Aspiring singer Jordan Shelton, winner of the Star-Spangled Banner YouTube Singing Contest that USA WEEKEND co-sponsored with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is feeling like a real celebrity these days. In fact, she got lots of practice giving autographs and posing for pictures after she sang the National Anthem live at the museum’s special naturalization ceremony for 25 children from 15 different countries on Flag Day, June 14. (Click read more below for pictures of Shelton from the ceremony.) Here she is singing the anthem at Baltimore Orioles game later that day. Shelton, a 24-year-old from Arvada, Colo., was one of more than 850 entrants who uploaded videos of themselves singing the National Anthem to YouTube between Feb. 15 and April 13.
Photos by Rich Strauss, courtesy of the National Museum of American History
