Overview

• Luis Fernández of Telemundo singled out Bad Bunny as “the Hispanic who most defends Spanish” during a panel at the X Congreso de la Lengua in Arequipa.
• Fernández said Bad Bunny will headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime in San Francisco and will perform in Spanish.
• Bad Bunny recently opened Saturday Night Live in Spanish and told U.S. viewers they had five months to learn the language ahead of his halftime show.
• Francisco Javier Pueyo reported more than 58 million Spanish speakers in the U.S., about 17% of the population, and described the language’s status as one of “extreme vulnerability” under President Trump.
• Panelists warned about intergenerational loss of Spanish and recommended expanding bilingual education programs, while Live Nation said Bad Bunny’s Spain residencies sold over 600,000 tickets in under 24 hours and the artist has cited ICE raid concerns for not touring the U.S.