Everything you need to know about Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show

It’s lone the archetypal week of February, but Bad Bunny is making past yet again.

The Puerto Rican vocalist volition header the Super Bowl halftime amusement Sunday, conscionable a week aft “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” became the archetypal Spanish-language medium to instrumentality location a Grammy for medium of the year.

Bad Bunny volition beryllium the archetypal Latin antheral creator to header the halftime amusement and the archetypal Latin creator to instrumentality connected music’s biggest signifier solo, aft Shakira and Jennifer Lopez teamed up successful 2020.

The performance, archetypal announced successful September, “goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came earlier maine and ran countless yards truthful I could travel successful and people a touchdown,” Bad Bunny, whose existent sanction is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said successful a statement.

“This is for my people, my civilization and our history,” helium said.

Last year, Compton’s Kendrick Lamar became the archetypal rapper to header the Super Bowl alone. He took implicit the halftime stage, bringing retired guests including Samuel L. Jackson and SZA.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Sunday’s performance.

When volition Bad Bunny perform?

The “Nuevayol” vocalist volition instrumentality the signifier aft the game’s 2nd quarter. The crippled volition footwear disconnected astatine 3:30 p.m. Pacific/6:30 p.m. Eastern. That means the halftime amusement volition statesman sometime betwixt 5 and 5:30 p.m.

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots volition spell caput to caput astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara.

Who other is performing astatine the Super Bowl?

Green Day volition footwear disconnected festivities connected Sunday with a peculiar show to observe the Super Bowl’s 60th anniversary.

The stone band, which was formed successful a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, volition execute starting astatine 3 p.m. Pacific/6 p.m. Eastern, the league announced successful January.

“We are ace hyped to unfastened Super Bowl 60 close successful our backyard!” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said successful a connection past month. “We are honored to invited the MVPs who’ve shaped the crippled and unfastened the nighttime for fans each implicit the world. Let’s person fun! Let’s get loud!”

The band, similar Bad Bunny, has been outspoken against President Trump.

Singer-songwriter Charlie Puth volition besides instrumentality the signifier up of kickoff to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The vocalist is known for popular hits similar “Attention” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore” with Selena Gomez.

Brandi Carlile volition sing “America the Beautiful” and Grammy-winning creator Coco Jones volition execute “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” besides earlier the game.

What tin I expect from Bad Bunny’s performance?

Bad Bunny made 1 committedness successful a trailer promoting his Super Bowl performance: “The satellite volition dance.”

The vocalist is seen grooving to his deed “Baile Inolvidable” with radical of each ages successful the trailer, released successful mid-January.

“Débi Tirar Más Fotos” is Bad Bunny’s sixth workplace medium and what helium has called his “most Puerto Rican medium ever.” The album, released conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, embraces rhythms autochthonal to Puerto Rico, similar plena and salsa, and centers the island’s assemblage history.

The medium rapidly roseate to No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 medium chart. Last summer, Bad Bunny hosted a 30-date performance residency successful San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sunday’s amusement volition beryllium the 2nd clip the Puerto Rican vocalist takes the halftime stage, aft appearing with Shakira and Lopez successful 2020.

Bad Bunny’s halftime amusement announcement was met with disapproval from conservatives. President Trump called the determination “absolutely ridiculous.”

The singer, who took location 3 Grammys connected Sunday, has agelong been outspoken against the Trump medication and its attraction of immigrants. He utilized his clip connected signifier to denounce the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids crossed the country.

“I privation to dedicate this grant to each the radical who had to permission their homeland, their country, to travel their dreams,” helium said successful his acceptance code for medium of the year.

When accepting his grant for música urbana album, Bad Bunny’s code earned large applause from the audience: “Before I accidental acknowledgment to God, I’m going to accidental ICE out.”

“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans,” helium said.

Bad Bunny volition beryllium down for a unrecorded interrogation with Apple Music Radio hosts Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden connected Thursday. Apple Music co-head Rachel Newman said Bad Bunny’s upcoming halftime amusement “is a peculiar full-circle infinitesimal for us.”

The amusement “feels similar the culmination of a deep, semipermanent concern that spans astir of the past decade, astatine a clip play successful which he’s everlastingly changed planetary popular music,” she said successful a statement.