Latin Grammy Awards

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The Latin Grammy Awards, stylized as the Latin GRAMMYs, are honors presented by the Latin Recording Academy to recognize excellence in the Latin music industry. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements in recordings released anywhere in the world, provided they are tied to Ibero-America—a region defined by the Academy as including Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino communities in the United States and Canada—and are primarily performed in Spanish or Portuguese. Additionally, recordings in other Ibero-American languages or dialects, such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Valencian, Nahuatl, Guarani, Quechua, or Mayan, may be deemed eligible by a majority vote. Similar to the Grammy Awards, winners are selected through a peer-review process by Academy members. The inaugural ceremony was held on September 13, 2000, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles; its broadcast on the CBS was a landmark event, as it served as the first prime-time program on U.S. television to be broadcast...

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