Liniker, the first trans woman ever to win a Latin Grammy Award, just got 7 more nominationshttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/liniker-the-first-trans-woman-ever-to-win-a-latin-grammy-award-now-has-7-nominations/ 🔗Daniel Villarreal (25 Sep 2025)
When the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards hold its November 13 ceremony in Las Vegas, a history-making transgender musician may be among the many stars in attendance: Liniker, the first-ever out trans performer to win a Latin Grammy Award. This year, the sultry soul singer is nominated for seven Latin Grammy Awards, but she's also gaining popularity worldwide and using her platform to advocate for love and compassion towards the trans community.
Liniker — whose music combines samba, pop, soul, jazz, dub reggae, R&B and cabaret torch songs — currently has 2.2 million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.8 million Instagram followers, but she first came out as gender fluid in a 2015 G1 interview and then came out as a trans woman in a 2017 Glamour magazine interview.
"The process of empowerment is daily. Every day we need to look in the mirror and understand that we are wonderful, that we do have rights, and that we cannot be marginalized by society," she said in the 2017 interview. "Prejudice is everywhere. I'm a Black trans woman. Leaving the house, which is something simple for others, seems threatening to us. It's scary! It's as if we're doing something wrong! That's why we have to occupy spaces, programs, stages... Society makes us invisible."
Liniker was raised by a single mother and, as a young person, was exposed to jazz, R&B, and samba, which would later inspire her own sound.
