RIT Alumnus Makes History at Super Bowl LVI
Written by Site Hub on February 14, 2022
The super bowl is full of excitement and yesterday we had some Rochester representatives making history. A Rochester Institute of Technology grad, Sean Forbes, was the first person in history to sign the Super Bowl halftime show. Forbes is a deaf rapper and performer who grew up in a musical family and played the drums. He attended the National Institute for the Deaf at RIT.
Forbes stated; “It wasn’t until I was a student at NTID RIT that I discovered there are many other deaf and hard of hearing people with a love of music…My fourth year at RIT, one of my friends was a film major and I asked him to film me signing an Eminem song…It’s so important to me that the deaf community comes together to spread all of this positivity.”
Source: 13 WHAM
