Meet Bad Bunny: The Super Bowl headliner who used to work at a grocery store. The son of a truck driver and English teacher turned SoundCloud superstar
It is official: Bad Bunny will top the Super Bowl LX Halftime show on February 6, 2026.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez OCASIO, was famous for hitting “I like it” with Cardi B and J Balvin, and “Dakiti”, which is the song 2020 with more than two billion Spotify, and “Tití Me Preguntó”, which is the five best paths in Spotify in 2022.
“What I feel goes beyond myself,” Badi Bonnie said in a statement to the American Football Association, as he praised the Latin music that has never had the opportunity, as announced in “Sunday Night Football” by Apple Music. “For those who came in front of me and ran an endless arenas so that I can enter and record a decline … This is my popularity, my parts and our history.”
How did a bad builder rise to fame
Although Bad Bunny is worth about $ 50 million, it is also considered one of the most influential Latin artists in his generation, a distinctive type of rap music with a deep sound, it came from modest beginnings. Some even call it a “king of Latin trap”.
He grew up in the Miranit neighborhood in Vega Baja, Portorico, and grew up in a lower middle -class family; His father was a truck driver and his mother was an English teacher. He grew up as they went to the Catholic Church, where he sang in the choir until he was 13 years old.
As a university student at the University of Portorico in Archibo, he worked in the supermarket in Vega Baja, and at his time he started sharing his music on Soundcloud, the world’s largest audio platform for independent artists to download, promote and share music. (Other major artists such as Chance The Rapper, Post Malone and Billie Eilish began in Soundcloud.)
In 2016, the song Bad Bunny “Diles” started with hundreds of millions of tables, and the producers soon were calling. In fact, he had to take their calls while working in the grocery store. (Now, “Diles” collected more than a billion current.) Bad Bunny fell with Rimas Entertainment, run by Noah Al -Assad, the product that supports and enhances Latin talent. Until Bad Bunny won the ASSAD presentation with the Billboard Executive of the Year Award in 2023.
“We are from the same place. We are from a very small island in the Caribbean Sea region, Puerto Rico,” said Bad Bunny during the presentation letter, the first sheet of fully presented in English. “We have a huge musical culture. We have a beautiful music history and I am very proud to spread to the world our music and culture, together.”
Bad Bunny’s reputation was growing more than ever in the years before Super Bowl. He is also an actor now, where he recently appeared in Darren Arenovsky Theft caught the theftAnd it was part of the procession of all the stars who performed the performance of the fifty anniversary Saturday night Live, When he led the large traditional Salisa, he praised the greatest Latin music in the 1970s and eighties.
Bad Bunny’s deep connection with Puerto Rico
After earning his fame and wealth, Bad Bunny is still involved deeply and communicated with Puerto Rico.
He addresses his latest album, “Debi Tiar Más Fotos”, social issues that affect Puerto Rico such as improvement, extra tourism, economic conflicts, tensions between the local population and visitors.
He also launched a 10 -week show in San Juan, entitled “No Me Quiero Ir De Aquí”, which translates into “I don’t want to leave here”, which also highlights local talents, craftsmen and non -profit organizations that focus on sustainability and preservation. The residency was $ 400 million to Puerto Rico’s economy, according to Wales Fargo estimates.
“The fact that he decided to do this in Puerto Rico, that you have a stay in Puerto Rico, something that has not been done before, showing the care and love he feels for the island,” said Gabriel Asifido for the opening time on July 11.
Bad Bunny was also frank about the political situation of Puerto Rico and the facts of the living, and supported a loud voice of the island and sovereignty.
“I know that there are many people from outside the island who do not know the basic things about our country,” he said. Hook Magazine in an interview in February. “When tourists visit Puerto Rico, they see the best tourist attractions, dance, and food. They leave, do not discover, or deal with the problems that the country suffers.”
Bad Bunny is very dedicated to Portorico and Latin culture, in fact, he decided to leave the United States outside its 2025-2026 tour due to concerns about agents in the United States for Immigration and Customs (ICE) in concerts.
“People from the United States can come here to see the show. Latinists and Puerto Rican can travel in the United States here, or to any part of the world,” ID recently told ID. “There were many reasons why I did not attend in the United States, and none of them was out of hatred.”
“I have performed [in the U.S.] He added: “I often enjoyed communication with the Latinians who live in the United States.”
2025-09-29 15:26:00
