Pope Leo
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Singer Bad Bunny, who is in Madrid for a series of ten concerts scheduled to end on June 15, “was with his family and a few other people,” the Vatican said, adding that the pope “greeted them briefly before leaving the stadium.”
Coincidentally, the Pope and Bad Bunny were in the Spanish capital at the same time, a coincidence which made Leo XIV say on board his plane en route to Madrid that the young people could hesitate between the two of them.
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“If they’re faced with the question of whether they want to see Bad Bunny or whether they want to see the Pope, I think a lot of people will go see Bad Bunny. But I also think that there will be some who will come to see the Pope. And that means something,” he said.
The 32-year-old artist, who performed during the halftime show of the Super Bowl (the final of the American football championship), propelled reggaeton and Latin trap to the top of world pop.
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His opus “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos” places great emphasis on the traditional rhythms of Puerto Rico and evokes the colonization of his native island, under the jurisdiction of the United States since 1898, by delivering a socio-political message in a resolutely danceable form.
In addition to Spain, Bad Bunny will perform in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Poland and Italy before finishing his European tour in Brussels, Belgium, on July 22.
In front of 80,000 people, the pope was treated Monday evening to performances of singing priests and dancers pretending to play football, and responded – arousing the fervor of the crowd – by saying that the Spanish Church had “scored a truly spectacular goal” by organizing this gathering.
