The 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards

Latin Grammy Awards

A Latin Grammy Award is an accolade by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. Unlike the regular Grammy Award which primarily honors music produced in the United States, the Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the...

took place on November 8, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center

Mandalay Bay Events Center

Mandalay Bay Events Center is a 12,000 seat indoor arena, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip, in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by MGM Resorts International.It has hosted many music, boxing and mixed martial arts events....

 in Las Vegas, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

.
The show aired on Univision

Univision

Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

. Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 was the nights big winner winning 5 awards including Album of the Year

Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally...

. Juan Luis Guerra was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

The Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year is an award presented annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the same organization that distributes the Latin Grammy Awards, to commend musicians for their artistic achievement in the Latin music industry and dedication to...

 one night prior to the telecast.

General

Record of the Year
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 440 — "La Llave de Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón (song)

La Llave De Mi Corazón is a 2007 hit song from Juan Luis Guerra that has won numerous Latin awards.-Song information:Though the song is primarily written in Spanish, several parts of the lyrics are written in English...

"

• Beyoncé featuring Shakira
  Shakira
  Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
  
   — "Bello Embustero
  Beautiful Liar
  "Beautiful Liar" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Beyoncé and Colombian Latin pop singer Shakira. The song was written by Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Ian Dench, and Stargate members Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen, and produced by Stargate and Knowles for the re-release of Knowles'...
  
  "
• Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...
  
   featuring Paulina Rubio
  Paulina Rubio
  Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
  
   — "Nena
  Nena (song)
  "Nena" is a song released as a single in 1986. It was written by Miguel Bosé, E. Aldrighetti, and V. Ierovante, and was included on Bose's studio album "Salamandra".- Miguel Bosé and Paulina Rubio version :...
  
  "
• Gustavo Cerati
  Gustavo Cerati
  Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark is an Argentine rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He was the frontman, lead vocalist, lead guitarist and lead songwriter of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, one of the most influential bands of latin rock music. In the early 90s, with...
  
   — "La Excepcion"
• Ricky Martin
  Ricky Martin
  Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
  
   featuring La Mari and Tommy Torres
  Tommy Torres
  Tommy Torres is a Grammy Award winning producer, singer, and songwriter. Named as the No. 1 Hot Latin Tracks producer of 2007 by Billboard Magazine and Composer of the Year at 2010 ASCAP's Latin Music Awards, Torres has written and produced songs for many artists such as Ricardo Arjona, Ednita...
  
   — "Tu Recuerdo
  Tu Recuerdo
  "Tu Recuerdo" is the first single from Ricky Martin's album MTV Unplugged. It was released on September 26, 2006, and features La Mari of Chambao.-Chart performance:...
  
  "

Album of the Year
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 440 — La Llave de mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón is a studio album by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and was released on March 20, 2007 by EMI Records. It peaked at number 77 on the Billboard 200. A special edition of the album was released on October 2, 2007. In 2007, the album won six Latin Grammy Awards...

• Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...
  
   — Papito
  Papito (album)
  Papito is an album released by Spanish pop singer Miguel Bosé to celebrate his 30 years in the Music industry. The album includes 14 tracks of previously known hit songs by the artist, in reworked versions in collaboration with many artists including Juanes, Shakira, Amaia Montero, Ricky Martin,...
  
  
• Calle 13
  Calle 13 (band)
  Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar , who calls himself Residente and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez , who calls himself Visitante Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978 in Hato Rey, a subsection of San Juan, Puerto Rico), who calls...
  
   — Residente o Visitante
  Residente o Visitante
  Residente o Visitante is the second studio album by Puerto Rican Urban/hip hop duo Calle 13, released on April 24, 2007, by Sony BMG.-Background:...
  
  
• Ricky Martin
  Ricky Martin
  Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
  
   — MTV Unplugged
  MTV Unplugged (Ricky Martin album)
  - Charts :- Sales and certifications :- Year-end charts :- Decade-end charts :- Credits :Raphael Alkins EngineerWanda Berrios Make-Up, CabeloGustavo Borner EngineerRichard Bravo Percussion...
  
  
• Alejandro Sanz
  Alejandro Sanz
  Alejandro Sanz , is a Spanish singer-songwriter and musician. For his work, Sanz has won a total of fifteen Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards. He has won the Latin Grammy for Album of the Year three times, more than any other artist...
  
   — El Tren de los Momentos
  El Tren de los Momentos
  El Tren de los Momentos is the seventh studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz, which counts with the collaborations of Juanes, Antonio Carmona , Shakira and Calle 13...
  
  

Song of the Year
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 — "La Llave De Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón (song)

La Llave De Mi Corazón is a 2007 hit song from Juan Luis Guerra that has won numerous Latin awards.-Song information:Though the song is primarily written in Spanish, several parts of the lyrics are written in English...

" (Juan Luis Guerra 440)

• Belinda, Kara Dioguardi
  Kara DioGuardi
  Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...
  
   and Nacho Peregrin — "Bella Traición
  Bella Traición
  "Bella Traición" , is the official second single from Belinda's second studio album "Utopía".- Information :...
  
  " (Belinda)
• Fher Olvera
  Fernando Olvera
  José Fernando Emilio "Fher" Olvera, in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico as José Fernando Emilio Olvera Sierra, is the secondary guitarist, composer, and lead singer for the Mexican rock band Maná. Olvera studied communications in the Universidad Iberoamericana...
  
   — "Labios Compartidos
  Labios Compartidos
  "Labios Compartidos" is the first single released from Maná's seventh studio album, Amar es Combatir . It became one of the band's most recognized songs, topping the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for eight consecutive weeks.-Song information:The song deals with the theme of falling in love with...
  
  " (Maná
  Maná
  Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned three Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, five Premios Juventud awards, nine Billboard Latin Music Awards and 13 Premios Lo...
  
  )
• Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita is a singer-songwriter of Latin music. His first disc as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the Sony label in 1988, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award...
  
   — "Tengo" (Franco De Vita)
• Mario Domm
  Mario Domm
  Mario Alberto Domínguez Zarzar , known professionally as Mario Domm, is a Mexican pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Torreón, in the Mexican state of Coahuila, he enrolled in various performing arts schools, where he studied singing on stage...
  
   — "Todo Cambió" (Camila
  Camila (band)
  Camila is a Mexican soft rock group which reached staggering success in their home country and all over Latin America upon the release of their debut album Todo Cambió. It consists of vocalist, composer and producer Mario Domm, vocalist Samuel Parra and guitarist Pablo Hurtado, founded by Domm...
  
  )

Best New Artist
Jesse & Joy

Jesse & Joy

Jesse & Joy are a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican pop duo formed in 2005 by siblings Jesse and Joy .-History:...

• Alejandra Alberti
• Dafnis Prieto
• Tulsa
• Ricky Vallen
  Ricky Vallen
  - Discography :* Homenagens - CD - 2007 * Ao Vivo - CD - 2009 * Ao Vivo - DVD - 2009 -External links:* * -Notes:...
  
  

Pop

Best Female Pop Vocal Album
Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...

 — Yo Canto

Io canto

Io canto is the ninth studio album by Italian singer–songwriter Laura Pausini, released by Warner Music on 10 November 2006. On 14 November, Warner Music released Io cantos Spanish language edition, Yo canto, for the hispanophone market. Yo canto–Io canto is a limited edition double album...

• Ana Belén
  Ana Belén
  Ana Belén is the artistic name of María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, a Spanish actress and singer. She was born on 27 May 1951 in Madrid.- Biography :...
  
   — Anatomía
• Belinda — Utopía
  Utopía
  Utopía is the second studio album by Spanish-born Mexican recording artist Belinda. It was released on October 3, 2006 by EMI Televisa Music in Mexico and Latin America. The album was later released on September 17, 2007 to Europe and the United States...
  
  
• Shaila Dúrcal
  Shaila Dúrcal
  Shaila Dúrcal is a Spanish singer-songwriter best known for being the daughter of singing legend Rocío Dúrcal and 1960s Filipino pop idol Antonio "Júnior" Morales Barreto.- Biography :...
  
   — Recordando...
• Ilona
  Ilona (singer)
  Ilona is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her beginnings in music were through presentations on the public transport bus service in Bogotá when she was 15 years old, and her surprised audience gave her money...
  
   — Allá En El Sur
  Allá en el sur
  Allá En El Sur is the second studio album released by Colombian singer-songwriter Ilona on February 12, 2008. The album received a nomination for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the 8th Latin Grammy Awards, losing to Yo Canto by Italian performer Laura...
  
  

Best Male Pop Vocal Album
Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

 — MTV Unplugged

MTV Unplugged (Ricky Martin album)

- Charts :- Sales and certifications :- Year-end charts :- Decade-end charts :- Credits :Raphael Alkins EngineerWanda Berrios Make-Up, CabeloGustavo Borner EngineerRichard Bravo Percussion...

• Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...
  
   — Papito
  Papito (album)
  Papito is an album released by Spanish pop singer Miguel Bosé to celebrate his 30 years in the Music industry. The album includes 14 tracks of previously known hit songs by the artist, in reworked versions in collaboration with many artists including Juanes, Shakira, Amaia Montero, Ricky Martin,...
  
  
• Andrés Cepeda
  Andrés Cepeda
  Andrés Cepeda Andrés Cepeda Andrés Cepeda (born July 7, 1973, is a popular Colombian singer and songwriter. He was born in Bogotá, the youngest of five children. He displayed an inclination towards music from an early age, studying piano since the age of 5. He composed his first piece at the age of...
  
   — Para Amarte Mejor
• Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita is a singer-songwriter of Latin music. His first disc as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the Sony label in 1988, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award...
  
   — Mil y Una Historias En Vivo
  Mil y Una Historias En Vivo
  Mil y Una Historias En Vivo is a 2006 album by Franco De Vita. The album earned a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Album.-Track listing:#"TENGO" Pop Version#"AY DIOS" con Diego “El Cigala”...
  
  
• Aleks Syntek
  Aleks Syntek
  Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña , better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado, sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.-Biography:...
  
   — Lección de Vuelo

Best Pop Album by a Duo/Group with Vocals
La Quinta Estación — El Mundo Se Equivoca

El Mundo Se Equivoca

El Mundo Se Equivoca is the third studio album release from Spanish music trio, La 5ª Estación. For this album, the group received a Latin Grammy Award on November 8, 2007 for Best Pop Album by a Duo/Group with Vocals....

• Jarabe de Palo
  Jarabe de Palo
  Jarabe de Palo is a Latin rock group from Spain led by Pau Donés , singer, songwriter, and guitarist.- History :Pau Donés, born in Montanuy Huesca, Aragon and raised in Barcelona, worked for various groups before being able to take on his current project, Jarabe de Palo. He began at age 15 with his...
  
   — Adelantando
  Adelantando (album)
  Adelantando is the seventh album by the Spanish Latin rock group Jarabe de Palo, released on April 10, 2007, following the release of the single Olé on March 17.-Track listing:# Adelantando # Olé # No Escondas Tu Corazón...
  
  
• Jesse & Joy
  Jesse & Joy
  Jesse & Joy are a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican pop duo formed in 2005 by siblings Jesse and Joy .-History:...
  
   — Esta Es Mi Vida
  Esta Es Mi Vida
  Esta Es Mi Vida is the debut album by duo Jesse & Joy, consisting of siblings Jesse & Joy. It was released August 22, 2006.The album debuted at #22 on Mexican Top 100 Album Chart and peak #7....
  
  
• Miranda!
  Miranda!
  Miranda! is an Argentine electro pop band formed in 2001. Band members include Alejandro Sergi , Juliana Gattas , Lolo Fuentes , Bruno de Vincenti , and since 2003, Nicolás Grimaldi...
  
   — El Disco de Tu Corazón
• Porpartes — Solo Paz

Urban

Best Urban Music Album
Calle 13

Calle 13 (band)

Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar , who calls himself Residente and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez , who calls himself Visitante Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978 in Hato Rey, a subsection of San Juan, Puerto Rico), who calls...

 — Residente O Visitante

Residente o Visitante

Residente o Visitante is the second studio album by Puerto Rican Urban/hip hop duo Calle 13, released on April 24, 2007, by Sony BMG.-Background:...

• Daddy Yankee
  Daddy Yankee
  Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...
  
   — El Cartel: The Big Boss
  El Cartel: The Big Boss
  El Cartel: The Big Boss is the fourth studio album and eighth overall by Puerto Rican recording artist Daddy Yankee. It was released on June 5, 2007 by El Cartel Records through Interscope Records. The album features contributions from Scott Storch, will.i.am, Luny Tunes, Tainy, Akon, and Mr...
  
  
• Orishas
  Orishas (band)
  Orishas was a Cuban hip hop group The group was first called "Amenaza", "threat" or "menace" in Spanish, and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for African-American culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Orishas delved into a realm of music that created a black identity to which some...
  
   — Antidiotico
  Antidiotico
  Antidiotico is the Greatest Hits album by Orishas, a Cuban hip hop group based in France. It was released in 2007.-Track listing:Disc 1#"Hay un Son" - 3:09#"A lo Cubano" - 4:04#"Elegante" - 3:58#"Emigrantes" - 3:35#"537 C.U.B.A." - 4:23...
  
  
• Ivy Queen
  Ivy Queen
  Ivy Queen is a Puerto Rican Latin Grammy nominated reggaeton composer and singer. She is most commonly known as "La Reina del Reggaeton" . She is also known as the Queen of Rivalries.-Early years:...
  
   — Sentimiento
  Sentimiento (album)
  Sentimiento is the sixth album done by Ivy Queen, and was released on March 27, 2007 by Univision Music Group. Entering the Top Latin Album chart at number 4, making it her highest peaking position yet by any of her albums. Its also her fastest selling album, within a month it received an Oro...
  
  
• La Mala Rodríguez
  La Mala Rodríguez
  María Rodríguez, also known as La Mala, La Mala María, or Mala Rodríguez , is a Latin Grammy Award-Winning Spanish hip hop singer.-Early life:...
  
   — Malamarismo
  Malamarismo
  Malamarismo is the third studio album by Spanish hip hop singer La Mala Rodriguez. The album was nominated for the 2007 Latin Grammy Awards in the category Best Urban Music Album.-Background:...
  
  

Best Urban Song
Eduardo Cabra, Panasuyo and Rene Perez — "Pal Norte" (Calle 13

Calle 13 (band)

Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar , who calls himself Residente and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez , who calls himself Visitante Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978 in Hato Rey, a subsection of San Juan, Puerto Rico), who calls...

 featuring Orishas

Orishas (band)

Orishas was a Cuban hip hop group The group was first called "Amenaza", "threat" or "menace" in Spanish, and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for African-American culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Orishas delved into a realm of music that created a black identity to which some...

)

• Mathieu
  Mathieu
  Mathieu may refer to:In places:* Mathieu, Calvados, a commune of the Calvados département in FranceIn mathematics:* Claude-Louis Mathieu , French mathematician and astronomer...
  
   and Orishas — "Hay Un Son" (Orishas
  Orishas (band)
  Orishas was a Cuban hip hop group The group was first called "Amenaza", "threat" or "menace" in Spanish, and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for African-American culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Orishas delved into a realm of music that created a black identity to which some...
  
  )
• will.i.am
  Will.i.am
  William James Adams, Jr. , better known by his stage name will.i.am and occasionally by his other stage name Zuper Blahq, is an American rapper, musician, songwriter, singer, actor and producer...
  
  , Daddy Yankee
  Daddy Yankee
  Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...
  
   and Fergie — "Impacto
  Impacto
  "Impacto" is the first single by Puerto Rican reggaeton performer Daddy Yankee from his fifth studio album El Cartel: The Big Boss. It was released on April 12, 2007 by El Cartel Records. "Impacto" was nominated for Song of the Year at the Premios Lo Nuestro 2008.-Song information:The song was...
  
  " (Daddy Yankee featuring Fergie)
• Sebastian Rocca and Michael Stuart
  Michael Stuart
  Michael Stuart is an American salsa singer and actor.- Early years :Stuart was born in New York City, to Puerto Rican parents who settled in the 1960s after emigrating from Puerto Rico. There Stuart received his primary and secondary education. He was musically influenced by his uncle Israel...
  
   — "Mi Tumbao" (Tres Coronas
  Tres Coronas
  Tres Coronas are a rap group formed in New York City by two Colombian rappers Rocca & P.N.O. with Dominican rapper Reychesta "Secret Weapon". Created in 2001, the group released mixtapes in the United States, Colombia, France and Spain before founding their label Parcero Productions, with which...
  
   featuring Michael Stuart)
• Don Omar
  Don Omar
  Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey (born William Omar Landrón Rivera; February 10, 1978, is a Puerto Rican Reggaetón singer and actor.-Early life:...
  
   and Eliel
  Eliel (producer)
  Eliel Lind Osorio , best known only as Eliel is a reggaeton producer. His partnership with Don Omar, critical acclaim and commercial success.-Biography:...
  
   — "No Se De Ella (My Space)" (Don Omar featuring Wisin & Yandel
  Wisin & Yandel
  Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton Duo, consisting of Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar . They started their career in 1998 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time....
  
  )

Rock

Best Rock Solo Vocal Album
Fito Páez

Fito Páez

Rodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-Early career:...

 — El Mundo Cabe En Una Canción

• Belo y Los Susodichos — Pisando Lo Fregao
• Iván Ferreiro
  Iván Ferreiro
  Iván Ferreiro is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Vigo, Galicia in 1970. He was the voice, leader and composer of the popular pop-rock band Los Piratas....
  
   — Las Siete y Media
• Rosendo Mercado
  Rosendo Mercado
  Rosendo Mercado Ruiz is a Spanish rock singer and songwriter. He was part of the groups Ñu and Leño, and is a prominent exponent of the so-called urban rock in Spain.- First steps :...
  
   — El Endemico Embustero y El Incauto Pertinaz
• Ariel Rot
  Ariel Rot
  Ariel Rot is an Argentine musician.He went to Spain when he was young and became a member of the group Tequila. Later he started a musical career alone, after which he became a member of the group Los Rodríguez .More recently he has returned to solo performing...
  
   — Dúos, Tríos y Otras Perversiones

Best Rock Album by a Duo/Group with Vocals
Los Rabanes

Los Rabanes

Los Rabanes is a Latin Grammy winner Rock band from Chitré, Herrera, Republic of Panama. Originated in the year 1992 after the end of the bands "Rum & Coke" and "El Decimo Piso". They formed the band with the idea to play in small pubs and bars at weekends. Soon the group won international...

 — Kamikaze

• Attaque 77
  Attaque 77
  Attaque 77 is an Argentine rock group formed in 1987.-History:Formed in 1987 as a group of friends who got together to play their favorite songs, most of them by The Ramones, their favorite band and the one that influenced them the most...
  
   — Karmagedon
• Bengala — Bengala
• La Renga
  La Renga
  La Renga are a hard rock and Heavy Metal band from Argentina, formed in 1988.They have a moderate success with the albums A Dónde Me Lleva La Vida and Bailando en una pata, between 1993 and 1995, but it was the release of Despedazado por Mil Partes, in 1996, that made them nationally famous.With...
  
   — TruenoTierra
  TruenoTierra
  TruenoTierra is the seventh studio album by Argentine hard rock band La Renga, released on December 12, 2006. It was the first studio double album released by the band....
  
  
• Panda
  Panda (band)
  Panda is a Mexican alternative rock band formed in Monterrey, Nuevo León in 1996 as part of the musical movement known as Avanzada Regia...
  
   — Amantes Sunt Amentes
  Amantes Sunt Amentes
  Amantes Sunt Amentes , is the fourth studio album by the Mexican Avanzada Regia rock band Panda, released on October 2, 2006. The first single is called "Narcisista por Excelencia" and the video premiered on MTV. The second single was "Los Malaventurados No Lloran" proceeded by "Procedimientos para...
  
  

Best Rock Song
Gustavo Cerati

Gustavo Cerati

Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark is an Argentine rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He was the frontman, lead vocalist, lead guitarist and lead songwriter of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, one of the most influential bands of latin rock music. In the early 90s, with...

 — "La Excepción" (Gustavo Cerati)

• Bruno Bressa, Chalo Galván and Gerardo Galván — "Monitor" (Volovan
  Volovan
  Volován is a pop-rock Mexican Avanzada Regia band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon that was formed in 1998.-Biography:It is internationally well-known for its collaborations with the American Andy Chase , the English man Joe Robinson and the Mexican Alejandro Rosso...
  
  )
• Panda
  Panda (band)
  Panda is a Mexican alternative rock band formed in Monterrey, Nuevo León in 1996 as part of the musical movement known as Avanzada Regia...
  
   — "Narcisista por excelencia
  Narcisista por excelencia
  Narcisista por excelencia is a rock song by the Mexican Avanzada Regia band Panda. It was released in September 2006 as the first single from the band's fourth album, Amantes Sunt Amentes. The song was written by José Madero, the vocalist of the band...
  
  " (Panda)
• Gustavo Napoli — "Oscuro Diamante" (La Renga
  La Renga
  La Renga are a hard rock and Heavy Metal band from Argentina, formed in 1988.They have a moderate success with the albums A Dónde Me Lleva La Vida and Bailando en una pata, between 1993 and 1995, but it was the release of Despedazado por Mil Partes, in 1996, that made them nationally famous.With...
  
  )
• Roberto Musso — "Yendo A La Casa De Damián" (El Cuarteto de Nos
  El Cuarteto de Nos
  El Cuarteto de Nos is a rock group formed in 1980 in Montevideo, Uruguay.- Resume :El Cuarteto is the oldest active Uruguayan band. It has gained universal praise trascending local culture through universal themes and engaging everyday pathos in a humorous light.- Beginnings :In 1980, El Cuarteto...
  
  )

Alternative

Best Alternative Music Album
Aterciopelados

Aterciopelados

Aterciopelados , also referred to as los Aterciopelados on some albums and other promotional materials, are a rock band from Colombia. Led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago, they have been one of the first rock bands from Colombia to gain international notice and is among the country's top...

 — Oye

• Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen is an Argentine-American rock musician. Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, he lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12...
  
   — Logo
• Kinky
  Kinky (band)
  Kinky is a five-member band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, formed in 1998 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and consisting of Gilberto Cerezo, Ulises Lozano, Carlos Chairez, Omar Góngora, and Cesar Pliego. The band's music is heavily influenced by Latin music, rock, dance, and...
  
   — Reina
  Reina (album)
  Reina is a self produced album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on September 5, 2006 on Nettwerk. The album's lyrics are sung more in English than Spanish, unlike Kinky's two preceding albums, Kinky and Atlas...
  
  
• Vicentico
  Vicentico
  Gabriel Julio Fernández Capello is a musician and composer better known by his stage name Vicentico. Co-founder and vocalist of the band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs along with Flavio Cianciarulo...
  
   — Los Pajaros
• Zoé
  Zoé
  Zoé is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Mexican alternative/psychedelic band. They initially formed in Mexico City in 1994, although membership started to stabilize in 1997...
  
   — Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea
  Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea
  Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea is the third studio album by Mexican rock band Zoé. The record shows a noticeable synth-pop influence.It debuted at #1 in Mexican stores sales achieved for the first time by the band...
  
  

Best Alternative Song
Manu Chao

Manu Chao

Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...

 — "Me Llaman Calle" (Manu Chao)

• Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen is an Argentine-American rock musician. Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, he lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12...
  
   — "Anoche Soñé Contigo" (Kevin Johansen)
• Héctor Buitrago
  Héctor Buitrago
  Hector Buitrago is the co-member of the multiple Grammy winning Colombian Latin alternative band Aterciopelados. Buitrago came from a hardcore rock background, heading a group called La Pestilencia, while co-member Andrea Echeverri had been drawn into the fledgling scene through art school friends...
  
   and Andrea Echeverri
  Andrea Echeverri
  Andrea Echeverri is a Colombian rock/pop singer and guitarist, born in Bogotá in 1965. She is the lead singer in Aterciopelados where she also plays the acoustic guitar. Echeverri has long captivated audiences with her potently melodic brand of feminism...
  
   — "Complemento" (Aterciopelados
  Aterciopelados
  Aterciopelados , also referred to as los Aterciopelados on some albums and other promotional materials, are a rock band from Colombia. Led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago, they have been one of the first rock bands from Colombia to gain international notice and is among the country's top...
  
  )
• Vicentico
  Vicentico
  Gabriel Julio Fernández Capello is a musician and composer better known by his stage name Vicentico. Co-founder and vocalist of the band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs along with Flavio Cianciarulo...
  
   — "El Arbol de la Plaza" (Vicentico)
• León Larregui and Zoé
  Zoé
  Zoé is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Mexican alternative/psychedelic band. They initially formed in Mexico City in 1994, although membership started to stabilize in 1997...
  
   — "No Me Destruyas" (Zoé)

Tropical

Best Salsa Album
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico — Arroz con Habichuela

Arroz con Habichuela

Arroz con Habichuela is the recent studio album by El Gran Combo released on November 28, 2006. The title of the album means "rice with beans" which is a popular plate in Puerto Rico. It is also the first album that the newest member, Willie Sotelo, takes over the piano for Rafael Ithier, who is...

• Willy Chirino
  Willy Chirino
  Willy Chirino, born April 5, 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba, is an entertainer and singer in the salsa style.-Early Family Life:...
  
   — 35 Aniversario: En Vivo
• Issac Delgado
  Issac Delgado
  This article is about the musician; for the New Orleans philanthropist with a similar name, see Isaac DelgadoIssac Delgado is one of the founders of the band NG La Banda and is a popular salsa and timba performer.-Early life and family:His father, Luis Delgado, was a tailor and his mother,...
  
   — En Primera Plana
• Andy Montañez
  Andy Montañez
  Andrés Montañez , better known as Andy Montañez, is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.-Early life:Montañez, like singer Daniel Santos and boxer Ossie Ocasio, is a native of the Tras Talleres area of Santurce San Juan. He is known by the nickname "El Godfather de la Salsa"...
  
   — El Godfather de La Salsa
• Tito Nieves
  Tito Nieves
  Humberto "Tito" Nieves became one of the leading Salsa singers of the 1980s and the early 1990s....
  
   — Canciones Clásicas de Marco Antonio Solís

Best Merengue Album
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 440 — La Llave de mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón is a studio album by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and was released on March 20, 2007 by EMI Records. It peaked at number 77 on the Billboard 200. A special edition of the album was released on October 2, 2007. In 2007, the album won six Latin Grammy Awards...

• Elvis Crespo
  Elvis Crespo
  Elvis Crespo , is a Puerto Rican-American Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning Merengue singer.-Early years:Crespo was born in New York City and was named "Elvis" after Elvis Presley...
  
   — Regreso el Jefe
  Regresó el Jefe
  Regresó el Jefe is an album by Elvis Crespo that was released to the public on June 5, 2007. It is Crespo's first album in three years....
  
  
• Limi-T 21
  Limi-T 21
  Limi-T 21 is a popular merengue group from Puerto Rico. The group was formed in 1991 and have been together since....
  
   — Real Time
• Kinito Mendez — Con Sabor A Mi
• Toño Rosario
  Toño Rosario
  Máximo Antonio del Rosario , commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy-award nominee Merengue musician born in the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Tono Rosario is a singer-songwriter, arranger and producer...
  
   — A Tu Gusto

Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album
Jorge Celedón

Jorge Celedón

Jorge Celedón also known as Jorgito Celedón is a Colombian musician, singer of vallenato music. Celedón was one of the backup singers for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America who joined after the death of Rafael Orozco Maestre...

 and Jimmy Zambrano — Son...Para El Mundo

• Checo Acosta — Checazos de Carnaval 3
• Binomio de Oro de América
  Binomio de Oro de América
  Binomio de Oro de América is a vallenato musical group from Colombia. It was founded by lead singer Rafael Orozco and accordionist Israel Romero in the Caribbean Region of Colombia on June 16, 1976...
  
   — Impredecible
• Alfredo Gutiérrez — El Más Grande con Los Grandes
• Peter Manjarrés and Sergio Luis Rodríguez — El Papá de Los Amores

Best Contemporary Tropical Album
Oscar D'León

Oscar D'León

Oscar Emilio León Somoza, better known as Oscar D'León is a Venezuelan musician who became internationally famous for his salsa music. In Spanish, he is known as El Sonero del Mundo . His most famous song is perhaps "Llorarás," which he recorded in 1975 with his group La Dimensión Latina...

 — Fuzionando

• Albita — Live At The Colony Theater
• Aventura — K.O.B. Live
• Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz
  Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz
  Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz are an American musical duo consisting of Ricardo "Richie" Ray and Roberto "Bobby" Cruz. The duo was formed in 1963 and rose to fame in the mid 1960s. They are one of the most famous interpreters of 'salsa brava' music....
  
   — A Lifetime Of Hits... Live At Centro De Bellas Artes, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Nino Segarra
  Nino Segarra
  Nino Segarra , is a singer, composer, musician and musical arranger.-Early years:Segarra was born in Maricao, Puerto Rico into a family of musicians. He was always surrounded by many musical instruments and as a child learned how to play the drums, guitar and cuatro. He received his primary and...
  
   — De Nino A Nino: Homenaje A Nino Bravo

Best Traditional Tropical Album
Bobby Cruz

Bobby Cruz

Bobby Cruz is a salsa singer and religious minister. He is well known for his success beginning in 1965 as part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. His seminal professional pairing with Richie Ray is one of the longest-lived partnerships in Latino music, lasting over 45 years...

 — Románticos De Ayer, Hoy y Siempre

• Francisco Cespedes — Con El Permiso de Bola
• Ibrahim Ferrer
  Ibrahim Ferrer
  Ibrahim Ferrer was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Conjunto Sorpresa, Orquesta Chepin-Choven and Afro-Cuban All Stars...
  
   — Mi Sueño
• La Charanga Cubana — A Comer Chicharrón
• Alfredo Valdés Jr. — De La Habana a Nueva York

Best Tropical Song
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 — "La Llave de Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón (song)

La Llave De Mi Corazón is a 2007 hit song from Juan Luis Guerra that has won numerous Latin awards.-Song information:Though the song is primarily written in Spanish, several parts of the lyrics are written in English...

" (Juan Luis Guerra 440)

• Doejo
  Doejo
  Doejo, LLC is a privately owned digital services agency based in Chicago, IL. Founded in 2007, Doejo specializes in marketing, web development, graphic design and brand consulting for both brick-and-mortar and online businesses. It was founded by Chicago business owner Phil Tadros and Darren...
  
   and Juan José Hernández — "Arroz con Habichuela" (El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico)
• Yoel Henriquez and Jorge Luis Piloto — "La Mujer Que Más Te Duele" (Issac Delgado
  Issac Delgado
  This article is about the musician; for the New Orleans philanthropist with a similar name, see Isaac DelgadoIssac Delgado is one of the founders of the band NG La Banda and is a popular salsa and timba performer.-Early life and family:His father, Luis Delgado, was a tailor and his mother,...
  
   featuring Víctor Manuelle
  Victor Manuelle
  Víctor Manuelle, born Víctor Manuel Ruiz on November 4, 1968 in Bronx, New York, is a successful Latin Grammy nominated Puerto Rican American salsa singer, songwriter, and improvisational sonero, known to his fans as El Sonero de la Juventud...
  
  )
• José Gaviria Escobar — "No Te Pido Flores
  No Te Pido Flores
  No Te Pido Flores is the debut song by Colombian singer Fanny Lú on her first studio album Lágrimas Cálidas. The song received a Billboard Music Latin nomination for "Tropical Airplay of the Year" and a Latin Grammy nomination for "Best Tropical Song"....
  
  " (Fanny Lú
  Fanny Lu
  Fanny Lucía Martínez Buenaventura , known professionally as Fanny Lú, is a Colombian singer-songwriter and actress from Santiago de Cali, Colombia.-Early life:...
  
  )

Singer-Songwriter

Best Singer-Songwriter Album
Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

 — Cê

• Jorge Drexler
  Jorge Drexler
  Jorge Drexler is an Uruguayan musician and actor.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award...
  
   — 12 Segundos de Oscuridad
• Amaury Gutierrez
  Amaury Gutiérrez
  Amaury Gutiérrez is a Cuban artist.His first album Amaury Gutiérrez was nominated for a Latin Grammy and sold more than 600 thousand copies...
  
   — Pedazos de Mí
• José Luis Perales
  José Luis Perales
  José Luis Perales is a Spanish singer-songwriter and composer who is very popular in Spain and Latin America. He has performed some of his extensive work at Carnegie Hall, New York.-Biography:...
  
   — Navegando Por Ti
• Silvio Rodríguez
  Silvio Rodríguez
  Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement.He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and...
  
   — Érase Que Se Era

Regional Mexican

Best Ranchero Album
Pepe Aguilar

Pepe Aguilar

José "Pepe" Aguilar Jiménez is a popular singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi and pop music. Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.-Career:...

 — Enamorado

• Cristian Castro
  Cristian Castro
  Cristian Castro is a Grammy Award-nominated Mexican pop singer. He is referred to as "Christian Castro" or "Cristian."- Biography :...
  
   — El Indomable
  El Indomable
  El Indomable is an album by Cristian Castro. It was his first ranchera and mariachi crossover attempt. It is produced by Pedro Ramírez and Vicente Fernández. The first single from the album is José Alfredo Jiménez's "Tu Retirada". As of July 11, 2007, the album has sold 12,868 copies in the US...
  
  
• Pedro Fernández
  Pedro Fernández
  José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...
  
   — Escúchame
• Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to...
  
   — La Tragedia del Vaquero
• Pablo Montero
  Pablo Montero
  Pablo Montero is a popular Mexican singer and actor.- Personal life :Montero was born Oscar Daniel Hernández Rodríguez in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.From about 2000 to 2003, Montero had a relationship with Aracely Arámbula....
  
   — Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra... y sus Canciones

Best Banda Album
Los Horóscopos de Durango

Los Horoscopos de Durango

Los Horóscopos de Durango is one of the longest recording groups in the Regional Mexican genre performing Duranguense banda.This successful group was started by Dn. Armando Terrazas in Chicago during 1975...

 — Desatados

• Alacranes Musical
  Alacranes Musical
  Alacranes Musical is a Mexican-American band produced by Oscar Urbina that plays duranguense music. They are from the Aurora suburb of Chicago, Illinois.-Recordings:...
  
   — Ahora y Siempre
• Banda Machos
  Banda Machos
  Banda Machos is a Mexican band originally from Villa Corona, in the state of Jalisco. The band sings a combination of Banda music, Quebradita, and Ranchera...
  
   — A Pesar De Todo
• Graciela Beltrán
  Graciela Beltrán
  Graciela Beltrán in the small town of Costa Rica located in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, is a Mexican singer and actress...
  
   — Promesas No
• Valentín Elizalde
  Valentín Elizalde
  Valentín Elizalde Valencia was a Mexican banda music singer gunned down in an ambush. Known by the nickname "El Gallo de Oro" , his biggest Banda hits included "Vete Ya," "Ebrio de Amor", " Vete Con Él", "Vuelve Cariñito", "Como Me Duele", "Vencedor", " Mi Virgencita", and "Soy Así"...
  
   y su Banda Guasaveña — Lobo Domesticado
• Grupo Móntez de Durango
  Grupo Montéz de Durango
  El Grupo Montéz de Durango is a duranguense band currently based in Chicago, USA. This group is well known in the United States, Mexico and Central America. Although Grupo Montez de Durango's sound is deeply rooted in the music of traditional Mexican music, it is also influenced by the members'...
  
   — ¡Agárrese!

Best Grupero Album
Grupo Bryndis

Grupo Bryndis

Grupo Bryndis is an internationally known Mexican musical group. Originated in Santa Paula, California, U.S.A . by their leader, guitarist and song-writer Mauro Posadas in 1983. Grupo Bryndis is also a Latin Grammy Award winner for best album in 2007...

 — Sólo Pienso En Ti

• Caballo Dorado — Cabalgando En Las Canciones de Joan Sebastian
• Víctor García — Arráncame
• Los Acosta — Siluetas
• Los Angeles de Charly
  Los Angeles de Charly
  Los Angeles de Charly are a Mexican musical group led by their namesake vocalist Carlos "Charly" Becíes. The group formed in 1999 after Charly Becíes and fellow vocalist Guillermo "Memo" Palafox left the popular group Los Angeles Azules...
  
   — Un Tiempo, Un Estilo, Un Amor

Best Tejano Album
Los Palominos

Los Palominos

Los Palominos are a tejano group from Uvalde, Texas.Los Palominos were formed in 1986 by four brothers under the name Los Tremendos Pequeños. Their repertory includes polka, rancheras, boleros, ballads, and cumbias. They signed with Sony Discos in 1994 after meeting with Armando Lichtenberger and...

 — Evoluciones

• La Tropa F
  La Tropa F
  La Tropa F is a Tejano music group from San Antonio, Texas. Originally named Los Hermanos Farias, the group changed its name to La Tropa F in the 1980s...
  
   — Exitos de Combate
• The Legends
  The Legends
  The Legends are a Swedish pop band, distributed by Lakeshore Records in the US, by Labrador Records in Sweden and by Little Teddy Recordings in Germany....
  
   — Otra Vez Raices
• Joe Lopez and Jimmy González & El Grupo Mazz
  Mazz
  Mazz is a Grammy Award–winning Tejano band originating from south Texas. They were formed in Brownsville, TX, by singer/guitarists Jimmy González and Joe López, and emerged as one of the most innovative bands in their genre after adding synthesizer to combine traditional Mexican music and popular...
  
   for Mazz Live Reunion - The Last Dance
• David Marez — Corazón de Oro
• Joe Posada — Despacito

Best Norteño Album
Michael Salgado

Michael Salgado

Michael Salgado is a popular Tejano artist.Tejano singer/accordionist Michael Salgado gained prominence in the mid-1990s by looking back to the 'norteño' sound influenced by Ramon Ayala, and by susequently introducing the style to the younger generation...

 — En Vivo

• Conjunto Primavera
  Conjunto Primavera
  Conjunto Primavera is a Mexican conjunto group from Ojinaga, Chihuahua, currently produced by Alejandro Garcia. In the 1990s and 2000s they became one of the most popular groups in the genre....
  
   — El Amor Que Nunca Fue
• Intocable
  Intocable
  Intocable is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 90's. Within a couple years as a band, Intocable had already risen to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that had fused Tejano's...
  
   — Crossroads — Cruce De Caminos
• Pesado — Piénsame Un Momento
• Siggno — Capítulo 5

Best Regional Mexican Song
Freddie Martinez, Sr. — "A Las Escondidas" (Joe Lopez featuring Jimmy González & El Grupo Mazz

Mazz

Mazz is a Grammy Award–winning Tejano band originating from south Texas. They were formed in Brownsville, TX, by singer/guitarists Jimmy González and Joe López, and emerged as one of the most innovative bands in their genre after adding synthesizer to combine traditional Mexican music and popular...

)

• Edgar Cortazar and Mark Portmann
  Mark Portmann
  Mark Portmann is a record producer and songwriter who worked with Celine Dion and Josh Groban. Portman began to learn classical piano as a child, but later turned to pop music and jazz. He went to the Eastman School of Music on a scholarship, studying composition, and attended the University of Miami...
  
   — "¿Cómo Quieres Que Te Olvide?" (Pedro Fernández
  Pedro Fernández
  José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...
  
  )
• Carlos Alberto Agundiz — "Él No Eres Tú" (Los Horóscopos de Durango
  Los Horoscopos de Durango
  Los Horóscopos de Durango is one of the longest recording groups in the Regional Mexican genre performing Duranguense banda.This successful group was started by Dn. Armando Terrazas in Chicago during 1975...
  
  )
• Teodoro Bello — "La Tragedia del Vaquero" (Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández
  Vicente Fernández Gómez is a Mexican singer, producer and actor. Known as Chente or El rey de la canción ranchera throughout the Latin world, Vicente Fernández, who started his career singing for tips on the street, has become a cultural icon, recording more than 50 albums and contributing to...
  
  )
• Edgar Cortazar, Adrián Pieragostino and José Luis Terrazas — "Me Duele Escuchar Tu Nombre" (Grupo Móntez de Durango
  Grupo Montéz de Durango
  El Grupo Montéz de Durango is a duranguense band currently based in Chicago, USA. This group is well known in the United States, Mexico and Central America. Although Grupo Montez de Durango's sound is deeply rooted in the music of traditional Mexican music, it is also influenced by the members'...
  
  )
• Mauricio L. Arriaga and Eduardo Murguia — "Por Amarte" (Pepe Aguilar
  Pepe Aguilar
  José "Pepe" Aguilar Jiménez is a popular singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi and pop music. Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.-Career:...
  
  )
• Luis "Louie" Padilla — "Por Ella (Poco a Poco)" (Intocable
  Intocable
  Intocable is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 90's. Within a couple years as a band, Intocable had already risen to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that had fused Tejano's...
  
  )

Instrumental

Best Instrumental Album
Chick Corea

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

 and Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

 — The Enchantment

• Ray Barretto
  Ray Barretto
  Ray Barretto was a Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican jazz musician.-Early years:Barretto was born in New York City of Puerto Rican descent...
  
   — Standards Rican-ditioned
• Ed Calle
  Ed Calle
  Ed Calle is a musician from Miami, Florida. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela.Calle plays the saxophone, flute, clarinet, EWI, keyboards, and vocals. He also composes and arranges music. Dr. Eduardo J...
  
   — In The Zone
• Carlos Franzetti Trio — Live In Buenos Aires
• Hamilton de Holanda Quintet — Brasilianos

Traditional

Best Folk Album
Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto are a Colombian traditional folkloric cumbia group formed in the Caribbean Region of Colombia which have been active since 1940...

 — Un Fuego de Sangre Pura

Un Fuego de Sangre Pura

Un Fuego de Sangre Pura is an album by the Colombian folkloric cumbia group Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto released in 2006 in the Smithsonian Folkways label...

• Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
  Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
  Los Muñequitos de Matanzas is a Cuban rumba and Folkloric group. It has been described by many as one of the most important groups in Cuba.The group formed under the name "Guaguancó Matancero" in 1952, in Barrio Marina, Matanzas, Cuba. Among their first recordings was the song "Los muñequitos" ...
  
   — Tambor De Fuego
• Mariza
  Mariza
  Mariza is the stage name of a popular fado singer. She was born Marisa dos Reis Nunes on 16 December 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. At the time, Mozambique was known as the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique....
  
   — Concerto Em Lisboa
• Sones de México Ensemble Chicago — Esta Tierra Es Tuya (This Land is Your Land)

Best Tango Album
Raul Jaurena — Te Amo Tango

• Luisa Maria Güell — Una
• Rodolfo Mederos
  Rodolfo Mederos
  Rodolfo Mederos is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer and arranger. He lived in Cuba and France; in Argentina, he founded the cult group Generación Cero.- Beginnings :...
  
   Orquesta Típica — Comunidad
• Vayo — Tango Legends

Best Flamenco Album
Ojos de Brujo

Ojos de Brujo

Ojos de Brujo is a nine-piece band from Barcelona, Spain, who describe their style as "jipjop flamenkillo"...

 — Techarí

• Calima — Azul
• Juan Carmona — Sinfonia Flamenca
• Miguel Poveda — Tierra De Calma
• Son De La Frontera — Cal

Jazz

Best Latin Jazz Album
Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in the newest renamed Artemisa Province, Cuba....

 — Rumba Palace

• Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...
  
   and Tomatito
  Tomatito
  José Fernández Torres, known as Tomatito , is a Spanish Romani flamenco guitarist. He grew up in a musical family, including two uncles: Niño Miguel, a flamenco guitarist, and Antonio, a professional guitarist....
  
   — Spain Again
• Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...
  
   — Spirit Of The Moment
• Paquito D'Rivera
  Paquito D'Rivera
  Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
  
   Quintet — Funk Tango
• Chucho Valdés
  Chucho Valdés
  Chucho Valdés is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists...
  
   — Keys Of Latin Jazz

Christian

Best Christian Album (Spanish Language)
Marcos Witt

Marcos Witt

Marcos Witt , is an American, four-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Christian singer and pastor.-Biography:Marcos Witt is the second born of three children to Jerry and Nola Witt, a young American missionary couple. The Witt family moved to Durango, México, in 1964 and they started a missionary...

 — Alegría

• Blest — Palabras del Alma
• Daniel Calveti — Un Día Más
• Pablo Olivares — Voy A Entregar Mi Corazón
• Pamela — En Español
• Paulina Aguirre
  Paulina Aguirre
  Paulina Aguirre is a singer, songwriter, and 2009 Latin Grammy Winner.In 2007 Paulina released her first solo album titled, “Mujer de Fe” , produced by Pablo Aguirre. The album features duets with Latin rap artist, Gerardo on “Nada Va a Separarme”; as well as Juan Carlos Rodriguez, on “Eres Mi...
  
   — Mujer de Fe
• Rojo
  Rojo (band)
  Rojo is a Christian rock band from Mexico. The band was formed in 2000 by bassist Emmanuel Espinosa, with their eponymous debut album released in 2001.-Band history:...
  
   — Con el Corazón en la Mano

Best Christian Album (Portuguese Language)
Aline Barros — Caminho De Milagres

• Padre Juarez de Castro — Deus Está Aqui
• Eyshila — Até Tocar O Céu
• Cristina Mel — Um Novo Tempo
• Robinson Monteiro — Uma Nova História
• Oficina G3
  Oficina G3
  Oficina G3 is a Christian rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Lead vocalist and guitarist Juninho Afram formed the band along with drummer Walter Lopes and bassist Wagner García in 1987. Through their history they have changed their musical style very drastically...
  
   — Oficina Elektracustika G3
  Oficina Elektracustika G3
  Oficina Elektracustika G3 is the ninth studio album by Oficina G3, and the fourth released by MK Music. This album introduces new versions of old songs of the Oficina G3, and brings four new songs.-Track listing:# "Intro" - 0:56...
  
  

Brazilian

Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album
Lenine — Acústico MTV

• Zeca Baleiro
  Zeca Baleiro
  Zeca Baleiro is a Brazilian MPB artist. One of his most famous songs is "Salão de Beleza", which was featured on Putumayo World Music's Reggae Around the World compilation. Along with being a solo artist, he has also worked with guitarist Pedro Joia....
  
   — Baladas do Asfalto & Outros Blues Ao Vivo
• Carlinhos Brown
  Carlinhos Brown
  Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...
  
   — A Gente Ainda Não Sonhou
• Pedro Mariano — Pedro Mariano
• Paulo Ricardo — Prisma
• Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...
  
   — Multishow ao vivo: Ivete no Maracanã
  Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã
  Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã is Ivete Sangalo's second live album . The album has sold over 800,000 copies in Brazil , and features the single "Deixo". It was recorded live on a crowded Maracanã Stadium for the cable TV channel Multishow...
  
  
• Skank
  Skank (band)
  Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums...
  
   — Carrossel
  Carrossel (album)
  Carrossel is the ninth studio album released by Brazilian rock band Skank, the last in the "deconstruction trilogy" begun with Maquinarama in which the group changed from ska towards a more rock-oriented sound influenced by The Beatles and Clube da Esquina...
  
  

Best Brazilian Rock Album
Lobão

Lobão

Lobão, born João Luiz Woerdenbag Filho is a Brazilian rock and MPB singer and composer. He also plays the drums and guitar.Lobão is better known in Brazil for his 1980s hits, specially "Me Chama"...

 — Acústico MTV

• Capital Inicial
  Capital Inicial
  Capital Inicial is a Brazilian rock band that flourished in the 1980s, saw a resurgence in the late '90s, and extended into the 2000s.-History:...
  
   — Eu Nunca Disse Adeus
• CPM 22
  CPM 22
  CPM 22 is a brazilian melodic hardcore band from São Paulo formed in 1995.Band members are Fernando Estefano , Ricardo Di Roberto , Fernando Sanches Takara and Luciano Garcia .- History :...
  
   — MTV Ao Vivo CPM 22
• Mutantes — Ao Vivo — Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006
  Mutantes Ao Vivo - Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006
  Mutantes Ao Vivo - Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006 is a live double CD and single DVD by the Brazilian band Os Mutantes. The album was recorded at the first Mutantes concert since 1978, at London's Barbican Arts Centre.-CD 1:...
  
  
• NX Zero
  NX Zero
  NX Zero is a Brazilian rock band formed in 2001 in Sao Paulo, the band consists Diego Ferrero , Leandro Rocha , Daniel Weksler , Conrado Grandino and Filipe Ricardo ....
  
   — NX Zero

Best Samba/Pagode Album
Zeca Pagodinho

Zeca Pagodinho

Zeca Pagodinho is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode.-Biography:...

 — Acústico MTV 2 Gafieira

• Jorge Aragão
  Jorge Aragão
  Jorge Aragão , birth name Jorge Aragão da Cruz) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter, working in the genres of samba and pagode. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays the guitar, surdo, cavaco and banjo, among other instruments...
  
   — E Aí?
• Beth Carvalho
  Beth Carvalho
  Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho is a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer.-Biography:...
  
   — 40 Anos de Carreira: Ao Vivo No Teatro Municipal Vol. 2
• Martinho da Vila
  Martinho da Vila
  Martinho da Vila is a Brazilian samba musician...
  
   — Do Brasil e do Mundo
• Mart'nália
  Mart'nália
  Martnália Mendonça Ferreira, known as Mart'nália is a singer, songwriter and percussionist Brazilian.-Career:...
  
   — Mart'nália Em Berlim Ao Vivo

Best MPB Album
Leny Andrade

Leny Andrade

Leny de Andrade Lima, better known as Leny Andrade, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on January 25, 1943, and is a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenny", "Leni", and "Adrade". She has had several hits on the Brazilian charts...

 and Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cesar Camargo Mariano is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. He is one of the most renowned instrumental artists to come out of his home country.-Biography:...

 — Ao Vivo

• Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
  
   — Ao Vivo
• Guinga
  Guinga
  Guinga is a Brazilian guitarist and composer born in Madureira, a working-class suburb of Rio de Janeiro...
  
   — Casa de Villa
• Zé Ramalho
  Zé Ramalho
  Zé Ramalho is a Brazilian composer and performer. Zé Ramalho has collaborated with various major Brazilian musicians, including Vanusa, Geraldo Azevedo and Alceu Valença to name a few...
  
   — Parceria dos Viajantes
• Monica Salmaso
  Monica Salmaso
  Mônica Salmaso is a Música Popular Brasileira singer.-Career:Mônica Salmaso started her career in the play "O Concílio do Amor", directed by Gabriel Villela in 1989....
  
   — Noites de Gala, Samba Na Rua

Best Romantic Music Album
Cauby Peixoto — Eternamente Cauby Peixoto: 55 Anos De Carreira

• Bruno & Marrone — Ao Vivo Em Goiânia
• Wanderley Cardoso — 40 Años de Sucesso do Bom Rapaz: Ao Vivo
• Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano
  Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano
  Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano are Brazil's most famous sertanejo/country duo and brothers. They were born in Pirenópolis, Goiás. Zezé is the artistic name for Mirosmar José de Camargo and Luciano the artistic name for Welson David de Camargo....
  
   — Diferente
• Fábio Jr.
  Fábio Jr.
  Fábio Correa Ayrosa Galvão, known as Fábio Júnior or Fábio Jr. , is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and former actor. Since 1976 he has recorded an album nearly every year.-Studio albums:*1975: Fábio Jr.*1979: Fábio Jr....
  
   — Minhas Canções

Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album
Daniela Mercury

Daniela Mercury

Daniela Mercury , is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé, samba-reggae and MPB singer, songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide...

 — Balé Mulato - Ao Vivo

Balé Mulato - Ao Vivo

Balé Mulato – Ao Vivo is Daniela Mercury's fourth live album, released in Brazil in December 2006 through EMI. The tracks of this album were recorded on September 17, 2006 in Farol da Barra, Salvador, Bahia...

• Dominguinhos
  Dominguinhos
  Dominguinhos is a Brazilian composer and singer.He has performed with musicians such as Luiz Gonzaga, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa , Zé Ramalho, Toquinho, and Maria Bethânia. Some of his hits were recorded by Bethânia, Gil, Chico Buarque, Elba Ramalho, and Fagner...
  
   — Conterrâneos
• Margareth Menezes
  Margareth Menezes
  Margareth Menezes is a Brazilian singer from Salvador, Bahia.Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba and MPB territory, at times drawing on African rhythms and reggae....
  
   — Brasileira - Ao Vivo
• Sérgio Reis
  Sérgio Reis
  Sérgio Reis is a Brazilian sertanejo singer and actor. He has sold approximately 16 million copies of his more than 40 album releases....
  
   — Tributo A Goiá
• Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....
  
   — Trilhas

Best Brazilian Song
Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

 — "Não Me Arrependo" (Caetano Veloso)

• Miro Almeida, Dória and Duller — "Berimbau Metalizado" (Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...
  
  )
• Simone Guimarães and Francis Hime
  Francis Hime
  Francis Hime is a composer, arranger, pianist and singer from Brazil.-Discography:*2007 - CHORO - DVD*2007 - Francis Ao Vivo*2006 - Arquitetura da Flor*2005 - Essas Parcerias*2004 - Álbum Musical...
  
   — "Carta À Amiga Poeta" (Simone Guimarães)
• Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
  
   and Adriana Calcanhotto
  Adriana Calcanhotto
  Adriana Calcanhotto is a Brazilian singer/composer. Her melancholic songs are often categorized as belonging to the MPB genre...
  
   — "Para Lá" (Arnaldo Antunes)
• Antônio Villeroy — "Rosas" (Ana Carolina
  Ana Carolina
  Ana Carolina Sousa is a Brazilian singer, composer, and musician.-Career:Carolina has a contralto vocal range. Her musical influence comes from the crib, her grandmother used to sing on the radio, and her great aunt and uncle played percussion, piano, cello, and violin...
  
  )

Children's

Best Latin Children Album
Voz Veis

Voz Veis

Voz Veis was a Venezuelan sextet that released their latest studio album "Todos a Belén" in the year 2008. They have recorded 5 studio albums; the first, Virao, in 2003...

 — Cómo Se Llega A Belén

• Acalanto — Vida Dde Bebê
• Miguelito
  Miguelito
  José Miguel Organista Simões Aguiar, aka Miguelito , is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Vitória de Setúbal. A speedy player, he can operate as defender or midfielder, on the left side of the pitch....
  
   — Más Grande Que Tú
  Más Grande Que Tú
  Más Grande Que Tú is the debut album by Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Miguelito.-Track listing:-Deluxe Edition:-Charts:-External links:* * * *...
  
  
• Zé Renato
  Zé Renato
  Zé Renato is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist....
  
   and Convidados — Forró Prás Crianças
• Strings For Kids — El Sueño del Elefante

Classical

Best Classical Album
John Neschling

John Neschling

John Neschling is a Brazilian orchestral and operatic conductor.He has been member of the Brazilian Academy of Music since 2003 and lives in São Paulo....

 — Beethoven Abertura Consagração da Casa Sinfonia Nº 6

Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé is a Spanish operatic soprano. Although she sang a wide variety of roles, she is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi....

 — La Canción Romántica Española

• Southwest Chamber Music
  Southwest Chamber Music
  Southwest Chamber Music is an ensemble of 15 musicians based in Los Angeles County, California. The organization was founded in 1987 by Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt and Executive Director Jan Karlin...
  
   — Carlos Chávez: Complete Chamber Music Volume 4
• Rolando Villazon
  Rolando Villazón
  Emilio Rolando Villazón Mauleón is a Mexican tenor. He settled in France and in 2007 became a French citizen.-Early life and education:...
  
   — Gitano
• Clara Sverner — Mozart Volume 3

Recording Package

Best Recording Package
Various Artists — Los Vallenatos de Andrés

Art director: Catalina Díez

• Mutantes — Mutantes Ao Vivo - Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006
  Mutantes Ao Vivo - Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006
  Mutantes Ao Vivo - Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006 is a live double CD and single DVD by the Brazilian band Os Mutantes. The album was recorded at the first Mutantes concert since 1978, at London's Barbican Arts Centre.-CD 1:...
  
  
  • Art director: Luciano Cury
• Rita Lee
  Rita Lee
  Rita Lee Jones Carvalho , simply known as Rita Lee, is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian...
  
   — Biograffiti
  • Art director: Gringo Cardia
• Motel
  Motel (band)
  Motel is a Mexican Rock band created in 2002, consisting of Guillermo Méndez, Rodrigo Dávila Chapoy, José Damián and Rubén Puente.-History:...
  
   — Edición Especial
  • Art director: Andrea Bardasano
• Jean Pierre Magnet — Serenata Inkaterra
  • Art directors: Allan Castañeda and Sandra Masias

Production

Best Engineered Album
Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...

 440 — La Llave de mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón

La Llave de Mi Corazón is a studio album by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and was released on March 20, 2007 by EMI Records. It peaked at number 77 on the Billboard 200. A special edition of the album was released on October 2, 2007. In 2007, the album won six Latin Grammy Awards...

Engineers: Allan Leschhorn, Luis Mansilla and Ronnie Torres; Mastering engineer: Adam Ayan

• Juan Fernando Velasco
  Juan Fernando Velasco
  Juan Fernando Velasco is an Ecuadorian musician.-Biography:Juan Fernando Velasco was born January 17, 1972 in Quito, Ecuador. He never planned to be a musician, he was preparing to become an economist like his father...
  
   — A Tu Lado
  • Engineers: Mario Breuer, Gustavo "Pichon" Dal Pont and Javier Garza; Mastering engineer: Giovanni Versari
• Lenine — Acústico MTV
  • Engineer: Álvaro Alencar; Mastering engineer: Ricardo Garcia
• Flavio Chamis
  Flavio Chamis
  Flavio Chamis is a Brazilian composer and conductor. His CD "Especiaria" was released in Brazil by the Biscoito Fino label. The CD was nominated for a 2007 Latin Grammy Awards, and one of its songs "Deuses do Ceu" is a prize winner of the 2007 John Lennon Songwriting Contest...
  
   — Especiaria
  • Engineers: Jay Ashby and Jay Dudt; Mastering engineer: Jay Dudt and Hollis Greathouse
• Kinky
  Kinky (band)
  Kinky is a five-member band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, formed in 1998 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and consisting of Gilberto Cerezo, Ulises Lozano, Carlos Chairez, Omar Góngora, and Cesar Pliego. The band's music is heavily influenced by Latin music, rock, dance, and...
  
   — Reina
  Reina (album)
  Reina is a self produced album by the Mexican electro-pop band Kinky. It was released on September 5, 2006 on Nettwerk. The album's lyrics are sung more in English than Spanish, unlike Kinky's two preceding albums, Kinky and Atlas...
  
  
  • Engineers: Gil Cerezo, Carlos Chairez, Omar Gongora, Ulises Lozano and Cesar Pliego; Mastering engineers: Gil Cerezo, Carlos Chairez, Omar Gongora, Ulises Lozano and Cesar Pliego

Producer of the Year
Sebastian Krys

• Benny Faccone
• Carlos Jean
  Carlos Jean
  Carlos Jean Arriaga is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He is the co-founder of the group Najwajean, and has been a producer for some of the most important Spanish and Latin-American artists of the 2000s, earning seven Latin Grammy nominations.-1973-1998: Early life:He was born on February 15,...
  
  
• Cachorro Lopez
• Phil Vinall and Zoé
  Zoé
  Zoé is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Mexican alternative/psychedelic band. They initially formed in Mexico City in 1994, although membership started to stabilize in 1997...
  
  

Music Video

Best Short Form Music Video
Voz Veis

Voz Veis

Voz Veis was a Venezuelan sextet that released their latest studio album "Todos a Belén" in the year 2008. They have recorded 5 studio albums; the first, Virao, in 2003...

 — "Ven A Mi Casa Esta Navidad"

• Calle 13
  Calle 13 (band)
  Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar , who calls himself Residente and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez , who calls himself Visitante Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978 in Hato Rey, a subsection of San Juan, Puerto Rico), who calls...
  
   — "Tango del Pecado
  Tango del Pecado
  "Tango del Pecado" is the first single from Calle 13's second album, Residente o Visitante. The song features Bajofondo & Panasuyo and was released on iTunes via digital download on March 27, 2007.-The Music:...
  
  "
• Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen
  Kevin Johansen is an Argentine-American rock musician. Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, he lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12...
  
   — "Anoche Soñé Contigo"
• Maná
  Maná
  Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned three Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, five Premios Juventud awards, nine Billboard Latin Music Awards and 13 Premios Lo...
  
   — "Labios Compartidos
  Labios Compartidos
  "Labios Compartidos" is the first single released from Maná's seventh studio album, Amar es Combatir . It became one of the band's most recognized songs, topping the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for eight consecutive weeks.-Song information:The song deals with the theme of falling in love with...
  
  "
• Orishas
  Orishas (band)
  Orishas was a Cuban hip hop group The group was first called "Amenaza", "threat" or "menace" in Spanish, and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for African-American culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Orishas delved into a realm of music that created a black identity to which some...
  
   — "Hay Un Son"

Best Long Form Music Video
Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin

Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...

 — MTV Unplugged

MTV Unplugged (Ricky Martin album)

- Charts :- Sales and certifications :- Year-end charts :- Decade-end charts :- Credits :Raphael Alkins EngineerWanda Berrios Make-Up, CabeloGustavo Borner EngineerRichard Bravo Percussion...

• Chico Buarque
  Chico Buarque
  Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
  
   — A Série
• Andrés Calamaro
  Andrés Calamaro
  Andrés Calamaro , is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decades and has sold over 1.3 million copies.-Abuelos de la Nada:Calamaro was...
  
   — Made in Argentina 2005
• Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita
  Franco De Vita is a singer-songwriter of Latin music. His first disc as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the Sony label in 1988, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award...
  
   — Mil y Una Historias En Vivo
  Mil y Una Historias En Vivo
  Mil y Una Historias En Vivo is a 2006 album by Franco De Vita. The album earned a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Album.-Track listing:#"TENGO" Pop Version#"AY DIOS" con Diego “El Cigala”...
  
  
• Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...
  
   — Multishow ao vivo: Ivete no Maracanã
  Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã
  Multishow ao Vivo: Ivete no Maracanã is Ivete Sangalo's second live album . The album has sold over 800,000 copies in Brazil , and features the single "Deixo". It was recorded live on a crowded Maracanã Stadium for the cable TV channel Multishow...
  
  

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Awards

• Alberto Cortez
  Alberto Cortez
  Alberto Cortez is an Argentine singer and songwriter. Cortez and his wife live in Madrid.Cortez was born in Rancul, La Pampa Province, Argentina, March 13, 1938. At the age of six entered in the elementary school and at the same time to the conservatory Alberto Williams. He begins to compose songs...
  
  
• Lucho Gatica
  Lucho Gatica
  Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica, is a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host. It is estimated that Gatica has released more than 90 recordings. He has toured a vast portion of the world, having made concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  
• Olga Guillot
  Olga Guillot
  Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known to be the "queen of bolero". She was a native of the Cuban city of Santiago.Guillot and her family moved to Havana, Cuba when she was a small child...
  
  
• Os Paralamas do Sucesso
• Los Tigres del Norte
  Los Tigres del Norte
  Los Tigres del Norte is a norteño-band ensemble based out of San Jose, California, hailing from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico.- History :...
  
  
• Chavela Vargas
  Chavela Vargas
  Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...
  
  

Trustees Awards

• Joao Araujo
• Leopoldo Federico.
• Fernando Hernández
  Fernando Hernández
  Fernando Hernández, known in his native Costa Rica as "El Príncipe" , is a retired footballer.He played his entire career for Deportivo Saprissa, and is considered an idol for their fans....
  
  

Performers

• Ricky Martin
  Ricky Martin
  Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
  
   featuring Blue Man Group
  Blue Man Group
  Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring popular music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as The Tonight...
  
   — "Lola, Lola / La Bomba
  La Bomba (Ricky Martin song)
  "La Bomba" is the third single from Ricky Martin's album Vuelve. It was released on June 16, 1998. "La Bomba" was remixed by Pablo Flores.-Chart performance:...
  
  "
• Pepe Aguilar
  Pepe Aguilar
  José "Pepe" Aguilar Jiménez is a popular singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi and pop music. Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.-Career:...
  
   — "Por Amarte / 100% Mexicano"
• Daddy Yankee
  Daddy Yankee
  Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez , known artistically as Daddy Yankee, is a Latin Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican Reggaeton recording artist. Ayala was born in Río Piedras, the largest district of San Juan, where he became interested in music at a young age. In his youth he was interested in baseball,...
  
   — "Ella Me Levantó
  Ella Me Levantó
  "Ella Me Levantó" , is a 2007 reggaeton single by Daddy Yankee. Known for its combination of "reggaeton" and "salsa", the song helps define the new subgenre of reggaeton "Salsatón."...
  
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• Camila
  Camila (band)
  Camila is a Mexican soft rock group which reached staggering success in their home country and all over Latin America upon the release of their debut album Todo Cambió. It consists of vocalist, composer and producer Mario Domm, vocalist Samuel Parra and guitarist Pablo Hurtado, founded by Domm...
  
   — "Todo Cambió"
• Jesse & Joy
  Jesse & Joy
  Jesse & Joy are a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican pop duo formed in 2005 by siblings Jesse and Joy .-History:...
  
   — "Espacio Sideral"
• Shaila Dúrcal
  Shaila Dúrcal
  Shaila Dúrcal is a Spanish singer-songwriter best known for being the daughter of singing legend Rocío Dúrcal and 1960s Filipino pop idol Antonio "Júnior" Morales Barreto.- Biography :...
  
   — "Amor Eterno"
• La Quinta Estación and Aleks Syntek
  Aleks Syntek
  Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña , better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado, sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.-Biography:...
  
   — "Me Muero
  Me Muero
  "Me Muero" is La 5ª Estación's second single release from their third studio album, El mundo se equivoca.-Song information:...
  
   / Intocable"
• Intocable
  Intocable
  Intocable is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 90's. Within a couple years as a band, Intocable had already risen to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that had fused Tejano's...
  
   — "Te Lo Juro"
• Orishas
  Orishas (band)
  Orishas was a Cuban hip hop group The group was first called "Amenaza", "threat" or "menace" in Spanish, and appealed to the Cuban youth who were hungry for African-American culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Orishas delved into a realm of music that created a black identity to which some...
  
   and Calle 13
  Calle 13 (band)
  Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar , who calls himself Residente and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez , who calls himself Visitante Calle 13 is a band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar (born February 23, 1978 in Hato Rey, a subsection of San Juan, Puerto Rico), who calls...
  
   — "Hay un Son / Pal Norte"
• Alacranes Musical
  Alacranes Musical
  Alacranes Musical is a Mexican-American band produced by Oscar Urbina that plays duranguense music. They are from the Aurora suburb of Chicago, Illinois.-Recordings:...
  
   featuring Kinky
  Kinky (band)
  Kinky is a five-member band from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, formed in 1998 as part of the Avanzada Regia musical movement and consisting of Gilberto Cerezo, Ulises Lozano, Carlos Chairez, Omar Góngora, and Cesar Pliego. The band's music is heavily influenced by Latin music, rock, dance, and...
  
   — "Sin Tu Amor"
• Laura Pausini
  Laura Pausini
  Laura Pausini, is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian...
  
   and Andrea Bocelli
  Andrea Bocelli
  Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
  
   — "Dispárame, Dispara / Vive Ya
  Vivere (dare to live)
  "Vivere" is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Gerardina Trovato. It was first sung as a duet between Trovato and Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli during the Sanremo Festival in 1995, and released as a B-side single with "Con te partirò" in 1995...
  
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• Ivy Queen
  Ivy Queen
  Ivy Queen is a Puerto Rican Latin Grammy nominated reggaeton composer and singer. She is most commonly known as "La Reina del Reggaeton" . She is also known as the Queen of Rivalries.-Early years:...
  
   — "Que Lloren"
• Conjunto Primavera
  Conjunto Primavera
  Conjunto Primavera is a Mexican conjunto group from Ojinaga, Chihuahua, currently produced by Alejandro Garcia. In the 1990s and 2000s they became one of the most popular groups in the genre....
  
   — "Basta Ya"
• Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Bosé
  Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...
  
   featuring Bimba Bosé — "Como un Lobo
  Como un Lobo
  "Como Un Lobo" was first released as a single in 1988. The song was written by Miguel Bosé, G. Vanni, C. D'Onofrio, P. Costa, M. Tazzi and M. Ogletree, and was included on Bose's studio album "XXX"....
  
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• Juan Luis Guerra
  Juan Luis Guerra
  Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...
  
   440 featuring Sheila E.
  Sheila E.
  Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American drummer and percussionist, perhaps best known for her work with Prince, George Duke and Ringo Starr.-Early life and Prince period:...
  
   — "La Travesia"

Presenters

• Sofía Vergara
  Sofía Vergara
  Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian actress, comedian, television hostess and model.Vergara had been widely known for co-hosting two TV shows for Univisión in the late 1990s. Her TV career opened up for her a window of exposure to North American audiences prior to her first notable...
  
   and Pablo Montero
  Pablo Montero
  Pablo Montero is a popular Mexican singer and actor.- Personal life :Montero was born Oscar Daniel Hernández Rodríguez in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.From about 2000 to 2003, Montero had a relationship with Aracely Arámbula....
  
   — presented Best Norteño Album
• Bárbara Mori
  Bárbara Mori
  Bárbara Mori Ochoa is a Mexican actress and model. She became famous for being the female lead in the Bollywood film, Kites....
  
   and Eduardo Verástegui
  Eduardo Verástegui
  Eduardo Verástegui is a Mexican model, singer, and actor.- Biography :Verástegui was born in Mante, Tamaulipas, México and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic. He moved to Mexico City to pursue modeling, landing work with Calvin Klein among others...
  
   — presented Best Pop Vocal Album, Duo or Group
• Alessandra Rosaldo
  Alessandra Rosaldo
  Alessandra Rosaldo is an actress, singer and dancer from Mexico. In 2006, she was the winner of the first prize in Televisa Network's, later broadcasted in Univision “Bailando por un Sueño”....
  
   and Wisin & Yandel
  Wisin & Yandel
  Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton Duo, consisting of Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar . They started their career in 1998 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time....
  
   — presented Best Merengue Album
• Erika Buenfil
  Erika Buenfil
  Erika Buenfil is a Mexican actress best known for her work in telenovelas. Buenfil has also enjoyed minor success as a recording artist.-Early career:...
  
   and Sergio Goyri
  Sergio Goyri
  Sergio Goyri Pérez is a Mexican actor.-Biography:Goyri entered the world of acting in 1975 as a secondary actor in Mundos opuestos with Lucía Méndez. He has since become a successful actor, as well as a director, producer and singer. Goyri has five children, three from his first marriage and two...
  
   — presented Best Banda Album
• Dayanara Torres
  Dayanara Torres
  Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, and former Miss Universe.Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant and the right...
  
   and Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Traffic, and Piñero.-Early life:Bratt was born in San Francisco, California,...
  
   — presented Best Urban Music Album
• Los Tigres del Norte
  Los Tigres del Norte
  Los Tigres del Norte is a norteño-band ensemble based out of San Jose, California, hailing from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico.- History :...
  
   — presented Best Pop Vocal Album, Female
• Aventura — presented Record of the Year
• Willy Chirino
  Willy Chirino
  Willy Chirino, born April 5, 1947 in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba, is an entertainer and singer in the salsa style.-Early Family Life:...
  
  , Vicky Terrazas and Marisol Terrazas
  Los Horoscopos de Durango
  Los Horóscopos de Durango is one of the longest recording groups in the Regional Mexican genre performing Duranguense banda.This successful group was started by Dn. Armando Terrazas in Chicago during 1975...
  
   — presented Best Ranchero Album
• Patricia Navidad
  Patricia Navidad
  Ana Patricia Navidad Lara is a Mexican actress and singer.- Biography :Patricia developed an interest in music before acting, mainly influenced by her father, Jesus, and is quoted as saying that his voice has been her inspiration since she was born...
  
   and Pau Dones — presented Best New Artist
• Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
  
   — presented People of the Year
• Karla Álvarez, Elvis Crespo
  Elvis Crespo
  Elvis Crespo , is a Puerto Rican-American Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning Merengue singer.-Early years:Crespo was born in New York City and was named "Elvis" after Elvis Presley...
  
   and Pedro Fernández
  Pedro Fernández
  José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...
  
   — presented Best Urban Song
• Wilmer Valderrama
  Wilmer Valderrama
  Wilmer Eduardo Valderrama is an American actor and television personality, known for the role of Fez in the sitcom That '70s Show, hosting the MTV series Yo Momma, and voicing the character of Manny in the children's show Handy Manny.-Early life:Valderrama was born in Miami, Florida the son of...
  
   — presented Best Pop Vocal Album, Male
• Kate del Castillo
  Kate del Castillo
  Kate del Castillo is a leading Mexican film, theater, and television actress.- Early life :Kate Del Castillo is the daughter of Kate Trillo and Eric del Castillo, a legend of the Mexican cinema's golden era and a former soap opera actor himself...
  
   and Rubén Blades
  Rubén Blades
  Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
  
   — presented Album of the Year
• Nora Salinas
  Nora Salinas
  Nora Alicia Ortiz Salinas is a Mexican actress born in Monterrey, Nuevo León.-Career:Carita de Angel, in which she played the character Tia Pelucas, has been one of the longest running telenovelas, having shot over 350 episodes...
  
   and Sergio Mayer
  Sergio Mayer
  Sergio Mayer Breton Izturiz Pinilla, is a Mexican actor, singer and producer.-Biography:Sergio started his career in 1982 in a group called Chévere Internacional, which he belonged to for 4 years. With the group, he toured all over Latin America and the United States...
  
   — presented Best Alternative Music Album
• Mala Rodriguez and Eduardo Capetillo
  Eduardo Capetillo
  Eduardo Capetillo is a Mexican actor and singer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He belongs to the Capetillo family, who have a long tradition of being bullfighters....
  
   — presented Song of the Year

External links

• Univision
  Univision
  Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
  
  : http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=10383&schid=11335&secid=0
• The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
  Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
  The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences , is a multinational membership-based association composed of music industry professionals, musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other creative and technical recording professionals...
  
  (LARAS): http://www.grammy.com/Latin/
• Nominees: http://www.grammy.com/latin/8_latin/