Bobby Pulido is having quite the month. On November 4, 2026, the beloved Tejano singer and Texas native started the month by winning his campaign for Congress, unseating Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in the midterm elections.
Pulido headed to Washington D.C. for orientation on November 11, and the next day, he won his third Latin Grammy. But it will likely be his last Best Album trophy, because he used his acceptance speech to officially retire from music so he can focus on politics.
Bobby Pulido Has Now Won 3 Grammys Since 2022
Pulido earned a 2026 Latin Grammy for Best Tejano Album, per Billboard. He recorded “Bobby Pulido & Friends: Una Tuya y Una Mía (Vol. 2/En Vivo)” during a series of live concerts in December 2024, and the album was released in 2025.
As Pulido received the Grammy, he also announced his retirement in his acceptance speech, Billboard reported.
“I want to tell you that I’m retiring from music, and I’m leaving with so much gratitude,” he said. “I’m so, so proud to be from Texas and to be Tejano and to represent this music. Tejano music is in very good hands; we have so much talent — young talent like [fellow nominees] Jay Pérez, Destiny Navaira, everyone who’s here.”
Pulido continued, “I love you all, and I’ll see you soon, because we need to represent and we need to get to work to use our voices for something else.”
Pulido has released 17 albums since 1995, per Billboard, with hits including “Te Voy a Amar,” “Se Murió de Amor,” and “Enséñame.” Although he’s spent 30 years in the music industry, his Grammy wins have only come in the last several years.
Rolling Stone reported that Pulido won his first Latin Grammy in 2022 for Best Tejano Album (for his LP “Para Que Baile Mi Pueblo”) and earned his second Best Album Grammy in 2025 for “Bobby Pulido & Friends: Una Tuya y Una Mía,” which was the first volume of the project that he also won for his latest Grammy for.
Bobby Pulido Won 62% of the Vote in His Texas District
Pulido, who won Texas’ 15th Congressional District seat, headed to Washington D.C. with other freshmen members of Congress. According to Billboard, final voting for the 2026 Latin Grammys took place from Oct. 1-12, weeks before Election Day in the U.S.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Pulido is famous in South Texas and comes from “an influential political family.” His main talking points during his campaign were on the economy, focusing on a lack of affordability for families, and anger over the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaigns.
Pulido called himself a “conservative Democrat” with strong faith and family values, and often performed free concerts to draw people to campaign rallies.
In August, he told the Houston Chronicle, ““We’re not taking an approach that these red counties are un-gettable. We are absolutely talking to every single person that we can in every county. We’ve gone to counties that don’t have a Democratic Party, and we’re talking to voters.”
De La Cruz, the paper said, remained loyal to President Trump, who campaigned with her in Corpus Christi just before Election Day.
The L.A. Times reported that Pulido won 62% of the vote to flip the Republican seat. He will represent a region of Texas that stretches from Gonzales through Beeville to his hometown, Edinburg. TejanoNation reported that he performed his final concert on October 17 in Edinburg, and called the show “La Última Desvelada” (The Last Restless Night).
Bobby Pulido Wins 3rd Grammy Days After Being Elected to Congress