Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album
Awarded forBest Latin rock or Latin alternative albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1998
Currently held byRosalía – Motomami (2023)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album (until 2020: Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin rock and/or alternative 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".[2]

The category was introduced in 1998 and has gone through a number of name changes:

In June 2020, the Recording Academy announced a renaming and redefining of this category. Latin urban albums were moved to the newly named Best Latin Pop or Urban Album category, as the Academy stated that "the Latin urban genre, both aesthetically and musically, is much more closely related to the current state of Latin pop."[4]

Recipients

Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs was the first recipient of the award.
In the left a black man with sunglasses and a green jacket holding performing to a microphone beside him another man playing the saxophone, in the center blonde haired man playing the trombone and in the back a man with sunglasses and a yellow hat playing the percussion with his head down, and in the right a man with curly hair with sunglasses playing the trumpet beside him a bald man playing the guitar.
Two-time winners Ozomatli.
A man in the right with a hat in a black outfit with his arms extended singing to a microphone and another man on the left with a black sweater over a white shirt playing the guitar.
2004 winners, Mexican band Café Tacvba.
Three-time winner, Mexican band Maná.
A blonde woman smiling.
2006 winner, Colombian singer Shakira.
A black and white image with a white male, shaved, shirtless, holding a microphone with his right hand while lifting his left hand. On his neck hangs a necklace.
Residente from the two-time award winning band Calle 13.
2016 co-winner, Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade.
Spanish singer Rosalía is the first solo artist to win this award twice in 2020 and 2023.
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1998 Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Fabulosos Calavera [5]
1999 Maná Sueños Líquidos [6]
2000 Chris Pérez Band Resurrection [7]
2001 La Ley Uno
[8]
2002 Ozomatli Embrace the Chaos [9]
2003 Maná Revolución de Amor [10]
2004 Café Tacvba Cuatro Caminos
[11]
2005 Ozomatli Street Signs
[12]
2006 Shakira Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 [13]
2007 Maná Amar es Combatir [14]
2008 Black Guayaba No Hay Espacio [15]
2009 Jaguares 45
[16]
2010 Calle 13 Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo [17]
2011 Grupo Fantasma El Existential
[18]
2012[II] Not awarded [19]
2013 Quetzal Imaginaries
[20]
2014 La Santa Cecilia Treinta Días [21]
2015 Calle 13 Multi Viral
[22]
2016[*] Natalia Lafourcade Hasta la Raíz
[23]
Pitbull Dale
2017 iLe iLevitable [24]
2018 Residente Residente [25]
2019 Zoé Aztlán
[26]
2020 Rosalía El Mal Querer
[27]
2021 Fito Páez La Conquista del Espacio
[28]
2022 Juanes Origen
[29]
2023 Rosalía Motomami
[30]
2024 Winner TBA on 4 February 2024

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  3. ^ "Grammy Awards restructuring". Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
  4. ^ Grammy.com, 10 June 2020
  5. ^ Strauss, Neil (January 7, 1998). "Grammy Nominations Yield Surprises, Including Newcomer's Success". The New York Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
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  7. ^ "Santana nominated for 10 Grammy Awards". Lodi News-Sentinel. January 5, 2000. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  8. ^ "43rd Grammy Awards". CNN. February 21, 2001. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
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  13. ^ "The Complete List of Grammy Nominations". The New York Times. December 8, 2005. p. 3. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  14. ^ "The 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards Roundup: Latin/World Fields". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  15. ^ "Grammy 2008 Winners List". MTV. February 10, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  16. ^ "Complete List of Nominees for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards". E! Online. December 8, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  17. ^ "52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Latin Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
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  19. ^ "Grammy Awards 2012: Winners and nominees list". Los Angeles Times. 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  20. ^ List of 2013 nominees Archived 2012-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  22. ^ List of Nominees 2015
  23. ^ "Grammy Awards 2016: See the Full Winners List". Billboard. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  24. ^ "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  25. ^ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  26. ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
  27. ^ 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list
  28. ^ 2021 Grammy Awards complete nominees list
  29. ^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  30. ^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
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