• Rihanna made her return to the Super Bowl 2023 halftime show.
• Rihanna confirms her 2nd pregnancy after performance.
• Rihanna decided to perform at this year’s Super Bowl.

After essentially giving up on her music career for six years, Rihanna made her much-awaited stage comeback on Sunday in the most lavish manner.

At Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where the Kansas City Chiefs eventually defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35, multi-hyphenate performed as the halftime show’s headlining act and revealed she was expecting her second child.

Rihanna, 34, opened her act with “Bitch Better Have My Money” while perched on a glass platform that hovered over the playing field. She was wearing a red jumpsuit with a shiny bandeau over her growing baby bump.

The Grammy winner then performed a number of her well-known classics, such as “Where Have You Been,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “We Found Love,” “Work,” and “Umbrella.” Diamonds served as the coda to her 13-minute, fireworks-filled performance.

The exciting, Apple Music-sponsored production served as the launchpad for Rihanna’s anticipated comeback, albeit her pregnancy may cause any plans to be postponed.

Since 2016’s “Anti,” after she completed her most recent tour, she has not released an album.

Only one solo single, “Lift Me Up,” from the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” soundtrack, was released by Rihanna during her protracted absence.

The number-one artist used her remaining free time to expand her $1 billion Fenty line of lingerie and cosmetics. In May 2022, she gave birth to a kid with her rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky.

After declining an invitation to perform at a 2019 show in support of former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who caused controversy in 2016 when he kneeled during the national anthem in a peaceful protest against police brutality and racial inequality, Rihanna decided to perform at this year’s Super Bowl.

“I didn’t want to perform [the halftime show]. what reason? What does that benefit? No, not my people, she said. “I could never be a sellout. I could not act as a facilitator. There are things there that I completely disagree with, so I wasn’t going to go and help them in any way.

The “Love on the Brain” singer shifted her career after Jay-Z, who discovered Rihanna in 2005, collaborated with NFL in 2019 to start co-producing league’s live performances.

Therefore, Jay-Z, 53, had the distinction of revealing in September of last year that his former protege has agreed to perform at the 2023 halftime show.

“Rihanna is a generational talent, a somebody who has outperformed expectations at every turn despite coming from modest beginnings. a person who was raised on the tiny island of Barbados and went on to become one of history’s most well-known artists. “Empire State of Mind” rapper described himself as “self-made in business and entertainment” in a statement.

Rihanna joins a select group of artists who have performed at the Super Bowl, including Madonna, Beyoncé, Paul McCartney, Prince, and Michael Jackson.

It’s unknown how the announcement of her pregnancy would effect the tour that was reported to be planned for later this year.

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