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Tangos (Rubén Blades Album)
''Tangos'' is a studio album by Panamanian musician Rubén Blades, it was released on June 24, 2014, through Sunnyside Records. The album consists of eleven new versions of compositions by Blades in the style of tango, it features produccion and arrangements by Argentine musician Carlos Franzetti and the participation of Leopoldo Federico's orquestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. At the 15th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Tango Album. Also, the album won Best Latin Pop Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Background The idea of releaseing tango versions of salsa songs began almost ten years prior to the album's release but the recording of it started at the 2010 World Tango Dance Tournament in Buenos Aires, where Blades performed some of the songs of the album with Carlos Franzetti. Five of the songs from the project were recorded in Argentina alongside the orchestra of Argentine bandoneon player Leopoldo Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades (, but in Panama and within the family), is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the salsa, and Latin jazz genres. As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American ''nueva canción'' and Cuban ''nueva trova'' as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music". Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including " Pedro Navaja" and " El Cantante" (which became Héctor Lavoe's signature song). He has won ten Grammy Awards out of seventeen nominations and twelve Latin Grammy Awards. His acting career began in 1983, and has continued, sometimes with several-year breaks to focus on other projects. He has prominent roles in films such as ''Crossover Dreams'' (1985), '' The Milagro Beanfield War'' (1988), '' The Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award For Best Latin Pop Album
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the Latin pop genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". Throughout its history, this award has had minor name changes: * "Best Latin Pop Performance" (1984—1991, 1995—2000) * "Best Latin Pop or Urban Album" (1992—1994, 2021) * "Best Latin Pop Album" since 2022. In 2012 the award was not presented due to a major overhaul of Grammy categories. That year recordings in this category were shifted to the newly formed "Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album". However, later that year, the Board of Trustees ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
