Dangerous Bunny will headline the halftime present at subsequent yr’s Tremendous Bowl LX, organizers introduced Sunday.
This would be the Puerto Rican musician’s second time on the Tremendous Bowl following his look with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez throughout halftime of 2020’s sport.
“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,” Dangerous Bunny — whose actual identify is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — mentioned in a press release, noting that “this is for my people, my culture and our history.
“Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el halftime show del Super Bowl,” he added in Spanish, which interprets to a request to inform your grandma that he’s enjoying the Tremendous Bowl.
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Roc Nation, the sprawling leisure firm based by Jay-Z, will once more produce the occasion. The corporate partnered with the NFL in 2019 to seek the advice of on dwell music occasions and social justice initiatives, together with producing and choosing performers for the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
“What Benito has done and continues to do for Puerto Rico is truly inspiring,” Jay-Z mentioned within the assertion. “We are honored to have him on the world’s biggest stage.”
Whereas the massive sport is an anticipated occasion for soccer followers, the halftime spectacle is simply as a lot of an eagerly awaited cultural affair, drawing appreciable hypothesis yearly about which star will take what’s broadly considered music’s greatest stage.
Names that made the rounds this yr included Adele and Taylor Swift, with the latter hitting overdrive earlier this month when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made an look on “Today” and mentioned, “We would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent, and obviously she would be welcome at any time.” When requested if talks had been within the works with the singer, who’s engaged to Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Travis Kelce, Goodell tried to sidestep the query earlier than responding, “It’s a maybe.”
Dangerous Bunny’s headlining gig — introduced throughout halftime of Sunday’s Packers-Cowboys match-up at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex. — follows Kendrick Lamar’s efficiency at this previous February’s Tremendous Bowl LIX. Rankings for the Compton-born MC’s halftime present, by which he famously dissed the Canadian rapper Drake and launched a TikTok craze over his flared Celine denims and “Not Like Us” shuffle, had been the very best of all time, in response to Nielsen, which mentioned the telecast drew greater than 127.7 million viewers. It additionally earned him an Emmy for music route, an award he shared with co-music director Tony Russell.
Tremendous Bowl LX will happen Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., and can air on NBC.
