Lady Gaga Sings ‘God Bless America,’ and Oprah Winfrey Pleads for ‘Voting for Healing Over Hate,’ to Close Out Kamala Harris’ Final Campaign Rally
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Lady Gaga fans who were wondering what song she would pull out for Kamala Harris‘ final rally in Philadelphia Monday night got a song arguably even more glorious than “Edge of Glory” — Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” — to preface the candidate’s speech.
But she didn’t let down those who wanted to hear her own inspirational anthem, returning after Harris’ climactic speech to indeed belt out “Edge of Glory” as the clock struck 12 and election day officially arrived. “For more than half of this country’s life, women didn’t have a voice,” Gaga said in introducing “God Bless America” while sitting at the piano.
The singer spoke of women during that time who “raised children. We held our families together. We supported men as they made the decisions.
But tomorrow, women will be a part of making this decision. Today I am holding in my heart all the tough, tenacious women who made me who I am.
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