Rosalía Makes Latin Grammys History With Third Album of the Year

Rosalía won Album of the Year at the Latin Grammys on Thursday for her 2025 LP Lux, becoming the first woman to take the award three times as a lead artist. No other woman in the ceremony's history has matched the feat.

She was already in tears as she walked onstage to accept the trophy from presenter Juanes. The Colombian rocker's role carried weight for her: he supported her at the start of her career. "The fact that you're the one giving me this award is so powerful," Rosalía told him.

Her speech turned to the album itself. "For me, Lux has been a leap into the abyss. I think it's really important to speak your truth and that everyone else can share their truth. This album has been mine," she said. She closed by honoring her mother: "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."

What kind of album is Lux?

Released last fall, Lux draws on Rosalía's conservatory training. It blends classical music and opera with 14 different languages, and its themes run through theology, love and womanhood. She carried that scope onto the road this year: the Lux world tour staged the album with a full orchestra.

The win confirms a pattern. Since her breakthrough with her second album, El Mal Querer, Rosalía has become a Latin Grammy fixture. She won Album of the Year for El Mal Querer in 2019 and again in 2022 for the genre-bending Motomami.

Who did she beat?

This year's Album of the Year field was crowded:

• Jorge Drexler
• Karol G
• Carín León
• Anitta
• Mon Laferte
• CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso
• Silvana Estrada
• Rawayana
• Milo J

Rosalía was also one of the most-nominated artists of the night, tied at seven nominations with Karol G, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso and Jorge Drexler — three of the rivals she just defeated for the top prize.

What does this change for her standing?

The third win moves Rosalía into territory no woman leading her own albums has occupied at the Latin Grammys, and it does so on her most formally ambitious record — one built on opera, classical composition and more than a dozen languages rather than pop calculation. The caveat is the one the source leaves open: the history-making claim rests on the "lead artist" distinction, and the night's full winners list beyond this category went unreported. What is certain is the trajectory — three Album of the Year wins in six years, from El Mal Querer through Motomami to Lux — and a tour that has already taken the album's orchestral vision to audiences worldwide.