Grammys 2023: Anitta and Bad Bunny bring Latin spice to the music award

The ceremony of the 65th edition of the event will take place this Sunday 5

A 65th Annual Grammy Awardswhich takes place this Sunday 5, could be the stage for another historic moment for Latin music with Anitta and Bad Bunny in the two most coveted categories of the night.

The US Recording Academy Awards ceremony takes place at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles at 5pm local time (10pm GMT) and will again be hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.

Puerto Rican Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known worldwide as Bad bunnyhe has two gramophones on the shelf and hopes for their success A summer without you win the coveted Grammy for Album of the Year. This category has never been assigned to a disc recorded entirely in Spanish.

Like the album, which has more than 4 billion plays on Spotify, the tour also broke records and sold out stadiums in Latin America and the United States.

But this reggaeton singer’s competition isn’t small: titans like Adele, Kendrick Lamar and big favorite Beyoncé are vying for the grand prize.

Bad Bunny’s win “would mean a lot to Spanish speakers and our culture because it really says, ‘look, music in Spanish is as respected as music in English and there are no barriers in music,'” he told AFP. Colombian Sebastian Yatra.

As for Anitta, who made the whole world dance with last year Involvedebut in his first Grammy nomination in contention for the award for Best New Artist.

The last time a Brazilian woman was nominated for Best New Artist was nearly 60 years ago, when Astrud Gilberto immortalized the classic Ipanema girl. The statuette that Anitta intends to take, however, went to the Beatles.

The carioca competes with the Italian band Maneskins and singer, son of Mexican immigrants, Omar Apollo.

Despite having more than 10 years of career, the nomination comes as Anitta invests in the international market, which has defined a new beginning.

“As a Brazilian and Latina woman, a nomination like this is very representative and fills me with pride,” she said in an interview with AFP.

In the categories dedicated to Latin music, the experts bet on Spanish Rosalia with your Motomamiwhich shone at last year’s Latin Grammys, winning Best Latin or Alternative Rock Album.

Carlos Vives, Maluma, Jorge Drexler and Christina Aguilera they also compete in the categories dedicated to Latin music. Like this Papa Yankeefamed for globalizing reggaeton, but who hasn’t won a Grammy in his more than two-decade career.

Source: Terra

Earl

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