beyonce did the super bowl in 2006.
what year did beyonce do the super bowl?
2006
after getting tired of the physical demands of touring, she decided to give it up and commit to living a peaceful life. in 2006, pop recording artist beyoncé was looking for an all -female band to empower women. a member of beyonce's team called mcgill's father who was a barber at the time and has cut his hair for years. he called her to encourage her to go to the audition. the team member heard about mcgill through her father and recommended her when beyoncé did a worldwide press release for auditions. mcgill first told her dad no but then regretted the decision and decided to go to tell him that she went. mcgill got the gig during a call back after the first audition for beyoncé's 10-piece, all-female band, the suga mamas in 2006 as lead guitarist, later becoming musical director for the beyoncé experience and i am...world tour. with beyoncé's band she has toured around the world in four of beyoncé's tours, the beyoncé experience (2007), the i am...world tour (2009-2010), mrs. carter world tour (2013-2014), and the on the run tour (2014) with beyoncé and jay-z. she also played in three specials: (2009), ballroom (2011) and beyonce live in atlantic city (2012). while playing for beyonce, she performed at various awards shows, tv shows and variety shows such as good morning america, the today show, the grammys, american music awards, world music awards, the oprah winfrey show and the bet awards. mcgill has also performed with beyonce at the white house for president barack obama and michelle obama's 50th birthday party and also played at various festivals such as the glastonbury festival in 2011. mcgill's has had some of her most memorable solos during the beyonce era. on the beyoncé experience and i am...world tour, she performed a solo during freakum dress and was known for the phrase "bibi take me higher" after beyoncé shouted it before her solo. mcgill's freakum dress solo is known for its randy rhoads style. she has also done solos for if i were a boy and i care. in 2013, at the super bowl halftime show in 2013, bibi performed a "pyrotechnic guitar solo" where fireworks shot out of her randy rhoads signature jackson guitar. the pyrotechnic stunt was performed during the song crazy in love. the solo went on to become the greatest and most notable solo of mcgill's career and was praised by many including rob sheffield of rolling stone magazine calling the performance a "ready-made obligatory-slash cameo guitar solo. along with the beyoncé gig itself, the super bowl also gave mcgill even more mainstream attention. beyoncé's halftime show became the fourth most watched halftime show with 110.8 million viewers after madonna's super bowl xlvi halftime show which was watched by 112.5 million viewers, bruno mars' super bowl xlviii halftime show with 115.3 million viewers and katy perry's super bowl xlix halftime show with 118.5 million viewers. mcgill received a lot of positive attention from both social media and music critics for the solo. mcgill reprised her pyrotechnic solo on beyoncé's mrs. carter show world tour that same year.
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coldplay, rihanna, and katy perry were considered as potential acts for the super bowl xlix halftime show in 2015. perry was soon confirmed as the headliner of the halftime show in november 2014. in summer 2015, many acts were being rumored as potential headliners for the 2016 halftime show including taylor swift, britney spears and one direction. in september 2015, it was reported that bruno mars was set to curate the super bowl 50 halftime show, but the next month in october, it was reported that maroon 5 was in talks to headline, but the band said they haven't had any conversations with the nfl about headlining, but were open to it. in late november, 2015, reports surfaced stating that multiple acts would perform during the halftime show. coldplay was confirmed as the lead half time performer for super bowl 50 on december 3, 2015, one day before the release of their seventh studio album "a head full of dreams". it was later confirmed that beyoncé and bruno mars would join coldplay as special guests. chris martin called mars to ask him to perform with coldplay; however, mars declined the offer. nevertheless, the singer of coldplay invited mars to his studio in malibu where he was working. there, martin revealed to mars that he wanted for him to perform "uptown funk" with beyonce. despite this, mars still didn't think it was a good idea and asked the former to talk to beyonce to see what was her opinion on that. martin videotaped him and mars, while the former sang a song to beyoncé so that she would come to do the super bowl with both of them. beyonce response was receptive to the idea.
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