Bad Bunny to carry out at half-time present

Puerto Rican pop star Bad Bunny will headline subsequent 12 months’s Super Bowl half-time present in California.

The singer and rapper, who has topped Spotify’s most-streamed artist listing in three of the previous 5 years, will squeeze his hits into lower than quarter-hour on US TV’s most-watched evening in February.

In a football-themed assertion, he mentioned: “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown. This is for my people, my culture, and our history.”

It comes after the star lately mentioned in an interview with i-D magazine he’s avoiding the US on his present world tour out of issues that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers may conduct raids on followers at his concert events.

He will now make a visit to the US for Super Bowl evening in Santa Clara on 8 February.

He will comply with within the footsteps of different current half-time performers together with Kendrick Lamar, Usher, Rihanna and The Weeknd.

Lamar was the musical attraction at this 12 months’s Super Bowl, which was watched by a report 127 million viewers within the US.

Switching into his native Spanish, Bad Bunny – whose actual identify is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio – added in his assertion: “Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el halftime show del Super Bowl” – which roughly interprets as: “Go tell your grandma we’re going to be the Super Bowl half-time show.”

Jay-Z, whose Roc Nation firm chooses the half-time performer and produces their present, mentioned what Bad Bunny has “done and continues to do for Puerto Rico is truly inspiring”.

“We are honoured to have him on the world’s biggest stage,” he added.

In 2022, Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You), grew to become the primary all-Spanish language album to succeed in primary within the US.

The 31-year-old was the third most-streamed artist on the earth final 12 months, behind Taylor Swift and The Weeknd.

He launched his newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos), earlier this 12 months.

He has gained three Grammy Awards, and earlier this month was revealed because the main nominee at this 12 months’s Latin Grammy Awards.

Earlier this month, he concluded a residency in his native Puerto Rico, which drew greater than 500,000 followers. Puerto Rico is a US territory however which workouts substantial inner self-govenance.

His tour is because of begin within the Dominican Republic in November, earlier than travelling throughout Central and South America, then to Australia, Japan and Europe, together with two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London subsequent summer time.

“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the US, and none of them were out of hate – I’ve performed there many times,” the star defined to i-D concerning the absence of US dates.

“All of [the shows] have been successful. All of them have been magnificent. I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the US.”

He continued: “But there was the issue of… ICE could be outside [my concerts]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”

His Super Bowl efficiency will happen on the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bad Bunny can be an actor, showing in movies like Bullet Train and the current Happy Gilmore 2.

And he’ll return to host Saturday Night Live for a second time subsequent month.