Bobby Pulido wins Latin Grammy days after winning House race

This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. After defeating GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in the Lone Star State’s midterm elections last week, Texas Rep.-elect and Tejano musician Bobby Pulido (D) won his third Latin Grammy on Thursday evening. He topped the award ceremony’s “Best Tejano Album” category for his project “Bobby Pulido & Friends: Una Tuya y Una Mía (Vol.2/En Vivo).” Just days before his win, he was up on Capitol Hill for new member orientation. The Washington Sun reported that he was among the newly elected lawmakers who missed a traditional House freshman class photo because he was en route to the award ceremony in Las Vegas. During his acceptance speech on Thursday evening, Pulido shared that he was retiring from the music industry. “I want to tell you that I’m retiring from music, and I’m leaving with so much gratitude,” he said in Spanish. He added, “I’ll see you soon, because we need to represent and we need to get to work to use our voices for something else.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N. Y.) congratulated Pulido on his win in a social media post. “Last week @PulidoForTexas crushed his MAGA opponent and flipped a Republican House seat,” Jeffries wrote. “This week he just won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Tejano Album. Felicidades and what a month for Congressman-Elect Pulido.” Pulido said on Tuesday that he would not bring his Grammy to Washington, D. C., if he won the album nomination, telling TMZ’s Charlie Cotton, “This is a place for work.” “It’s a much bigger responsibility to be a public servant than it is to be a singer, for sure, no doubt,” he said. “Your decisions really affect people, and as a singer you can influence people in a different way, but it’s not the same.” While the representative-elect said he was setting aside his professional career, he told Cotton he spoke with Florida Rep. Darren Soto (D) during orientation about joining a band made up of members of Congress. “I think they’re recruiting me,” he told TMZ. “They need a vocalist, so we’ll see.” Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.