Shakira is all in for the Dangerous Bunny Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency, regardless of ongoing public efforts to switch the Puerto Rican singer with one other artist.
In an interview with Selection, the Colombian celebrity voiced help for Dangerous Bunny, who is about to carry out on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
“It’s about time!” she stated.
In 2020, Dangerous Bunny joined Shakira and Jennifer Lopez on stage throughout their halftime efficiency, which marked the primary all-Latine present in Tremendous Bowl historical past — J Balvin was additionally featured.
“I bear 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 once I began,” stated Shakira, who in the course of the interview mirrored on the latest anniversaries of her critically-acclaimed Spanish album “Pies Descalzos” (launched in 1995) in addition to “Oral Fixation (Vol 1 and a couple of)” (each launched in 2005).
“I hope and wish to suppose that every one the occasions 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,” Shakira added.
The information that Dangerous Bunny would headline the most important American sporting occasion has been met with some pushback from conservative figures, together with President Trump, who labeled the choice as “loopy” and “completely ridiculous” in an interview with Newsmax earlier this month.
One floating petition on Change.org, which has acquired over 54,000 signatures, referred to as for Dangerous Bunny to get replaced by Texas singer George Strait as a method to “honor American tradition.”
The late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Level USA additionally introduced another halftime present titled, “The All American Halftime Present,” although the conservative group has not but introduced artists.
Claims that Dangerous Bunny is just not an American artist are factually incorrect: Puerto Rico is an unincorporated U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are due to this fact Americans. Previous Tremendous Bowl halftime exhibits have additionally featured non-American acts, together with the Rolling Stones, U2, Rihanna, Shania Twain and Coldplay, to call a number of.
Regardless of the anti-Dangerous Bunny buzz, Shakira doubled down on her help of the singer.
“And I’m so proud that Dangerous Bunny, who represents not solely Latin tradition but in addition how necessary Spanish-language music has turn out to be on a worldwide scale and the way common it has turn out to be, is attending to carry out on the largest stage on this planet,” she stated.
“It’s the right second for a efficiency like this. I can’t wait to observe it.”
