Bad Bunny made historical past on Tuesday (Nov. 15) when Un Verano Sin Ti turned the primary Spanish-language album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for album of the 12 months.
It was one in all three nominations the Puerto Rican celebrity scooped for his mega-successful set, and lots of had anticipated it. Perhaps much less anticipated was Anitta’s nomination for finest new artist, because the Brazilian star debuted nearly a decade in the past with a self-titled album that was adopted by 4 different LPs.
However, the “Downtown” and “Me Gusta” singer has made a much bigger influence within the American market, incorporating some English into her final two albums, 2019’s Kisses and 2022’s Version Of Me, in addition to with songs like “Lobby” with Missy Elliott and “Envolver”, a Spanish-language hit that spent six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and 21 weeks on the Hot Latin Songs, the place it peaked at No. 3.
“Wow! Wow wow wow… never in my life would I have imagined that this moment would come. I’m from Brazil guys… I mean… wow! Speechless,” Anitta tweeted in response to her nomination in a class thought-about essentially the most coveted of the Grammys. “Thank you, thank you, thank you… forever grateful. Winning or losing this is the biggest achievement I could imagine.”
Bad Bunny, who leads the Latin Grammys nominations with 10 nods this 12 months, can even compete for the Grammy for finest pop solo efficiency for “Moscow Mule” — alongside the likes of Adele (“Easy on Me”) and Harry Styles (“As It Was”) — in addition to Best Música Urbana Album.
Another Latino up for one of the best new artist Grammy is Omar Apollo, a singer-songwriter of Mexican dad and mom, who creates pop, various music and R&B. Apollo started his profession importing his songs to SoundCloud earlier than releasing his first EP, Stereo, in 2018. Since then, he has since launched the EP Friends in 2019, the mixtape Apolonio in 2020, and two productions in 2022: his first full-length album, Ivory, which spent seven weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at No. 128, and the EP Live at NPR’s Tiny Desk. His tune “Evergreen” entered the Billboard Hot 100 in October, the place it spent seven weeks and peaked at No. 51, in addition to the Streaming Songs chart (4 weeks, peak at No. 21).
“Got nominated for best new artist omg,” he shared on Twitter with a sequence of emoticons to indicate how he feels.
Rosalía was nominated for finest Latin rock or various music album for Motomami, and likewise received a nod below one of the best music movie class for Motomami (Rosalía TikTok Live Performance,) directed by Ferrán Echegaray, Rosalía Vila Tobella & Stillz.
AGUILERA, Christina Aguilera’s newest Spanish-language album, received two nominations: finest Latin pop album, and finest immersive audio album (an award to the engineers.)
Both Motomami and AGUILERA will compete Thursday (Nov. 17) for the album of the 12 months Latin Grammy with Un Verano Sin Ti. (See the complete listing of nominees right here)
Under the Grammy’s Latin music classes there are different such favorites as Camilo, Sebastián Yatra, Rauw Alejandro, Christian Nodal and Marco Antonio Solís, the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year of 2022.
The nominees are:
Best Latin Pop Album:
AGUILERA, Christina Aguilera
Pasieros, Rubén Blades & Boca Livre
De Adentro Pa Afuera, Camilo
VIAJANTE, Fonseca
Dharma+, Sebastian Yatra
Best Musica Urbana Album:
TRAP CAKE, VOL. 2, Rauw Alexander
Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny
LEGENDADDY, Daddy Yankee
167, Farruko
The Love & Sex Tape, Maluma
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album:
El Alimento, Cimafunk
Tinta y Tiempo, Jorge Drexler
1940 Carmen, Mon Laferte
Alegoría, Gaby Moreno
Los Años Salvajes, Fito Páez
MOTOMAMI, Rosalía
Best Regional Mexican Music Album (together with Tejano):
Abeja Reina, Chiquis
Un Canto por México – El Musical, Natalia Lafourcade
La Reunión (Deluxe), Los Tigres Del Norte
EP #1 Forajido, Christian Nodal
Qué Ganas de Verte (Deluxe), Marco Antonio Solis
Best Tropical Latin Album:
Pa’llá Voy, Marc Anthony
Quiero Verte Feliz, La Santa Cecilia
Lado A Lado B, Víctor Manuelle
Legendario, Tito Nieves
lmágenes Latinas, Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Cumbiana II, Carlos Vives
For the Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy, the nominees are:
Fandango on the Wall In New York, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra that includes The Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective
Crisalida, Danilo Pérez with The Global Messengers
If You Will, Flora Purim
Rhythm & Soul, Arturo Sandoval
Music of the Americas, Miguel Zenón
Other jazz classes even have Latin nominees. Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana is nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for “Falling”, from her album 12 Stars, and Puerto Rican double bassist Eddie Gómez seems within the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album class for Center Stage, together with Steve Gadd, Ronnie Cuber & the WDR HugeBand led by Michael Abene.
For Best Instrumental Composition, Cuban maestro Paquito D’Rivera is nominated for “African Tales”, Puerto Rican Miguel Zenón for “El País Invisible”, and Panamanian Danilo Pérez for “Fronteras (Borders) Suite: AI-Musafir Blues.”
As anticipated, Disney’s Encanto was additionally acknowledged, with nods for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s soundtrack and Germaine Franco’s authentic rating. The film’s mega-hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Lin-Manuel Miranda can also be up for the award for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World.
In different areas, singer-songwriter Miguel, whose father is Mexican, shares a nod with Diplo for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for “Don’t Forget My Love.” And Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band compete for Best Children’s Music Album for his or her EP Los Fabulosos, an upbeat bilingual effort that features tracks like “Ridiculous” and “Me Gusta.” Up for Best Album Notes is Fernando González for his work for Astor Piazzolla’s The American Clave Recordings.
Discussion about this post