After coming back to music following a three-year retirement, Latino artist Daddy Yankee is singing a different tune. He recently expressed a “total dependency on God” and continues to live out his “new story.” With the upcoming Super Bowl having Bad Bunny as its first Latino headliner, fans are wondering if Daddy Yankee will be invited to perform.
“It’s very important for the Spanish-speaking community, the Latinos, that for the first time someone is going to sing in Spanish,” Daddy Yankee told Rocsi Diaz of ABC News Live. “That’s beautiful.”
Daddy Yankee Commited To ‘Represent’ His Faith—Even To Turn Down Super Bowl Invite
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny) will be the first male Latin American artist to serve as the headliner for the Super Bowl. This show, as part of the 60th Super Bowl, will be played in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 8, 2026.
With such an important step for Latino artists and the Latin American community, it’s expected for the headliner to also invite performers from the same culture.
Rocsi Diaz, a reporter for ABC News Live asked Daddy Yankee how he would respond if asked to join Bad Bunny on stage. Diaz asked specifically about Daddy Yankee’s hit “Gasolina.” As he laughed, Daddy Yankee simply answered, “No. Not right now.”
“I’m on a different mission right now,” he explained. “But, even though I respect what he’s doing right now, don’t get me wrong.” Daddy Yankee went on to affirm the talent of the Puerto Rico native.
“I wish you the best,” Daddy Yankee told Bad Bunny in an earlier conversation. “Go out there, and do your best. And, we’re proud of you!”
Daddy Yankee said, “I gotta represent what I’m doing right now.”
He then went on to provide one way he might entertain the invitation to perform at the Super Bowl. “If he asked me to sing ‘Sonriele,’ that’s different,” reasoned Daddy Yankee.
“Okay. Let’s do ‘Sonriele’ for the rest of the world,” Daddy Yankee imagined. “I’m gonna send a message. I would love to do it.”
“Sonriele” is Spanish for “Daddy,” and reflects Daddy Yankee’s relationship with God. While “Sonriele” was written and is sung in Spanish, the lyrics, translated to English, include these words:
Smile at life (Smile!)
Let joy heal your soul (Ay, papa, haha)
Give thanks to the One above for waking up today
So the bad can leave (Out, out), can leave
Smile at life, yeah, yeah
Let joy heal your soul (Givе me a smile, give it to mе)
Give thanks to the One above for waking up today
So the bad can leave (Out), can leave (Out, out)
I’m walking with the Nazarene-rene-rene (Jesus)
Thanks for the good and for what’s not so good, good (Thank you)
Immune to the poison (You know it), now I move with no brakes (You know)
With new gasoline, my tank is full (Keep it going!)
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