Latin Grammy Awards and Voting: Calle 13 Leads Nominations for Latin Grammys
Puerto Rican group Calle 13 is stacking up nominations at the Latin Grammys. The band is nominated for nine awards and member Eduardo Cabra, who goes by Visitante, is up for an additional award, producer of the year for Jorge Drexler's "Bailar en la Cueva," making their ten potential Grammys more than any other artist or group this year.
The Latin Recording Academy announced the nominees Wednesday, and producer-songwriter Andres Castro has the next-highest with eight nominations and mastering engineer Tom Coyne has seven.
Calle 13 garnered 11 nominations in 2011, but this year the band's fifth album, "Multiviral," is nominated for album of the year, and tracks "Respira El Momento" and "Ojos Color Sol" are up for song and record of the year, to name a few of their potential wins. These three categories each have 10 nominees.
The group's other nominations fall under best urban music album, performance and song. They have been popular with the Latin Recording Academy since their self-titled debut in 2005.
"Bailando," the Top 40 radio hit from Enrique Iglesias, is also nominated in the song and record of the year categories. Iglesias has a total of five awards, the same amount that the song's co-star Descemer Bueno will compete for.
Other contenders for the album of the year include last year's winner carlos Vives, Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Camila, Paco de Lucia, Jorge Drexler, Fonseca, Jarabe De Palo and the three Lila Downs, Nina Pastori and Soledad. Carlos Santana was not included in the group with "Corazon" but was nominated for the best contemporary pop vocal album.
The 15th annual Latin Grammys will air live on Nov. 20 on Telemundo from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. A full list of nominees can be found here.
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