The celebration also marks the eightieth anniversary of Congress' declaring "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

ALLEN: "How did music save your uncle's life?" BENNY: "They played the Star Spangled Banner just as he was sitting in the electric chair.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Usher discovered him. As the rhythm and blues star tells it, when they first met, Justin sang him an Usher song -- and sang it better.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The poem describes Lincoln as a great spirit and a fallen star.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

and he was the first country star to play in the Las Vegas tourist district known as "The Strip."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Coleman says that made for good entertainment. "The emergence of the underdog as a star, the outsider putting the big guys in their place.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Indeed,it was more than Horne's talent as an entertainer that brought artists such as Vanessa Williams, Dianne Carroll,Dionne Warwick and the international opera star Jessye Norman to Saint Ignatius Loyola on Friday.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15