{"id":7358,"date":"2025-08-18T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7358\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:21:08","slug":"ricky-martin-to-receive-first-ever-latin-icon-award-at-mtv-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7358\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin to Receive First-Ever Latin Icon Award at MTV VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRicky Martin<\/a> will make MTV VMAs<\/a> history becoming the first ever artist to receive the annual show\u2019s Latin Icon award. Twenty-six years after he became the first male Latin artist to win best pop video and won the most awards of the night at the show, Martin will once again take the stage to perform and accept his award.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe multi-Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning artist performed \u201cLivin\u2019 la Vida Loca\u201d for the VMAs the same year it was nominated for video of the year at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a>, making Martin the first Latin artist in history to receive a nomination in this category. It won a total of five awards at the ceremony. <\/p>\n

\n\tMartin has recorded music that spans Latin pop, dance, reggaeton, salsa and other genres. Born in San Juan, Martin began appearing in television commercials at age nine and began his musical career as a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2025 ceremony is set to air live on CBS Sept. 7. \u00a0Lady Gaga<\/a>\u00a0is the frontrunner for awards, as the singer racked up a leading 12 nods in nominations<\/a>. Gaga\u2019s dozen nominations are followed by 11 for\u00a0Bruno Mars<\/a>, 10 for Kendrick Lamar, eight apiece for Sabrina Carpenter and Rose, and seven each for Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show will air live in all time zones on Sept. 7, starting at 8 p.m. ET\/5 PT. It\u2019s the second year in a row the telecast is being broadcast from New York\u2019s UBS Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Martin will make MTV VMAs history becoming the first ever artist to receive the annual show\u2019s Latin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,1246,2944,337,7517],"class_list":{"0":"post-7358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mtv-video-music-awards","13":"tag-mtv-vmas","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-ricky-martin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}