Laura Pausini to Receive Icon Award at the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards: ‘A True Gift’

Laura Pausini will beryllium recognized with the Billboard Icon Award astatine the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Billboard and Telemundo announced connected Tuesday (Sept. 16) successful a property release. The Italian superstar volition besides execute during the ceremony, which volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded from Miami connected Thursday, Oct. 23.

The Billboard Icon Award honors artists whose careers person not lone remained applicable implicit the years, but besides also those who person established themselves arsenic immoderate of the astir distinguished artists successful their genres, celebrated globally for achieving some philharmonic and commercialized success.

With implicit 75 cardinal records sold and 6 cardinal integer streams passim her much than 30-year career, Pausini is the astir internationally recognized Italian dependable and a planetary popular icon. Among different caller achievements, past November she earned her archetypal introduction connected the Billboard Hot 100 with a mentation of her 1990s deed “Se Fue” featuring Rauw Alejandro. In 2023, she was honored arsenic the Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the Year.

Her latest merchandise is simply a instrumentality of Gianluca Grignani’s classical “Mi Historia Entre Tus Dedos,” the first single of her upcoming covers medium Yo Canto 2, portion she precocious announced a caller satellite circuit for 2026. Additionally, Pausini volition enactment successful Billboard Latin Music Week successful a highly anticipated “Icon Q&A” session.

“What excites maine astir is that this designation comes successful a twelvemonth when, adjacent earlier knowing I would person it, I had already decided to merchandise a tribute medium to the large singer-songwriters of Spain and Latin America,” Pausini said successful a property release. “For the archetypal time, I’m singing and arranging songs that are not my ain oregon successful my style, but that I construe with my ain signature, arsenic a tribute to that emblematic repertoire of our music. And past this quality arrives, conscionable arsenic I think: each my dependable and each my bosom beryllium to Latin music. It feels similar a spark, similar emotion astatine archetypal sight… a existent gift.”

Broadcasted unrecorded from the James L. Knight Center successful Miami, the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards volition aerial connected Telemundo connected Thursday, Oct. 23, astatine 8 p.m. ET. Fans volition besides beryllium capable to ticker the amusement unrecorded via the Telemundo app, Peacock, and Telemundo Internacional crossed Latin America and the Caribbean. Tickets to be the lawsuit volition beryllium disposable soon.

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