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Burna Boy brings Afrobeats to the halftime show of the NFL's first game in France

The Nigerian Afrobeats star performed at the Stade de France, joined by French singer Yseult. The Steelers beat the Saints 16-10.

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Burna Boy at the Untold festival in Romania (archive photo, 2024)

Archive image · Photo: Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and resized)

Burna Boy headlined the halftime show of the first NFL regular-season game in France on Sunday 25 October. At the Stade de France near Paris, the Pittsburgh Steelers met the New Orleans Saints, with the Steelers winning 16-10.

According to NotJustOk, the Nigerian Afrobeats star opened with '4 Kampe II', his collaboration with French-Haitian singer Joe Dwet File, and also performed 'Ye', 'On The Low' and 'Last Last'. According to Men's Journal, French singer Yseult joined him on stage.

Before the game, Burna Boy told the NFL: "The NFL is bringing something to France that has never happened here before."

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