Cee Lo To Join Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Gig?

Someone's been packing on the frequent-flier miles, and the Super Bowl XLI halftime show may prove the better for it.

Insider.com has an exclusive scoop today - reported via Yahoo! Entertainment blog OMG! - that "The Voice" mentor Cee Lo Green has been visiting New York the last few weeks and rehearsing with Madonna for a guest spot during her big halftime extravaganza with Cirque du Soleil Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.

Madonna herself has been pretty mum about the performance, though her set list leaked months ago. But Insider.com reports via OMG! that the "F*** You" singer will be lending his distinctive voice to a Material Girl classic. Take your pick with your guess, but that means he'll probably be lending his distinctive voice to either "Music," "Holiday," "Vogue" or "Ray of Light" - the older tunes dominating her rumored set - or perhaps even her newer single, "Give Me All Your Love."

Cee Lo's voice has this magic touch that lets him do something artists like Busta Rhymes, Nate Dogg and Ludcaris all historically do with uncanny ease: make absolutely any given song sound amazing. The man took a took whose proper version can't be sung out loud amid polite company, and actually made it something as soulful and gleeful as the Isley Brothers' "This Ol' Heart Of Mine" or Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "It Takes Two." He's a different breed of singer so soulful, you almost hope he won't be wasted simply on a hook but maybe given an entire verse all his own.

Plus, the man defines "performer," whether he's decked out like Darth Vader with a stormtrooper backing band or belting out that watered-down "Forget You" alongside the Muppets, he always gives a crowd something to talk about.

Sure, last year's return to a Super Bowl with a contemporary act was among the failures that sent the Black Eyed Peas cowering into retirement, but nobody should anticipate a let down from the combination of a consumate show-stealer like Madonna and maybe one of soul's next great voices and performers.