Red Carpet Photos – Billboard

Before kicking off the primary version of the Billboard Latin Women in Music gala in Miami on May 6, stars corresponding to Thalia, Evaluna, Emilia and Maria Becerra, amongst many others, strutted the pink carpet. See the images right here.

Hosted by Ivy Queen and Jacqueline Bracamontes, the occasion is the primary of its sort for Latin music. Mujeres Latinas en la Música, held on the Watsco Center, celebrates Latin feminine artists, executives and creatives who’re proactively working for optimistic change, inclusion and gender parity within the music trade.  

Shakira will obtain the first-ever Woman of the Year award. Other honorees embody Ana Gabriel, who will obtain the Living Legend Award; Emilia, who will obtain the Rising Star Award; Maria Becerra, who will obtain the Visionary Award; Evaluna, who will obtain the Tradition and Future Award; Goyo, who will obtain the Agent of Change Award, and Thalia, who will obtain the Global Powerhouse Award. 

Presenters all through the present embody Ludmilla, JP Saxe, Guaynaa, Lele Pons, Ha*Ash, Greeicy, Elena Rose and Nicole Zignago, to call just a few.  

The inaugural Latin Women in Music occasion was introduced earlier this yr as an enlargement of Billboard’s Women in Music franchise. Billboard and Telemundo purpose to additional elevate Latin music globally and have fun the ladies who’ve made a concrete influence on Latin music by their creative achievements, or by tangible, noteworthy actions which have introduced measurable recognition and alternative to girls, affecting optimistic change to the trade as an entire. 

Watch Mujeres Latinas en la Música on Sunday, May 7 at 9 p.m. ET completely on Telemundo and Peacock.