Carlos Vives, Wisin, Emilia & Xavi Bond Over the World Cup at Latin Music Week: ‘Soccer Is Love’

Carlos Vives, Emilia, Wisin and Xavi — the artists down the 2026 Telemundo World Cup anthem — discussed their process during “The Music of the World Cup” sheet astatine the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Week connected Wednesday (Oct. 22), moderated by sports anchor and pb premier league host, Carlota Vizmanos.

“This opus is for the family,” Carlos Vives said of the authoritative opus for the FIFA World Cup 2026, that volition premiere astatine the Billboard Latin Music Awards connected Oct. 23. “In a satellite wherever warfare and hatred are the norm, shot is the implicit opposite. What a large accidental for this opus to talk to that and for Telemundo to beryllium the connection that brings it.”

During the discussion, each 3 of the panelists shared their ain idiosyncratic connections to the sport. “I’m grateful for the opportunity; I’m blessed to correspond Mexico,” Xavi added. “Honestly, [this opportunity] fell connected maine similar a bucket of water. I’m inactive processing it. Despite being from antithetic worlds, we each person thing successful communal — and that’s soccer, and that’s wherefore it’s astir unity.”

“Soccer unites us,” Vives added. “It’s brotherhood, it’s friendship, it’s love. Even though it’s contention and rivalry, it’s just play. That’s wherefore it unites america all.”

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“It’s genuinely thing I retrieve connected Sundays: getting unneurotic with friends and family, having a barbecue, and waiting for the game. It was a ritual,” Emilia noted.

Meanwhile successful Puerto Rico, shot is “growing tremendously,” said Wisin. “It’s a doorway that opens to enactment internationally and person different accidental to bash thing great.”

Spanning 36 years, Latin Music Week is the azygous largest gathering of Latin artists and manufacture executives successful the world. This year’s lawsuit — which besides features Carín León, Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Gloria Estefan, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Netón Vega, Ozuna, Pablo Alborán, and Xavi, among others — hosts panels, marquee conversations, roundtables, networking and activations, successful summation to its celebrated Billboard En Vivo showcases. 

Latin Music Week besides coincides with the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, acceptable to aerial Thursday, Oct. 23, connected Telemundo and Peacock, wherever Bad Bunny volition beryllium honored arsenic Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century.

Billboard’s Live Music Summit volition beryllium held successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 3. For tickets and much information, visit