Billboard Magazine will Honor the Most Outstanding Latin Singers at a Gala that will Crown Rosalía
Miami will host the Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026 ceremony this Thursday, which will recognize Rosalía pictured below as ‘Woman of the Year’.
The Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026 ceremony will bring together the most outstanding Hispanic stars this Thursday in Miami, in a gala that will crown Rosalía as ‘Woman of the Year’, in addition to honoring the career of artists such as Gloria Trevi, Ivy Queen and Julieta Venegas all pictured below. The event, which will be broadcast by Telemundo, will also recognize Mexican-American Becky G with the ‘Global Impact’ award, Mexican Gloria Trevi with the ‘Artistic Career’ award, and Puerto Rican Ivy Queen with the ‘Pioneer’ award. Likewise, Mexican Joy, from the duo Jesse & Joy, will receive the ‘Spirit of Change’ award, fellow Mexican Julieta Venegas the ‘Artistic Excellence’ award, Spanish Lola Índigo the ‘Evolution’ award, and Puerto Rican Young Miko the ‘Unstoppable Artist’ award.
Meanwhile, singer and businesswoman Chiquis, winner of three Latin Grammy Awards and an icon of regional Mexican music, will host the two-hour special, which will air Thursday on Telemundo and the Peacock app starting at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 a.m. GMT Friday). The organizers promise “electrifying performances, tributes and unforgettable moments” with personalities such as Natalia Lafourcade , Natti Natasha, David Bisbal, Villano Antillano, Carlota Vizmanos, Jessica Carrillo and Justina Machado. An hour earlier there will be a pink carpet to highlight female talent, which has been crucial to the promotion of Spanish-language music in the United States and internationally.
The celebration seeks to highlight the role of women amid the record growth of Latin music, which in the United States reached a new peak in 2025, with $1 billion in annual wholesale revenue, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 9. This achievement, which marks the tenth consecutive year of growth and surpasses the performance of the overall recorded music market, places Latin songs as the source of 8.8% of total revenue for the music industry in the United States. Billboard will recognize female executives in the industry at the ‘Women in Music’ gala on April 29 in Los Angeles, where the director of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Elizabeth Matthews, heads the list of honorees, which includes the Spanish Sandra García-Sanjuán, president of Starlite Music Group.
Rosalía Vila Tobella, known mononymously as Rosalía, is a critically acclaimed Spanish singer, songwriter, and producer born in 1992 near Barcelona. Recognized as an “atypical pop star” and named Billboard’s 2026 Woman of the Year, she gained global stardom by blending traditional flamenco with modern pop, hip-hop, and electronic music.
