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Yahritza y Su Esencia’s ‘Metamorfosis’ Is Real: An Album Nomination and a Record of the Year Feature With Rosalía
The title was a promise, and the nominations are the proof. Yahritza y Su Esencia, the sibling trio from Yakima, Washington, has earned two nominations at the 27th Annual Latin Grammy Awards: Best Contemporary Mexican Music Album for Metamorfosis, and a featured place in Record of the Year as the guests on Rosalía’s “La Perla.” The winners will be revealed November 12 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
“La Perla,” from Rosalía’s album Lux, is one of the most honored recordings of the year: beyond Record of the Year, it is also nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Song. On it, the trio’s sierreño sound, Yahritza Martínez’s voice over acoustic guitar, meets Rosalía’s shape-shifting pop head-on, and the collision put a family band from Washington’s Yakima Valley into the biggest general-field race of the night.
Metamorfosis makes the case on their own terms. Released through Lumbre Music under exclusive license to Columbia Records, the album lives up to its name, stretching the spare, guitar-led style that made the trio famous into something wider and more ambitious. The Academy noticed: the album nomination puts them in a field with Peso Pluma and Xavi, at the center of contemporary música mexicana’s new generation.
Their rise remains one of the genre’s defining stories. Yahritza and her brothers Armando and Jairo, raised in Yakima with family roots in Michoacán, broke out as teenagers with “Soy El Único,” and their debut Obsessed earned Latin Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Norteño Album back in 2022. Four years on, the kids who recorded in the valley are fielding nominations next to the biggest names in Latin music.
When the trio posted about the news in September, they wrote that they never imagined the dream that began with one song and one guitar could reach this far. On November 12, it reaches Las Vegas.
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Xavi Earns His First Latin Grammy Nominations With ‘Dosis,’ Plus a Performance Slot in Las Vegas
The face of romantic tumbados just got his first Latin Grammy invitations. Xavi, the Phoenix-born singer-songwriter who helped redefine corridos for a new generation, has earned the first two Latin Grammy nominations of his career: Best Contemporary Mexican Music Album for Dosis and Best Regional Song for “No Capea,” his collaboration with Grupo Frontera. On November 12, he will also perform at the 27th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Dosis, his nineteen-track sophomore album released in May through Interscope Records, is the bigger swing. After breaking through with the viral acoustic hit “La Víctima” and the follow-up smash “La Diabla,” and establishing himself with his debut album Next, Xavi used Dosis to widen the frame, keeping the requinto-led, guitar-first heart of his tumbado romántico style while pushing its production and songwriting into new territory. “No Capea,” which he co-wrote, pairs him with Grupo Frontera, one of the genre’s biggest groups, and has become a streaming-era anthem of its own.
“To see Dosis and ‘No Capea’ celebrated alongside artists I admire is a dream come true,” Xavi said when the nominations were announced. “I dedicate these nominations to my grandfather, who first introduced me to music. Making him proud means everything.” It is a fitting note for an artist who began composing as a teenager in Phoenix and built his audience one phone-recorded song at a time.
The live show has kept pace with the records. His X tour has been filling arenas across Mexico, and in September he joined Natanael Cano on stage in Guadalajara, a meeting of the two artists most responsible for the corridos tumbados era.
First nominations are a before-and-after moment in any career. Xavi arrives in Las Vegas with two of them, a performance slot on the telecast and a sophomore album the Academy itself has certified as one of the year’s essential Mexican music records. The next chapter starts November 12.
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