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A present to recollect. Rihanna has been set because the 2023 halftime present headliner for Tremendous Bowl LVII.
The performer, 34, introduced the information on Sunday, September 25, with a easy picture by way of Instagram that confirmed what gave the impression to be her tattooed hand holding up an NFL-branded soccer.
The official NFL Instagram account confirmed the information by posting the identical picture with an excited caption: “Let’s GO – @badgalriri @rocnation #SBLVII @applemusic @nflonfox.”
The Instagram account for Bravo’s Watch What Occurs Dwell succinctly summed up many of the instant reactions: “omggggg the fenty bowl is coming.”
Tremendous Bowl LVII is about for February 12, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, at State Farm Stadium.
The information comes simply after rumors that Taylor Swift would quickly be introduced because the halftime present performer. Hypothesis that the “Clean Area” singer, 32, would possibly carry out at TV’s most-watched night time of the yr started when it was introduced Apple Music could be featured because the NFL live performance’s sponsor. The tech firm has taken the position held by Pepsi since 2013, the identical yr that Swift launched her partnership with Coca-Cola, and the partnership was introduced at 12 a.m. ET. Swift is about to launch her album Midnights subsequent month, and Swifties love idea.
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Followers can cease speculating about who will carry out and as a substitute transfer to imagining the present Rihanna would possibly create. Barring any additions to her schedule earlier than then, the Tremendous Bowl 2023 present can be her first main efficiency since giving beginning to her son in Could. She shares the child boy, whose title has not but been introduced, with ASAP Rocky.
The 2022 halftime present performers included Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent. The Weeknd, Coldplay, Woman Gaga and Beyoncé have been among the many headliners lately.
Rihanna’s label and administration firm, Roc Nation, is working with the NFL and Apple on this system. Per the NFL’s official press launch on Sunday, Roc Nation is serving as an government producer of the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present in addition to the “strategic leisure advisor of the stay efficiency.”
Jay-Z, Roc Nation’s founder, sang the “Work” singer’s praises amid the announcement. “Rihanna is a generational expertise, a girl of humble beginnings who has surpassed expectations at each flip,” he stated in an announcement. “An individual born on the small island of Barbados who grew to become one of the crucial outstanding artists ever. Self-made in enterprise and leisure.”