Nine days ago, Bobby Pulido won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Today, he won a Latin Grammy. The Tejano star took home Best Tejano Album at the 27th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov. 12, for Bobby Pulido & Friends: Una Tuya y Una Mía (Vol. 2/En Vivo) — his third career Latin Grammy and his second straight win in the category.

The victory caps one of the wildest two weeks any musician has ever had. On Nov. 3, Pulido defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District with 62 percent of the vote, flipping a seat Donald Trump carried by 18 points in 2024. Now the 53-year-old singer — best known for the ’90s Tejano hit “Desvelado” — heads to Washington as a Grammy winner, too.

Pulido, who announced he is stepping away from music to focus on his new career in Congress, spoke proudly of his Texas heritage on stage in Las Vegas and said the future of Tejano is in good hands. The win was announced at the Latin Grammy Premiere ceremony, where early winners also included Milo J (three trophies), Jorge Drexler, Alejandro Sanz, Rosalía and The Warning.

The main telecast airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on Univision, with the big four prizes — Album, Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist — still to come. But whatever happens the rest of the night, Pulido already owns the most unbelievable story of the 2026 Latin Grammys: congressman-elect on Nov. 3, Grammy winner on Nov. 12.

Sources: Parade | Tejano Nation | RYM Magazine

Photo: Bobby Pulido at the Laredo Coliseum, February 2016. Photo by Mezquitic via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).