After Kendrick Lamar in 2024, it was in the Puerto Rican sensation Bad Bunny to afford the biggest show of the year in the United States: the legendary half of the Super Bowl. This sporting event which remains the most watched show of the year across the Atlantic is often perceived as an absolute consecration for artists. Spectacular staging, tens of millions of viewers … All the artists who participated in the “Half Time Show” entered the history of music.
It is via an Instagram video that Bad Bunny, 31, announced the news. “Bad Bunny brings Puerto Rico to the biggest scene in the world”can we read on Apple Music’s account, the official sponsor of the sequence. On the images, you can see the artist sitting high on the posts of an American football field, back at a sunset.
“What I feel goes beyond my own person. All that is for those who have passed before me and who have run kilometers for me to mark this test. It is for my people, my culture, and our history“Wrote Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio alias Bad Bunny. Go tell your grandmother that we will be at the Half Bowl half-time show,” he concluded in Spanish.
Bad Bunny first became known in 2016 with his song Tell them Before exploding in the early 2020s. In 2023, he became the first singer in the Spanish language to see one of his albums (A summer without you) Appointed to the Grammy Awards in the album category of the year. Among his tubes, we count I perreo alone, Dákiti, mine or Callabs.
Fan of wrestling that he has practiced for many years, Bad Bunny has also quickly become a fashion icon becoming, among other things, muse of the Calvin Klein brand. On the side of his sentimental life, Bad Bunny was also a target of people magazines after the formalization of his relationship with the star Kendall Jennerone of the girls of the essential Kardashian-Jenner clan. A relationship that only lasted 10 months.
A political artist
Bad Bunny’s participation is also a major political gesture in Trump America. The singer will not fail to refer to it. Committed, Bad Bunny has given up carrying out a tour of the United States to limit the risk that the immigration police (ICE) would argue members of their audience. “There are several reasons why I do not perform in the United States,” said the musician in an interview with the British press.
“Americans could come to Porto Rico to see the show. The Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also come here, or in any other part of the world,” pointed out the one whose tour will go through Latin America, Australia and Europe between November 2025 and July 2026.
With Donald Trump’s massive arrest policy aimed at what he describes as illegal migrants, the number of those held by American police reached the record level of 60,254 in June (Against 40,500 in January, before returning to the White House), according to an analysis led by AFP on the official database.
In Porto Rico, where the immigration police also operate, 500 immigrants, essentially Dominicans, were arrested within four months of Donald Trump’s return to power, said a local official of this agency, Rebecca Gonzalez-Ramos, in an interview on US public radio NPR. Bad Bunny himself posted on his networks in June the video of an intervention on the island.
