{"id":90695,"date":"2025-04-28T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=90695"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:53:03","slug":"hip-hop-star-blanca-nominated-for-puerto-rico-music-award-as-she-makes-waves-with-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/04\/hip-hop-star-blanca-nominated-for-puerto-rico-music-award-as-she-makes-waves-with-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Star Blanca Nominated For Puerto Rico Music Award As She Makes Waves With &#8216;Are You Ready&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Latin-American artist Blanca is declaring summer 2025 as her own. Hot off the release of &#8216;Are You Ready&#8217;, a slick, hip-hop-driven track that showcases her genre-blending, multilingual style &#8211; and as she expands her influence in the UK, she\u2019s now been nominated for a Puerto Rico Music Award for her 2024 hit, &#8216;Worthy&#8217;, featuring Yandel.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nominated for Best Christian\/Spiritual Song, the award is part of a ceremony presented by TV network Telemundo Puerto Rico, known for honouring artists who have &#8220;transcended and boosted the success of Latin urban music around the world&#8221; over the past year. Broadcast in the U.S. by Telemundo and in Latin America by Telemundo Puerto Rico, the event will grace screens on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 7\/6c, live from Vivo Beach Club in Carolina, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"424\" data-attachment-id=\"90697\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/04\/hip-hop-star-blanca-nominated-for-puerto-rico-music-award-as-she-makes-waves-with-are-you-ready\/thumbnail_image004\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_image004.png?fit=578%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"578,424\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_image004\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_image004.png?fit=578%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_image004.png?resize=578%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_image004.png?w=578&amp;ssl=1 578w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_image004.png?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With her growing UK fanbase, a whopping 200 million career streams, and the viral success of, &#8216;Are You Ready&#8217;, Blanca is certainly making a powerful impact on the Latin urban music scene &#8211; and now, her star is poised to shimmer brightly on a global scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiostumusicaurbano.com\/nominados-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for more information on the Puerto Rico Music Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to &#8216;Are You Ready&#8217; below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Are You Ready\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4D0LBjCJOBGQpfU9PWVQse?si=ef775bc1c2ea49a6&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin-American artist Blanca is declaring summer 2025 as her own. Hot off the release of &#8216;Are You Ready&#8217;, a slick, hip-hop-driven track that showcases her genre-blending, multilingual style &#8211; and as she expands her influence in the UK, she\u2019s now been nominated for a Puerto Rico Music Award for her 2024 hit, &#8216;Worthy&#8217;, featuring Yandel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":90696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Latin-American artist Blanca is declaring summer 2025 as her own. 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