Shakira feels “proud” of Unhealthy Bunny for performing the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present.
Unhealthy Bunny will carry out the subsequent Halftime Present
The 48-year-old singer loves that the Puerto Rican rapper is “attending to carry out on the largest stage on this planet” on the Tremendous Bowl in February.
Shakira – who carried out with Unhealthy Bunny throughout her personal Halftime Present again in 2020 – informed Selection: “It’s about time!
“I keep in mind after we did ours that even having a part of our set in Spanish was a daring transfer … Acceptance of Spanish-language music as a part of the mainstream has come so removed from after I began.
“I hope and wish to suppose that every one the instances my music was met with resistance or puzzlement from the English-speaking world earlier than it was embraced, helped forge the trail to the place we are actually.
“And I’m so proud that Unhealthy Bunny, who represents not solely Latin tradition but in addition how vital Spanish language music has develop into on a world scale and the way common it has develop into, is attending to carry out on the largest stage on this planet.
“It’s the right second for a efficiency like this. I can’t wait to observe it.”
In the meantime, Unhealthy Bunny just lately informed his critics that they’ve 4 months to be taught Spanish earlier than his Tremendous Bowl efficiency.
In his monologue on Saturday Night time Reside, he mentioned: “I am actually excited to be doing the Tremendous Bowl, I do know that individuals all world wide who love my music are additionally pleased.”
The Dakiti rapper then switched to his native language for 30 seconds, earlier than firing a message to his detractors.
Unhealthy Bunny – whose actual identify is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – mentioned in Spanish: “Particularly all the Latinos and Latinas on this planet right here in america who’ve labored to open doorways. It is greater than a win for myself, it is a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contribution on this nation, nobody will ever have the ability to take away or erase it.”
