Puerto Rican musician Dangerous Bunny will carry out at america’ most-watched live performance this weekend — the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime present — recent off Grammy Awards success for his newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
The album, described as a “love letter to Puerto Rico”, turned the primary Spanish-language work to win the Grammy’s high prize, Album of the Yr, in addition to Finest Música Urbana Album. The album’s fifth single, EoO, received Finest International Music Efficiency.
In his acceptance speech for Album of the Yr, principally delivered in Spanish, the rapper born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio devoted the award to migrants.
“I wish to dedicate this award to all of the individuals who needed to depart their homeland, their nation, to comply with their desires,” he stated.
The 31-year-old artist, who was born and lives in Puerto Rico, has been outspoken on problems with colonisation, identification, and immigration.
In Debí Tirar Más Fotos — which interprets to “I ought to have taken extra pictures” — Dangerous Bunny addresses Puerto Rican identification, the continuing results of colonisation, and the displacement of residents on the island, which is an unincorporated territory of america.
He used his Grammy acceptance speech for Finest Música Urbana Album — awarded for Latin performers showcasing Latin city kinds — to criticise the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) company.
“Earlier than I say because of God, I am gonna say ICE out,” he stated, to fervent applause.
“We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We’re people and we’re Individuals.”
His protest on the occasion mirrored the pro-immigration and anti-ICE sentiment of different winners, together with Olivia Dean and Billie Eilish.
ICE brokers have been deployed in a number of cities since President Donald Trump took workplace final yr to hold out the administration’s mass deportation of suspected unlawful immigrants.
Two civilians had been shot and killed by ICE brokers in Minnesota final month, triggering mass protests in cities throughout the nation.
Historical past-making live performance
The Tremendous Bowl is America’s most-viewed tv broadcast. A report 127.7 million Individuals tuned in to observe the 2025 recreation, eclipsing the estimated 123 million viewership a yr earlier.
On Sunday, Dangerous Bunny will make historical past as the primary Latino and Spanish-speaking solo headliner on the Tremendous Bowl. The halftime live performance, now in its sixtieth iteration, has beforehand featured artists together with Beyoncé, Prince, Rhianna and The Rolling Stones.
Talking at a press convention on Thursday, Dangerous Bunny remained tight-lipped about his plans for the 13-minute efficiency, however stated he needed individuals to have enjoyable.
“I wish to carry to the stage, after all, plenty of my tradition,” he stated.
“I actually need individuals to have enjoyable. It’s gonna be an enormous occasion.”
Dangerous Bunny started releasing music on SoundCloud in 2016 and has since risen to turn into one of many world’s most-streamed artists.
Singing in Puerto Rican Spanish about Latino and Puerto Rican pleasure, his music is usually categorised as Latin entice, with influences of reggaeton — a well-liked Caribbean style with roots in Jamaican dancehall — American hip-hop, and southern US entice music.
When a verse on Cardi B’s 2018 hit I Like It pushed him into the mainstream, Dangerous Bunny already had greater than a dozen top-40 hits on the US Latin charts.
His third album, 2020’s El Último Tour del Mundo — that means The Final World Tour — turned the primary Billboard primary recorded totally in Spanish.
He was the most-played artist on Spotify from 2020 to 2022 and once more in 2025, with practically 20 billion streams.
He’ll tour Australia later this month, with two reveals at Sydney’s ENGIE Stadium on 28 February and 1 March.
Dangerous Bunny stated he was excited for the Tremendous Bowl efficiency.
“I grew up watching sport, taking part in sport, very dangerous,” he laughed.
“However I do love sport. It is truly one in every of my favorite mixtures, sport with music.”
Trump not attending
Trump stated he is not going to attend the sport, telling the New York Publish in January that the venue location in Santa Clara, California, was “too far-off”.
Requested in regards to the lineup, with American punk band Inexperienced Day opening the occasion, Trump stated he was “anti-them”.
“I feel it is a horrible selection. All it does is sow hatred. Horrible,” he stated.
Throughout his world tour final yr, Dangerous Bunny didn’t play on the US mainland, saying he feared his followers could be focused by ICE.
“There was the problem of, like, f—ok ICE could possibly be exterior [the concert],” he instructed i-D Journal in September. “And it is one thing that we had been speaking about and really involved about.”
He as an alternative opted for a three-month residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which was estimated to generate $200 million for the native financial system. Tickets had been reserved practically completely for locals over the 31-show run.
Who’s taking part in on the Tremendous Bowl?
The New England Patriots will face the Seattle Seahawks.
The 2 groups competed on the 2015 Tremendous Bowl, which the Patriots received.
The Patriots have received six Tremendous Bowl titles, in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2015, 2017, and 2019. The Seahawks received in 2014 towards the Denver Broncos.
When is the sport?
The Tremendous Bowl will display within the US on Sunday at 3:30pm native time which is Monday morning in Australia.
The sport will likely be at 10:30am on Monday in NSW, the ACT, Victoria, and Tasmania, 10am in South Australia, 9.30am in Queensland and seven.30am in Western Australia.
The Tremendous Bowl will likely be out there to observe free-to-air on Channel 7, and on-line at 7plus.
It will likely be broadcast on Disney+, Foxtel’s ESPN channel, or KAYO.
The halftime present, which often runs for 12 to fifteen minutes, is in the course of the halftime break.
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