21st Latin Grammy Awards | |
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Date | November 19, 2020 |
Venue | American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida |
Hosted by | Yalitza Aparicio, Ana Brenda Contreras and Victor Manuelle |
Highlights | |
Most awards | Natalia Lafourcade and Rosalía (3 each) |
Person of the Year | N/A (see Background) |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | TelevisaUnivision |
The 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held on Thursday, November 19, 2020 and broadcast on TelevisaUnivision. The 2020 Latin Grammy ceremony was anchored from the American Airlines Arena in Miami, [1] though the health protocols enacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic meant there was no live audience in the venue, and performances were presented from remote locations from many parts of the world. The telecast marked the 21st anniversary of the Latin Grammy Awards and honored musical releases within Latin music released from June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020. Nominations were announced on September 29. [2]
On March 28, 2020, less than three weeks after the March 11 declaration by the World Health Organization that the COVID-19 outbreak was officially a pandemic, [3] the Latin Recording Academy announced that its annual gala was still set for November 2020.
Starting in 2020, the Latin Grammys would include a category exclusively focused on reggaeton to prevent of the controversies and calls for boycott experienced the year before. Thus, a new category named "Best Reggaeton Performance" was introduced this year.
Also starting with the 2020 awards, the Latin Recording Academy announced that it would stop using the term "urban music" in response to controversies which had led its sister organization, The Recording Academy, to announce changes to the names of some that academy's Grammy Awards categories six months after its own January 2020 awards presentations. [4] "Best Pop/Rock Song" and "Best Rap/Hip Hop Song" replaced the "urban" categories, with the latter one including trap music. [5] The "Best Flamenco Album" category made its return to the Latin Grammys after being erased in 2018, due to the lack of competition. [6]
On August 18, the Latin Recording Academy announced the official date for the gala's celebration and its format. Under the slogan "Music Humanizes Us", the 2020 Latin Grammy Awards was returning to Miami, for the first time since the 2003 ceremony. In that announcement, the Latin Grammys organization stated: "If local conditions are favorable in November, The Latin Academy will consider hosting a live audience telecast composed primarily of nominees, presenters and performers." [7]
In November, due to the ongoing pandemic, the ceremony was held without a live audience in the venue, and featured remote performances from all around the world. As a result of the pandemic, the special awards, namely the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Latin Grammy Trustees Award, were not presented this year. [8]
Originally, Carlos Rivera and Roselyn Sánchez were announced as hosts for the ceremony but Sánchez could not continue as host due to health issues. [9] Later, actresses Yalitza Aparicio and Ana Brenda Contreras were announced as hosts alongside Rivera, [10] but a few days later Rivera cancelled his participation due to a COVID-19 case in his team. [11] Then, singer Victor Manuelle was announced as performer and also host with Aparicio and Contreras. [12]
The following is the list of nominees. [15]
Natalia Lafourcade — Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
Kiko Campos, album producer; José Luis Fernández & Rubén López Arista, album recording engineers; Rubén López Arista, album mixer; Natalia Lafourcade, songwriter; Michael Fuller, album mastering engineer
Andrés Cepeda and Fonseca — Compadres
"Tutu" — Camilo, Jon Leone & Richi López, songwriters (Camilo featuring Pedro Capó)
Rosalía and Ozuna — "Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi"
"Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe" — Residente, songwriter (Residente)
"Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi" — Pablo Diaz-Reixa "El Guincho", Ozuna and Rosalía, songwriters (Rosalía & Ozuna)
¿Dónde jugaran lxs niñxs? (Desde el Palacio de los Deportes) — Molotov
"Biutiful" — Mon Laferte, songwriter (Mon Laferte)
La Conquista del Espacio — Fito Páez
"La Canción de las Bestias" — Fito Páez, songwriter (Fito Páez)
Sobrevolando — Cultura Profética
"En Cantos" — Ismael Cancel, Ile and Natalia Lafourcade, songwriters (Ile & Natalia Lafourcade)
Sigo Cantando al Amor (Deluxe) — Jorge Celedón and Sergio Luis Rodríguez
Ahora — Eddy Herrera
Larimar — Daniel Santacruz
Ícono — Orquesta Aragón
"Canción para Rubén" — Rubén Blades and Carlos Vives, songwriters (Carlos Vives & Rubén Blades)
Hecho en México — Alejandro Fernández
Playlist — Chiquis
Live in México — La Mafia
Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison — Los Tigres Del Norte
"Mi Religión" — Natalia Lafourcade, songwriter (Natalia Lafourcade)
Terra — Daniel Minimalia
A Capella: Grabado en Casa Durante la Cuarentena — Susana Baca
Fuelle y Cuerda — Gustavo Casenave Quartet
Flamenco sin Fronteras — Antonio Rey
Puertos: Music from International Waters — Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra
Soldados — Alex Campos
Reino — Aline Barros
Apká! — Céu
AmarElo — Emicida
Samba Jazz de Raiz, Cláudio Jorge 70 — Cláudio Jorge
Belo Horizonte — Toninho Horta & Orquestra Fantasma
Origens (Ao vivo em Sete Lagoas, Brazil/2019) — Paula Fernandes
Veia Nordestina — Mariana Aydar
"Abricó-de-Macaco" — Francisco Bosco and João Bosco, songwriters (João Bosco)
Canta y Juega — Tina Kids
Eternal Gratitude — Paulina Leisring & Domingo Pagliuca; Samuel Pilafian, album producer
"Sacre" — Carlos Fernando López & José Valentino, composers (Carlos Fernando López)
Lorenzo Ferrero, arranger (Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra)
Soy Puro Teatro - Homenaje a La Lupe
Pedro Fajardo, art director (Mariaca Semprún)
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Daniel Bitrán Arizpe, Daniel Dávila, Justin Moshkevich, George Noriega, Erick Roman, Paul Rubinstein & JC Vertti, engineers; Miles Comaskey, Najeeb Jones & Tony Maserati, mixers; Dale Becker, mastering engineer (Debi Nova)
Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo
"TKN" — Rosalía and Travis Scott
Canadá, video director; Oscar Romagosa & Laura Serra Estorch, video producers
El Mundo Perdido de Cumbiana — Carlos Vives
Carlos Felipe Montoya, video director; Isabel Cristina Vásquez, video producer
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This year, however, those activities were paused because of COVID-19.