Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida is already finalizing details for the intermission show of the new edition of the Super Bowl, which will take place this Sunday and which is one of the most anticipated shows within the American football sporting event.
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The Weeknd will be in charge of the most anticipated presentation by more than one hundred million viewers, but at the same time the one that has generated the greatest expectation in the face of the new reality of a pandemic that has changed the dynamics of mass shows. But who is The Weeknd, the revolutionary and not without controversy who hopes to make history on the largest television in the United States?
The Canadian singer and producer of African descent who has become the greatest promise of high pop, full of soul and electronics, has the challenge of overcoming the performance of Shakira and Jennifer López last year and at the same time reaffirming its title as an icon of contemporary music that, in fact, he was in Colombia at the 2017 Estéreo Picnic Festival, when he already dominated the charts and showed that he was an efficient craftsman of new rhythms and fusions.
Thousands of him have chanted hits like ‘In the Night’, ‘Earned It’ or ‘Can´t Feel My Face’ and recently the fans and Music experts have felt a reinvention of the artist thanks to his album ‘After Hours’ that exploded in 2020 and that spoke of excesses and pain. Something totally opposite to ‘Starboy’, from 2016, which he explored in other feelings.
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De After Hours sonaron canciones como ‘Heartless’, ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘In Your Eyes’ y ‘Save Your Tears’, but the artist also raised his voice and was the protagonist of some controversies.
One of the most famous was when he protested against the Grammy nominations, when he learned that he was not nominated in any category at those awards “The Grammys are still corrupt. They owe transparency to me, my fans and the industry … “, the artist tweeted.
And only at the beginning of this year did he shock his fans when he saw how his face had changed in the video clip ‘Save your tears’. In August 2020 Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (real name of the artist) performed at the MTV Video Music Awards with a ‘bloody’ face, singing ‘Blinding Lights’ and he repeated at the American Music Awards, he repeated on stage, but with his face bandaged, making it clear that more changes would soon be seen.
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The Weeknd at an American Music Awards presentation.
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But now his fans do not want to remember that ‘mutation’ or a difficult youth before becoming a star, but rather They hope that the Super Bowl show will actually make history or, at least generate the amazement that many are already used to. every time the artist is seen.
And the 30-year-old pop star seems not to disappoint them, since he has promised a different show, in the intermission of the sports battle of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but with a musical and plot arc for all the family.
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“It will be a very cohesive story that I have told throughout this era and this year.”The Weeknd said. “But I will definitely keep it for the general public, for families.”
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