The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend. The Reading Festival is held at Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of a historic house. Headliners and most supporting acts typically play at both sites, with Reading's Friday line up becoming Leeds' Saturday line-up, Reading's Saturday line-up playing at Leeds on Sunday, and Leeds' Friday line-up attending Reading on Sunday. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. Day tickets are also sold.
Rosalía León Oviedo is a Mexican actress, singer, songwriter and guitarist. She participated in the Mexican musical reality show La Academia. She released her first album through Sony Music in 2003 selling over 50,000 copies in the first four weeks.
Vive Latino - Festival Iberoamericano de Cultura Musical is an annual music festival held in Mexico City. It is one of the most important music festivals in Mexico, featuring a great variety of groups of many genres.
The following is a list of the MTV Europe Music Award winners and nominees for Best Spanish Act.
Sylvan Esso is an American electropop duo from Durham, North Carolina which was formed in 2013. The band consists of singer Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn. They made their debut with the single "Hey Mami" and released their eponymous debut album on Partisan Records on May 12, 2014. It reached No. 39 on the Billboard 200. They released their second album, What Now, with Loma Vista Recordings on April 28, 2017, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
Parc del Fòrum is a public park located between the district of Sant Martí in Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs. It was built in 2004 following Elías Torres' and José Antonio Martínez Lapeñas's original design in order to hold the international cultural event Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, celebrated in 2004. It is operated by Ajuntament de Barcelona and Barcelona Serveis Municipals.
Cristian Quirante Catalán, better known by his stage name Alizzz, is a Spanish record producer, songwriter, and singer from Castelldefels, Catalunya. To date he has been awarded a total of 2 diamond, 35 platinum, and 6 gold certified for recordings produced in Spain and Internationally for his production work. In 2021 the Latin Grammy Awards nominated Alizzz for 6 awards including for Producer of the Year. and awarded him 3 Latin Grammy Awards including Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop/Rock Song, "Hong Kong" by C. Tangana, featuring Andres Calamaro, Best Alternative Song for "Nominao", by C. Tangana featuring Jorge Drexler, and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.
Rosalia Vila Tobella, known mononymously as Rosalía, is a Spanish pop and flamenco singer. She has been described as an "atypical pop star" due to her genre-bending musical styles. After being enthralled by Spanish folk music at age 14, she studied musicology at Catalonia College of Music while also performing at musical bars and weddings.
Los Ángeles is the debut studio album by Spanish singer Rosalía, with Raül Refree as co-author, artist, producer, guitarist and arranger. It was released on 10 February 2017 by Universal Music Group in Spain.
The 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on November 15, 2018 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
El mal querer is the second studio album by Spanish singer and songwriter Rosalía. It was released on 2 November 2018 by Columbia Records. The album was written by Rosalía and co-produced with El Guincho on an initial low budget as an independent artist. Presented as experimental and conceptual; a "romantic document that seamlessly links flamenco's characteristic melodrama to the storytelling of modern, woman-flexing R&B", the album follows the anonymous 13th-century Occitan novel Flamenca. It served as the singer's baccalaureate project, graduating from Catalonia College of Music with honors.
The Music for Cars concert tour is the third concert tour by English indie art pop band the 1975 in support of their third studio album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, released on 30 November 2018. The 24-month long world tour began on 29 November 2018 in England.
El Mal Querer Tour was the second concert tour by Spanish singer Rosalía, in support of her second studio album El Mal Querer (2018). The tour began on March 29, 2019 in Buenos Aires at the Hipódromo de San Isidro, as part of the 2019 Lollapalooza Argentina music festival. The tour mostly visited music festivals. The tour ended at the WiZink Center in Madrid on December 10, 2019 after 43 shows.
"A Palé" is a song by Spanish singer Rosalía. It was released by Columbia Records on 7 November 2019.
"Con Altura" is a song by Spanish singer Rosalía and Colombian singer J Balvin, featuring Spanish producer el Guincho. Written by Rosalía, Balvin, Aury "Mariachi Budda" Pineda, el Guincho, Frank Dukes, Teo Halm, and Sky Rompiendo and produced by the last four alongside the Spanish singer, the song was released by Columbia Records on 28 March 2019.
Vetusta Morla is a Spanish indie-rock band originally from the city of Tres Cantos located near Madrid, Spain. The band was formed in 1998 and took its name from the giant old tortoise Morla, a character in the children's book The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. "Vetusta" means "extremely old" or "decrepit" in Spanish.
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, 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.
Amelia Randall Meath is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and dancer who is a member of the musical groups Sylvan Esso and Mountain Man. She is based in Durham, North Carolina.
"Candy" is a song recorded by Spanish singer and songwriter Rosalía. It was released on 18 March 2022 through Columbia Records as a promotional single from her third studio album Motomami (2022). The song was written and produced by Rosalía herself alongside El Guincho, Frank Dukes, Noah Goldstein, Michael Uzowuru and Tainy.
The 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at the Michelob Ultra Arena, Las Vegas to honor the best musical releases within Latin music released from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022. The nominations were announced via a virtual livestream on September 20, 2022, presented by Kany García, Christina Aguilera, Banda Los Sebastianes, Becky G, Yotuel, Criolo, Nicky Jam, Akapellah, Luísa Sonza, Sebastián Yatra and Camilo. The three-hour ceremony aired live on Univision and was hosted by singers Anitta, Luis Fonsi, Laura Pausini and Thalía.
