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2006 In Latin Music
This is a list of notable events in Latin music (genre), Latin music (i.e. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking music from Latin America, Latin Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2006. Events *November 3 — The 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards are held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. **Shakira is the biggest winner receiving four awards including Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year for ''Fijación Oral, Vol. 1'' and Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Record of the Year and Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year for "La Tortura" featuring Alejandro Sanz. **Calle 13 (band), Calle 13 wins Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist. Number-ones albums and singles by country *List of number-one singles of 2006 (Spain) *List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006 *List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2006 Awards *Premio Lo Nuestro 2006, 2006 Premio Lo Nuestro *2006 L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Music (genre)
Latin music ( Portuguese and ) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese. It may also include music from other territories where Spanish- and Portuguese-language music is made. Terminology and categorization Because the majority of Latino immigrants living in New York City in the 1950s were of Puerto Rican or Cuban descent, "Latin music" had been stereotyped as music simply originating from the Spanish Caribbean. The popularization of bossa nova and Herb Alpert's Mexican-influenced sounds in the 1960s did little to change the perceived image of Latin music. In 1969, the first international organization which attempted to define Latin music was the Festival Mundial de la Canción Latina which included Spanish, Portuguese, French, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Latin Billboard Music Awards
The 2006 ''Billboard'' Latin Music Awards, produced and broadcast lived on Telemundo, were held on Thursday, April 27, 2006. The award show aired on Telemundo at 8pm EST. The awards show and after party were held at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Hot Latin Songs of the Year Hot Latin Song of the Year *"Mayor Que Yo" Baby Ranks, Daddy Yankee, Tonny Tun Tun, Wisin, Yandel, & Héctor el Father (Mas Flow/Machete) *"La Camisa Negra" Juanes (Surco/Universal Latino) *"La Tortura" Shakira Featuring Alejandro Sanz (Epic/Sony BMG Norte) *"Rakata" Wisin & Yandel (Mas Flow/Machete) Vocal Duet or Collaboration *"Ella Y Yo" Aventura Feat. Don Omar (Premium Latin) *"Mayor Que Yo" Baby Ranks, Daddy Yankee, Tonny Tun Tun, Wisin, Yandel, & Héctor el Father (Mas Flow/Machete) *" Obsesion (No Es Amor) Aventura" Frankie J Feat. Baby Bash (Columbia/Sony BMG Norte) *"La Tortura" Shakira Featuring Alejandro Sanz (Epic/Sony BMG Norte) Artist of the Year *Daddy Yankee *Juanes *Shakira * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La India
Linda Bell Viera Caballero (born March 9, 1969), known professionally as La India, is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of salsa, house music and Latin pop. La India has been nominated for both Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, winning the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album for the ''Intensamente La India Con Canciones De Juan Gabriel'' album. Early life Viera was born in Río Piedras, San Juan. Both her parents moved to New York City soon after her birth, settling in the South Bronx area of the city. Initially, they lived with Viera's grandmother, a woman who served as an important influence on Viera's life. Viera began singing as a young girl, even taking opera training for a brief time. Her stage name, La India, was given to her by her grandmother because of her dark features and long, straight, black hair. La India describes herself as a feminist, having witnessed domestic violence from her father. Career 1985: Early career In 1985, when Caballero was 16 years o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soy Diferente
''Soy Diferente (I'm Different)'' is India's eighth studio album released in February 2006, under record label SGZ Entertainment/Univision Music Group. Under the production of Sergio George and Isidro Infante, India sets herself as composer of all of the songs. On the album, she collaborates with Cheka, Ivy Queen, Tito Nieves and her mother, in the song "Madre e Hija" ("Mother and Daughter"). Track listing Personnel * India – vocals, coros * Cheka – vocals * Ivy Queen – vocals * Tito Nieves – vocals * Raul Agraz – trumpet * Alberto Barros – trombone * Sal Cuevas – bass * Jorge Diaz – trombone * Joe Fiedler – trombone * Gaitan Bros. – keyboards, piano * Sergio George – keyboards, piano * Douglas Guevara – bongos, congas, güiro * Isidro Infante – keyboards, piano * Nelson "Gasu" Jaime – trumpet * Marco Linares – acoustic guitar * Juan Diego Gallego Lopez – bongos, congas * Angel "Angie" Machado – trumpet * Diomedes Matos – bass * Ozzie Melen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Univision Records
Univision Music Group was a Latin music company in the United States. Founded in April 2001 by Univision Communications , the Univision Music Group included three record labels: Univision Records, Fonovisa Records and Disa Records. In June 2001, Univision Music acquired a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records, the second largest independent Spanish language record label in the world, and Mexico's leading independent label. More recently in April 2002, Univision acquired Fonovisa, the largest Latin independent label specializing in Regional Mexican music. Its headquarters were located in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California; the company had planned to move its headquarters to Woodland Hills in 2002. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranchera
Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the period. Definitions The word ''ranchera'' was derived from the word ''rancho'' because the songs originated on the ranches and in the countryside of rural Mexico. Traditional themes in rancheras are about love, heartbreak, patriotism or nature. Rhythms can have a meter in (in slow tempo: '' ranchera lenta'' and faster tempo: ''ranchera marcha''), (''ranchera vals''), or (''bolero ranchero''). Songs are usually in a major key, and consist of an instrumental introduction, verse and refrain, instrumental section repeating the verse, and another verse and refrain, with a tag ending. Rancheras are also noted for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banda (music)
Banda is a subgenre of regional Mexican music and type of ensemble in which Wind instrument, wind (mostly Brass instrument, brass) and Percussion instrument, percussion instruments are performed. The history of banda music in Mexico dates from the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of Piston valve, piston brass instruments, when community musicians tried to imitate military bands. The first bandas were formed in Southern and Central Mexico. Many types of bandas exist in different territories and villages, playing traditional or modern music, organized privately or municipally. Traditional ensembles Brass instruments in the state of Oaxaca of European origin that date back to the 1850s have been found. The repertoire of the bands of Morelos, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Michoacán covered ''gustos'', ''sones'', ''vinuetes'', ''funeral pieces'', ''marches'', ''danzones'', ''valses'', ''corridos'', ''paso dobles'', ''polkas'', ''rancheras'', ''alabanzas'', and ''foxes''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graciela Beltrán
Graciela Beltrán (born December 29, 1974) is a Mexican-American singer. She began singing in the Los Angeles area at the age of six at restaurants and parties. According to MTV she is "widely known as one of regional Mexican music's most influential female voices. Beltran is credited with helping to form the genre, as well as solidifying a woman's place in it." Beltrán was included on the album Las Reinas Del Pueblo, with famous Mexican-American singer Selena, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Early life While some sources give her place of birth as Sinaloa, in a small town called Costa Rica, Beltrán stated in an interview that she was born on U.S. soil. She began her music career entertaining the neighbors, who were her first followers. She has faced various family tragedies including the kidnapping of her brother whose body was never found, the murder of her brother-in-law and was even a witness to her step-father's killing when she was nine. It was in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the Beat (music), beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes doo-wop). It may be viewed as a distinct genre field rather than music that overlaps with Pop music, pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product and less Authenticity in art#Authenticity of performance, authentic than rock music. Characteristics and etymology Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderatto
Moderatto was a Mexican rock band from Mexico City, known for their exaggerated on-stage personae that parody the stereotypical 1980s glam metal lifestyle. Moderatto started as a cover band in the late 1990s and released their debut CD ''Resurrexíon'' in 2001. The band has been successful since then, with three of their first five albums being awarded platinum. Career Moderatto formed in the late 1990s. It began playing in 2001 in Mexico City, then consisting of five friends: Jay de la Cueva, Javier Ramírez, Marcelo Lara, Iñaki Vazquez and Olallo Rubio. They launched their mainstream debut CD ''Resurrexión'' in 2001. This album quickly gained popularity thanks to their first single "Márchate Ya" and later "Isabel". In November 2004 they launched ''El Detector de Metal'', whose first single, a cover of Timbiriche's "Muriendo Lento", featured female pop singer Belinda as a collaboration with her. The group released ''¡Grrrr!'' at the end of 2006 with its first single, "Sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samba
Samba () is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilian music genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilians, Afro Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, It is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba''), samba de roda (sometimes also called ''rural samba''), among many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states. Having its roots in Brazilian mythology, Brazilian folk traditions, especially those linked to the primitive rural samba of the Colonial Brazil, colonial and Empire of Brazil, imperial periods, is considered one of the most important cultural phenomena in Brazil and one of the country symbols. Present in the Portuguese language at least since the 19th century, the word "samba" was originally used to designate a "popular dance". Over time, its meaning has been extended to a "B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinho Da Vila
Martinho da Vila (born February 12, 1938) is a Brazilian singer and composer who is considered to be one of the main representatives of samba and MPB. He is a prolific songwriter, with hundreds of recorded songs across over 40 solo albums. He also has many songs that were recorded by singers from different musical genres. Internationally celebrated artists such as Nana Mouskouri (Greece), Ornella Vanoni (Italy), Katia Guerreiro (Portugal), Rosario Flores (Spain) have put their voices to Martinho’s songs and lyrics. As a singer, he is considered by critics as one of the top exponents of samba to have ever lived. Among his many national collaborations, a few notable names are Zeca Pagodinho, Arlindo Cruz, Chico Buarque, Beth Carvalho, Noel Rosa, Alcione, among others. Furthermore, Martinho composed some of the most important samba enredos (samba school themed songs) and has forged a solid partnership with the Vila Isabel samba school. In spite of being a self-taught si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
