It’s a touchdown for Jennifer Lopez& Shakira fans…
The 50-year-old Puerto Rican superstar, fresh off the success of Hustlers, and the 42-year-old Colombian Grammy-winning singer will headline the halftime show at next year’s Super Bowl LIV.
J.Lo and Shakira revealed the news along with the NFL on social media Thursday.
The NFL’s annual championship game is set for February 2, 2020 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The game, which airs this year on Fox, drew 98.2 million total viewers to CBS last year, which was down from 2018.
Still, the Super Bowl is the highest-profile television event in the U.S. by miles.
The halftime show hails from the league and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, which recently signed a broad deal for the company to oversee the NFL’s entertainment auspices. Pepsi is the presenting sponsor.
Last year, Maroon 5 and Adam Levine did the honors at the halftime show. The last female headliner was Lady Gaga in 2017.
Lopez had been rumored for a spot in the halftime show for a while, but had remained coy about it during recent interviews to promote Hustlers, theSTX Entertainment stripper drama that grossed an STX-record $31.2 million in its opening weekend earlier this month. The film has grossed $77.5 million worldwide as of the middle of the week.
“Ever since I saw Diana Ross fly off into the sky at the halftime show, I dreamed of performing at the Super Bowl,” Lopez said in a story on NFL.com confirming today’s news. “And now it’s made even more special not only because it’s the NFL’s 100th anniversary, but also because I am performing with a fellow Latina. I can’t wait to show what us girls can do on the world’s biggest stage.”
Shakira has won three Grammys and 11 Latin Grammys, and is the only South American artist to have a No. 1 song in the U.S.
Previously, the only Latin performers to take the Super Bowl halftime stage are Gloria Estefan (in 1992 and 1999 and as part of Miami Sound Machine in 1995) and Enrique Iglesias alongside a slew of other artists in 2000.
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