LOS ANGELES — It’s only the first week of February, but Bad Bunny is making history yet again.

The Puerto Rican singer will headline the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, just a week after “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” became the first Spanish-language album to take home a Grammy for album of the year.

Bad Bunny will be the first Latin male artist to headline the halftime show and the first Latin artist to take on music’s biggest stage solo, after Shakira and Jennifer Lopez teamed up in 2020.

The performance, first announced in September, “goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown,” Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said in a statement.

“This is for my people, my culture and our history,” he said.

The “Nuevayol” singer will take the stage after the game’s second quarter. The game will kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET. That means the halftime show will begin sometime between 8 and 8:30 p.m.

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots will go head to head at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Green Day will kick off festivities on Sunday with a special performance to celebrate the Super Bowl’s 60th anniversary.
The rock band will perform starting at 6 p.m., the league announced in January.

“We are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard!” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a statement last month. “We are honored to welcome the MVPs who’ve shaped the game and open the night for fans all over the world. Let’s have fun! Let’s get loud!”

Singer-songwriter Charlie Puth will also take the stage ahead of kickoff to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The singer is known for pop hits like “Attention” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore” with Selena Gomez.

Brandi Carlile will sing “America the Beautiful” and Grammy-winning artist Coco Jones will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also before the game.

Bad Bunny made one promise in a trailer promoting his Super Bowl performance: “The world will dance.”

Tribune News Service