The superstar who destroys Trump wins big at the 2025 Latin Grammys
Nov 13 (Reuters) – Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny and Argentine hip-hop duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso each won five Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday, cementing Bad Bunny as an industry titan and thrusting the lesser-known act into the spotlight.
Bad Bunny won album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” a tour de force that mixes styles from Afro-Caribbean to salsa that earned him 12 nominations. It also won for best urban/urban fusion performance, best reggaeton performance, best urban music album and best urban song.
The awards only burnish his reputation ahead of his broader appearance in the English-speaking United States and to a global audience as a Super Bowl halftime performer in February, a choice that irritated some American traditionalists, including President Donald Triumphwho said he had never heard of Bad Bunny.
The rapidly growing Latin music sector generated a record $1.4 billion in 2024, accounting for 8.1% of total U.S. music revenue, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, which said it was shaping culture faster than any other genre.
Bad Bunny, 31, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has also received six nominations at the regular Grammys that will be handed out on February 2, including the top categories of record, song and album of the year. He was the first Latin artist nominated in all three main categories in the same year.
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In the album of the year award, Bad Bunny was honored above industry luminaries such as Spain’s Alejandro Sanz and Cuba’s Gloria Estefan.
Sanz, however, won two awards: record of the year for “Palmeras En El Jardín,” and best contemporary pop album for “Y Ahora Qué?” That raised his career total to 24.
Still, Estefan took home the award for best traditional tropical album for “Raíces.”
Karol G was proclaimed song of the year, with “Si Hasta Te Hubiera Conocido” beating Bad Bunny as the title song of her album.
BREAK WITH TRADITION
In September, the National Football League announced that Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl halftime show on February 8, 2026, when he will likely become the first such act to perform entirely or primarily in Spanish. In 2020, he appeared as a guest on the halftime show headlined by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, helping fuel his meteoric rise.
While the NFL is embracing the genre and the entertainment dollars that come with it, football’s break from tradition was poorly received by some fans, including Triumphwho described the choice of Bad Bunny as halftime entertainer as “absolutely ridiculous.”
“I’ve never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they do it; it’s kind of crazy.” Triumph he told Newsmax in October.
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Bad Bunny, who has criticized TriumphAggressive immigration enforcement supported TriumphKamala Harris’ opponent in the 2024 election.
“Brother, this is always a special moment for me. And I get as nervous as the first time. That means that what I do matters to me,” said Bad Bunny, who had won a total of 12 Latin Grammy Awards in previous years, taking home the first televised award of the night.
He later performed “Weltita,” a single from the album, with the band Chuwi. Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso had 10 nominations and won for best pop song, best alternative music album, best alternative song, best short music video and best long music video.
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