Bad Bunny Pays Tribute to Late Protest Singer Víctor Jara

Bad Bunny Honors Late Chilean Protest Singer Víctor Jara

Bad Bunny launched his 2026 world tour at Santiago’s legendary Estadio Nacional, and on Jan. 11, he paid tribute to Víctor Jara, the Chilean folk singer and activist murdered in 1973 during Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. Performing at a stadium once used as a detention and torture center under Pinochet’s regime, one of Bad Bunny’s musicians played an emotional instrumental version of Jara’s protest anthem “El Derecho de Vivir en Paz” (The Right to Live in Peace) on the mandolin. The crowd joined in to sing the lyrics, which have become a symbol of resistance and survival in Chile’s history. See the moment below.

By Isabela Raygoza