2026 Canadian Grammy Winners + Canadian Performances

The Grammy Awards were held on February 1, 2026 and a few Canadians brought home the hardware!

Click here for the CBC story.

Click below to view the main ceremony

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Below is a complete list of Canadian winners. Click here for the complete list of nominees & winners.

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Sinners, (Peter Dreimanis from July Talk performs on Pick Poor Robin Clean) - View acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Peter Dreimanis, More July Talk Stories, Video above courtesy of Dylan Wrona
  
  
• Best Dance Pop Recording: Lady Gaga, Abracadabra (Cirkut for production, Serban Ghenea for mixing and engineering) - View acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Lady Gaga, Video above courtesy of Lady Gaga
  
  
• Best Historical Album: Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell Archives – Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) - View acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Joni Mitchell, More Joni Mitchell Stories, Playlist courtesy of Bliskitunhe
  
  
• Best Immersive Audio Album: Justin Gray, Immersed (Drew Jurecka for production) - View acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Justin Gray, More Justin Gray Stories, Playlist above courtesy of Justin Gray - Topic
  
  
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Cirkut (Lady Gaga, Abracadabra, Mayhem and Disease, Coco Jones, AEOMG; Rosé and Bruno Mars Apt.; The Weeknd, Big Sleep and Red Terror; Ed Sheeran, A Little More) - View acceptance speech

Canadian Performances at the Ceremony

Links: Spiritbox, More Spiritbox Videos, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Links: Justin Bieber, More Justin Bieber Stories, Video above courtesy of Justin phiter

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2026 Canadian Grammy Awards Nominations

Canadian made a great showing in the 2026 Grammy Award nomination list.

Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees.

Click here for the full list of all nominations.

Album of the Year:

• Justin Bieber, Swag (Bieber, Tobias Jesso Jr. for songwriting)
• Lady Gaga, Mayhem (Cirkut for production)
• Sabrina Carpenter, Man’s Best Friend (Serban Ghenea for mixing and engineering)

Best Alternative Music Album:

• Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE (Shawn Everett for mixing)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media:

• Sinners, (Peter Dreimanis from July Talk performs on Pick Poor Robin Clean)
• F1 the Album (Tate McRae, Just Keep Watching)
  
  
  
  Links: Tate McRae, More Tate McRae Stories, Video above courtesy of Tate McRae

Best Contemporary Country Album:

• Tyler Childers, Snipe Hunter (Shawn Everett for mixing)

Best Country Solo Performance:

• Tyler Childers, Nose on the Grindstone (Shawn Everett for mixing)

Best Dance/Electronic Recording:

• Kaytranada, Space Invader

Best Dance Pop Recording: 

• Tate McRae, Just Keep Watching (From F1 The Movie)
• Lady Gaga, Abracadabra (Cirkut for production, Serban Ghenea for mixing and engineering) 

Best Historical Album:

• Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell Archives – Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) 
  
  
  
  Links: Joni Mitchell, More Joni Mitchell Stories, Playlist courtesy of Bliskitunhe

Best Immersive Audio Album:

• Justin Gray, Immersed (Drew Jurecka for production)

Best Melodic Rap Performance: 

• PartyNextDoor and Drake, Somebody Loves Me

Best Metal Performance:

• Spiritbox, Soft Spine

Best Opera Recording: 

• Tesori: Grounded, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and George Brant (Yannick Nézet-Séguin for conducting, Emily D’Angelo for production)
• Kouyoumdjian: Adoration, Silvana Quartet and the Choir Of Trinity Wall Street (Miriam Khalil for production) 

Best Orchestral Performance:

• Still & Bonds, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Pop Solo Performance: 

• Justin Bieber, Daisies

Best Pop Vocal Album:

• Justin Bieber, Swag 

Best R&B Performance: 

• Justin Bieber, Yukon

Best Remixed Recording:

• Mariah Carey and Kaytranada, Don’t Forget About Us

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:

• Laila Biali, Wintersongs
  
  
  
  Links: Video above courtesy of Laila Biali

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: 

• Cirkut (Lady Gaga, Abracadabra, Mayhem and Disease, Coco Jones, AEOMG; Rosé and Bruno Mars Apt.; The Weeknd, Big Sleep and Red Terror; Ed Sheeran, A Little More)

Record of the Year:

• Lady Gaga, Abracadabra (Cirkut for production, Serban Ghenea for mixing and engineering)
• Rosé and Bruno Mars Apt (Cirkut for production)
• Sabrina Carpenter, Manchild (Serban Ghenea for mixing and engineering)

Songwriter of the Year:

• Tobias Jesso Jr. (Justin Bieber: Daisies, Go Baby, Walking Away / Dijon: Another Baby, Baby / Bon Iver: From / Miley Cyrus: Golden Burning Sun / Olivia Dean: Man I Need / Haim: Relationships) 

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories

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2025 Juno Winners, Including Local Artists

The 2025 Juno Awards were handed out on March 29 & 30 in Vancouver.

Here's a video of the televised ceremony.

Links: Juno Awards, More Juno Stories, Video above courtesy of CBC Music

Below is the Gala from Saturday

Video above courtesy of CBC Music

Below is the complete list of winners. Local artists are bolded.

• ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Verbathim - Nemahsis (Milton)
  Click here for the acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Nemahsis, More Nemahsis Stories, Video above courtesy of nemahsis
  
  
• BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR: This Old Life - Big Dave McLean (ft Jesse O'Brien on keys)
  
  
  
  Links: Big Dave McLean, More Big Dave McLean Stories, Jesse O'Brien, More Jesse O'Brien Stories, Video above courtesy of Big Dave McLean - Topic
  
  
• BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR: Nemahsis (Milton)
  Click here for acceptance speech
  
  
• HUMANITARIAN AWARD: Sarah Harmer (Burlington)
  
  
  
  Links: Sarah Harmer, More Sarah Harmer Stories, Video above courtesy of CBC Music
  
  
• COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Complicated - Josh Ross (Waterdown/Burlington)
  Click here for acceptance speech
  
  
  
  Links: Josh Ross, More Josh Ross Stories, Video above courtesy of JOSS ROSS
  
  
• ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Inuktitut - Elisapie  
• ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR : Lovers’ Gothic - Maïa Davies 
• ALBUM ARTWORK OF THE YEAR: Keenan Gregory (Art Director): Altruistic – Royal Tusk 
• ALBUM OF THE YEAR: THINK LATER - Tate McRae 
• ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Tate McRae
• CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME: Sum 41
• CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Penny Penguin - Raffi & Good Lovelies 
• CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO ARTIST): Freezing - Emily D’Angelo
• CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SMALL ENSEMBLE) : Rituæls - collectif9 
• CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE): Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie - Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno featuring Marc-André Hamelin and Nathalie Forget 
• CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR: Angmalukisaa - Deantha Edmunds 
• COMEDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Honourable Intentions - Debra DiGiovanni 
• CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Restore - Ryan Ofei 
• CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR: Brown Man - Sebastian Gaskin 
• CONTEMPORARY R&B RECORDING OF THE YEAR: Bloom - Aqyila 
• CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Strange Medicine - Kaia Kater 
• DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR: No Time - Interplanetary Criminal & SadBoi 
• ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR: This But More - Priori 
• FAN'S CHOICE: bbno$ 
• FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Abracadabra - Klô Pelgag 
• GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR : Dankoroba - Djely Tapa 
• GROUP OF THE YEAR: The Beaches
• INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Memory Palace - Intervals 
• INTERNATIOANL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Boi1da
• JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO): Montreal Jazz Series 1 (Échanges Synaptiques) - André Leroux  
• JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (GROUP): Gravity - Jeremy Ledbetter Trio 
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Anne Murray
• METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Beyond the Reach of the Sun - Anciients 
• MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Name of God - Mustafa 
• POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Think Later - Tate McRae 
• PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: Jack Rochon
• RAP ALBUM/EP OF THE YEAR/ALBUM: Red Future - Snotty Nose Rez Kids 
• RAP SINGLE OF THE YEAR: Shut Up - Jessie Reyez 
• RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR: Serban Ghenea
• REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR: Born to Be Free - Exco Levi 
• ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Set Your Pussy Free - NOBRO 
• SINGLE OF THE YEAR: exes - Tate McRae 
• SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR: Mustafa
• SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR (Non-Performer): Lowell
• SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC RECORDING OF THE YEAR: The Brownprint - AP Dhillon 
• TEACHER OF THE YEAR: Jeannie Hunter
• TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR: New Comings - Black Bear Singers 
• TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Retro Man … More and More (Expanded Edition) - Jake Vaadeland 
• TRADITIONAL R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR: Velvet Soul- THEHONESTGUY 
• UNDERGROUND DANCE SINGLE OF THE YEAR: Bamboo - Ciel 
• VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR : Hello! How Are You? - Caity Gyorgy 

Local Artist Performances at Ceremonies

• Nemahsis: Stick of Gum
• Josh Ross: Leave Me Too

Links: Juno Awards, More Juno Stories

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Canadian Nominees for the 2025 Grammys (including local artists)

The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were recently announced and quite a number of Canadian are in the running for the prestigious prize. 

In local news, Waterdown's Stony Plain Records have two albums up for the Best Traditional Blues Album category: Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down (co-produced, co-written and guest starring Hamilton/Kitchener Bluesman Steve Strongman +  backing vocals by Chris Ayries (Hamilton) on 'Sideline') and Sue Foley: One Guitar Woman. Nothing In Rambling, a song from Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down is also nominated for Best Americana Roots Performance.

The 67th GRAMMY Awards, will take be at the Crypto.com Arena (LA) on Sunday, February 2 and broadcast live on the CBS.

Here is the official Grammy Nominee Announcement.

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Below is a complete list of Canadian nominees.

Steve Strongman (Hamilton/Kitchener)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, co-producer, co-writer, guest on tracks) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)
  
  
  
  Links: Fabulous Thunderbirds, More Fabulous Thunderbirds Stories, Video above courtesy of The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Topic
  
  
• Best Americana Roots Performance (The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Nothing In Rambling ft Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood, Co-producer) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Chris Ayries  (Hamilton)

• Best Traditional Blues Album (Fabulous Thunderbirds - Struck Down, backing vocals on 'Sideline') (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Sue Foley

• Best Traditional Blues Album (One Guitar Woman) (released on Waterdown's Stony Plain Records)

Arcade Fire

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Saltburn soundtrack, ft the song No Cars Go)

Lowell Boland

• Best Pop Solo Performance (Beyoncé - Bodyguard / Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Best Country Song / Record of the Year / Song of the Year (Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em, co-writer)
• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, co-writer on some tracks)

Marika Bournaki

• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album (Fotina Naumenko - Bespoke Songs, pianist)

Daniel Caesar

• Best Reggae Album: (Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Waiting In Vain)

Deborah Cox

• Best Musical Theatre Album (The Wiz - 2024 Broadway Cast Recording)

Sara Diamond

• Best R&B Song (Coco Jones - Here We Go (Uh Oh), songwriter)

Grant Dickinson aka Thelabcook

• Best Rap Song ($ ft Rich the Kid & Playboi Carti - Carnival, songwriter)

Serban Ghenea

• Album of the Year (Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department, audio engineer & mixing)
• Best Engineered Album (Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet, audio engineer & mixing)

Dave Hamelin (The Stills)

• Best Country Solo Performance (Beyoncé - 16 Carriages, production and mixing recording engineer)

Shawn Everett

• Album of the Year/Best Country Album (Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter, production and mixing)
• Best Country Album / Best Country Solo Performance / Best Country Song / Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well, mixing)

Kaytranada 

• Best Remixed Recording (Doechii - Alter Ego)
• Best Dance/Electronic Music Album (Timeless)
• Best Dance/Electronic Recording (Witchy ft Childish Gambino)

Avril Lavigne

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Deadpool & Wolverine soundtrack, ft the song I'm With You)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein with London Symphony Orchestra and Bradley Cooper)
• Best Opera Recording (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Catan: Florencia en el Amazonas / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Puts: the Hours)

Jessie Reyez

• Best Reggae Album: Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film ft the song Is This Love)

Spiritbox

• Best Metal Performance (Cellar Door)

Shania Twain

• Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Twisters: The Album, ft the song Boots Don't with Breland)

The Weeknd

• Best Melodic Rap Performance (We Still Don't Trust You with Future and Metro Boomin)

Charlotte Day Wilson

• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Cyan Blue)

Scott Zhang aka Monsune

• Best R&B Song (SZA - Saturn, songwriter)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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2024 Grammy Winners Including Canadians

The 2024 Grammy Awards were handed out on February 4,2023.

Here's the complete ceremony:

Links: Grammy, More Grammy Stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

Here's a complete list of Canadian winners:

• Album of the Year: Taylor Swift - Midnights (engineered by by Serban Ghenea - Montreal)
• Best American Roots Performance: Allison Russell (Montreal) - Eve Was Black
  
  
  
  Links: Allison Russel, More Allison Russel Stories, Video above courtesy of Allison Russell
  
  
• Best Folk Album: Joni Mitchell (Alberta) at Newport [Live]
  
  
  
  Links: Joni Mitchell, More Joni Mitchell stories, Video above courtesy of Recording Academy / GRAMMYs
  
  
• Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Various Artists - Barbie the Album (ft on one song)

The other winners

• African Music Performance: Tyla - Water
• Album Notes: Various Artists - Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
• Alternative Jazz Album: Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book
• Alternative Music Album: Boygenius - The Record
• Alternative Music Performance: Paramore - This Is Why
• Americana Album: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes
• Americana Performance: Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile - Dear Insecurity
• American Roots Song: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Cast Iron Skillet
• Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: The String Revolution Featuring Tommy Emmanuel - Folsom Prison Blues
• Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: Säje Featuring Jacob Collier - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
• Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording: Michelle Obama - The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
• Bluegrass Album: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - City of Gold
• Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: WINNER: Various Artists - For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
• Children’s Music Album: 123 Andrés - We Grow Together Preschool Songs
• Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Roomful of Teeth - Rough Magic
• Choral Performance: Uusinta Ensemble; Helsinki Chamber Choir - Saariaho: Reconnaissance
• Classical Compendium: Various Artists - Passion for Bach and Coltrane
• Classical Instrumental Solo: Louisville Orchestra - The American Project
• Classical Solo Vocal Album: Julia Bullock, soloist; Christian Reif, conductor (Philharmonia Orchestra) - Walking in the Dark
• Comedy Album: Dave Chappelle - What’s in a Name?
• Contemporary Blues Album: Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony
• Contemporary Christian Music Album: Lecrae - Church Clothes 4
• Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard - Your Power
• Contemporary Classical Composition: Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful of Teeth - Montgomery: Rounds
• Contemporary Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Featuring Rakesh 
• Country Album: Lainey Wilson - Bell Bottom Country
• Country Duo/Group Performance: Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything
• Country Song: Chris Stapleton - White Horse
• Country Solo Performance: Chris Stapleton - White Horse
• Dance/Electronic Music Album: Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3
• Dance/Electronic Recording: Skrillex, Fred Again.. & Flowdan - Rumble
• Engineered Album, Classical: Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Contemporary American Composers
• Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Victoria Monét - Jaguar II
• Global Music Album: Shakti - This Moment
• Global Music Performance: Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia - Pashto
• Gospel Album: Tye Tribbett - All Things New: Live in Orlando
• Gospel Performance/Song: Kirk Franklin - All Things
• Historical Album: Various Artists - Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos
• Immersive Audio Album: Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys
• Instrumental Composition: John Williams - Helena’s Theme
• Jazz Instrumental Album: Billy Childs - The Winds of Change
• Jazz Performance: Samara Joy - Tight
• Jazz Vocal Album: Nicole Zuraitis - How Love Begins
• Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Count Basie Orchestra Directed by Scotty Barnhart - Basie Swings the Blues
• Latin Jazz Album: Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo - El Arte del Bolero Vol. 2
• Latin Pop Album: Gaby Moreno - X Mi (Vol. 1)
• Latin Rock or Alternative Album: Juanes - Vida Cotidiana / Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores
• Melodic Rap Performance: Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole - All My Life
• Metal Performance: Metallica - 72 Seasons
• Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano): WINNER: Peso Pluma - Génesis
• Música Urbana Album: Karol G - Mañana Será Bonito
• Musical Theater Album: Some Like It Hot
• Music Film: David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
• Music Video: The Beatles - I’m Only Sleeping
  
  
  
  Links: Beatles, More Beatles Stories/Covers, Video above courtesy of The Beatles
  
  
• New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album: Carla Patullo Featuring Tonality and The Scorchio Quartet - So She Howls
• New Artist: Victoria Monét
• Opera Recording: The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus - Blanchard: Champion
• Orchestral Performance: Los Angeles Philharmonic - Adès: Dante
• Pop Dance Recording: Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam
• Pop Duo/Group Performance: SZA Featuring Phoebe Bridgers - Ghost in the Machine
• Pop Solo Performance: Miley Cyrus - Flowers
• Pop Vocal Album: Taylor Swift - Midnights
• Producer of the Year, Classical: Elaine Martone
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Jack Antonoff
• Progressive R&B Album: SZA - SOS
• R&B Album: Victoria Monét - Jaguar II
• R&B Performance: Coco Jones - ICU
• R&B Song: SZA - Snooze
• Rap Album: Killer Mike - Michael
• Rap Performance: WINNER: Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane - Scientists & Engineers
• Rap Song: Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane - Scientists & Engineers
• Recording Package: Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
• Record of the Year: Miley Cyrus - Flowers
• Reggae Album: Julian Marley & Antaeus - Colors of Royal
• Regional Roots Music Album: Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band - New Beginnings / Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Live: Orpheum Theater Nola
• Remixed Recording: Depeche Mode - Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix)
• Rock Album: Paramore - This Is Why
• Rock Performance: Boygenius - Not Strong Enough
• Rock Song: Boygenius - Not Strong Enough
• Roots Gospel Album: Blind Boys of Alabama - Echoes of the South
• Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media: Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television): Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
• Song of the Year: Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For?
• Song Written for Visual Media: Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For?
• Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical: Theron Thomas
• Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical: Theron Thomas
• Spoken Word Poetry Album: J. Ivy - The Light Inside
• Traditional Blues Album: Bobby Rush - All My Love for You
• Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Laufey - Bewitched
• Traditional R&B Performance: PJ Morton Featuring Susan Carol - Good Morning
• Tropical Latin Album: Rubén Blades con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta - Siembra: 45° Aniversario (En Vivo en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico, 14 de Mayo 2022)

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