Bobby Pulido Wins New Latin Grammy After Winning Seat in Congress: ‘We Need to Get to Work & Use Our Voices for Something Else’

It has actually absolutely been a gaining year for Bobby Pulido. The Tejano music star-turned-politician won a brand-new Latin Grammy on Thursday (Nov. 12), simply days after making history in the midterm elections by protecting a seat in your home of Representatives for the Democrats.

Pulido got the 3rd Latin Grammy of his profession– for finest tejano album– for Bobby Pulido & & Friends: Una Tuya y Una Mía (Vol. 2/En Vivo)Taped at the Auditorio Cumbres in Monterrey, Nuevo León, throughout a series of performances kept in December 2024, and launched in 2025, the live album got here after the artist revealed his retirement from music to pursue a political profession beginning in 2026.

“I wish to inform you that I’m retiring from music, and I’m entrusting a lot appreciation,” he stated Thursday while accepting his prize, thanking his group and household for their assistance throughout the years. “I’m so, so happy to be from Texas and to be Tejano and to represent this music. Tejano music remains in excellent hands; we have a lot skill– young skill like Jay Pérez, Destiny Navaira, everybody who’s here. I enjoy you all, and I’ll see you quickly, due to the fact that we require to represent and we require to get to work to utilize our voices for something else.”

Thought about an icon of Norteño-Tejano music, Pulido beat incumbent Republican congresswoman Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District on Nov. 4.

“Thank you South Texas. Tonight we made history,” Pulido stated in a declaration after the election was employed his favor, according to U.S.A. Today“For over 30 years, you played my music at your wedding events, your quinceañeras and your carne asadas, and the previous year you invited me into those very same events on the project path. Tonight, you trusted me with something even larger than a tune, you trusted me with your future and I will strive daily to honor it.”

Pulido was born in Edinburg, Texas, 53 years back, the kid of Tex-Mex vocalist Roberto Pulido. In 1995, he launched his album launching, Desveladoacquiring his very first Signboard chart entry with the track “No Sé Por Qué,” which debuted at No. 39 on Hot Latin Songs and later on peaked at No. 32. Desvelado went into the Top Latin Albums and Top Regional Mexican Albums in early 1996, peaking at No. 9 and No. 3, respectively. Ever since, he has actually launched 15 more albums and has actually had a lot more entries on the Signboard charts, with hits consisting of “Te Voy a Amar,” “Se Murió de Amor” and “Enséñame.” “Desvelado,” the title track from his launching album, reached No. 21 on Latin Streaming Songs this previous July throughout his project.

Pulido and other freshly chosen U.S. members of Congress are set to take workplace in January.

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