2010 Grammy Winners in Latin Music

Taking a look at the winners in Latin music at the 2010 Grammy Awards, it looks like the Recording Academy was playing it safe. They selected Luis Enrique's Ciclos over the more challenging Bach in Havana, Vicente Fernandez over two dynamite mariachi albums by women bands, Los Tigres del Norte, a big, familiar name, over some excellent albums by less familiar names.

But that's O.K. At least Latin music has it's own Latin Grammy Awards  where Latin music holds center stage.

The only problem with the Latin Grammy Awards is that since the show moved to Univision from CBS in 2004, the show is now broadcast only in Spanish (with really bad subtitles on CC3). Fans of Latin music that are less fluent in Spanish (and that includes lots of second generation Hispanics) or that don't have regular access to Univision are bound to feel excluded.

In 2010, even the press information for the Latin Grammy's will only be offered in Spanish. Strange that in a time of declining sales, decisions are being made that will make the music more inaccessible than ever.

Here are the Grammy winners in Latin music  for 2010.

The 2010 Grammy Award include eight categories (if you include Latin Jazz) of Latin music -- a pretty small sampling of the best in a very large repetoire of music. I guess that's why the Latin Grammy Awards are such an excellent idea.

As usual, it's a brain numbing excercise trying to figure out why the nominees are so different from one list to the other. In pop music alone, the three big albums that took home prizes at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards (Laura Pausini - Primavera Anticipada, Fito Paez - No Se Si Es Baires o Madrid, Reik - La Dia Mas) are not even on the list of nominees.

There are no big surprises in this list of winners with La Quinta Estacion taking home the pop title with their teriffic Sin Frenos and critic's favorites Calle 13 adding one more award to a year just filled with accolades.

Here are the rest of the winners, highlighted by '*' & in bold.

Best Latin Pop Album

5to Piso - Ricardo Arjona
Te Acuerdas... - Francisco Céspedes
* Sin Frenos - La Quinta Estación
Hu Hu Hu - Natalia Lafourcade
Gran City Pop - Paulina Rubio

Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album

Rio - Aterciopelados
Y. - Bebe
* Los De Atras Vienen Conmigo - Calle 13
La Luz Del Ritmo - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
La Revolucion - Wisin Y Yandel

Best Tropical Latin Album

Asi Soy - Isaac Delgado
* Ciclos - Luis Enrique
Guasábara - José Lugo Orchestra
Gracias - Omara Portuondo
Bach In Havana - Tiempo Libre

Best Regional Mexican Album

Corazón Ranchero - Shaila Dúrcal
* Necesito De Ti - Vicente Fernández
Compañeras - Mariachi Reyna De Los Angeles
10 Aniversario - Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea
Pegadito Al Corazón - Joan Sebastian

Best Tejano Album

* Borders Y Bailes - Los Texmaniacs
Divina - Stefani Montiel
All The Way Live - Jay Perez
Point Of View - Joe Posada
Radiación Musical - Sunny Sauceda Y Todo Eso

Best Norteño Album

Dejame Soñar - Cumbre Norteña
El Niño De Oro - El Compa Chuy
Pese A Quien Le Pese - Los Rieleros Del Norte
* Tu Noche Con...Los Tigres Del Norte - Los Tigres Del Norte
Soy Todo Tuyo - Los Tucanes De Tijuana

Best Banda Album

Se Nos Murio El Amor - El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario
Mas Adelante - La Arrolladora Banda El Limón De Rene Camacho
Derecho De Antiguedad - La Original Banda El Limón De Salvador Lizárraga
* Tu Esclavo Y Amo - Lupillo Rivera

Best Latin Jazz Album

Things I Wanted To Do - Chembo Corniel
Áurea - Geoffrey Keezer
Brazilliance X 4 - Claudio Roditi
* Juntos Para Siempre - Bebo Valdés & Chucho Valdés
Esta Plena - Miguel Zenón

Source: About.com

Written by :

Tijana Ilich

 

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