Five musicians who were once part of RADAR, Spotify's program for emerging artists, are due to come together at Casa Spotify Las Vegas on November 11. The Latin Grammys take place the following day, November 12. According to Spotify, ELENA ROSE, Trueno, Silvana Estrada, Samuraï and Joaquina will appear at an event celebrating the range of sounds and scenes in Latin music today. The company has also released listening figures and career milestones for each of them.
Silvana Estrada leads with six nominations
Of the five, Silvana Estrada has the most Latin Grammy nominations this year. Spotify says her album Vendrán Suaves Lluvias, which she produced herself, received six, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. She was one of the first artists picked for RADAR México, in 2020. Spotify notes that she took the Best New Artist award at the Latin Grammys in 2022. In 2026 she sold out two nights at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.
Joaquina and ELENA ROSE
Joaquina was born in Caracas and grew up in Miami. She won Best New Artist at the Latin Grammys a year before RADAR selected her in 2024. In 2025 she released her first studio album, al romper la burbuja, which earned four nominations, Album of the Year among them. A deluxe version in 2026 included five additional songs. One of these, amarillo, is competing for Best Pop Song. Another, generación digital, is in the running for Best Singer-Songwriter Song.
ELENA ROSE, a singer-songwriter from Venezuela, entered RADAR in September 2020 as she began performing under her own name. Spotify says she had previously written for Bad Bunny, KAROL G, Rauw Alejandro and Selena Gomez. This year her song ALMA is up for Record of the Year. The company also reports that she became the first Latina songwriter to be given the BMI Impact Award. Listeners outside Venezuela account for 87% of her streams on the platform, according to Spotify.
Trueno's audience beyond Argentina
Trueno is a freestyle rapper from the La Boca neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. He was added to RADAR South Cone in 2020. Atrevido, his first album, came out four months later. Spotify says listeners abroad now make up 81% of his streams. It credits Mamichula as the track that first got him onto the global charts. According to the company, every one of his albums has since crossed the 1 billion stream mark. His nomination this year is for Gil, a track he recorded with Milo j.
Samuraï's rise in Spain
Samuraï was chosen for RADAR España in 2024. Spotify characterises her style as a mix of urban elements with pop rock and alternative rock, carried by frank and emotional lyrics. She took her first album, El Silencio Del Ruido, on tour in Spain, and Spotify says the shows sold out nationwide. A joint track with the Spanish band La La Love You, El Principio de algo, has passed 111 million streams, the company says. Spotify's account does not list a Latin Grammy nomination for her.
About the event and the data
According to Spotify, the Las Vegas gathering is being held for the fourth time, and the company has now taken part in Latin Grammys Week for nine years. Its statistics are worldwide figures unless marked otherwise and run through October 20, 2026. All the numbers and descriptions in this article come from Spotify, which operates RADAR, and have not been checked independently. The company also recommends several of its playlists for discovering these and other artists, including Viva Latino and RADAR México.
