Rihanna Says There’s No Better Time To Get Back On Stage Than The Super Bowl

Rihanna, 34, who has not performed since 2016, when she released “Anti”, scheduled for this Sunday (12) her return to the stage. The singer performs tonight at halftime of the Super Bowl, American football league, scheduled to start at 8:30 pm.

She said that when she received the invitation, she was in doubt, especially since she had become a mother a few months ago, and also because she had not been on stage for seven years. But it was precisely thinking about her son that the singer decided to accept the proposal.

“It feels like it could only have been now. When I got the call to do this, I thought, ‘Are you sure? It’s been three months since I had my baby should I make important decisions like this now? Like, I might regret this,'” she recalled. , at a press conference for the US press last week.

“As daunting as it was because I haven’t been onstage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. And it’s important for me to do that this year. It’s important for representation and it’s important for my son to see that. “, he completed. Rihanna further stated that after becoming a mother, she felt that she could conquer anything.

“But when you become a mother, something happens where you feel like you can conquer the world, you can do anything. And the Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world,” she explained.

The “Work” interpreter said she worked for months on the presentation and that the hardest part during the period was restricting the songs to 13 minutes. And she commented that she was so focused on rehearsals that she forgot her own birthday — February 20th.

“We’ve been working on this for a while. That was the hardest part, deciding how to maximize 13 minutes. But this show is going to be a celebration.”