above all, I’m a arrogant hubby and begetter of three."

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Brantley Gilbert arrives connected the reddish carpet for the 59th Annual CMA Awards astatine Music City Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Andrew Nelles/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Gilbert added that helium wanted to execute for his children and that it’s been much than 20 years since a state euphony vocalist had been asked to sing astatine halftime of the Super Bowl.

"We’re celebrating 250 years arsenic a country, and it’s been much than 20 years since a state creator has been asked to play the Super Bowl halftime show. I respect that immoderate radical whitethorn spot this differently, but I’m not playing this amusement to beryllium divisive. I was offered this accidental and imagined my kids watching their daddy execute astatine halftime during the biggest crippled successful American football. Everything I do, I bash for them.

"The mode I dainty radical isn’t conditional based connected what our differences whitethorn be. I judge "united we stand, divided we fall," and my supplication for our state is that we basal united."

He said helium was looking guardant to putting connected an epic amusement Sunday.

Turning Point USA said the amusement volition aerial unrecorded connected YouTube, X and Rumble successful summation to different blimpish quality outlets.

The lawsuit — titled "The All-American Halftime Show" — is scheduled to aerial astir 8 p.m. ET connected Feb. 8 and volition diagnostic performances from artists including Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett, according to the nonprofit organization. (Turning Point USA)

Andrew Kolvet, TPUSA’s spokesman, antecedently told Fox News Digital that the broadcast volition beryllium meant to supply families a antithetic viewing enactment that volition springiness the spectator an immersive and high-energy experience.

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"'The All-American Halftime Show' is an accidental for each Americans to bask a halftime amusement with nary docket different than to observe faith, family, and freedom," Kolvet said. "… We can’t hold to ticker the unthinkable amusement they’re astir to enactment on. We cognize millions astir the state volition beryllium watching too."

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