After winning three Grammys Awards–including the coveted album of the year with Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which made history as the first Spanish-language album to do so–Bad Bunny is off to his next venture: the Super Bowl.
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This Sunday (Feb. 8), the Puerto Rican artist will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show taking place during the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
The big event has drawn all sorts of controversy and attention, spanning from concerns of having a Latin artist singing in Spanish to people asking “will he wear a dress?” during his performance. As details of what fans can expect are still under wraps, many of his colleagues are rooting for him.
“I’ve seen a lot of mixed reviews online of people being excited about it and people not being excited about it,” Benson Boone previously said to Billboard. “I think it’s cool to do something that brings in a whole new audience. So I’m excited to see what he does. I think he’s extremely talented and has a lot of really, really good music.”
Meanwhile, at the Grammys livestream on Sunday night, many of Benito’s (his real name) Latin friends and collaborators also shared their thoughts about his big night.
“He’s doing great things for our culture,” J Balvin expressed to Billboard. “To me it’s like, hate us or love us, we’re taking over. I know he’s going to kill it. If he wins, I win, we all win, and not just Latinos, but all the immigrants in the U.S.”
Rauw Alejandro agreed: “Bad Bunny is popping. He’s one of the best artists in the whole world. People have to expand their minds, enjoy all the cultures around the world. Right now, it could be us Latinos, tomorrow it can be somebody [an artist] from Asia or France. It doesn’t matter. We have to enjoy music, that’s the universal language.”
Nicki Nicole, on the other hand, was unaware of all the controversy revolving around the halftime show and said: “For me, it’s beautiful that music brings us together, and I think the most remarkable thing about music is that it has no borders and truly unites people from all over the world. I see this as a great, great, great opportunity. I feel like it’s going to be incredible and that people are going to love it.”
Super Bowl LX will broadcast live at 6:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 8 on NBC and Telemundo.