Gloria Estefan poses with a fan on the green carpet at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards, Houston, Texas, USA
The mainstream (English-language) Grammy Awards are held each year to recognise the best in pop-culture music. The word “Grammy” is derived from “gramophone”. The concept for a separate Grammy Award event for “Latin” music began in 1989 - with the inaugural Latin Grammy event held in Los Angeles in 2000. The second Latin Grammy ceremony scheduled for airing live was on 11th September 2001 but was cancelled due to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on that same day. Here “Latin” is defined as music in Spanish or Portuguese. This has not gone without controversy: not included are artists from Quebec, Louisiana, French West Indies, French Guiana - not to mention francophone Africa. Traditionally too it has been limited to artists from the Americas. (I’ll gloss over the fact that technically ‘Latin’ artists should also include those from France, Italy, Romania, Switzerland.) Since 2010 the Latin Grammys have included artists from Spain - which generated some controversy given Spain’s colonial role in the Americas. To accommodate Brazil there was a category of Best Brazilian song. In 2016 this was changed to Best Portuguese-language Song admitting artists from Portugal. But it set up more problems given Portuguese-speaking nations in Africa and Asia. This year (2023) for the first time the a Latin Grammy event will be held outside The - in Seville, Spain in November.
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