Key Highlights
- The Grammy-award winning rapper stopped at various vendors, including a coco frio stand, a nail tech and a piragua stand before making his way to a Villa’s Tacos stand.‘Made me feel proudly American’: stars react to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show Read moreVictor Villas, the store’s owner, is a first-generation Mexican-American immigrant who first started selling tacos from his grandmother’s front yard eight years ago.
- Today, the store has three locations in the city, including one in Los Angeles’s historic Grand Central Market. In an Instagram post, Villas thanked Bad Bunny, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, for “hand selecting me and giving me an opportunity to represent my people, my culture, my family, and my business”. He also acknowledged the significance of Bad Bunny’s historic performance during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns: “I couldn’t have sold that first taco if my parents didn’t make the difficult decision to leave their homeland for a better life and immigrate to the U. S.,” he wrote.
- “This one is for all the immigrants who paved the way before us to make this moment possible.”As for how the performance came to be, Villas told a local ABC affiliate that Bad Bunny was just a fan of the restaurant, loves their tacos and asked the business to join him for the Super Bowl. Karen Bass, LA’s mayor, also took to Instagram to applaud Bad Bunny’s performance and the inclusion of Villa’s Tacos.
- “We are a city of immigrants.
- Seeing @villastacoslosangeles on the Super Bowl stage was a proud moment for our city.”Bad Bunny, who made history as the first Spanish-language Latin solo artist to headline the Super Bowl, exalted the role of diversity and multiculturalism in the US, shouting “God bless America,” before shouting a list of countries and territories in the Americas.
