Ricky Martin will make MTV VMA History become the first artist to receive the Latin icon prize from the annual program. Twenty-six years after he became the first Male Latin artist to win the best pop video and won the most prize for the evening at the show, Martin will go on stage to play and accept his prize.
The multi-grammy and Latin Winning artist interpreted “Livin ‘La Vida Loca” for the VMA the same year that he was nominated for the video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards 1999, making Martin the first Latin artist in history to receive a nomination in this category. He won a total of five prizes at the ceremony.
Martin recorded music that extends over Latin pop, dance, reggaeton, salsa and other genres. Born in San Juan, Martin began to appear in television advertisements at the age of nine and began his musical career as a member of the group of Puerto Rican boys.
The 2025 ceremony should be broadcast live on CBS on September 7. Lady Gaga is the favorite of the awards, while the singer has accumulated the 12 headlines of the appointments. The dozen Gaga appointments are followed by 11 for Bruno Mars, 10 for Kendrick Lamar, eight each for Sabrina Carpenter and Rose, and seven each for Ariana Grande and The Weeknd.
The show will be broadcast in all times of time on September 7, from 8 p.m. He / 5 PT. This is the second consecutive year that television is broadcast from the New York UBS Arena.
