The winners of the 21st edition of the awards

Rosalía, Carlos Vives and Natalia Lafourcade were the big winners of the 21th edition of the Latin Grammy, with three awards each.

The ceremony took place in the city of Miami, with a production that were not present audience and red carpet because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Additionally, several candidate presentations were made virtually with links to places like Buenos Aires; Guadalajara Mexico; Rio de Janeiro; Madrid and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rosalía, Vives and Lafourcade: three Latin Grammys each

This is the second consecutive year that Rosalía has led the awards. His three gold gramophones made it to the previous awards ceremony, streamed via the Latin Recording Academy Facebook account.

Two of the awards were for the single “Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi” which he plays with Ozuna. That song was the winner in the categories: best urban fusion / performance and best urban song. The third was gramophone for the video of “TKN”, a song he performs with Travis Scott, who won the category of best music video in a short version.

Meanwhile, Natalia Lafourcade won the evening’s most coveted award, album of the year, for “Un canto por México, Vol. 1”. He won the other two Latin Grammys for his song “My religion” (“best Mexican regional song”) and “En Cantos”, a song by the Puerto Rican singer iLe who plays with Lafourcade.

For its part, the “Cumbiana” production awarded Carlos Vives three Latin Grammys in the categories “best contemporary album / tropical fusion”, “best tropical song” for “Canción para Rubén” with Rubén Blades and “best long music video version” for his documentary “The Lost World of Cumbiana”.

J Balvin came as a favorite of the night being the most nominated artist of the delivery, with thirteen mentions, and having broken the Guinness record set by Calle 13 in 2011 for the artist with the most nominations in a year.

However, of the 13 nominations, Balvin only earned a Latin Grammy in the “Best Urban Music Album” category for his “Colores” album.

Latin Grammy 2020 winners

The winners of each category will be represented with a letter in bold and an asterisk.

Record of the year

• «China» – Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G, with Ozuna and J Balvin
• “When you are here” – Pablo Alboran
• «Vete» – Bad Bunny
• «Solari Yacumenza» – Bajofondo with Cuareim1080
• «Red» – J Balvin
• «Tutu» – Camilo with Pedro Capó
• «What I see in you» – Kany García and Nahuel Pennisi
• «Tusa» – Karol G and Nicki Minaj
• «René» – Resident
• “With you” – Alejandro Sanz *

Album of the year

• “Table for two” by Kany Garcia
• “For the first time” by Camilo
• «Air (Day version)» by Jesse & Joy
• “A Song for Mexico, vol. 1 »by Natalia Lafourcade *
• “Break” by Ricky Martin
• “The conquest of space” by Fito Páez
• “Cumbiana” by Carlos Vives

Song of the year

• “ADMV” – Vicente Barco, Edgar Barrera, Maluma & Stiven Rojas, composers (Maluma)
• “Bonita” – Juanes, Mauricio Rengifo, Andres Torres and Sebastian Yatra, composers (Juanes and Sebastian Yatra)
• “Elbow to elbow” – Jorge Drexler, composer (Jorge Drexler)
• “The same air” – Edgar Barrera, Camilo, Jon Leone, Richi Lopez & Juan Morelli, composers (Camilo)
• “For sale” – Alejandro Sanz & Carlos Vives, composers (Alejandro Sanz and Carlos Vives)
• “#ELMUNDOFUERA (Improvisation)” – Alejandro Sanz, composer (Alejandro Sanz)
• “What I see in you” – Kany García, composer (Kany Garcia and Nahuel Pennisi)
• «René» – Resident, composer (Resident) *
• «Sharks» – Oscar Hernández and Pablo Preciado, composers (Ricky Martin)
• «Tusa» – Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Karol G, Nicki Minaj and Daniel Oviedo Echavarría, composers (Karol G and Nicki Minaj)
• «Tutu» – Camilo, Jon Leone & Richi López, composers (Camilo with Pedro Capó)

Best new artist

• Anuel AA
• Raw Alejandro
• Mike Bahia *
• Cazzu
• Getting to know Russia
• I am Emilia
• Kurt
• Nicki nicole
• Nathy Peluso
• Petition
• Wax

Best Pop Song

• «Love in quarantine» – Raquel Sofía
• «Bonita» – Juanes and Sebastián Yatra
• “When you are here” – Pablo Alboran
• «Tutu» – Camilo feat. Pedro Capó *
• «Once again» – Ximena Sariñana

Best Urban Music Album

• «Emmanuel» – Anuel AA
• «YHLQMDLG» – Bad Bunny
• «Oasis» – J Balvin and Bad Bunny
• «Colors» – J Balvin *
• «Ferxxo (Vol. 1: MOR)» – Feid
• «Nibiru» – Ozuna
• «1 of 1» – Sech
• «Easy Money Baby» – Myke Towers

Best Tropical Song

• «Búscame» – Kany García and Carlos Vives
• “Song for Rubén” – Rubén Blades and Carlos Vives *
• “Imagine myself without you” – Elvis Crespo and Maribel Vega
• «Stay» – Paula Arenas, Debi Nova and Juan Pablo Vega
• “That’s enough” – Pavel Nuñez

Best Songwriter Album

• “Sublime” – Alex Cuba
• «Recent (advance)» – The David Aguilar
• “Table for two” – Kany Garcia *
• “3:33” – Debbie Nova
• “And after all” – Yordano

Best Ranchera / Mariachi Music Album

• «Anthology of ranchera music» – Aida Cuevas
• “Made in Mexico” – Alejandro Fernández *
• “At 4 twenty vol. 1 “Ranchero” »- Eugenia León
• “Dancing sones and huapangos with El Mariachi Sol de México by José Hernández” – Mariachi Sol de México by José Hernández
• “AYAYAY!” – Christian Nodal

Some winners announced at the preview ceremony:

Best Pop Vocal Album

• «Spoiler» – Aitana
• «Prisma» – Cap
• «For the first time» – Camilo
• «More future than past» – Juanes
• Break – Ricky Martin *

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• “The metamorphosis” – Reyli Barba
• «Compadres» – Andrés Cepeda y Fonseca *
• «Thirteen» – Andrés Cepeda
• “¡Spangled!” – Gaby Moreno and Van Dyke Parks
• “Looking into your eyes” – José Luis Perales

Best Urban Fusion / Performance

• «China» – Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G feat. Ozuna and J Balvin
• “Let’s talk tomorrow” – Bad Bunny, Duki and Pablo Chill-E
• «Blue» – J Balvin
• «Sing» – Ricky Martin, Resident and Bad Bunny
• “Me for you, you for me” – Rosalía and Ozuna *

Best Contemporary Album / Tropical Fusion

• «Energy to give» – El Caribefunk
• “My demolition” – Riccie Oriach
• «Butterflies» – Omara Portuondo
• «Alter ego» – Prince Royce
• «Cumbiana» – Carlos Vives *

Best reggaeton performance

• “I perreo alone” by Bad Bunny *
• «Morado» by J Balvin
• «Crazy with you» by DJ Snake & J Balvin feat. Tyga
• “Please” by Feid and Justin Quiles
• «Chicharrón» by Guayanaa feat. Cauty
• “I dreamed of you again” by Ozuna
• “Si te vas” by Sech and Ozuna

Best Rap / Hip Hop Song

• “Before the world ends” by Resident *
• «Money dance» by Anuel AA
• “Drip” by Duki
• “Kemba walker” by Eladio Carrion and Bad Buny
• «Medusa» by Jhay Cortez, Anuel AA and J Balvin

Best Pop / Rock Song

• “The pain” of Rosalia
• “The song of the beasts” by Fito Páez *
• “I want you to call me” from Get to know Russia
• “I want to live” by Draco Rosa
• «Last Words» by Los Mesoneros

The full list of Latin Grammy winners can be found here.