As a kid, sometimes you don’t get a choice in what you do or what you wear, and Bad Bunny knew this firsthand. The Latin singer actually got his stage name from an Easter costume he wore as a kid.
When speaking with E! News in 2020, the Grammy-winning musician revealed how he got his stage name and even had a photo to showcase the moment that inspired Bad Bunny. He shared, “Bad Bunny, that name comes from a picture when I was a kid. I think that I was six years old.” The photo the “Tití Me Preguntó” singer shared showed him in a white bunny costume with his face painted with whiskers. Although he was smiling in the image, on the inside, Bad Bunny was furious. “I was so mad. That was Easter day in the school and the teacher picked me to dress up,” he explained.
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Although he wasn’t happy at the time, it inspired the future stage name that everyone would recognize him by. “The idea [of the name Bad Bunny] came to me when I wanted to start in this music thing, as I used a concept that nobody is going to use in the history of the genre,” he shared with Urban Carpool (via LATV). “And it is something different. It is a character or a brand. The bad, or evil, rabbit, as people want to call it.”
