As expected, Juanes was the big winner at the 9th Latin Grammys. You know I haven’t enjoyed any of the Latin Grammy ceremonies since Univision got a hold of them, but I still check them up. I won’t get all pessimistic this time; there is a long way to go. The fact that they invited Jenni Rivera or Alejandra Guzman because they wanted to show them standing up from their unfortunate personal lives says it all. Although La Guzman was actually pretty good. We love analyzing the elegible albums and giving recomendations during the nomination process, after that it gets kind of boring, but here are some notes from the ceremony. I might have missed some stuff, you must understand it is Thursday (NBC's comedy night).
Full list of winners here: Grammy.Com
BEST PERFORMERS: Café Tacvba
Runners up:
Kany Garcia & Tommy Torres
Julieta Venegas & the various accordionists
Alejandra Guzman
PLEASANTLY SURPRISING WINNERS
Jose Feliciano, Best Bachata Album
Siggno, Best Norteno Album
Julieta Venegas, Alternative Music Album
Soraya Moraes, Best Christian Album
THE OVER-AWARDED (GOOD, BUT TOO MUCH)
Juanes, deserved Male Pop Album but no others
Gloria Estefan, Her irregular album shouldn’t have 2 wins
THE GOOD WINNERS, ALTOUGH I PREFERED OTHER NOMINEES
Kany Garcia, Best New Artist
Volver a Comenzar (Café Tacvba), Best Alternative Song
Fito Paez, Best Singer-Songwriter Album
THE WTF… EW PERFORMANCES
Juanes feat. John Legend, I bet Marcos Witt was happy
Olga Tanon, Jenni Rivera & Vicky Carr, so boring
Victor Manuel, I just can’t handle his flow
HEARTBREAKING SNUBS
Tego Calderon, seriously he is god and is beaten by such mediocracy
Maria Rita’s Samba Meu deserved all the awards it wasn’t nominated for
THE UNDESERVED WINNERS (the bad ones)
Sergio George, Producer of the Year
“Me Enamora”, Song of the Year (I don’t mind it taking Record of the year though)
BEST PRODUCTION
“Te Quiero”, Flex feat. Belinda (yes the song is annoying, but wonderful visuals)
COOLEST ACCEPTANCE SPECCH
Jose Feliciano
Juanes (it was cool that he really was surprised to get every single award)
Kany Garcia
FUNNIEST, VOLUNTARY OR UNVOLUNTARY
My boys from SIGGNO saying shuting “Que viva el mundo” WTF… so cheesy, I’m still so shocked they
won, very deserving chicos!
Did the leader of Café Tacvba (whatever his name is) forget the lyrics? Or was he just renovating the song? Nice hair by the way, can’t wait to see them next week in concert.
BEST PRESENTERS
Cabas & Buika
Keny G & Karyme Lozano