Bad Bunny to head the mid -time show of the Super Bowl 2026: What to know about the Puerto Rican superstar

Bad Bunny has been announced as the holder for the mid -time show of the 2026 Super Bowl.

The NFL revealed on Sunday that the 31 -year -old Puerto Rican rapper will act in the game, which will be held in Santa Clara, California, on February 8, 2026.

Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, confirmed that he had caught the coveted space on an Instagram reel. It opens closely with Martínez, before eventually approaching to see him sitting casually in a goal post.

“What I feel goes beyond me. It is for those who came before me and ran innumerable yards so that it could enter and score a touchdown,” Martínez said in a statement. “This is for my people, my culture and our history. Go and tell your grandmother, that we will be the Maltime Show of the Super Bowl.”

Like the poster head last year, the Grammy -winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, Martínez, has been called by some as a controversial election due to his criticisms of President Trump and American immigration policies. Nor will it be the first time Martínez appears at the Super Bowl. In 2020, he joined companions superstars of Latin music and head head Shakira and Jennifer López during the part -time show.

Just out of a two -month Puerto Rican residence, I don’t want to go from hereMartínez is also ready to get on stage as host of Saturday Night Live Season 51 Premiere on October 4.

This is what you need to know about Bad Bunny.

It is a pioneer for Spanish rap

Martínez has been attributed to helping Spanish rap in Spanish to achieve generalized popularity. He obtained traction as a rapper in 2016 with the launch of his song “I am worse”, before appearing in the single No. 1 of Billboard Hot 100 of Cardi B, “I Like IT”, in 2018. The third solo album of Martínez, 2020’s 2020 The last tour of the worldHe made history as the first Almighty Language Registry in heading the Billboard 200 list.

Martínez has continued to push rap in Spanish in the mainstream. A summer without youHis fourth solo album was the best -selling record of 2022 and made history as the first Spanish album to be nominated for the album of the year in the Grammys. (It was also the first album of a Latin artist to have 10 billion transmissions in Spotify.) Martínez’s follow -up albums, 2023 That will happen tomorrow and 2025 I had to throw more photos, Each one has taken the number 1 place in the Billboard 200 as well.

That Martínez is mainly done in Spanish is one of the reasons why some conservative public figures criticize the NFL decision to head the Super Bowl’s part -time show next year.

But the rapper-Singer, who was the most transmitted artist of Spotify from 2020 to 2022, remains without criticism problems.

“It’s just that I feel more comfortable in my own language … I think in Spanish, I feel in Spanish, as in Spanish, singing in Spanish,” Martínez told Vanity Fair in 2023, before addressing if I would ever sing in English: “I will never do it just because someone says I need to do it to get to an audience.”

He is proud of his Puerto Rican heritage

Martínez’s Puerto Rican pride is deep. The rapper “Púa wire” was born in Bayamón and grew up in the northern part of Puerto Rico, specifically in Vega Baja. Your last LP, I had to throw more photosReleased in January, it serves as a love letter to its Puerto Rican education and culture as a whole. He recorded the album completely on the island and collaborated exclusively with local musicians.

As he told Vogue in May, I had to throw more photos It is “an album where you will lose a love but also a place.” And the 14th song of the album, “what happened to Hawaii”, which refers to Hawaii’s colonial history, is the way to warn Puerto Ricans of the negative consequences of US colonization, and the impulse to preserve their culture and identity.

The residence of Puerto Rico of 31 recently completed dates of Martínez was another way in which he has returned to the place he calls home. In addition to breaking records in sales and assistance, I don’t want to go from here It generated an estimated $ 733 million for Puerto Rico, according to Associated Press through Gaither International data.

“I’ve always had the same passion (and) love for what I am doing,” Martínez said on stage during his September 20 show. “I promise that I will never change. I love you, Puerto Rico … No matter what your problem or problem, love will always be the solution.”

He is also an actor

When the stage is not illuminating, Martínez appears on large and small screens. In the last four years, the rapper “new F9, 2022 Bullet train and 2023 Cassandroand even appearing like himself in a handful of WWE events.

Martínez, who was also in a high profile relationship with the Kendall Jenner model for less than a year, appeared more recently in Happy Gilmore 2 Together with Adam Sandler and Trapped stealing Next to Austin Butler.

“When I’m acting in the stadium, everyone looks at me. When you’re on a movie set, it’s very personal,” Martínez told NBC’s Today Show in August. “It’s like me and actors. You know there is a camera, but sometimes you forget. I think it’s when you really enter paper and enter the scene and enter history.”

He is politically open

Martínez has long used its platform to highlight Puerto Rican people and adopt a position against Trump. Decided to exclude the United States from his next “I had to throw more photos World Tour ”due to the ongoing immigration raids and the mass deportations of the Trump administration.

The 57-Show Tour, which sold a record of 2.6 million tickets in just one week, will visit a series of countries, including Sweden, Poland, Italy and Japan. Martínez recently told ID magazine that he chose not to visit the United States because he feared that Ice would point to his fans.

“There were many reasons why I did not appear in the United States, and none of them was for hate, I have acted there many times. All (the shows) have succeeded. Everyone has been magnificent,” he said. “Latinos and Puerto Ricans from the United States could also travel here (to Puerto Rico), or any part of the world. But there was the question of, like, Ice, I could be outside (my concert). And it is something we were talking about and very worried.”