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Latin GRAMMY Best New Artist Nominees Take the Stage at Las Vegas Showcase Hosted by Reik

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4 days ago

November 11, 2026

Best New Artist Showcase performers in Las Vegas

Credit: Leon Bennett/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Latin GRAMMY Week put its future front and center in Las Vegas. All eleven of this year’s Best New Artist nominees performed at the fifth Best New Artist Showcase, a private night at KAOS that paired the new class with past nominees and winners ahead of Thursday’s 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards.

The Latin Recording Academy®, in partnership with Mastercard, presented the fifth edition of the Best New Artist Showcase. The showcase, held during Latin GRAMMY Week®, offers a window into the new generation of Latin music creators who are this year’s Best New Artist nominees at the 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards®.

The private event took place at KAOS nightclub at Las Vegas’s Palms Casino Resort and was hosted by Mexican group Reik, a 2005 Best New Artist nominee. The evening featured performances by this year’s Best New Artist nominees: Delilah, FABIAN, Loulu Gilberto, Arath Herce, Macario Martínez, maye, Sofía Monroy, Kendall Peña, Dora Sanches, ARIA VEGA and Zeca Veloso.

Presenters included Latin GRAMMY® winner Pedro Capó; 2026 Latin GRAMMY® nominees Tiê Castro, Leiva, Jenni Mosello, and Yami Safdie; 2023 Best New Artist winner Joaquina; and past Best New Artist nominees Sofi Saar, Yahritza y Su Esencia and Pablo Alborán.

The eleven nominees paid tribute to the legacy of songwriter-driven music through live performances of songs from the great Latin American songbook. In this multigenerational celebration, which reflected artistic, musical and geographic diversity, the audience traveled across Latin America through its many rhythms and genres in a multilingual experience spanning Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Onstage, each performer was backed by a six-piece band composed of José David Pérez, Paola Lebrón, Josiane Feliciano Román, Franco Mendoza, Abiud “Udi” Flores Rodríguez and Savier Díaz, and led by acclaimed producer, arranger, pianist and musical director Marcos Sánchez, a Latin GRAMMY® winner and two-time Producer of the Year nominee (2021 and 2023). The Latin Recording Academy’s production team, led by Ayleen Figueras, produced the Best New Artist Showcase, with Rafael González Lasso and Ana Daza as executive producers.

The Best New Artist Showcase series is the centerpiece of the partnership between Mastercard and The Latin Recording Academy. Launched in 2022 during Latin GRAMMY Week in Las Vegas, the series showcases winners and nominees in the Best New Artist category, recognizing the honor is more than an acknowledgment of artistic excellence—it can mark the beginning of an extraordinary career. Since then, international editions have been held in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, San Juan, Sao Paulo and most recently, Bogotá.

Additional sponsors for the event included BACARDÍ, Llao Llao, Rémy Martin, Valentino Beauty and YouTube.

The 27th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov. 12. The three-hour telecast will air on Univision, UNIMÁS, Galavisión and streaming on ViX, beginning at 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central), preceded by a one-hour pre-show starting at 7 p.m. ET/PT (6 p.m. Central).

ABOUT THE LATIN RECORDING ACADEMY: The Latin Recording Academy® is a nonprofit dedicated to nurturing, celebrating, honoring, and elevating Latin music and its creators. Established as the global authority on Latin music, the membership-based organization composed of music professionals produces the annual Latin GRAMMY Awards®, The Biggest Night in Latin Music®, which honors excellence in the recording arts and sciences. It also provides educational and outreach programs for the music community through the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation®. For more information, visit LatinGRAMMY.com.

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce Pack Out Estadio Vélez as Mejor Tarde Que Nunca Tour Hits Buenos Aires

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3 hours ago

November 15, 2026

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Romeo Santos and Prince Royce performing together on stage in front of the Mejor Tarde Que Nunca tour train set

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce perform together during the Mejor Tarde Que Nunca Tour stop in Buenos Aires. Photo courtesy of Artist Solutions.

Bachata’s king and prince turned Buenos Aires into a Caribbean party on Saturday night, as Romeo Santos and Prince Royce brought their joint Mejor Tarde Que Nunca Tour to a completely sold-out Estadio Vélez Sarsfield, with more than 45,000 fans singing along to one of the most anticipated concerts of the year.

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce arrived in Argentina on their hugely successful Mejor Tarde Que Nunca Tour, after touring Latin America, Europe and the United States with more than eighty sold-out performances.

More than 45,000 fans fill Estadio Vélez Sarsfield at night for Romeo Santos and Prince Royce

Before a completely sold-out Estadio Vélez Sarsfield, the two biggest names in bachata worldwide delivered a monumental show of more than two hours. With an imposing stage production and world-class visuals, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce sealed their great bond with the Argentine public through an unbeatable repertoire of generational anthems such as “Propuesta Indecente,” “Darte un Beso,” “Llévame Contigo,” “Ay! San Miguel” and “La Diabla,” among others that had more than 45,000 people vibrating.

Romeo Santos and Prince Royce seated together on stage during the Buenos Aires show

The opening was an energetic shared block in which both revisited the songs from their recent joint project Better Late Than Never, drawing a huge ovation from the very first minute.

The concert flowed smoothly between shared moments and individual segments. Romeo Santos showed off his magnetism, sensuality and vocal mastery at the front of his biggest hits, while Prince Royce dazzled with his pop charisma and melodic warmth. The chemistry between the two shone at every moment live, playing with the crowd’s complicity and measuring the fervor of the stands in a true Caribbean party.

Romeo Santos performing live in a black leather jacket

Prince Royce smiling on stage during his solo segment

The Buenos Aires stop had a luxury warm-up in Córdoba, where the iconic duo won over the Córdoba crowd under the open sky at Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes with the same chemistry and artistic power on November 12.

The night at Vélez brought together two bachata icons on their Mejor Tarde Que Nunca Tour, a historic run through 20 countries and more than 80 massive concerts across Latin America, Europe and the United States, cementing this summit as an unrepeatable event in the history of the genre. The Argentina dates closed with Córdoba on November 12 and Buenos Aires on November 14, both sold out.