Grammys 2026: Bad Bunny, the Marías break into Big Four categories

Among the nominees for the 68th Grammy Awards announced Friday greeting were a slate of Latinx artists, with Bad Bunny starring the mode with six and making Grammys past successful the process.

The Puerto Rican vocalist became the archetypal Spanish-language creator to gain nominations successful respective apical categories for his critically acclaimed album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” including grounds of the year, medium of the twelvemonth and opus of the year.

The 31-year-old is besides up for música urbana album, planetary euphony show (“EoO”) and medium screen — a caller category.

To date, Bad Bunny has won 3 Grammys retired of 10 nominations. He besides leads the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards nominations with 12, including grounds of the year, medium of the twelvemonth and opus of the year. The Latin Grammys volition instrumentality spot Nov. 13 astatine the MGM Grand Garden Arena successful Las Vegas.

The not-so-new set the Marías — led by vocalist María Zardoya — were nominated successful the ever-perplexing caller creator category. This marked the long-present L.A. indie group’s archetypal ever Grammy nomination.

Global miss radical Katseye — which features Venezuelan Cuban American dancer/singer Daniela Avanzini — besides picked up a information successful the caller creator category, arsenic good arsenic a motion successful the popular duo/group show class for the way “Gabriela.”

Colombian hitmaker Karol G’s “Tropicoqueta” received a Latin popular medium nomination.

Recording Academy darling Edgar Barrera nabbed his 3rd consecutive songwriter of the twelvemonth (non-classical) information for his enactment with Karol G, Juanes, Shakira, Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera, Young Miko, Marco Antonio Solís, Manuel Turizo and Carlos Santana.

Kooky Argentine duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso received their archetypal ever Grammy information nether Latin stone oregon alternate medium for their nine-track EP, “Papota.” If they win, they volition beryllium the 2nd Argentine radical to triumph successful that category; Los Fabulosos Cadillacs won backmost successful 1998 erstwhile the class archetypal appeared.

The boisterous San Bernardino set Fuerza Regida are besides first-time nominees, receiving a música mexicana medium information for their associated EP with Grupo Frontera, “Mala Mía.” The Texas norteño radical is besides up successful the aforesaid class for their medium “Y Lo Que Viene.”

Sacramento alt-metal radical Deftones nabbed a stone medium information for “Private Music,” the band’s 4th wide Grammy motion and archetypal successful this category.

On Tuesday, the Recording Academy announced that voting members of the Latin Recording Academy had been invited to articulation the Recording Academy arsenic portion of its 2025 caller subordinate class.

“This year’s people reflects the vibrancy of today’s divers euphony landscape,” said Harvey Mason Jr., main enforcement of the Recording Academy. “The summation of galore Latin Recording Academy voting members underscores that euphony has nary borders and that our ngo to service euphony people, careless of wherever they are from, is stronger than ever.”

The Grammy Awards volition instrumentality spot connected Feb. 1 astatine L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena. The awards amusement volition broadcast unrecorded connected CBS and watercourse connected Paramount+ starting astatine 5 p.m. PT.