Bad Bunny wins the Grammy for best urban music album and charges against the ICE raids: “We are not wild”

The Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny won this Sunday a Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album with ‘I should have thrown more photos’ (DtMf) at a gala held in Los Angeles and in which the singer is nominated in total in six categories.

“Before I thank God, I’m going to say: ICE, get out. We are not savages, we are not animals, we are human beings and we are Americans,” he said when collecting his fourth award, alluding to the Customs and Immigration Enforcement Service (ICE) and its controversial raids that have resulted in the death of two protesters in just two weeks.

The artist made a plea against hate speech at the 68th edition of the Grammys, before which he received a standing ovation from the public, stating that “hate becomes more powerful with more hate. The only thing more powerful than hate is love. That’s why, please, we have to be different.”

Bunny, 31, who recently won another statuette for Best Global Music Performance with ‘EoO’, is also nominated in two other of the most important categories of the night: best recording and best song of the year, with a work entirely in Spanish.

Three other winners in this language are the Mexican Natalia Lafourcade, for Best Latin Pop Album with ‘Cancionera’; Cuban Gloria Estefan, for Best Latin Tropical Album with her album ‘Raíces’; and the Argentine duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso for their album ‘Papota’, which won in the Latin rock or alternative work category.

The singer Olivia Dean has also appealed to the rights of minorities, who has won the award for Best New Artist, defending from the stage that “I am here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I am the fruit of bravery and I believe that these people deserve to be honored.”