{"id":408664,"date":"2026-02-05T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408664\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:37:08","slug":"ricky-martin-pens-tribute-to-bad-bunny-after-his-historic-grammy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408664\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin pens tribute to Bad Bunny after his historic Grammy win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following Bad Bunny\u2019s landmark album of the year win at the 68th Grammy Awards<\/a> for \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos,\u201d Ricky Martin penned a letter of appreciation to commemorate the moment.<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece for the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo D\u00eda<\/a> published Tuesday, the Boricua hitmaker said Bad Bunny\u2019s accomplishment stirred deep feelings within him.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenito, brother, seeing you win three Grammy Awards, one of them for album of the year, with a production entirely in Spanish, touched me deeply,\u201d Martin wrote. \u201cNot only as an artist, but as a Puerto Rican who has walked stages around the world carrying his language, his accent and his history.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to becoming the first all-Spanish album of the year winner, the \u201cNuevayol\u201d artist took home the Grammy Awards for m\u00fasica urbana album and global music performance for the track \u201cEoO\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Martin further called Bad Bunny\u2019s achievement a \u201chuman\u201d and \u201ccultural\u201d win, lauding him for not bending to the will of anyone who tried to change his sound in any way.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou won without changing the color of your voice. You won without erasing your roots. You won by staying true to Puerto Rico,\u201d Martin wrote. \u201cYou stayed true to your language, your rhythms and your authentic narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin, who first broke out as a solo musical act in the mid-\u201990s, became an international superstar off the back of his Spanish-language hits including 1995\u2019s \u201cMar\u00eda,\u201d 1998\u2019s \u201cVuelve\u201d and \u201cPerdido Sin Ti.\u201d<\/p>\n

He reached a new strata of stardom after his track \u201cLa Copa de Vida\u201d was used as the official anthem for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. That song charted in over 60 countries and was translated into English. He landed his biggest hit with \u201cLivin\u2019 La Vida Loca,\u201d which was the lead single from his 1999 self-titled English album.<\/p>\n

When accepting his album of the year award Sunday night, Bad Bunny addressed the crowd predominantly in Spanish and spoke of the strugglesof the immigrant experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to dedicate this award to all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams,\u201d he said in English.<\/p>\n

\u201cPuerto Rico, believe me when I say that we are so much bigger than 100 by 35 and there is nothing that exists that we can\u2019t accomplish,\u201d the \u201cDakiti\u201d artist said in Spanish. \u201cThank God, thank you to the academy, thank you to all the people who have believed in me throughout my whole career. To all the people who worked on this album. Thank you, Mami, for giving birth to me in Puerto Rico. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old singer also showed love to Bad Bunny for using his platform to show solidarity for vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat touched me most about seeing you on the Grammys stage was the audience\u2019s silence when you spoke,\u201d Martin wrote. \u201cWhen you defended the immigrant community, when you called out a system that persecutes and separates, you spoke from a place I know very well where fear and hope coexist, where millions live between languages, borders and deferred dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin concluded his letter by thanking Bad Bunny for reminding him and showing other Puerto Ricans that there is power in being true and authentic to yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis achievement is for a generation to whom you taught that their identity is non-negotiable and that success is not at odds with authenticity,\u201d Martin wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was for Puerto Ricans, for all our Latino brothers and sisters who dream in Spanish, for those crossing seas and borders wearing their cultures like a flag. From the heart, from one Boricua to another, with respect and love, I thank you for reminding us that when one of ours succeeds, we all succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Bad Bunny\u2019s landmark album of the year win at the 68th Grammy Awards for \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[151976,107798,10240,29787,32469,24505,151977,96,151975,9021,81051,128,2207,27256,39669,83604,17833,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-68th-grammy-awards","tag-achievement","tag-artist","tag-bad-bunny","tag-border","tag-brother","tag-dream","tag-entertainment","tag-landmark-album","tag-language","tag-letter","tag-music","tag-people","tag-puerto-rico","tag-ricky-martin","tag-spanish","tag-track","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}