SIMI VALLEY, California (AP):
Rihanna knew that if she were to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she’d done before.
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“If I’m going to leave my baby, I’m going to leave my baby for something special,” the multi-Grammy winner said.
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That something special turned out to be the upcoming 2023 Super Bowl half-time show. “It was now or never for me,” she said.
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The singer had previously declined to perform in the 2019 half-time show out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. But in a recent interview ahead of her Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 , Rihanna said that the timing and circumstances this time around were right for her. “It was a challenge that I welcomed. It was a stage bigger than anything I’ve ever done,” she said.
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