J Balvin & Xavi Honor Nir Seroussi as Latin Power Players Executive of the Year: ‘You Deserve This’

Industry leaders, artists and Billboard‘s 2025 Latin Power Players gathered astatine Cosadonna successful Miami connected Monday (Oct. 20), wherever hugs were exchanged, awards were handed retired and heartfelt speeches were fixed successful grant Latin Power Players Executive of the Year, Nir Seroussi, caput of Interscope Capitol Miami.

The peculiar nighttime kicked disconnected with Billboard‘s editor-in-chief Hannah Karp, who welcomed the executives and called them “los líderes más poderosos de la música latina” (“the astir almighty leaders successful Latin music”). “Every year, you go adjacent much powerful, gaining spot arsenic the planetary assemblage for Latin euphony grows.”

Leila Cobo, main contented officer, Latin/Español, Billboard also congratulated the honorees, calling them “an elite group,” and handed retired a fewer awards, including Top Regional Mexican Albums Label of the Year to Double P Records, which was received by co-founders Peso Pluma and George Prajin; Regional Mexican Airplay Label of the Year to Universal Music Latin Entertainment, which was awarded by Colombian singer-songwriter Ela Taubert to Angel Kaminsky and Ana Martínez; Top Latin Rhythm Albums Label of the Year and Hot Latin Songs Label of the Year went to Rimas.

But it was Seroussi’s large night. He was being honored arsenic Latin Power Player Executive of the Year and who received peculiar messages and words from his artists, J Balvin and Xavi, and John Janick, CEO, Interscope. “Tonight we observe idiosyncratic who embodies what this concern is genuinely about, creator development, entrepreneurship, disruption and gathering civilization from the wrong out,” Janick said.

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Balvin and Xavi spoke next. The second hitmaker kept it brief, thanking Seroussi for believing successful him. “You merit this,” Xavi said. Meanwhile, Balvin went connected to stock idiosyncratic anecdotes and that the Interscope enforcement is idiosyncratic who “deserves the best,” the Colombian prima said. “You person the powerfulness of being a large quality being, you’re similar a member to me, a mentor, I emotion you, brother, for much radical similar you. Congratulations, Nir.”

An affectional Seroussi went connected signifier to judge the grant and stock an arsenic affectional speech. “I’ve had 30 years to deliberation astir what I was going to accidental tonight,” helium began.

“I’m arrogant and humbled to stock this grant with each of you. I look astir and I spot truthful galore radical that person raised the bar, sometimes by design, sometimes by mishap but ever with bosom … My sanction whitethorn beryllium connected the grant but this belongs to the full team, the ones who crook ideas into reality,” Seroussi continued. “To our team, everyone plays an indispensable relation to what we bash for our artists and their dreams, you’re the heartbeat of everything we’ve done. None of this happens wit...