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Yami Safdie’s “Querida Yo” Earns a Latin Grammy Album Nomination
Argentina’s Yami Safdie is officially in the album conversation. Her album Querida Yo is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Album at the 27th annual Latin Grammy Awards, landing her in a category beside Kany García, Laura Pausini, Reik and Esteman with Daniela Spalla. The winners will be named on November 12 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and for one of Latin pop’s fastest-rising singer-songwriters, the nomination marks the moment the industry caught up with her audience.
Querida Yo is a deeply personal record built like an open letter, which is exactly what its title promises. The album gathers collaborations that map her range: the title track with Camilo, “En Otra Vida” with Lasso, “+ Te Vale” with Emilia, and “Amor Prestado” with Manuel Turizo. Yami announced the album on stage during a sold-out night at Buenos Aires’ Gran Rex theater, the kind of room that confirms an artist has become a headline act at home.
The nomination also completes a two-year Grammy arc. The song “Querida Yo” first earned her a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Pop Song, an early signal that her writing stood out even in crowded fields. This time the recognition is for the full body of work, and it comes from the Latin Recording Academy’s official 2026 nominees list, where her name sits in the pop album categories alongside some of the genre’s most established voices.
Yami built her following the modern way, song by song online, an Argentine singer with a ukulele in her earliest posts who grew into a Warner Music Latina artist with millions of followers and a catalog full of duets her fans treat as diary entries. That honesty is the brand, and it is why her concerts feel like conversations.
Whatever happens in Las Vegas on November 12, Querida Yo has already done its job. It turned a rising artist into a Grammy-nominated album artist, and it did it without her changing a thing about how she writes.
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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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