Laura Pausini Reveals Album Details at Latin Music Week 2025, Including Covers of Bad Bunny & Joan Sebastian Hits

Italian superstar Laura Pausini exclusively revealed the screen creation and details for her upcoming albums Yo Canto 2 and Io Canto 2, which grant Hispanic and Italian singer-songwriters, respectively, astatine Billboard Latin Music Week 2025. The Spanish-language LP volition diagnostic covers of hits by Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny and Mexican idol Joan Sebastian, the vocalist teased Tuesday (October 21) during her Icon Q&A astatine the prestigious gathering successful Miami.

In a lively speech with Leila Cobo, Billboard‘s manager of contented for Latin/Spanish, Pausini amazed the assemblage with a unrecorded show of her screen of “Turista,” recounting however she connected with Bad Bunny’s euphony and however she was introduced to the satellite of the precocious determination Mexican vocalist Joan Sebastian.

She said she met the erstwhile years agone during a tribute to Gloria Estefan. She explained that “Turista,” included connected Bad Bunny’s celebrated medium Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025), is simply a opus she personally loves and finds has a akin benignant to her own. Her mentation was released connected integer platforms past April.

“Benito wrote to maine and said helium ne'er imagined 1 time I would sing 1 of his songs,” Pausini said emotionally. “I emotion the thought truthful much, and however important it was for maine to bash it with my style. Many radical deliberation we’re opposites, but not similar that.” She praised the mode Benito utilized the connection “turista” to notation to the extremity of a relationship. “Tourists don’t person the clip to spot the flaws of cities, lone the beauteous things, truthful I recovered it precise intelligent.”

Regarding Joan Sebastian, she said she entered his beingness done the algorithm connected integer platforms erstwhile she listened to euphony by Juan Gabriel and Marco Antonio Solís.

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Pausini said the Spanish mentation of Yo Canto 2 volition see 20 tracks, and the Italian version, Io Canto 2, different 20. The span betwixt the 2 albums, owed for merchandise successful 2026, is the archetypal single, “Mi Historia Entre Tus Dedos” (“My Story Between Your Fingers”), the 1994 opus by singer-songwriter Gianluca Grignani that became a deed successful some Italy and Latin America acknowledgment to its versions successful some languages.

The covers of her upcoming albums picture Pausini arsenic a warrior successful metallic covering connected the Italian album, and successful a light, veiled formal connected the Spanish version. What they person successful communal is an imposing metallic sword made up of 3 microphones.

The singer, who volition beryllium honored with the Billboard Icon Award connected Thursday (October 23) during the Billboard Latin Music Awards, announced that the promotional circuit for her caller LPs volition statesman successful Spain successful March 2026 and proceed successful Latin America until June.

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