Rihanna will take heart stage at February’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
The singer, who declined to carry out within the 2019 Tremendous Bowl halftime present out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, will headline the 2023 Tremendous Bowl, the NFL introduced Sunday together with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and Apple Music. Rihanna posted a picture on Instagram of an arm outstretched holding an NFL soccer.
“Rihanna is a generational expertise, a lady of humble beginnings who has surpassed expectations at each flip,” stated Jay-Z, whose Roc Nation is an govt producer of the present, in an announcement. “An individual born on the small island of Barbados who grew to become probably the most outstanding artists ever. Self-made in enterprise and leisure.”
The Tremendous Bowl will happen at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 12. After years of Pepsi’s sponsorship, the upcoming halftime present shall be sponsored by Apple Music.
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Rihanna earlier stated she turned down an identical alternative for the 2019 Tremendous Bowl that was in the end headlined by Maroon 5. On the time, many artists voiced help for Kaepernick, the previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback who protested police brutality in opposition to Black individuals and minorities by kneeling through the nationwide anthem in 2016.
“I couldn’t dare do this. For what?” Rihanna instructed Vogue in 2019.
“Who positive aspects from that? Not my individuals. I simply couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s issues inside that group that I don’t agree with in any respect, and I used to be not about to go and be of service to them in any manner,” she stated of the league.
Kaepernick accused the NFL of colluding to maintain him out of the league in a case that was ultimately settled in early 2019.
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In 2019, the NFL partnered with Roc Nation (which manages Rihanna) to assist decide performers for the Tremendous Bowl and strategize on the halftime present. The extensively acclaimed 2022 halftime present featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige.
With gross sales of greater than 250 million data worldwide, Rihanna ranks as one of many best-selling feminine artists ever. Her final album was 2016′s Anti. Rihanna final carried out publicly on the Grammy Awards in 2018.
Within the years since, Rihanna has sometimes teased her music return. Earlier this yr, she had her first little one with the rapper ASAP Rocky.
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