Music awards presented Nov 2012
The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the fifth time the awards was held at this venue and in Las Vegas. It also marks the last year in the Latin Recording Academy's contract where the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosted. It is unknown if the awards will continue to be held at this location beyond 2012.
Recordings must have been released between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012 in order to be eligible for the 13th Latin Grammy Awards. Nominations were announced on September 25, 2012.[1] Juan Luis Guerra led the nominations field with six; Jesse & Joy earned five nods; Ricardo Arjona, Edgar Barrera, Juanes, Carla Morrison, Arturo Sandoval, Ivete Sangalo, and Caetano Veloso each received four nominations.[2] The telecast was aired on Univision at 8pm/7c.[1] Caetano Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year on November 14, 2012.[3]
Jesse & Joy won four awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "¡Corre!", Juanes took the Album of the Year for MTV Unplugged and 3BallMTY was named Best New Artist.[4][5][6]
Changes to award categories
On May 10, 2012 the Latin Recording Academy announced that The Academy's Trustees approved changes in the general and pop fields and expanded the Rock and Tropical fields, bringing the total number of categories from 46 to 47:[7]
Awards
The following is a list of nominees:[8]
Bold indicates winner.
General
- Record of the Year
Jesse & Joy — "¡Corre!"
- Album of the Year
Juanes — Juanes MTV Unplugged
- Song of the Year
Jesse & Joy and Tommy Torres — "¡Corre!" (Jesse & Joy)
- Best New Artist
3Ball MTY
Pop
- Best Contemporary Pop Album
Jesse & Joy — ¿Con Quién Se Queda El Perro?
- Best Traditional Pop Album
David Bisbal — Una Noche en el Teatro Real
Urban
- Best Urban Music Album
Don Omar — Don Omar Presents MTO²: New Generation
- Best Urban Song
Don Omar — "Hasta Que Salga el Sol"
Rock
- Best Rock Album
Molotov — Desde Rusia Con Amor
- Best Pop/Rock Album
El Cuarteto de Nos — Porfiado
- Best Rock Song
Roberto Musso — "Cuando Sea Grande" (El Cuarteto de Nos)
- Manuel Diquez — "Anti Idolo"
- Leo Felipe Campos and Ulises Hadjis — "Dónde Va" (Ulises Hadjis)
- Doctor Krápula — "Exigimos"
- Luis Jiménez — "Indeleble" (Los Mesoneros)
Alternative
- Best Alternative Music Album
Carla Morrison — Déjenme Llorar
- Best Alternative Song
Carla Morrison — "Déjenme Llorar"
Tropical
- Best Salsa Album
Luis Enrique — Soy y Seré
- Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album
Juan Piña — Le Canta A San Jacinto
- Best Contemporary Tropical Album
Milly Quezada — Aquí Estoy Yo
- Best Traditional Tropical Album
Eliades Ochoa — Un Bolero Para Tí
- Miguel García — Guarachando
- Plenealo — Soy Yo
- Quinteto Criollo — La Trova de Siempre
- Son de Tikiza — Bolero
- Best Tropical Fusion Album
Fonseca — Ilusión+
- Best Tropical Song
Yoel Henríquez and Alex Puentes — "Toma Mi Vida" (Milly Quezada featuring Juan Luis Guerra)
Singer-Song Writer
- Best Singer-Song Writer Album
Gian Marco — 20 Años
Regional Mexican
- Best Ranchero Album
Pepe Aguilar — Mas de Un Camino
- Best Banda Album
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón — Irreversible... 2012
- Cristina — Golpes de Pecho
- La Addictiva Banda San José de Mesillas — Nada Iguales
- Fidel Rueda — Sinaloense Hasta Las Chachas
- Beto Zapata — Prisionero de tus Brazos
- Best Tejano Album
Joe Posada — Algo Esta Pasando
- Avizo — Mas Amigos
- Los Desperadoz — Sunset Run
- Los Hermanos Farías — Back On Track
- Jay Pérez — The Voice of Authority
- Best Norteño Album
Los Tucanes de Tijuana — 365 Días
- Regulo Caro — Amor En Tiempos de Guerra
- Duelo — Vuela Muy Alto
- Implakable — Simplemente
- Gerardo Ortíz — Entre Dios Y El Diablo
- Siggno — Lo Que Me Dejastes
- Best Regional Mexican Song
Luis Carlos Monroy and Adrian Pieragostino — "El Mejor Perfume" (La Original Banda El Limón de Salvador Lizárraga)
Instrumental
- Best Instrumental Album
Chick Corea, Eddie Gómez and Paul Motian — Further Explorations
Traditional
- Best Folk Album
Lila Downs — Pecados y Milagros
- Best Tango Album
Arturo Sandoval — Tango Como Yo Te Siento
- Carlos Bosio — El Tango Lo Siento Así
- Cuartetango String Quartet — Masters of Bandoneon
- Susana Rinaldi — Experimentango
- Tango VIP — Grandes Varones del Tango
- Best Flamenco Album
Paco de Lucía — En Vivo Conciertos España 2010
- Antonio Cortés — Cuando Quieras
- Niño Josele — El Mar de Mi Ventana
- Diana Navarro — Flamenco
- Various Artists — México Flamenco
Jazz
- Best Latin Jazz Album
Arturo Sandoval — Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)
Christian
- Best Christian Album (Spanish Language)
Marcos Witt — 25 Concierto Conmemorativo
- Paulina Aguirre — Rompe El Silencio
- Carlos Carcache — Aquí En Tu Presencia
- Generasion — Yo Soy Generasion
- Jacobo Ramos — Dile Al Corazón Que Camine
- Tercer Cielo — Lo Que El Viento Me Enseñó
- Best Christian Album (Portuguese Language)
Aline Barros — Aline Barros & Cia 3
- Paulo César Baruk e Banda Salluz — Eletro Acústico 3
- Cantores de Deus — Mulheres Ao Vivo
- Grupo Chamas — Inquieto Coraçao
- Ministério de Louvor Diante do Trono — Diante do Trono 14 - Sol da Justiça
Brazilian
- Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album
Seu Jorge — Músicas Para Churrascos Vol. 1
- Best Brazilian Rock Album
Beto Lee — Celebração & Sacrificío
- CPM 22 — Depois de Um Longo Inverno
- Ira! e Ultraje A Rigor — Ao Vivo no Rock in Rio
- NX Zero — Multishow ao Vivo NX Zero 10 Anos
- RPM — Elektra
- Best Samba/Pagode Album
Beth Carvalho — Nosso Samba Tá na Rua
Emilio Santiago — So Danço Samba ao Vivo
- Alcione — Duas Faces ao Vivo na Mangueira
- Sorriso Maroto — 15 Anos ao Vivo
- Thiaguinho — Ousadia & Alegria
- Best MPB Album
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Ivete Sangalo — Especial Ivete, Gil e Caetano
- Best Sertaneja Music Album
Chitãozinho & Xororó — Chitãozinho & Xororó - 40 Anos - Sinfônico
- Best Brazilian Roots Album
Dominguinhos — Iluminado
- Best Brazilian Song
Chico Buarque — "Querido Diário"
Children's
- Best Latin Children's Album
María Teresa Chacín — María Teresa Chacín Canta Cuentos
Classical
- Best Classical Album
Cuarteto Latinoamericano — Brasileiro: Works of Francisco Mignone
- Guillermo Figueroa, I Solisti di Zagreb and Pepe Romero — Cordero: Caribbean Concertos For Guitar and For Violin
- Javier Perianes and Josep Pons — Da Falla: Noches En Los Jardines de España
- José Serebrier — Dvorak Symphony No. 7; In Nature's Realm, Scherzo Capriccioso
- Gabriel Castagna — Fiesta Criolla: Latin-American Orchestral Works
- Quarteto Radamés Gnattali — Prelúdio 21: Quartetos das Ordas
- Best Classical Contemporary Composition
Yalil Guerra — "Seducción" (Elizabeth Rebozo)
- Tania León — "Inura"
- Gustavo Casenave — "Miñoqui"
- Aurelio de la Vega — "Preludio No. 1" (Elizabeth Rebozo)
- Leo Brouwer — "Quartet No. 4 - Rem Tene Verba Sequentur (Know the Matter and the Word Will Follow)" (Havana String Quartet)
- Tim Rescala — "Quarteto Circular"
- Carlos Franzetti — "Stringazo" (Cuartetango String Quartet)
Recording Package
- Best Recording Package
Miguel Masa — Cambié de Nombre (Viniloversus)
- MZK — Bixinga 70 (Bixiga70)
- Alejandro Ros — Canciones Para Aliens (Fito Páez)
- Pablo Martínez — Indeleble (Los Mesoneros)
- Mago — Ves Lo Que Quieres Ver (Bareto)
Production
- Best Engineered Album
Gregg Field, Don Murray and Paul Blakemore — Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You) (Arturo Sandoval)
- Madre Música and André Dias — Brasilianos 3 (Hamilton de Holanda)
- Bruno Giorgi and Carlos Freitas — Chão (Lenine)
- Julio Boscher, Walter Costa, Duda Mello, Leonel Pereda, Carlos Toré and Ricardo Garcia — Liebe Paradiso (Celso Fonseca e Ronaldo Bastos)
- Alexandre Gaiotto — O Canto da Sereia (Regina Benedetti)
- Producer of the Year
Juan Luis Guerra
Music Video
- Best Short Form Music Video
Jesse & Joy — "Me Voy"
- Catupecu Machu — "Metrópolis Nueva"
- Georgina — "Rara"
- Nevilton — "Tempos de Maracujá"
- Rakel — "En El Tiempo"
- Best Long Form Music Video
Juanes — Juanes MTV Unplugged
Special Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Trustees Award
- Person of the Year