Los Angeles (EFE).- Bad Bunny, with ten nominations, and Jhay Cortez, with eight, start as the big favorites at the Latin American Music Awards (abbreviated as Latin AMA’s), which announced the candidates for its seventh edition this Thursday.
They are followed with seven nominations each, J Balvin, Karol G and Rauw Alejandro; while Camilo, Grupo Firme and Kali Uchis achieved six nominations.
The awards ceremony will take place on April 21 from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. and will be broadcast live on Telemundo.
Bad Bunny, unstoppable
Bad Bunny continues unstoppable after being crowned the most listened to artist of 2021 on the platforms of streaming and attends these Latin music awards with ten nominations, including artist of the year and album of the year for his successful The Last Tour Of The World.
The Puerto Rican will also compete for the awards for Favorite Male Artist, single of the year, collaboration of the year, viral song of the year and three other sections of the urban genre along with another nomination in the tropical genre.
His compatriot, Jhay Cortez, will fight for eight prizestwo of them together with Bad Bunny himself for dakitiwhich is a candidate for the single of the year and the best urban song.
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The rest of the categories in which his name appears are Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Urban Genre Artist, Collaboration of the Year, Viral Song of the Year, and Best Urban Song for “Fiel.”
Karol G and Kali Uchis lead among women
Among women, the most nominated is the Colombian Karol G, who with seven nominations aspires to be crowned artist of the year, favorite social artist and album of the year by KG0516among other categories.
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The next artist with the most nominations is Kali Uchis, American of Colombian originand that adds six mentions to the Latin AMA’s, despite the fact that a few months ago he was the great absentee of the Latin Grammy, which did not give him any nomination for his acclaimed album Without fear (Love and Other Demons).
By categories, the artist of the year award will be disputed between Bad Bunny, Camilo, Eslabon Armado, Farruko, J Balvin, Jhay Cortez, Karol G, Myke Towers, Ozuna and Rauw Alejandro.
Kali Uchis, Karol G, Natti Natasha, Rosalia and Selena Gomez compete for the title of favorite female artist; while Bad Bunny, Farruko, J Balvin, Jhay Cortez, Myke Towers and Rauw Alejandro are the candidates in the male section.
Return of the public to the gala
This was Bad Bunny’s first concert in Ecuador in 2017
Preceded by a red carpet, The gala will take place for the first time in the seven years of these awards in that city of Nevada and, unlike in 2020, with an audience present at the venue.
The awards Latin AMA’s are awarded by popular votejust like the American Music Awards.
Voting is open on their website, where fans can support their favorite artists with the only limitation of a maximum of 25 votes per category, each day.
Last year the awards ceremony, which included performances by Ana Bárbara, Carrie Underwood, Maluma, Prince Royce and Ricky Martin, among others, reached a total audience of 3.3 million viewers.
Among the winners of 2020 Bad Bunny, Karol G, Nicky Minaj, Christian Nodal, Prince Royce and Shakira were there.
The 2022 Latin AMA’s will be simulcast on the Spanish-language entertainment cable channel Universe and in the rest of the American continent by Telemundo International. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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