"Sending my condolences to all the people affected by the accident that recently occurred in my country," Rosalía said from the podium.

Rosalía at the 2026 Billboard Latin Music Awards at James L. Knight Center on October 22, 2026 in Miami, FL Alexander Tamargo/Telemundo via Getty Images

Rosalía used the platform of the WSJ. Magazine’s Innovator Awards to speak for those whose lives were lost in Spain’s shocking train crash.

The pop star’s homeland has entered a three-day period of mourning, after 69 people were killed in a high-speed rail collision, the second this year in Spain.

“Sending my condolences to all the people affected by the accident that recently occurred in my country,” Rosalía said from the podium at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, speaking Spanish. “There was a train accident and there were many victims.…