ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Long before he headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show Sunday night, global superstar Bad Bunny performed to a sold-out crowd at MainGate Nightclub in Allentown in January 2017, a gig the venue’s owner calls one of the proudest moments in the club’s 45-year history.
The show, held on Jan. 20, 2017, came barely a month after the Puerto Rican artist released his breakout single “Soy Peor,” which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart.
At the time, Bad Bunny was a virtually unknown SoundCloud artist who had only recently stopped working as a supermarket bagger in Puerto Rico…