When Unhealthy Bunny was introduced because the headliner of the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime present, he made a promise: ‘The world will dance.’
The Puerto Rican celebrity actually delivered on that pledge along with his scorching present at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. However it wasn’t simply hits like ‘Tití Me Preguntó’, visitor appearances from Girl Gaga and Ricky Martin, and the musician’s signature hip thrusts that despatched the group wild — the multi-faceted stage design allowed Unhealthy Bunny create a strong portrait of Latinx tradition.
Unhealthy Bunny danced atop a shiny pink casita
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Bunches of crops fashioned the perimeter of the on-field efficiency space, a easy transfer that helped outline vignettes .
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That was evident from the primary moments of the efficiency, which started with the phrases: Que rico ser latino — how pretty it’s to be Latino. From there, Unhealthy Bunny wandered via a maze-like sugarcane discipline that had been erected, encountering scenes of Latin American life alongside the best way, from grandfathers enjoying dominos to a vendor promoting piraguas, a conventional Puerto Rican shaved ice deal with.
The artist fell off a miniature streetscape that resembled New York
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The sector contained a collection of buildings that hosted vignettes throughout the present, notably, a shiny pink casita through which Unhealthy Bunny fairly actually crashed a home celebration; a brick terrace flanked with parapets harking back to 18th-century castillos in San Juan; a mini New York streetscape that felt plucked from Washington Heights; and a lush grove that hosted a banana tree, a pair of white monobloc chairs (which grace the Grammy-winning album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos) and Ricky Martin.
Ricky Martin carried out alongside two plastic monoblock chairs.
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The present was conceptualised by artistic director Harriet Cuddeford of See You Later, a Los Angeles-based studio that’s collaborated with Unhealthy Bunny on units together with performances on the iHeart Music Awards and on Saturday Evening Reside. The units, in the meantime, had been dealt with by New York and London-based manufacturing design firm Yellow Studio.
‘I simply need folks to have enjoyable. It’s gonna be an enormous celebration,’ Unhealthy Bunny stated throughout a pre-show press convention hosted by Apple Music. ‘I wish to convey that to the stage, loads of my tradition.’
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Whereas it wasn’t Unhealthy Bunny’s first Tremendous Bowl look (he confirmed up alongside Shakira and Jennifer Lopez in 2020) his efficiency was a historic one: it was the primary Tremendous Bowl halftime present to be carried out solely in Spanish.
It additionally supplied a counterpoint to immigration crackdowns sweeping america, which Unhealthy Bunny has publicly condemned. That was mirrored within the halftime present’s finale, when, amid an explosion of fireworks and a swirl of flags from throughout Latin America, a Jumbotron projected a easy message: ‘The one factor extra highly effective than hate is love.’
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