Ana de Armas and Beto Montenegro pose together at Latin Grammys gala in Las Vegas

Red carpet in Las Vegas

Ana de Armas and Beto Montenegro posed together on the red carpet on 11 November 2026, arriving at the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year gala in Las Vegas. It was their first joint appearance on a red carpet, a setting the actress usually keeps her distance from, and they stood for photographers rather than avoiding them. The evening honored Daddy Yankee at the MGM Grand hotel.

The actress wore a black corset with an open neckline, bare shoulders and a row of metal fastenings down the front. She paired it with a long straight-cut Chantilly lace skirt from Wiederhoeft's spring-summer 2026 collection, which La Razón reports is sold for $4,990 on the Editorialist platform. Montenegro chose a black wide-cut suit with a double-breasted jacket, a white shirt, a dark tie and lightly tinted glasses.

A relationship confirmed in stages

The couple had been seen together for months before this appearance. ABC reports the first signs came in summer 2026, when they were photographed in Madrid and later in Formentera, where images showed them kissing and embracing. In September, Ana de Armas travelled to London to watch a Rawayana concert, following the show from the DJ booth area while Montenegro performed on stage. In October they publicly confirmed the relationship together at Paris Fashion Week. La Razón also notes that she is an ambassador for Louis Vuitton, a brand whose dresses she is usually seen in at public events.

Daddy Yankee honored in Las Vegas

The Person of the Year award recognized Ramón Ayala Rodríguez, known as Daddy Yankee, who is now 50 and almost 35 years into his music career. EL PAÍS reports that about 2,000 colleagues attended the ceremony at the MGM Grand, held the night before the Latin Grammys. J Balvin and Nathy Peluso performed his songs during the evening, and Jorge Drexler opened the tributes by recalling Puerto Rico's Law 112 of 1995, which allowed reggaeton cassettes to be seized. According to the same report, Daddy Yankee and Playero found ways around those restrictions and carried the genre until it became what it is today.

Near the end of the evening Daddy Yankee gave a speech of roughly 15 minutes, thanking everyone who had taken part in the tribute and recalling his childhood in Puerto Rico. Speaking about his neighbourhood, he said:

“There I learned that in the neighbourhood there is plenty of talent. What is missing are opportunities.”

He then described how his music began underground, on cassettes recorded in car parks and at home, and how it was confiscated and censored. He added:

“They confiscated it, they censored it, they said we were criminals, and here we are now, in the big leagues.”

Montenegro and the origins of Rawayana

Alberto Montenegro was born in Caracas in 1989 and grew up during a deep political and social crisis in Venezuela. In 2007, together with three school friends, Antonio Casas, Andrés Story and Alejandro Abeijón, he began shaping Rawayana as a way to disconnect from what was happening around them. In a 2024 interview with LaSexta he recalled the protests that disrupted daily life. He also described the difficulties the band faced working abroad, from passport problems to administrative obstacles that stopped them travelling normally. He said:

“We could not even go to university because there were protests all the time.”