The Grammy Award for Best Merengue Album was awarded from 2000 to 2003. In its first year the award was titled Best Merengue Performance. [1] In 2004 this award was combined with the award for Best Salsa Album as the Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album. [2]
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
| Year | Winner | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 [3] | Latino by Grupo Manía | Mal Acostumbrado by Fernando Villalona Calle Sabor, Esquina Amor by Limi-T 21 Manny Manuel by Manny Manuel Pienso Así... by Milly Quezada |
| 2002 [4] | Yo Por Tí by Olga Tañón | Haciendo Travesuras by Chico Malo 8 by Giselle Grupomania 2050 by Grupo Manía Yo Soy Toño by Toño Rosario |
| 2001 [5] | Olga Viva, Viva Olga by Olga Tañón | El Padrino by Fulanito Voy a Enamorarte by Giselle Masters of the Stage by Grupo Manía Live by Ilegales |
| 2000 [1] | Píntame by Elvis Crespo | Atada by Giselle The Dynasty by Grupo Manía Encontré el Amor by Jailene Lleno de Vida by Manny Manuel |
Juan Luis Guerra Seijas is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. He has sold 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 24 Latin Grammy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and one Latin Billboard Music Award. He won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording was conceived and lobbied for by then NYC NARAS Chapter Board Member, salsa pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, Larry Harlow. Through his gathering of 100,000 signatures and protesting in front of the Uris Theater in Manhattan it finally became a reality. It was presented from 1976 to 1983 and primarily encompassed progressive salsa and Latin-oriented jazz recordings. Starting from 1984 the Latin field was expanded to Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, Best Tropical Performance, and Best Mexican/Mexican American Performance. Its first winner was Eddie Palmieri for the album, Sun of Latin Music.
The Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album was awarded from 2000 to 2003. In its first year the award was titled Best Salsa Performance. In 2004 this award was combined with the award for Best Merengue Album as the Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album.
The Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album was first awarded in 2004. Before 2004 the awards for Best Salsa Album and Merengue Album were separate.
Elvis Crespo Díaz is an American singer of the Merengue genre. He has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award in merengue music.
Ramón Orlando Valoy García, is a Dominican musician, singer, arranger, composer, record producer and songwriter, besides being a gran maestro pianist in Caribbean rhythms. Ramón Orlando received seven Casandra awards in the 1992 ceremony, including the Soberano, which is the most important category in the Dominican awards ceremony. In 2005, he was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award in the Best Merengue Album category.
La Llave de Mi Corazón is the 10th studio album recorded by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, It was released by EMI Televisa Music on March 20, 2007. It was Guerra's first album to contain songs in English since his 1994 recording of Fogarate. The album contains fusions of mambo and tropical rhythms that Guerra himself defined as "Mambo merengue". Its production and musical structure of album is based on merengue, bachata and salsa and encompasses elements of Blues, Son, Jazz, Mambo and Bossa Nova. The album was written, arranged and produced by Juan Luis Guerra and according to the artist is his most romantic album. It is composed of four merengues, two bachatas, three romantic songs and two salsas.
Luis Enrique Mejía López is a Nicaraguan-American singer-songwriter and musician. He is known as "El Príncipe de la Salsa". A grammy-award-winning artist, he has released over 20 albums and achieved widespread success, including his single "Yo No Sé Mañana" which was awarded a Latin Grammy Award for "Best Tropical Song".
Pedro René Peralta Soto, better known as Chichi Peralta, is a Dominican musician, songwriter, composer and producer.
Regalo del Alma is the final studio album recorded by Cuban salsa recording artist Celia Cruz, released posthumously on 29 July 2003 by Sony Music Latin, following Cruz's death from brain cancer on July 16, 2003. It is Cruz's seventieth album.
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album is an honor presented annually by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and promotes a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally.
"El Amor" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Tito El Bambino. It was composed by Tito and Joan Ortiz and released on February 9, 2009, as the second single from his third studio album, El Patrón (2009). The song blends the sounds of Latin pop with cumbia and merengue. A regional Mexican and a salsa version were recorded and included on the special edition of the album.
Fogaraté! is the seventh album of the famous Dominican songwriter and musician Juan Luis Guerra. It was released on July 19, 1994. The album mixed a variety of music genres including rural and flolklroic rots of merengue called "Perico Ripao" with elements of African soukus music and Tropical Music such as Reggae with the collaboration of African guitarist Diblo Dibala and Dominican accordionist Francisco Ulloa, along with Son, Bachata and Salsa. Also, the album features a particular, bachata-styled adaptation of the Lacrimosa movement from Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor and Guerra's first song fully in English "July 19". Exploring lyrics and themes about magical realism of Latin American literature and commenting on the politics of the Caribbean, for many fans and critics, Fogaraté! is one of his most musically complex album.
The Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the tropical latin music genres. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
A Son de Guerra, sometimes referred to as Asondeguerra, is the 11th studio album recorded by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, It was released by Capitol Latin on June 8, 2010. The album contains 11 tracks, and its musical structure and production are based on Merengue, Bachata, Son, Salsa, experimenting and incorporating elements of jazz, blues, funk, cumbia, rock, reggae, rap, and mambo. Lyrical themes on the album include protest against political corruption, immigration, love and romance. Featured appearances include Juanes and Chris Botti. For many fans and critics alike, it's his album with the most social content and strong social criticism since his 1992's Areito.
Omar Enrique Alfanno Velásquez is a Panamanian singer-songwriter of Latin music who is most active in the salsa and merengue genres.
The 12th Lo Nuestro Awards ceremony, presented by Univision to honor the best Latin music of 1999 and 2000, took place on May 5, 2000, at a live presentation held at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida. The ceremony was broadcast in the United States and Latin America by Univision.
Todo Tiene Su Hora is the 13th studio album by Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra and his band 4.40. It was released on November 11, 2014, by Capitol Latin and was produced by Juan Luis Guerra & Janina Rosado. Like his previous albums, the album is composed by variety of tropical music genres such as bachata, merengue, salsa and son but with different instrumentation normally used in classical music such as strings and violins. Guerra described the album as "innovative" and explored lyrics raging from love and romance to social conscience and protest against political corruption. The record encompassed elements of funk and jazz with merengue and classical music with bachata.
Literal is the 14th studio album by Dominican singer, songwriter and producer Juan Luis Guerra. It was released on 31 May 2019 by Universal Music Latin. Written and produced by Juan Luis Guerra, the album contains eleven tracks and encompasses a variety of tropical genres, such as bachata, merengue, salsa and son along with influences from jazz, gospel, rock and Dominican folk music. The album was co-produced by Guerra's longtime collaboration and musical director Janina Rosado. It has lyrics about romance, love, nostalgia, moving on and protest against corruption.
Paʼllá Voy is the eleventh Spanish-language and thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Marc Anthony, released on March 4, 2022, by Sony Music Latin and it was his first album since Opus (2019). Produced by Marc Anthony with long-time collaborator Sergio George along with Motiff as associated producer, it consisted of nine tracks of pure salsa and it was his first album since Opus (2019). According to the artist, the album is an unabashed celebration of salsa in all its forms, and although it includes hard core salsa romantic salsa, son and even boogaloo. While most of the tracks contains heavy on the soneos or improvisations that are at the heart of classic salsa. The title song is a cover of the 1992 song "Yay Boy" by the group Africando.
