The answer: "In short, the national anthem is so hard ... Not every rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" with a shaky start ends badly, though. When 13-year-old Natalie Gilbert stumbled over ...

The 33-year-old singer returned to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a recent Colorado Avalanche hockey game, as she shared in an Instagram clip posted on Friday. "We're back baby," she ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.