{"id":43973,"date":"2025-11-08T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43973\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:20:16","slug":"grammys-2026-bad-bunny-the-marias-break-into-big-four-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43973\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2026: Bad Bunny, the Mar\u00edas break into Big Four categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Among the nominees for the 68th Grammy Awards<\/a> announced Friday morning were a slate of Latinx artists, with Bad Bunny leading the way with six and making Grammys history in the process.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican singer became the first Spanish-language artist to earn nominations in several top categories for his critically acclaimed album, \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos,\u201d including record of the year, album of the year and song of the year.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old is also up for m\u00fasica urbana album, global music performance (\u201cEoO\u201d) and album cover \u2014 a new category.<\/p>\n

To date, Bad Bunny has won three Grammys out of 10 nominations. He also leads the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards nominations with 12, including record of the year, album of the year and song of the year. The Latin Grammys will take place Nov. 13 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The not-so-new band the Mar\u00edas<\/a> \u2014 led by singer Mar\u00eda Zardoya \u2014 were nominated in the ever-perplexing<\/a> new artist category. This marked the long-present L.A. indie group\u2019s first ever Grammy nomination. <\/p>\n

Global girl group Katseye \u2014 which features Venezuelan Cuban American dancer\/singer Daniela Avanzini \u2014 also picked up a nomination in the new artist category, as well as a nod in the pop duo\/group performance category for the track \u201cGabriela.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colombian hitmaker Karol G\u2019s \u201cTropicoqueta\u201d<\/a> received a Latin pop album nomination.<\/p>\n

Recording Academy darling Edgar Barrera nabbed his third consecutive songwriter of the year (non-classical) nomination for his work with Karol G, Juanes, Shakira, Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera, Young Miko, Marco Antonio Sol\u00eds, Manuel Turizo<\/a> and Carlos Santana.<\/p>\n

Kooky Argentine duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso<\/a> received their first ever Grammy nomination under Latin rock or alternative album for their nine-track EP, \u201cPapota.\u201d If they win, they will be the second Argentine group to win in that category; Los Fabulosos Cadillacs won back in 1998 when the category first appeared.<\/p>\n

The boisterous San Bernardino band Fuerza Regida are also first-time nominees, receiving a m\u00fasica mexicana album nomination for their joint EP with Grupo Frontera, \u201cMala M\u00eda.\u201d The Texas norte\u00f1o group is also up in the same category for their album \u201cY Lo Que Viene.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sacramento alt-metal group Deftones nabbed a rock album nomination for \u201cPrivate Music<\/a>,\u201d the band\u2019s fourth overall Grammy nod and first in this category.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Recording Academy<\/a> announced that voting members of the Latin Recording Academy had been invited to join the Recording Academy as part of its 2025 new member class. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s class reflects the vibrancy of today\u2019s diverse music landscape,\u201d said Harvey Mason Jr., chief executive of the Recording Academy. \u201cThe addition of many Latin Recording Academy voting members underscores that music has no borders and that our mission to serve music people, regardless of where they are from, is stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Grammy Awards will take place on Feb. 1 at L.A.\u2019s Crypto.com<\/a> Arena. The awards show will broadcast live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ starting at 5 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the nominees for the 68th Grammy Awards announced Friday morning were a slate of Latinx artists, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23983,29160,29164,28646,29163,48,52,51,47,50,49,29161,29162,29159,2219,29165,29166,5681,28642,10390,72],"class_list":["post-43973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-album","tag-bad-bunny","tag-colombian-hitmaker-karol-g","tag-grammys","tag-grupo-frontera","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-marias-break","tag-new-category","tag-nomination","tag-nominee","tag-not-so-new-band","tag-place-nov","tag-record","tag-recording-academy","tag-song","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}