Ricky Martin’s Unexpected Super Bowl Pay Leaks After His Surprise Appearance at Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show
Ricky Martin took us all by surprise by supporting Bad Bunny on stage during the latter’s Super Bowl Halftime performance. The Puerto Rican singer stunned the audience when he sang a portion of “LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii” in the iconic Debir Tirar Mas Fotos plastic chairs featured on the album cover.
How much did Ricky Martin get paid for the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl performers aren’t paid for their appearances on Football’s biggest night. NFL’s vice president of communications, Brian McCarthy, did clarify to Newsweek that they do get paid on a union scale. “The NFL covers all costs associated with the show and does pay the performers’ union scale. There is not an appearance fee, but the artists are indeed paid union scale,” he said. The union scale is the minimum amount that bosses have to pay performers. It’s estimated that it’s “a fraction of the six- and seven-figure sums” the artists typically earn, according to Forbes.
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Super Bowl LX marked the first time Ricky Martin performed during the Halftime show. His segment was separate from Lady Gaga’s and the plethora of celebrities who partied in “La Casita” such as Cardi B, Pedro Pascal, and Karol G.
The two have collaborated on the 2018 song “Caro” as well as Martin’s 2019 single “Cántalo.”
Just a week before the Super Bowl, the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer wrote an emotional post about celebrating Bad Bunny’s historic Grammy wins. “Benito, brother, seeing you win three Grammy Awards, one of them for album of the year with a production entirely in Spanish, touched me deeply. Not only as an artist, but as a Puerto Rican who has walked stages around the world carrying his language, his accent, and his story,” Martin wrote in Spanish in his letter published by El Nuevo Día.
“I know what it means to succeed without letting go of where you come from. I know how heavy it is, what it costs, and what is sacrificed when you decide not to change because others ask you to. That’s why what you have achieved is not just a historic musical accomplishment, it’s a cultural and human victory,” he continued.
“You won without changing the color of your voice. You won without erasing your roots,” added Martin. “You won by staying true to Puerto Rico.”
After the performance, Martin posted the recap on his Instagram. “They have to give me several hours to let me understand the tsunami of emotions I am feeling,” he wrote in Spanish. He also expressed his thanks to Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music.
