Rosalía won Album of the Year at the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards for Lux, securing her third victory in the category and closing a night in which she also won Song of the Year for “La Perla.”
The Spanish singer accepted the album award from Juanes at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on November 12. She became emotional as she thanked the Colombian musician for supporting her before she was performing for large audiences, recalling an early concert in Madrid attended by about 100 people.
The win follows her Album of the Year awards for El Mal Querer in 2019 and Motomami in 2022. In her speech, Rosalía described the three albums as different kinds of artistic risk, according to Billboard’s ceremony report.
Lux gives Rosalía a third Album of the Year victory
“This is the third time I’ve won this award,” Rosalía said, according to Billboard’s English-language rendering of her speech. She characterised El Mal Querer as a dream and Motomami as a bold gamble before describing Lux as “a leap into the unknown.”
She went on to connect the record to the importance of expressing her own perspective while allowing others to express theirs. She thanked her family and friends and said she believed she still had much to learn and might not yet have made her best work.
Juanes’ role as presenter made the acceptance a personal moment as well as an awards milestone. Rather than focusing only on the trophy, Rosalía used the occasion to acknowledge someone who had followed her work before the international success recognised by the Academy.
The Latin Recording Academy’s artist listing identifies the 2026 release in the awards records as Lux (Complete Works). Contemporary coverage generally refers to the album by its shorter title, Lux.
La Perla also wins Song of the Year
Rosalía’s collaboration with Yahritza y Su Esencia, “La Perla,” took Song of the Year. During that acceptance, she thanked Mexico and invited the American urban sierreño trio to join her onstage, Associated Press music writer Maria Sherman reported.
The songwriting award is distinct from Album of the Year. Variety’s winners list credits Noah Goldstein, David Rodríguez, Rosalía, Ryan Tedder and Dylan Wiggins as the writers recognised for “La Perla.” The track is billed as Rosalía featuring Yahritza y Su Esencia.
That distinction matters when describing a major awards night: recognition for the album, a composition and the people responsible for recording a project should not automatically be combined into a single personal trophy count.
Billboard also reported victories for Best Pop Song and Best Alternative Music Album, while noting that Lux received recording-engineering recognition. The central result was unambiguous across the reports: the album won the ceremony’s leading album category.
Rosalía opens the show with an orchestral Lux medley
Before collecting the album prize, Rosalía opened the 27th annual Latin Grammy Awards with a medley of “La Rumba Del Perdón,” “La Perla” and “Dios Es Un Stalker.”
AP described a stage designed to resemble heavenly clouds, with dancers wearing halos. The performance reflected the record’s expansive arrangements, classical influences and interest in the lives of female saints.
Those elements gave audiences a presentation of the album’s musical and visual world before its final award was announced. AP characterised the 2025 record as an embrace of Rosalía’s classical training through large orchestral passages; that description is the outlet’s assessment, rather than a claim of firsthand reviewing here.
The album’s release year and the awards year are different. The ceremony recognised recordings within its eligibility window, which Billboard gives as June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026. A 2025 album winning at the 2026 ceremony is therefore consistent with that schedule.
The album category brought together ten nominees
The Academy’s official nominations announcement placed Lux (Complete Works) alongside releases by Anitta, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso, Jorge Drexler, Silvana Estrada, Karol G, Mon Laferte, Carín León, Milo J and Rawayana.
That field included Karol G’s Tropicoqueta, Drexler’s Taracá and Laferte’s Femme Fatale. The range of artists and genres made the album award a cross-category contest rather than a prize restricted to Rosalía’s own musical lane.
The ceremony was hosted by Roselyn Sánchez and broadcast on TelevisaUnivision platforms. For readers following music news, Rosalía’s third album-category victory links three distinct phases of her career: the breakthrough recognised in 2019, the stylistic shift rewarded in 2022 and the orchestral project honoured in Las Vegas in 2026.
