Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song

The Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song 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.[1] The award is reserved to the songwriters of a new song containing at least 51% of the lyrics in Spanish. Instrumental recordings or cover songs are not eligible. Songs in Portuguese may be entered in the Brazilian field.[2]

Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Song
Awarded forquality tropical music songs
CountryUnited States
Presented byThe Latin Recording Academy
First awarded2000

The award was first presented to Juan Luis Guerra for the song "El Niágara en Bicicleta" at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards held in 2000.[3] He is also the most awarded performer in this category, winning on every occasion he's been nominated, a total of five times. His song "La Llave de mi Corazón" also won the award for Song of the Year in 2007, becoming the first tropical song to do so.[4] Apart from Guerra other multiple winners include Sergio George and Jorge Villamizar, both with two wins.

Colombian songwriters have won this award a total of seven times, more than any other nationality though it has also been presented to songwriters originating from the Dominican Republic six times, the United States three times and Puerto Rico once.

Recipients
Year[I] Songwriter(s) Nationality Work Performing artist(s)[II] Nominees[III] Ref.
2000 Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic "El Niágara en Bicicleta" Juan Luis Guerra 440
[3]
2001 Kike Santander Colombia "Júrame (Merengue)" Gisselle
[5]
2002 Andrés Castro
Martín Madera
Carlos Vives		 Colombia "Déjame Entrar" Carlos Vives
[6]
2003 Sergio George
Jorge Villamizar		 United States
Colombia		 "Mi Primer Millón" Bacilos
[7]
2004 Sergio George
Fernando Osorio		 United States
Colombia		 "Ríe y Llora" Celia Cruz
[8]
2005 Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic "Las Avispas" Juan Luis Guerra 440
[9]
2006 Fonseca Colombia "Te Mando Flores" Fonseca
  • Victor Manuelle — "Dos Soneros, Una Historia" (Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle)
  • Yoel Henríquez and Jorge Luis Piloto — "Esa Boquita" (Tito Nieves)
  • Victor Manuelle — "I Love Salsa!" (N'Klabe)
  • Cabas and Kike Santander — "La Cadena De Oro" (Cabas)
 [10]
2007 Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic "La Llave de Mi Corazón" Juan Luis Guerra 440
[4]
2008 Emilio Estefan, Jr.
Gloria Estefan
Alberto Gaitán
Ricardo Gaitán		 United States
Panama		 "Píntame De Colores" Gloria Estefan
  • Juan José Hernández — "Conteo Regresivo" (Gilberto Santa Rosa)
  • Victor Manuelle — "Llegó El Amor" (Gilberto Santa Rosa)
  • Jorge Celedón — "Me Vio Llorar" (Jorge Celedón and Jimmy Zambrano)
 [11]
2009 Jorge Luis Piloto
Jorge Villamizar		 United States
Colombia		 "Yo No Sé Mañana" Luis Enrique
[12]
2010 Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic "Bachata en Fukuoka" Juan Luis Guerra 440
[13]
2011 Calle 13 Puerto Rico "Vamo' A Portarnos Mal" Calle 13
[14]
2012 Yoel Henríquez
Alex Puentes		 Puerto Rico "Toma Mi Vida" Milly Quezada and Juan Luis Guerra
[15]
2013 Andrés Castro and Carlos Vives Colombia "Volví a Nacer" Carlos Vives
[16]
2014 Andrés Castro and Carlos Vives Colombia "Cuando Nos Volvamos a Encontrar" Carlos Vives featuring Marc Anthony
2015 Juan Luis Guerra Dominican Republic "Tus Besos" Juan Luis Guerra
2016 Omar Alfanno
Fonseca
Yadam González Cárdenas		 Panama
Colombia		 "Vine A Buscarte" Fonseca
2017 Vicente García Dominican Republic "Bachata en Kingston" Vicente García
  • Raul del Sol and Jorge Luis Piloto — "Cuando Beso Tu Boca" (Mojito Lite)
  • Manny Cruz, Prince Royce, Daniel Santacruz and Shakira — "Deja Vu"(Prince Royce featuring Shakira)
  • Medardo Rovayo — "Dejé de Amar" (Felipe Muñiz featuring Marc Anthony)
  • Residente — "Hijos del Cañaveral" (Residente)
2018 TBD TBD TBD TBD
  • Silvestre Dangond, Nicky Jam, Juan Medina, Mauricio Rengifo & Andrés Torres — "Casate Conmigo" (Silvestre Dangond Featuring Nicky Jam)
  • Jorge Luis Piloto — "Enamórate Bailando" (Reynier Pérez y Su Septeto Acarey Featuring Gilberto Santa Rosa)
  • Jorge Luis Piloto, Jean Rodríguez & Tony Succar — "Me Enamoro Más De Ti" (Tony Succar Featuring Jean Rodríguez)
  • Juan Luis Guerra, Juan Carlos Luces & Víctor Manuelle — "Quiero Tiempo" (Víctor Manuelle Featuring Juan Luis Guerra)
  • Fonseca, Mauricio Rengifo & Andrés Torres — "Simples Corazones" (Fonseca)
  • ^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Latin Grammy Awards held that year.
  • ^[II] The performing artist is only listed but does not receive the award.
  • ^[III] Showing the name of the songwriter(s), the nominated song and in parentheses the performer's name(s).

See also

References
General
  • "Latin Grammy Award Winners". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 31, 2011. Note: User must select the "Tropical Field" category as the genre under the search feature.
Specific
  1. "Sobre La Academia Latina de la Grabación" (in Spanish). Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  2. "Category Guide: Tropical Field". Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  3. "Complete List Of Nominations For First-ever Latin Grammy Awards". AllBusiness.com. July 29, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  4. "Lista de nominados al Grammy Latino 2007" (in Spanish). Mujer Activa. August 31, 2007. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
  5. "The Full List of Nominations". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. July 18, 2001. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  6. "Selected Nominees For The Third Latin Grammy Awards". AllBusiness.com. August 3, 2002. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  7. "The nominees are ..." Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. July 23, 2003. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  8. "Lista de nominados al los Grammy Latinos" (in Spanish). Terra Networks México. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  9. "Complete list of 6th annual Latin Grammy nominations". USA Today. Gannett Company. November 2, 2005. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  10. Faber, Judy (September 26, 2006). "Shakira Leads Latin Grammy Nominations". CBS News. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  11. "9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. September 10, 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  12. "Conoce a los nominados a los Grammy Latinos" (in Spanish). Terra Networks México. September 19, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  13. "Latin Grammy nominees announced: Alejandro Sanz and Camila among top contenders". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. September 8, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  14. "2011 Latin Grammys: Nominations (FULL LIST) Revealed". manila-paper.net. September 15, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  15. "THE LATIN ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES, INC. FINAL NOMINATIONS" (PDF). Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  16. "Premios Latin Grammy 2013: conozca la lista de nominados". Terra Networks (in Spanish). Telefónica. September 25, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.