Ricky Martin has gushed over Bad Bunny’s achievement at the Grammys.
The Puerto Rican urban music superstar took home three awards at the Sunday show, including album of the year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
On Tuesday, Martin published a heartfelt open letter in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día, titled When One of Ours Succeeds, We All Succeed.
“Benito, brother, seeing you win three Grammy Awards, one of them for album of the year with a production entirely in Spanish, touched me deeply. Not only as an artist, but as a Puerto Rican who has walked stages around the world carrying his language, his accent, and his story,” Martin wrote in Spanish in his letter, sharing a screenshot to his Instagram stories.
“I know what it means to succeed without letting go of where you come from. I know how heavy it is, what it costs, and what is sacrificed when you decide not to change because others ask you to. That’s why what you have achieved is not just a historic musical accomplishment, it’s a cultural and human victory,” he added. “You won without changing the colour of your voice. You won without erasing your roots. You won by staying true to Puerto Rico.”
Bad Bunny made history on Sunday as the first artist to win the Grammy for album of the year with a set entirely in Spanish.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which spent four weeks at No 1 on the Billboard 200 and has spent 50 weeks at the top of the Top Latin Albums chart, also won Best Música Urbana Album. He also won best global music performance for the song EoO.
