LATIN GRAMMY 2023 | Shakira and Karol G reign in Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s soap opera

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Few stories make your ears pricker than those of heartbreak. Last night, at the Latin Grammy gala, a very popular one flew over the event and landed on the stage. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro, a couple before yesterday, recently engaged, met again in Seville, where the Latin Recording Academy traveled from the United States for the first time in its 24th edition. Without crossing paths, at least in the eyes of the populace, the Catalan and the Puerto Rican dialogued through songs – both performed at the gala – that look to the past (at the Goya 2019 the author of ‘Motomami’ turned to ‘Me quedo tú’, by Los Chunguitos), as a message of what they had a long time ago and was broken, as the Sant Esteve Sesrovires ceremony proclaimed when opening the ceremony.

Rosalía, portentous and exciting as always, searched through the songbook to open the gala and came to a song that Manuel Alejandro composed and popularized by the voice of Rocío Jurado, ‘Se nos roto el amor’. With a dress that recalled that of ‘revenge’, the one that has the imprint and history of Lady Di, the artist moved with this song to heartbreak to the joy of an enthusiastic Antonio Banderas, cicerone last night and Presidential Prize winner, and of everything the public. Perhaps the song, its message and the way of translating everything is a game in which only our mind participates, but Rosalía also played that when she discreetly added a punchline at the end of the lyrics: “Our love broke / from using it so much…” (and here’s the news), “or from not using it”. The long, very long soap opera of these Latin Grammys also had a lot of karaoke feel: numerous performances (a Bizarrap ‘set’, Laura Pausini’s ‘medley’…) in the more than three hours of gala, and almost better, the secondary act awards ceremony.

The melodrama, this time with Rauw Alejandro (who attended the party with his mother) as the protagonist, had another episode to air. He did it shortly after, when there had already been some big prize of the night, like that of Shakira and the aforementioned Bizarrap for their song – that one also loaded with spite, a feeling very present last night – which won the award for best pop song and song of the year, which was confirmed at the end of the ceremony held at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Seville (FIBES). The Puerto Rican looked closely for his inspiration, he found it in Laura Pausini (self-proclaimed “the most Latin Italian in the entire fucking world”), who had just been revered as Person of the Year, and he sang, or responded, with ‘Se fue’ (1994). Do you remember? ‘He left, I was left with only his poison (he left); She left, and my love was covered with ice (she left); He left, and life with him left me (gone); He left and since then I only have tears. Rauw Alejandro followed his performance with ‘Don’t let go’ and ‘Baby hello’.

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But the Latin Grammys already had a very successful soap opera scheduled, that of Shakira, the one with the Colombian’s popular spite songs, multi-nominated yesterday, and multi-awarded. (up to three statuettes, just like Bizarrap). She sang ‘Acrostic’ accompanied by a recording of her children Milan and Sasha, also present at the ceremony. “I want to dedicate this award to my children, I have promised them that I will be happy,” said Shakira, who on Monday must return to Barcelona to face her trial for defrauding the Treasury, after receiving the award for best song of the year for the session with the Argentine producer, who also won a Latin Grammy for the song along with the Canarian Quevedo. Beyond the rapper, Spanish music celebrated the best flamenco album for Niña Pastori.

And if Shakira reigned, she did so with the help of Karol G (both won an award for the song ‘TQG’), another powerful woman who, with her album (best of the year) ‘Tomorrow will be beautiful’, an album also written after a sentimental breakup, the omnipresent feeling yesterday, the lack of love (due to her extinct relationship with the ragpicker Anuel AA), she won up to three Latin Grammys.



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