Rosalia has been nominated for seven Latin Grammy Awards, among which stand out those of best recording, album and song of the year, as announced on Tuesday by the organization of the awards. The Puerto Rican Bad Bunny is the artist who has accumulated the most nominations, with 10 possible awards for the 2022 edition, which will be held on next November 17 in Las Vegas (USA).
Bad Bunny does not appear in one of the main categories of the Latin Grammy, as it is song of the year, an award that “Hentai”, by the Spanish Rosalía, will try to get, which has seven nominations for these awards, including Record of the Year for “La Fama” and Album of the Year for “Motomami.”In song of the year, “Hentai” will have to be measured, among others, with “Agua”, by Puerto Ricans Daddy Yankee, Rauw Alejandro and the famous American producer Nile Rodgers; “Something is better”, by the Chilean Mon Laferte; “Baloncito viejo”, by Colombians Carlos Vives and Camilo; “Red Heels”, by also Colombian Sebatián Yatra; and “Tocarte”, by the Uruguayan Jorge Drexler and the Spanish C. Tangana.
Rosalía has seven nominations, the same number as Christina Aguilera, Venezuelan Jorge Luis Chacín, Uruguayan Jorge Drexler, Colombian Julio Reyes Copello and Puerto Rican Tainy. above them alone Rauw Alejandro, with eight nominations, and the Mexican producer and composer Edgar Barrera, present in nine categories.
Among those who hope to win the Latin Grammy for best new artist are Nicole Zignago, daughter of Peruvian Gianmarco, Spanish-French Pol Granch and regional Mexican music performer Nabález.
The Argentinian Fito Páez has three nominations, including best pop/rock album for “The Wild Years”while his compatriots from the group El Mató a Un Policia Motorizado are nominated for best rock album for “Unas Vacaciones Rare”, which also includes the Spanish band Fito y Fitipaldis with their album “Cada vez cadaver”.
Spaniard Enrique Bunburyfor his part, appears among the nominees for best rock song, for “Waiting for a signal”, a category that also includes his compatriots from Vetusta Morla, for “Finisterre” and Molotov’s Mexicans for “We do not forget”, among others.
Last August, the Latin Recording Academy announced that the Spanish Rosario Floresthe Chilean Myriam Hernández, the Brazilian composer Rita Lee, the Argentine singer Amanda Miguel and the Venezuelan singer-songwriter Yordano will receive this year’s Award for Musical Excellence.
Bad Bunny has all the ballots to consecrate himself as the protagonist of this year’s edition, boosted by his most recent album “A summer without you”, with which he aspires to the award for best album of the year. The single “Ojitos Lindos” from that same album, which he performs together with the Colombians Bomba Estéreo, aspires to another important award such as recording of the year.
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Bad Bunny, who with 23 nominations is also a favorite in the Latin Billboard awards, is omnipresent in the Urban section of the Latin Grammys, appearing in its five categories, including best reggaeton performance with the song “Yonaguni”; best urban fusion/interpretation, for “Volví”, together with Aventura, and also for “Titi asked me”; and, of course, best urban music album for “A summer without you.”
If consecrated in this ceremony, the interpreter would close an unbeatable year, during which he has shared the poster with Brad Pitt in the movie “Bullet Train”, while “A summer without you” has been placed eleven weeks (non-consecutive) in the first position Billboard 200, close to the milestone achieved by Canadian Drake in 2016, when his album “Views” spent 13 weeks at the top of that list.