US EditionBad Bunny Brought Puerto Rico's Culture to Super Bowl Show
Bad Bunny’s all-Spanish 13-minute halftime show highlighted Puerto Rican culture, colonial history, and ongoing power outages, reaching a global audience of millions at Super Bowl 60.
- Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known professionally as Bad Bunny, performed an all-Spanish, roughly 13-minute Super Bowl LX halftime set at Levi's Stadium, highlighting Puerto Rican culture through staged vignettes on Feb. 8, 2026.
- Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio said he aimed to highlight Puerto Rico's culture and resilience, referencing Hurricane Maria and blackouts during the performance, which also called for cultural autonomy through imagery and song choices.
- The staging included musical callbacks, a Lady Gaga wedding cameo, Los Sobrinos playing, and a close with 'DtMF' as Bad Bunny exited with traditional instruments.
- Local watch parties like La Bruquena in Chicago's Humboldt Park celebrated Bad Bunny’s performance, which amplified Puerto Rican culture and was framed as a landmark for Latinos, with attendees cheering and watching together.
- Following his Grammy album-of-the-year win last week and recent remarks, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio's Super Bowl show highlighted Puerto Rican culture and included an `ICE out` comment, reflecting his political stance.
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Bad Bunny puts Puerto Rico on big stage during halftime
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Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – American rap star Benito “Bad Bunny” Antonio Martínez, who busts rhymes in Puerto Rican Spanish, caused waves when he was chosen to headline the Superbowl LX Halftime show. According to internet memes, at least, some people complained about not having an “American” headliner, apparently unaware that Puerto Ricans gained US citizenship in 1917. The thrust of his performance, entirely in Spanish, was to make the poin…
Some fans were settling in to watch the Seattle Seahawks play the New England Patriots, but others were tuning in to watch Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny take the Super Bowl stage for the halftime show. Bad Bunny headlined Sunday's performance, which some fans dubbed the "Benito Bowl." The 31-year-old, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is the first Spanish-speaking solo artist to headline a halftime show. Find more news on our…
Bad Bunny Super Bowl watch party in Humboldt Park
Members of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community watch Bad Bunny perform during the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026. From a small Caribbean island with a complicated colonial history, to the world: The artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio brought Puerto Rican culture to the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for his 2026 […]
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show Was a Love Letter to Puerto Rico, the Americas and the Latino Diaspora
Like a 19th-century sugar cane plantation brought to life, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show staged a visually rich jíbaro vision of Puerto Rico—the foundational cultural figure representing the island’s self-sufficient, hardworking mountain farmers—in Santa Clara, Calif., a region long shaped by Spanish colonization and U.S. expansion, on land where Ohlone (specifically Tamien/Tamyen) people lived alongside coastal Miwuk, Patwin and Yokut co…
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