Rosalía, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture

BarcelonaRosalía has been recognized with the National Award for Current Music granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, endowed with 30,000 euros. According to the jury, the award for the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires is “for the artistic transcendence of the album Lux (2025), an ambitious, innovative, and transformative musical proposal, which raises creative limits and has achieved unanimous recognition from critics and the public”. The jury also considers that Lux consolidates "a trajectory of international reach characterized by research, risk, and creative evolution through the search for a unique sonic language that transcends genres, styles, and eras, and which reflects an enormous capacity to combine avant-garde and heritage".

The release of Lux in November 2025 sparked a quite interesting cultural debate, the likes of which had not been seen with an album for some time. In addition to studies on the marketing strategies that accompanied the album's launch, there were above all musical, artistic, and literary analyses (even linguistic ones due to the use of thirteen languages); there were some from a pop perspective and others from a strictly musicological sphere. Although it is apparently a very different album from Rosalía's previous works, Lux is consistent with the philosophy of transformation that the author of El mal querer has turned into a trademark. The hyper-sonority, in which the sound is maximalist by nature, appears as a background landscape in songs that squeeze the sonority of the orchestral string section and accelerate it synthetically, and in which the voice has more prominence than ever, and fewer filters than ever.

When the tour began in Lyon in March , the praise for Lux multiplied. The staging, especially in the first part of the show, has turned Rosalía's 2026 concerts into one of the most interesting and artistically successful shows of recent years.

The particular awards race for Lux is just beginning now, although it has already received eight from the Spanish Music Academy, and a special one from the jury at the Enderrock awards. Rosalía is nominated in seven categories at the Latin Grammys to be held in Las Vegas on November 12. A few days later, the Grammy nominations will be known, and Lux could obtain some in relevant categories, such as Album of the Year.

The Ministry of Culture has been awarding the prize for contemporary music since 2009, the year Joan Manuel Serrat won it. Since then, it has been received by Amaral, Santiago Auserón, Kiko Veneno, Luz Casal, Carmen París, Jorge Pardo, Martirio, Javier Ruibal, Christina Rosenvinge, Mala Rodríguez, Chano Domínguez, Rozalén, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Rodrigo Cuevas, and Miren Iza (from the group Tulsa). Harmonicist Antonio Serrano was the 2025 laureate. Rosalía, 34, is the youngest artist among those recognized with the contemporary music prize.