Peso Pluma, Karol G and Rauw Alejandro are among the candidates for the Latin categories of the 66th edition of the Grammys, which will take place on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles (California), the US Recording Academy reported on Friday.
He Mexican singer Peso Pluma is in the running for a nomination in the category of best Mexican music album (including Tejano) with his album “Génesis”while the disk of the Colombian Karol G, “Tomorrow will be beautiful”, and Puerto Rican Rauw Alejandro, “Saturno”compete in the category of best urban music album.
The corrido singer’s album will have to compete against albums by female artists such as “La Sánchez” by Lila Downs; “Hand Embroidery”, by Ana Bárbara; “Motherflower”, by Flor de Toloache, and “Love like in old movies”, by Lupita Infante.
For his part, the list of contenders for the best urban music album is completed by Puerto Rican producer and composer Tainy, with his album ‘Data’.
The category best Latin pop album It is disputed by Spaniard Pablo Alborán for his album “La Cuarta Hoja”; the Puerto Rican Pedro Capó, with “La neta”; the Colombians Maluma with “Don Juan”; Paula Arenas, with “Blindly”; AleMor, with “Beautiful Humans, Vol. 1”, and Guatemalan Gaby Moreno, for her album “X Mí (Vol. 1)”.
Juanes and his album “Daily Life”; the rock idol Fito Páez, with “EADDA9223″; Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, with “De Todos Las Flores”; The Puerto Rican Cabra, with his second solo album ‘Martínez’, and the Colombian duet Diamante Eléctrico, with their work ‘Leche de Tigre’, aspire to the Grammy for best Latin rock or alternative album.
The shortlist of Best Latin Tropical Album has among the finalists Omara Portuondo and her album “Vida”; Carlos Vives and his commemorative album celebrating 30 years of career “Escalona was never recorded like this”, and Grupo Niche and the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia with their album “Niche Sinfónico”.
Congratulations 66th #GRAMMYs Nominees for Best Tropical Latin Album: @rubenblades With Roberto Delgado & Orchestra; @iamluisfigueroa; @nichegroup And National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia; @omaraportuondo; @tonysuccar, @mimysuccarmusic; @Carlos Vives. Watch live: https://t.co/zovEzgeZPG pic.twitter.com/JkMHNWYUW9
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) November 10, 2023
The category also includes Tony Succar and Mimy Succar, nominated with the album “MIMY & TONY”, and the American singer of Puerto Rican descent Luis Figueroa for “Voy a ti”.
Finally Eliane Elias, with “Quietude”; Ivan Lins with the Tblisi Symphony Orchestra, for “My Heart Speaks”; Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, for “Vox Humana”; Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente, with “Cometa”, and Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo, for “El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2”, received a nomination in the category of best Latin jazz album.
Source: Eluniverso

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