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 most important 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 – instructed Selection: “It’s about time!
“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.
“I hope and wish to assume 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.
“And I’m so proud that Unhealthy Bunny, who represents not solely Latin tradition but in addition how necessary Spanish language music has turn into on a worldwide scale and the way common it has turn into, is attending to carry out on the most important stage on this planet.
“It’s the proper second for a efficiency like this. I can’t wait to observe it.”
In the meantime, Unhealthy Bunny just lately instructed his critics that they’ve 4 months to study Spanish earlier than his Tremendous Bowl efficiency.
In his monologue on Saturday Night time Stay, he stated: “I am actually excited to be doing the Tremendous Bowl, I do know that individuals all world wide who love my music are additionally blissful.”
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 – stated in Spanish: “Particularly the entire 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 be capable to take away or erase it.”
