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Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee triumphed at the Billboard Latin Music Awards on Wednesday by winning seven honors each in a ceremony held half a year later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the first of them was not present to receive them. .
Bad Bunny won the highest honor of the night, artist of the year, as well as “Top Latin Album” of the year for “X 100PRE” and composer of the year, among others. None of these were announced during the evening. The Puerto Rican singer, who had 14 nominations, also won two Billboard Music Awards last week.
Yankee swept the song category with the hit “Con Calma,” which also won Snow six awards. The song, an urban version of Snow’s reggae “Informer” from 1992, received among others, the awards “Hot Latin Song” song of the year, “Hot Latin Song” vocal collaboration of the year; song of the year, airplay; song of the year, digital; and song of the year, streaming.
The Puerto Rican reggaeton idol dedicated the first of his awards to all those who have lost loved ones due to the pandemic. In these difficult times, he said, “music is still medicine.”
The award for debut artist of the year went to Panamanian singer Sech, who later performed “Relationship,” while Pedro Capó and Farruko won “Latin Pop” song of the year for “Calma.”
The ceremony, hosted by Venezuelan actress Gaby Espino and broadcast live on Telemundo from the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, without a live audience, began with Maluma singing his latest hit, “Hawaii.”
Dressed from head to toe in white, the Colombian singer began by lying on a piano before joining a group of dancers on stage, all wearing masks. Among the audience of invited artists, everyone could also be seen wearing masks. Moments later Jesse & Joy performed “Love (it’s our language)”.
Among other musical numbers, Luis Fonsi and Farruko sang “Perfecta”, Ozuna “Despeinada” and then “Mamacita” with the Black Eyed Peas, and Pitbull with Chesca “Te quiero baby” and “Moviendolo” with Wisin & Yandel and El Alfa.
In one of the liveliest moments, Carlos Vives performed a medley of “Cumbiana”, “La bicicleta”, “La Drop Cold” and “Pa ‘Mayté” on a colorful stage whose scenography transported him to his native Colombia before receiving the Award Billboard Hall of Fame from Emilio Estefan.
“Almost 30 years ago I decided to make my music in an original way… I looked for my pop and rock from my town based on traditional Colombian music and a new sound was born. Much of the industry at that time did not see it, but the public did, and through the radio we reached the first places, “said the Colombian artist before thanking Billboard, his work team and his family.
And in the undoubtedly most romantic moment, the Mexican maestro Armando Manzanero was honored with the Prize for Artistic Career and a tribute in which Pablo Alborán sang “With you learned”, Luis Fonsi “Under the table”, Jesús Navarro from Reik “As I loved you” and Joy Huerta, from Jesse & Joy, “I don’t know about you”. Manzanero, who played the piano throughout the musical number, closed with the classic “This afternoon I saw it rain.”
“I have no words to express what my heart feels to have been able to share with a generation (of young artists) in a show as beautiful as this. God bless the Latin American song ”, said Manzanero upon receiving his trophy.
Enrique Iglesias, the most awarded artist in the history of the Latin Billboards, received the Billboard Top Latin Artist of All Time award, or best Latin artist of all time. After thanking Billboard and his team, the Spanish star told his fans that he missed them a lot and asked them to take care of themselves.
Romeo Santos won four awards, including Tropical Artist of the Year, Soloist; tropical song of the year for “Aullando”, with Wisin & Yandel, and tropical album of the year for “Utopia”. In addition, he was honored with the Billboard Latin Album of the Decade Award for “Fórmula, Vol. 2” and Aventura, the group that launched him to fame and met with last year, revived his past success and prevailed. as Tropical Artist of the Year, Duo or Group.
Luis Fonsi received three awards: “Latin Pop” artist of the year, soloist; “Latin Pop” album of the year for “Vida” and the Billboard Latin Song of the Decade Award for “Despacito,” featuring Daddy Yankee.
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“I want to start thanking Daddy God because from the beginning he put his hand in this song and put me on good, talented people, with great hearts,” said Fonsi. “In the end, what took me away is that the whole world sang in Spanish … the whole world knows the sound of a Puerto Rican cuatro ”.
“The greatest song on the planet, and it is in Spanish,” stressed Yankee.
Maluma was honored with the Billboard Spirit of Hope Award for his work with his El Arte de los Sueños foundation, which helps vulnerable youth overcome adversity through art. The singer and activist said he hopes this recognition will inspire generations to come.
Karol G, Wisin & Yandel and Sergio Lizárraga’s Banda MS received two Billboards each, and with a trophy Caliber 50, Christian Nodal, Farruko, Fuerza Regida, Jennifer López, Katy Perry, Lali, Los Ángeles Azules, Maluma, Maná, Natalia Lafourcade, Pedro Capó, Sech, and Tainy, although not all were present.
Gente de Zona, Gerardo Ortiz, Jessie Reyez, Jay Wheeler and Tempo also performed. The show closed with Manuel Turizo, Raw Alejandro and Myke Towers closed the show with “La nota”.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards recognize the most popular songs, albums, and performers based on actual sales, streaming, radio broadcast, and social media performance results over a one-year period, in this case from February 2, 2019 to February 25. January 2020.
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