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Jean Guerrero: Bad Bunny stays true to himself at Coachella

Bad Bunny performs at Coachella Weekend 1 in Indio, California, on Friday, April 14, 2023.

LOS ANGELES — A dozen rows from Coachella's main stage, I sat on the grass hugging my knees to my chest as strangers pressed up against me, all awaiting the first Latin music act to ever headline the festival: Bad Bunny.

I was crammed with the Puerto Rican superstar's most devoted Coachella fans, willing to endure two hours of bodily contortions from the end of the preceding act to the start of his performance for close-up views of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. I was having second thoughts about the physical sacrifice, but we were so

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