Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show brings the party, showcases Latin culture

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Bad Bunny brought the enactment to the Super Bowl halftime amusement as helium promised, performing hits from "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" a week aft winning Album of the Year for it astatine the 2026 Grammys.

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar took the signifier dressed successful each white, donning a jersey with his past name, Ocasio, and the fig 64. He made past arsenic the archetypal halftime amusement performer to sing primarily successful Spanish at the most-watched sporting lawsuit successful the United States.

Bad Bunny pays tribute to Puerto Rico

At halftime successful the matchup betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, Bad Bunny opened his show astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, with his 2022 deed "Tití Me Preguntó."

Paying tribute to his homeland, the tract was filled with thenar trees and different vegetation autochthonal to Puerto Rico. Walking done the lush greens, Bad Bunny passed a coconut vendor, a piragua cart and a mates of boxers arsenic helium went connected to execute different hit, "Yo Perreo Sola."

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Bad Bunny besides performed different songs from his latest album, including "EoO," "NUEVAYoL," which pays tribute to the Puerto Rican diaspora successful New York City, and "Debí Tirar Más Fotos."

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Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin besides made astonishment performances during the show. Other personage cameos included Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Cardi B and Karol G.

Bad Bunny, calved Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is 1 of the most-streamed artists connected the planet. During the performance, helium gave a shout-out to the countries crossed the Americas.

Towards the extremity of the show, the vocalist climbed an electrical pole, a notation to not lone the powerfulness of Puerto Rico and its radical but to powerfulness proviso issues the land has struggled with. Many of his opus lyrics knock the ineffective effect by the authorities successful Puerto Rico to crises similar the hurricanes that person pummeled the land and caused island-wide blackouts successful caller years.

At a property lawsuit past week hosted by halftime amusement sponsor Apple Music, Bad Bunny said: "I wasn't looking for medium of the year. I wasn't looking to execute astatine the Super Bowl halftime amusement ... I was conscionable trying to link with my roots, link with my people, link with myself."

He besides promised his Super Bowl amusement would beryllium "a immense party," adding, "I privation to bring to the stage, of course, a batch of my culture. ... I don't privation to springiness immoderate spoilers. It's going to beryllium fun."

With a full of six Grammys and 17 Latin Grammys, helium has go a planetary ambassador for Latin music. He has besides been featured successful Hollywood films specified arsenic "Bullet Train," "Caught Stealing" and "Happy Gilmore 2."

Did Bad Bunny get paid for his Super Bowl halftime performance?

Super Bowl halftime amusement performers typically get paid little than the outgo of the game's ticket.

Bad Bunny will earn national scale, a minimum interest guaranteed nether labour contracts, like previous halftime artists astatine the Super Bowl.

Under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union's astir caller contract, that would travel to astir $1,000 a day. The NFL typically covers artists' expenses, which tin tally into the millions of dollars.

Faris Tanyos, Luis Giraldo and Megan Cerullo contributed to this report.

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