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On the heels of his historical nighttime astatine the Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny is acceptable to instrumentality the signifier for the halftime amusement astatine the 2026 Super Bowl connected Sunday, arsenic the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks meet successful a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX.
The hugely fashionable Puerto Rican rapper and vocalist says he'll bring "a batch of my culture" to the large crippled astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California.
Who is performing successful the Super Bowl halftime amusement for 2026?
The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced successful September that Bad Bunny volition beryllium this year's halftime amusement headliner.
The 31-year-old superstar, calved Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, won 2 apical awards astatine the Grammys past Sunday — Best Música Urbana Album and Album of the Year for his grounds "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS" — the archetypal clip an all Spanish-language medium earned the night's biggest award.
"To beryllium honest, I don't cognize however I'm feeling. There's a lot. I'm inactive successful the mediate of my tour. I was conscionable astatine the Grammys past week. All of that," Bad Bunny said astatine a Thursday quality league hosted by Apple Music, which is sponsoring the halftime show.
"I'm excited, but astatine the aforesaid time, I consciousness much excited astir the radical than adjacent maine — my family, my friends, the radical who person ever believed successful me," helium said. "This moment, the civilization — that's what makes these shows special."
He was tight-lipped astir what the show would entail oregon if determination would beryllium immoderate different artists joining him onstage.
"It's going to beryllium a immense party," Bad Bunny said. "I privation to bring to the stage, of course, a batch of my culture. But I truly don't, I don't privation to springiness immoderate spoilers. It's going to beryllium fun."
Bad Bunny is interviewed during a property league astir the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show connected Feb. 5, 2026 successful San Francisco.
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The halftime amusement volition besides diagnostic interpreter Celimar Rivera Cosme doing Puerto Rican Sign Language.
Bad Bunny volition beryllium the archetypal autochthonal Spanish talker to header the Super Bowl halftime show, and his enactment prompted disapproval from some, including President Trump. Another question of backlash cropped up erstwhile Bad Bunny said "ICE out" during 1 of his Grammy acceptance speeches past week.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has repeatedly defended and stood by the selection.
"I'm not definite we've ever selected an creator wherever we didn't person immoderate blowback oregon criticism. It's beauteous hard to bash erstwhile you person virtually hundreds of millions of radical that are watching," Goodell said successful October.
"He's 1 of the starring and astir fashionable entertainers successful the world," Goodell said. "That's what we effort to achieve. It's an important signifier for us. It's an important constituent to the amusement value."
Asked astir Bad Bunny's comments astatine the Grammy Awards, Goodell told reporters, "Bad Bunny is, and I deliberation that was demonstrated past night, 1 of the large artists successful the world, and that's 1 of the reasons we chose him."
"But the different crushed is helium understood the level helium was on, and that this level is utilized to unite people, and to beryllium capable to bring radical unneurotic with their creativity, with their talents, and to beryllium capable to usage this infinitesimal to bash that," helium said. "And I deliberation artists successful the past person done that. I deliberation Bad Bunny understands that, and I deliberation he'll person a large performance."
Bad Bunny won large astatine the 68th Grammy Awards connected Feb. 1, 2026 successful Los Angeles.
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Who is singing the nationalist anthem astatine the 2026 Super Bowl?
Charlie Puth volition instrumentality connected nationalist anthem duties astatine the Super Bowl this year. The 34-year-old vocalist has called the nationalist anthem "one of the astir beauteous pieces of music," but has besides said it is "the hardest to sing."
The New Jersey autochthonal started retired posting videos of himself singing connected YouTube, but his vocation has since blossomed, and he's released 4 albums and been nominated for 4 Grammy Awards.
Full database of Super Bowl performers for 2026
- Green Day — The Bay Area-based punk rockers volition execute astatine the Super Bowl opening ceremony.
- Charlie Puth — Puth is singing "The Star Spangled Banner" earlier the game.
- Brandi Carlile — The 11-time Grammy-winner volition sing "America the Beautiful."
- Coco Jones — The Grammy-winning vocalist volition execute "Lift Every Voice and Sing," wide known arsenic the Black nationalist anthem.
- Bad Bunny — The Puerto Rican superstar is headlining the halftime show.
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