NYC To Host 2006 Latin Grammy Awards
Friday September 8, 2006
The 7th annual Latin Grammy Awards has a new venue. This year's award show will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Nov. 2. Last year's award program was held in Los Angeles, but NYC makes a lot of sense given that it is home to the most diverse Hispanic population in the world.
The big surprise this year is that the Latin Recording Academy is recognizing vallenato and cumbia by giving them their own award category. Apparently this is due to native Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate in literature, who took the time to write to the academy and suggest that this recognition was long overdue. His persuasive argument noted that cumbia and vallenato were no longer just a Colombian musical phenomenom, but genres that have "crossed borders and are enjoyed by Latin Americans worldwide". Bravo to Marquez!
The 2006 Latin Grammy nominations are scheduled to be announced Sept. 26th.
The awards ceremony will again air live on Univision and in Spanish, a format that the Academy adopted for the first time last year. The 2005 Latin Grammy Awards started with host, Rebecca de Alva, greeting the public in English and making them aware that the show was available in English on CC3. The awards show was watched by 9 million viewers, 2 million more than the previous record when it was telecast in English.
Hopefully it will again be close-captioned in English, for non-spanish speaking enthusiasts.
The big surprise this year is that the Latin Recording Academy is recognizing vallenato and cumbia by giving them their own award category. Apparently this is due to native Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate in literature, who took the time to write to the academy and suggest that this recognition was long overdue. His persuasive argument noted that cumbia and vallenato were no longer just a Colombian musical phenomenom, but genres that have "crossed borders and are enjoyed by Latin Americans worldwide". Bravo to Marquez!
The 2006 Latin Grammy nominations are scheduled to be announced Sept. 26th.
The awards ceremony will again air live on Univision and in Spanish, a format that the Academy adopted for the first time last year. The 2005 Latin Grammy Awards started with host, Rebecca de Alva, greeting the public in English and making them aware that the show was available in English on CC3. The awards show was watched by 9 million viewers, 2 million more than the previous record when it was telecast in English.
Hopefully it will again be close-captioned in English, for non-spanish speaking enthusiasts.
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