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Singer Lady Gaga followed in the footsteps of such singers as Idina Menzel, Renee Fleming, and Whitney Houston by performing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, with Gaga taking on the job this year.

Gaga earned rave reviews for her rendition of 鈥淭he Star-Spangled Banner.鈥澛�

鈥淟ady Gaga鈥檚 national anthem performance is total perfection,鈥� wrote of the song. 鈥淕aga took her time and hit every note.鈥澛�

聽called the song 鈥渟tirring鈥� powerful.鈥澛�

To Gaga fans, her vocal chops are no surprise. The Super Bowl performance follows a 2014 album ("Cheek to Cheek") of covers of jazz standards with singer Tony Bennett and having performed a musical tribute to the 1965 film 鈥淭he Sound of Music鈥� at the 2015 Oscars, a rendition for which she also earned praise for her technical skill.聽

Gaga got notice early on in her career for her over-the-top outfits and stage shows, but she has worked extensively on her singing, with, for example, Oscars producer Craig Zadan telling that Gaga had studied daily with a vocal coach for six months prior to her 鈥淢usic鈥� performance.聽

She was accepted to the Juilliard School when she was young but instead chose to attend a different school. She also studied piano. 鈥淚 was classically trained as a pianist and that innately teaches you how to write a pop song, because when you learn Bach inversions, it has the same sort of modulations between the chords,鈥� Gaga told in an interview.聽

Performing with Bennett brought praise from some critics for her singing. 鈥淎 bright, aggressive 鈥楲a Vie en Rose,鈥� sung mostly in French, demonstrated her formidable vocal skills,鈥� wrote in a review of a concert with Gaga and Bennett last summer.

Her performance at the Oscars, a huge platform that regularly attracts more than 30 million viewers, drew even more attention. Gaga performed in a white evening gown with simple hair and makeup in contrast to her past headline-grabbing outfits, she's emerged as an artist having the vocals to take center stag.聽

鈥淓ye-popping theatrics are usually par for the course when it comes to Gaga,鈥� wrote in discussing both the Oscars performance and her taking the stage at the Grammys. 鈥淏ut at the Grammys and Oscars, there was no blood-spurting, no male alter egos, no in-song costume changes nor giant eggs to burst out of onstage. At the Grammys and Oscars, Gaga sang decades-old classics, without dancing, or wearing an elaborate outfit. And in both instances, she absolutely dazzled.鈥�

惭别补苍飞丑颈濒别,听 wrote of the Oscars that the singer 鈥渨ent old-school, and it worked鈥� [she] ditched her usual elaborate theatrics for a pared-down, beautiful 50th-anniversary tribute to聽鈥楾he Sound of Music鈥欌�� [she] has reinvented herself in the most surprising way of all: by leaning heavily on songcraft and artistry.鈥澛�

Gaga鈥檚 performance at the Super Bowl was just the latest example of the singer getting attention for her vocal power rather than an unusual outfit or stagecraft choice.