On this magical night where the fabulous creativity of the Andalusia of Picasso, Velázquez, Lorca, Antonio Machado has been remembered, 46 awards have been awarded. Maybe the moment of Rosalía paying tribute to Rocío Jurado It was the highlight but it’s hard to pick one. “We broke our love”, in the Catalan version, was overwhelming, but there was an immensity of emotions in the three hours of a gala in which Karol G and Natalia Lafourcade won three Latin Grammys and Shakira and Bizarrap obtained two for best song.
The Colombian Karol G has won three awards at the 24th annual Latin Grammy Awards, held at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions (Fibes) in Seville, including Best Album of the Year for ‘Mañana Sera Bonito’, with which he also won the award for Best Urban Music Album, while the Mexican Natalia Lafourcade He has won three other gramophones for ‘Of all the flowers’: Recording of the year, Best singer-songwriter album, Best singer-songwriter song.
Three Latin Grammys are also those achieved by the Mexican composer, producer and engineer Edgar Berrera, which started with 13 nominations, including Best Composer of the Year, a category included this year, and Best Producer, while the award for Best Pop Song went to ‘Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53’, which has also won the award for Song of the Year, in the 2023 edition of these awards, the first to be held outside the United States in their history.
For its part, the Best Northern Music Album went to ‘Colmillo de leche’ by Carin León; the Best Flamenco Music Album, in ‘Camino’ by Pastori Girl; Best Pop Vocal Album Julieta Venegas for ‘Your story’ and the Venezuelan Joaquina has been awarded as Best New Artist.
Laura Pausini, pperson of the year by the hand of Karol G, and Antonio Banderas
Furthermore, during the gala, Laura Pausini has received his recognition as Person of the Year from the hand of Karol G, and Antonio Banderas the 2023 Presidential Award presented by the CEO of the Latin Recording Academy, Manuel Abud, and Alejandro Sanz.
For its part, in the Best Traditional Vocal Album category, for which Andalusians among others were nominated Manuel Carrasco with ‘Heart and Arrow’ and Vanesa Martín for ‘Placeres y Sins’, went in the end to Andrés Cepeda for ‘Décimo Cuatro’, an award given at the Premiere of these awards, where they also received a gramophone for Best Fusion/Performance urban ‘TGP’ by Karol G Featuring Shakira, while the award for Best Urban Song went to ‘Quevedo: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52’.
The Mexicans Molotov have also taken the gramophone for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song has gone to ‘Leche de tigre’ by Juan Galeano, written by Diamante Eléctrico Featuring Adrián Quesada. The Best Pop/Rock Album went to ‘VidaDaily’ by Juanes, who collected his award during the Premiere celebration, and the Best Song of this genre went to ‘Ojos Browns’ by Luis Jiménez, Lasso & Agustín Zubillaga.
In the category of Best Alternative Music Album, the Jaén singer Zahara has been left without this award, which Monsieur Periné has finally collected ‘Bolero Apocalíptico’, while the Colombian Carlos Vives has won a gramophone for Best Cumbia/Vellenato Album for ‘Escalona It had never been recorded like this.’ The Best Traditional Tropical Album went to Omara Portuondo for ‘Vida’ and the Best Tropical Song went to ‘Si tú me Quiero’ by Fonseca and written by him together with Juan Luis Guerra, an award that she collected at the gala.
The award for Best Regional Mexican Song went to ‘Un X100to’ by Bad Bunny and Edgar Barrera. The latter has also picked up his gramophone for Best Composer of the Year and Best Producer. The Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album has gone to Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera for ‘I Missed You Too!’.
Finally, Nathy Peluso has won one of the highly prized gramophones for ‘You’re very good’, the one for Best short version music video, and the long version award has gone to Camilo for ‘El primer tour de mi vida’.