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Neither Taylor Swift nor Ed Sheeran: who is the American singer who has chosen from Barça to promote his match against Real Madrid

Travis Scott image. (Instagram)
Travis Scott image. (Instagram)

He Football Club Barcelona will continue with the tradition of recent years of changing the Spotify logo in the shirt with which the players will come out in The next match against Real Madrid next May 11. A strategy that has been implemented since the sports entity signed the sponsorship contract with the online music playback company.

Until now, the Blaugrana club t -shirts had carried the artist logo like Drake, Rosalía, The Rolling Stones, Karol G and Colplay. Now, the Catalan newspaper Ara He has advanced that the sixth artist in doing so will be the famous American rapper Travis Scottone of the world’s biggest stars in urban music.

The rapper incorporated the University Bands of Florida A&M and Jackson State to add a live orchestration that enhanced the intensity of their credit presentation: (Tiktok/@Grayeslive)

Jacques Berman Webster IIbetter known as Travis Scott, he was born in Houston, Texas, L April 30, 1991. After leaving the University to focus on his musical career, in 2012 he signed his first contract with a label with which he would launch his first album Rodeowith which he became well known. However, the high point of his fame would arrive shortly after, in 2016, when he would release his second album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnightwith the song Goosebumps (“Gallina skin”), probably your best known topic.

At 33, six studio albums and 68 million monthly listenersTravis Scott is one of the maximum exponents of rap. However, it is also well known for the different legal problems that has been to compromise the security of those who attend their concerts. The biggest example is what happened on November 5, 2021, when Nine people died as a result of an agglomeration during one of its concerts.

Travis Scott during your presentation
Travis Scott during his presentation at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, on November 5, 2021. A Texas Judge will listen on Monday, April 15, 2024 the arguments on the application of the rap star Travis Scott of dismissing a lawsuit for the Mortal Astroworld festival. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP, file)

In the images of the concert, you can see how Scott did not stop his performance, but also when the ambulance was already entering the enclosure he kept acting and encouraging those present to go “crazy” and “savages”. Although it is the most serious event in this area, it is not the only one. In 2015 and 2017 he was also involved in similar situations, with several cases of injuries to incite the public to behave in a compromising way for their safety. He even encouraged the crowd to hit a person who had stolen a shoe during a concert.

As reported by the Catalan newspaper, it will not be the first time that Travis Scott’s art reaches the Autonomous Community. After the launch of his latest album, Utopiain 2023, recorded a video clip along with the Castellers from Vilafrancathe best known group that performs the characteristic human castles in Catalonia.

Travis Scott in the video clip
Travis Scott in the ‘Sirens’ video clip, a song included in his album ‘Utopia’. (YouTube)

In this way, now Scott will be part of the clothing of another key entity in the culture of the Autonomous Community such as Barça. The team has not yet made an official confirmation, but it seems closer and closer after other names have been ruled out that initially sounded strongly, such as Ed Sheeran either Taylor Swift.


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