We Shall Be Free

"We Shall Be Free" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks.

"We Shall Be Free" peaked at #22 on the Billboard Christian Songs charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

Brooks would go on to perform this song on a 1996 episode of Muppets Tonight with The Muppets, at Equality Rocks, a gay rights march in Washington, D.C. in 2000,[4] and at the We Are One Concert, a concert held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the Obama inaugural celebration in January, 2009.

On the day of the Super Bowl NBC network executives told Garth that the song was too controversial and they weren't going to play it.

The music video for "We Shall Be Free" was directed by Timothy Miller, and premiered on CMT on January 26, 1993.

In the introduction, numerous celebrities (including Brooks) are depicted in a matter of seconds and appear throughout the video.