Bad Bunny brought Latin America to London on Saturday night, as he became the first artist from that part of the world to headline a UK stadium. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.

The Puerto Rican rapper captivated a star-studded crowd of about 50,000 on the first of two sold-out nights in Tottenham, with a celebration of Central and South American culture, communities - and even the climate.

The fans' energy levels defied the hot and humid conditions with a fiesta from start to finish. But as the singer sent a message of solidarity to Venezuela following its devastating earthquakes, it was also an evening of contrasting emotions.

Bad Bunny - whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio - is approaching the end of his Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour. And the 32-year-old performed with the low-key confidence and charisma of an artist now completely comfortable on the world's biggest stages.

The setlist was unsurprisingly dominated by the album that gives the tour its name. DTMF, as it's also known, made history at the Grammy Awards in February as the first sung entirely in Spanish to win album of the year.

Starting the show where the record ends, La Mudanza (The Move) set the tone for the evening - showcasing his ability to blur genre boundaries, blending modern Latin rap with old-school salsa, supported by a live traditional band. But several songs later, it was Nuevayol that really got the party started, as one of the standout singles to help Bad Bunny break through into more mainstream British audiences.

You don't need to understand the lyrics - or to have grown up with the more native sounds - to be swept up in his universally danceable rhythms, cinematic samples and infectious hooks. But for those who are invested in the words, DTMF is also a deeply personal record - exploring loss and longing, against a backdrop of nostalgia and identity.

The themes have been brought to visual life on this tour through stunning stadium-scale production, with a Puerto Rican-style home at the back of the stadium floor serving as a second stage. Known as La Casita, it gives the show a communal and intimate feel, putting him among the crowd - as though performing at the world's biggest house party in the local town the design evokes.

Despite the size (and, no doubt, cost) of the spectacle, it has a humble character - favouring homely and traditional imagery, over the high-tech mega-runways of other contemporary stadium shows. Bad Bunny doesn't just remember his roots; he puts them front and centre.

And the three-hour performance was a reminder that his global success didn't happen overnight, with him digging deep into his eight-year discography - traversing trap and reggaeton fusions. Naturally, this created relative lulls in the set for those newer to the singer and a welcome chance to catch a breath.

And the night's only anticlimactic moment came with the reveal of the 'exclusive song' - a unique track Bad Bunny is adding to the set for each city. Judging by the slightly muted reaction from the crowd, Cybertruck wasn't what most were hoping for. But there were more than enough day-ones and die-hards in the crowd to keep the party going - including thousands from different diasporas waving their flags.

There were also a few celebrities, with Adele spotted in the stands, Maya Jama in La Casita, and - days before Wimbledon - Novak Djokovic introducing a song.

In a stadium partly designed for the purpose of hosting NFL games, the show shared the symbolism of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show - which was seen as a political statement with a celebration of all the Americas united. Yet he has said this world tour won't include dates in the US, telling i-D magazine he was worried his fans would be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

While addressing the London crowd almost entirely in Spanish (after asking for permission at the start), he didn't make any direct political points - instead making more subtle references to the importance of people and places. But the tour has been widely interpreted as a promotion of multiculturalism and the preservation of identity. It's a message that resonates with his fans.