“She wasn’t comfortable performing without a rehearsal, and I wasn’t comfortable that either,” he said. However, the band and the singer had decided Sunday night to use a precorded music track, since they were unable to coordinate a time for a full rehearsal. UPDATE January 22, 3:15 PM: Colonel Colburn, speaking this afternoon to The Washingtonian, says that he can’t confirm whether Beyoncé actually was singing. The Marine Band did perform live throughout the ceremony but we received last-minute word that Beyoncé wanted to use the recording.” The spokesperson also added that everyone knows Beyoncé is a gifted singer, and her decision has no bearing on her musical ability. “All music is prerecorded as a matter of course, and that’s something we’ve done for years and years. UPDATE January 22, 12:10 PM: “We don’t know why Beyoncé decided to use prerecorded music,” a spokesperson for the Marine Corps Band told us this morning. UPDATE January 22, 11:45 AM: The London Times has confirmed our theory that Beyoncé was, in fact, lip syncing. But there are no previously known cases of a singer lip-syncing the national anthem during an inaugural performance. At President Obama’s 2009 inauguration, cold weather and wind meant that a live performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman had to be nixed in favor of a recording. Miming along to a pre-recorded track isn’t unheard of at inaugural ceremonies. In one, she holds a copy of the sheet music to “The Star Spangled Banner” in front of a microphone attached to a recording device, and in another she sits in front of recording equipment while members of the Marine Corps Band stand clutching sheet music behind her. A hint as to the actual origins of the version Beyoncé sang came from her own hand: On January 20, the day before the ceremony, Beyoncé posted pictures to her Instagram account that appeared to show her in a recording studio.
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