Bad Bunny’s Apple Music Super Bowl 60 Halftime Show built to one of its most emotional peaks with a simple living-room scene: a small boy on a couch, watching the star accept a Grammy, then receiving the golden statuette directly from the artist himself.
Within minutes, screenshots and short clips of that exchange flooded social media, alongside a powerful claim that the child was 5‑year‑old Liam Conejo Ramos, who had recently been detained by immigration authorities alongside his father. The story resonated so quickly that fact-checkers and reporters moved to verify it, separating symbolism from reality around one of the night’s most talked‑about moments.
Who Was the Boy Holding a Grammy In Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show?
During Bad Bunny’s halftime performance, cameras cut to a vignette set inside a modest living room. A young boy sat between two adults on a couch, watching archival footage of Bad Bunny accepting the Grammy Award for album of the year for DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, the first fully Spanish‑language album to win that category.
The scene then shifted: Bad Bunny, appearing in the room, walked over to the child, placed one of his Grammys in the boy’s hands, and affectionately ruffled his hair, turning the moment into a visual metaphor for dreams, representation, and possibility.
Almost immediately, viewers online began speculating about the child’s identity, with many posts asserting that the boy was Liam Ramos, the 5‑year‑old whose detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota had sparked national outrage weeks earlier.
Fact‑checking outlets, AP, and Bad Bunny’s own team, however, quickly clarified that the Super Bowl cameo was not Liam. The boy in the segment was a 5‑year‑old child actor named Lincoln Fox (also identified in some reports as Lincoln Fox Ramadan), from Costa Mesa, California.
Lincoln’s own social media presence confirmed the casting. On his Instagram account, he posted a video from Levi’s Stadium showing the moment Bad Bunny handed him the Grammy, calling it his “truest honour” and writing that he would “remember this day forever.”
The caption described him as the “young Benito,” underscoring that he was portraying a younger version of Bad Bunny rather than a real‑life news figure.
A representative for Bad Bunny and sources close to Liam’s family separately confirmed to reporters that the boy on screen was a child actor and not the Minnesota 5‑year‑old at the center of recent immigration headlines.
Who is Liam Conejo Ramos?
Liam Conejo Ramos is a 5‑year‑old boy whose story drew national attention in January 2026 amid heightened immigration enforcement in Minnesota. He and his father, asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias, were taken into custody by ICE agents on Jan. 20 after Liam returned home from school to their residence in a Minneapolis‑area suburb.
According to reporting on the incident, agents detained them in the driveway, even after another adult at the home offered to take responsibility for the child. The pair was then transported to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas, as their immigration case proceeded.
Images and videos of Liam wearing a blue bunny hat and a Spider‑Man backpack, surrounded by immigration officers, circulated widely and became emblematic of criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration raids and broader enforcement tactics.
Advocates and local officials accused ICE of effectively using the child as leverage to make arrests, while federal authorities disputed aspects of that account, alleging that Liam’s father fled during the operation and “abandoned his child.” The case prompted protests, legal action, and sustained media coverage as supporters pushed for the family’s release and protection against deportation.
In early February, a judge ordered that Liam and his father be released from detention, allowing them to return to Minnesota while their asylum proceedings continue. A subsequent court decision granted their legal team more time to prepare the case, and a temporary bar was imposed to prevent their immediate removal from the United States.
As rumors about the Super Bowl halftime cameo spread, officials in Liam’s school district stepped in to correct the record, stating that the child shown in Bad Bunny’s performance was not Liam and emphasizing that he and his family were sequestered during this period.
