Ángela Aguilar Accepts the Breakthrough Award | Billboard Women In Music 2025

Ángela Aguilar accepts the Breakthrough Award at Billboard Women In Music 2025.

Ángela Aguilar:
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. This is really special. This is amazing. Thank you, Billboard. Thank you to my team, my family, and most of all, to the people who have believed in me. Not just when it was easy too, but when it really wasn’t. This Breakthrough Award. Jesus, this Breakthrough Award means a lot to me because this year almost broke me. And honestly, I have had to stand on stage and sing through the tears. And I have had to cry. The weight of judgment and speculation of a story that I have not even told, and a story that has never hit my voice. And yet here I am. I’m still singing. I’m still standing because music is who I am. And it’s the thread that connects me to every woman who came before me, like my grandmother Flor Silvestre. And it’s taught me that these women here today are not my competition because we are each other’s legacy. She taught me that you can fight in silence, and that music speaks way louder than what other people say to every young girl who’s watching this, wondering if she should make herself smaller to fit into someone’s ideas of who they are. Don’t. In this world will try to write your story for you. Don’t let them. Sing your truth. And when they tell you to be quiet, if it’s what you want, if it’s truly what you want, sing even louder. 

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