Rosalía won Album of the Year for Lux (Complete Works) yesterday, Thursday, November 12, at the 27th Latin Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, becoming the first woman to win the category three times. iimiTV’s full story on the win covers the record, the field she beat and the six categories her work took on the night.
She had opened the ceremony hours earlier with a medley of the Lux tracks La Rumba del Perdón, La Perla and Dios Es Un Stalker, performed with dancers wearing halos on a stage dressed as heavenly clouds. The Latin GRAMMYs’ official video of that opening medley is below.
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Rosalía Latin Grammy Speech Thanks Doubters And Her Mother
What yesterday’s first reports only sketched, today’s full accounts of her Album of the Year speech fill in. The Associated Press, reporting from Las Vegas, recorded her starting in Spanish, through tears: “This is the third time I’ve won this award, and just as El Mal Querer felt like a dream, or Motomami was a gamble, Lux has been, for me, a leap into the void. I believe it’s very important to speak your own truth and for others to be able to speak theirs; this album is my truth.”
The speech, now posted in full on the Latin GRAMMYs’ official YouTube channel, also carried the line the room will remember. The Associated Press reported that she thanked the people who had told her she was not good enough and that her music was too weird, said she was thankful she had not listened to them, and added, to applause: “Now I’m winning these prizes.” Consequence reported she also explained that the album’s title means light in Latin, and said she hoped for more light in the world.
Juanes presented the award, as he had supported her long before nights like this one. She told him it was powerful to receive it from him and recalled that he had backed her when she was playing to about 100 people in a room in Madrid. Then she turned to her family. Paste, quoting the speech, recorded the close: “Thanks, mama, for making me this way. I’m going to bring this Grammy to your house. I don’t know if another one is going to fit in your house, but I’ll bring it to you anyways and see if you make room. You always find a way for anything.” In the fuller Spanish reporting of the speech, she added that she knows she still has a lot to learn and probably has not done her best work yet, but knows she has everything it takes to be the best.
Sixteen Career Latin Grammys, And How The Count Settled
The morning after has also settled the arithmetic. Rosalía took home five trophies of her own from her seven nominations: Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Song for La Perla, Best Alternative Music Album, and Best Short Form Music Video for Sauvignon Blanc. The sixth win attached to the project, Best Engineered Album, belongs to the album’s engineering team, as the Latin Recording Academy’s official winners list records it. Added to the 11 Latin Grammys she held before Thursday, her five personal wins lift her career total to 16, second among women in the award’s history behind only Natalia Lafourcade, on 20.
There was one more piece of Lux business this month. Paste also reported that, marking the album’s first anniversary, Rosalía shared a playlist of a thousand songs she listened to while making the record, a map of the listening behind an album built from the lives of female saints and recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Rosalía Grammy Nominations: What Monday Decides
The next test arrives in three days. The nominations for the 69th Grammy Awards are announced on Monday, November 16, from 7:45 a.m. ET, streamed on Grammy.com and the Grammys YouTube channel, and the eligibility window, recordings released between August 31, 2025 and August 28, 2026, takes in Lux. The version submitted for Grammy consideration is the deluxe Lux (Complete Works), the same edition that won in Las Vegas.
Billboard’s final predictions, reported by ANI ahead of the announcement, place Lux among the expected Album of the Year contenders, and note the history inside the prediction: a nomination would make Rosalía the first woman nominated for Album of the Year with a Spanish-language album. The Associated Press reached the same conclusion from Las Vegas, reporting that critical buzz for Lux has her tipped as a top contender for the Grammy nominations. Nothing is official until Monday morning, and predictions are not nominations.
That is what yesterday’s win has set up. In Las Vegas, Rosalía proved an orchestral, multilingual album about saints could take Latin music’s biggest prize for the third time in her career. On Monday, the Recording Academy’s other electorate decides whether the same record enters the general field race in English-language music’s biggest room. Her speech already gave the answer she is bringing with her: speak your truth, and do not listen to the people who called it too weird.
References
Latin Recording Academy, 2026 Latin Grammys Winners Full List (grammy.com)
Associated Press via Pollstar, Rosalía Wins Album Of The Year 2026 At The Latin Grammy Awards
Paste, Rosalía wins Album of the Year at the Latin GRAMMYs
Consequence, Rosalía Wins Third Album of the Year Latin Grammy, Dazzles With LUX Medley
