Juan Gabriel a Posthumous Double Winner at Latin Grammys

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2016 In this April 10, 2015 file photo, Mexican singer-songwriter, Juan Gabriel, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs accept the award for Best Rock Album during the show of the 17th Annual Latin performs at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. — AP/AFP photos Grammy Awards. Juan Gabriel a posthumous double winner at Latin Grammys Recording artists Joy Huerta and Jesse Huerta of Jesse y Randy Malcom Martinez (left) and Alexander Delgado, of Joy accept Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album. Gente de Zona, accept the award for Best Tropical Fusion Albu. inger-songwriter Juan Gabriel had never received a Latin rhetoric of President-elect Donald Trump. “Together we can fight Grammy Award during his lifetime, but on Thursday, he hate and discrimination,” Luna said. “We are stronger together.” Sbecame a posthumous double winner. The late Mexican Show co-host Roselyn Sanchez also said, “There shouldn’t be superstar won album of the year and best vocal pop traditional walls that separate us,” but no one mentioned Trump’s name album for “Los Duo 2,” a collection of his greatest hits performed from the stage. The show began with a strong message in by such luminaries of Latin music as Marc Anthony, Alejandro defense of Latinos, as Juanes and Pablo Lopez performed “Tu Fernandez, Jose Feliciano and Wisin. A video tribute showed Enemigo” (“Your Enemy”), backed by a gospel choir and Cirque highlights from his decades onstage, and the presenters of the du Soleil gymnasts. The song includes the lyric, “your hands are night’s final prize called on the audience to “applaud for the mas- my flag and I have a song as my border.” ter.” Gabriel died in August at age 66. Sanchez repeated the lyric after their performance, saying, He was named the Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the “the only barriers that should exist are the songs.” Mexican singer Year in 2009, and Anthony received the honor this year. Jennifer Carla Morrison, who won the Latin Grammy for best alternative Lopez presented the prize, stealing the show with her duet with song for “Vez Primera,” dedicated the award to “all Latinos who Anthony on “Olvidame y Pega la Vuelta,” followed by a heartfelt are in this country, that the walls would only be mental and we speech in which she described her ex-husband as “a living leg- can destroy them and never be separated.” — AP end.” He was feted in a separate ceremony Wednesday but received the award from Lopez on Thursday’s show, held at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena and broadcast live on Univision. “Marc, you are a living legend who has laid bare your heart and soul on your musical journey... An artist magical and pure who has given us classics that will stay with us forever,” Lopez said in Spanish. “On our own personal and artistic journey, we’ve learned so much and we’ve grown so much, and you’ve always been so many things in my life: my mentor, a twin soul, a father who’s not only the Person of the Year, he’s the person of all time.” The audience cheered, “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” and the former couple obliged with a small peck. Anthony and Lopez were wed from 2004 to 2011. He has been married to Venezuelan model Shannon De Lima since 2014. Carlos Vives won record and song of the year honors for “La Bicicleta,” his duet with Shakira. Vives, who also performed the song during Thursday’s show, thanked “the Spanish- speaking community all over the world” as he dedicated his award to his family and homeland of Colombia. Shakira did not attend the ceremony. Vives accepted the golden gramophone from singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas and actor-director Diego Luna, whose Singer Carlos Vives poses with the Grammy for Record of message of unity among Latinos was an indirect allusion to the Nastassja Bolivar the Year and Song of the Year..

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