I know I shouldn’t admit this, but I’d never actually heard of the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny until today, the morning after he became the first Latin performer to win the Best Album award at the Grammys. It’s not that he is in any way obscure – in fact, he’s the world’s most-streamed artist on Spotify, with 82 million monthly listeners – but his oeuvre, including such massive hits as “Dákiti”, “Me Porto Bonito”, and “Titi Me Preguntó”, had not previously permeated my musical consciousness.

This is undoubtedly my loss, not his, as Bad Bunny stands on the cusp of genuine global iconoclasm as a musician, a cultural phenomenon and a political force. At the Grammys, he used his platform to decry the immigration policies of the Trump administration – “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out,” he said on stage, denouncing the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, who killed a US citizen in Minnesota. This coming Sunday, he has an even bigger opportunity to try and shape political debate in America.

Bad Bunny is headlining the half-time show in the........

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