The Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language issued a resolution on Thursday highlighting the work of artist Bad Bunny in the global dissemination of the Spanish language.
The institution stressed in a statement that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is currently the most internationally renowned interpreter of popular music and, through his career, has contributed “significantly to the Spanish language reaching a remarkable presence in different corners of the world.
The Academy emphasized that Puerto Rican Spanish is an essential element in the singer’s identity and artistic work.
The resolution also emphasized that Martínez Ocasio’s cultural project has helped “overcome prejudices towards the communicative forms of popular, urban, youthful or in contact with other languages.
“Despite the marked locality of the references and linguistic forms used in his compositions, his message has managed to transcend geographical, national, generational and ideological boundaries,” the Academy said.
In this regard, he indicated that Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican and Antillean voice has reached “a transcontinental resonance, representing America as a whole.
He also praised in the evolution of his artistic proposal a growing commitment to fundamental values such as love, freedom, justice, solidarity and authenticity.
For all these reasons, the Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language “resolves to recognize his contribution to the international diffusion of the Spanish language and to highlight his contribution to the projection of the Spanish of Puerto Rico as a sign of personal and collective identity”.
Bad Bunny continues this Friday, in Buenos Aires, with his ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour”, after having toured countries such as Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile since November.
After Argentina, Bad Bunny’s next stops are Brazil, Australia, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Poland and Italy, before ending on July 22 in Belgium.
His most recent musical production, ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’, a tribute to the culture and music of his native Puerto Rico, has earned him this month the Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year, awarded for the first time to an all-Spanish production.
In addition, his Super Bowl halftime show became the fourth most-watched in history, averaging 128.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen, the company that measures television viewership in the United States.
Bad Bunny claimed in his Super Bowl show that America is the whole continent, not just the United States, reported Agencia EFE, with a display of all the region’s flags, one of the most applauded elements of his show in Latin America and one of the most criticized by the U.S. right, reported Agencia EFE.
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