Many of us are celebrating Bad Bunny’s win of Album of the Year for his sixth solo album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS [Debí tirar más fotos, DTMF, or I Should Have Taken More Photos] at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards; this is a first-time recognition for a Spanish-language release. The Puerto Rican musician, singer, model, and actor also won Best Música Urbana Album and Best Global Music Performance (for “EoO”). In “Bad Bunny uses Grammy Award win to protest ICE,” Sarah González and Alli Rosenbloom (CNN) report on the awards ceremony, Bad Bunny’s statements, and—what has been on everyone’s lips lately—the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
One week before he’s set to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show and on a night when he made Grammys history, Bad Bunny used his time on stage to deliver a pointed political message that protested the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Accepting the award for best música urbana album, Bad Bunny began his speech saying, “Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!” The crowd inside the show, which took place in Los Angeles, overwhelmingly responded with cheers, according to what was heard on the telecast.
“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens,” he said. “We are humans and we are Americans.” After pausing while the audience applauded, Bad Bunny continued: “I know it’s tough not to hate on these days, and I was thinking, sometimes we get contaminados – I don’t know how to say that in English – the hate gets more powerful with more hate.”
“The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love,” he said. “So, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love.”
The phrase “ICE out” has been used at protests as a call for an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Bad Bunny won a total of three awards on Sunday, one of which was a history-making win for album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos).” It is the first time a Spanish-language album has claimed the Recording Academy’s top prize.
During his emotional acceptance speech, delivered mostly in Spanish, Bad Bunny dedicated his win to “all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country to follow their dreams.” [. . .]
For full article, see https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/entertainment/bad-bunny-grammys-speech-ice
Also see https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/01/arts/grammys-2026, https://apnews.com/article/2026-grammy-awards-4d631de5d968b51276a8f06b76580e20, https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5693043/grammys-2026-bad-bunny-album-of-the-year, & https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/entertainment/bad-bunny-grammys-2026-album-of-the-year/
[Photo above by Kevin Winter/Getty Images: Bad Bunny accepts the Best Música Urbana Album onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 1, 2026, in Los Angeles, California.]