Reggaeton famous person J Balvin is proud to have performed a small position in Will Smith’s Hollywood comeback.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the Colombian singer opened up about his determination to ask Smith to hitch him onstage on the Coachella music pageant in April. The efficiency within the California desert drew main buzz given the very public fallout for Smith about two years earlier for slapping comic Chris Rock on the Oscars.
“Will Smith has always been one of my biggest idols. Period,” J Balvin instructed the journal. “I feel really connected with him. You cannot judge a person for some mistakes. A mistake cannot define who you are because if it’s like that, we all are bad.”
He went on to notice: “[With] what happened with Will Smith, I felt his pain because I was going through a similar situation when I felt that some part of the world was against me for mistakes.”
Footage of J Balvin’s Coachella set reveals Smith showing in full “Men in Black” regalia to carry out his smash 1997 track from the film of the identical identify.
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Collectively, he and J Balvin danced in entrance of a projected backdrop of alien heads, flanked by a troupe of dancers dressed as inexperienced extraterrestrials.
Although J Balvin didn’t specify what he meant by a “similar situation,” some information retailers instructed he could have been referring to the criticism he acquired for his 2021 music video “Perra,” wherein he was seen tugging at two Black ladies on leashes.
“I think if there’s someone that has been through darkness and light publicly at this moment, it’s Will Smith,” J Balvin mentioned. “My inner child was screaming to have him in my show because there was no one better than him.”
Smith’s shock look on the pageant was well-received by critics and followers alike. It’s additionally extensively perceived to have jump-started his profession after the Academy Awards altercation, which resulted in him being banned from the ceremony for 10 years.
In June, he returned to the massive display screen alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Martin Lawrence in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and unveiled a brand new single, “You Can Make It.”
