:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JO23VXYGSFDLFLIO23HCX2MOPA.jpg "The reason Rihanna didn't agree to halftime at the 2019 Super Bowl 1")
This year Rihanna will for the first time be the main star of the superbowl for the motivation he has found in his life, but this is not the first time he has been guest participate. In 2019, the singer rejection the offer to headline to show despite the fact that it is one of the most important events in the United States.
The reason for the interpreter’s refusal Diamonds dates back to 2016, when different protests were taking place in the United States to make visible the police violence and racial inequality.
Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the san francisco 49ersjoined these acts and knelt during the national anthem at the pre-game ceremony.
The first time he didn’t sing the anthem, he was sitting down. Then, on September 1, 2016, he got down on one knee. This protest earned him boos by the public, but he remained firm in his position.
“I’m not going to get up to show pride in a flag of a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said.
This gesture was so controversial that many people, from the public to politicians and businessmen, showed their anger and disapproved of the act. This led then-US President Donald Trump to recommend that NFL team owners evict players who repeated the protest.
This is how Kaepernick got banned of the San Francisco 49ers.
In 2018, Rihanna received an invitation from the NFL to appear at halftime at the Super Bowl III and rejected it. Rumors about it circulated for a while until she confirmed it and in an interview with the magazine vogue points out that he did solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and join the protests.
“I couldn’t dare to do that. For what ? Who wins with this? Not my people. It just couldn’t be a sale. I couldn’t be an animator. There are things within this organization that I completely disagree with, and I was not willing to go and serve them in any way.”
Now that the Barbadian has agreed to be at the Super Bowl halftime, motivated by the birth of her son, she announced at a press conference that in her to show will showcase your West Indian culture.
Asked about the last invitation, she specifies that she made the decision to accept precisely represent their cultureblack women, migrants and their country.
“That’s one of the reasons it’s so important to me to do this show: representation; representation of migrants, representation of my country, Barbados, and representation of black women in the world“, he says, recovered by ECE.
She also shared that it is necessary for her for her son to see these types of events that he can relate to. It should be mentioned that the interpreter of Umbrella She pointed out that since becoming a mother, she felt she could do anything, which is why she accepted this challenge.
Rihanna hasn’t appeared on stage in over six years and, despite the fear and insecurity she felt at the proposal to be at such an important event, I agree by his son.
“So, as scared as it may be, because I hadn’t been on stage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about this whole challenge. It’s important for me to do it this year. It’s important for the representation, it’s important for my son to see it”
To carry out the Super Bowl LVII halftime show, between 300 and 400 workers will be needed at the same time to set up the stage, coordinate the whole event, dismantle the structure and leave the ground clean, the all in just half an hour.