Bad Bunny, the Argentine duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso and the producer and songwriter Edgar Barrera are the top nominees for the 26th annual Latin Grammy Awards, reflecting a diverse quadrant of the music industry that has exploded with the rise of streaming.
Bad Bunny leads the pack with 12 nods, which were announced on Wednesday by the Latin Recording Academy. Among the superstar’s citations are album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), on which he embraces older Puerto Rican styles like plena and urbano in addition to continued experiments with reggaeton and trap. He also received nominations in both the record and song of the year categories for two of that album’s tracks: “Baile Inolvidable” and “DtMF.”
Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, who make a playful and subversive mix of hip-hop, Latin pop and raucous funk, have 10 nominations, including album of the year for “Papota,” and for two tracks that are also up for both record and song: “El Día del Amigo” and “#Tetas.” Stars in Latin America, Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso had a breakout moment last fall with a viral video appearance on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts.”
Barrera, a Mexican American who is one of the most in-demand figures behind the scenes of contemporary Latin pop, also has 10 nods, including as a writer and producer of Karol G’s hit “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido.”
The other top artist nominees are Natalia Lafourcade, a singer-songwriter from Mexico, with eight nominations, and Liniker, from Brazil, with six.
For album of the year, Bad Bunny and Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso will compete against Rauw Alejandro’s “Cosa Nuestra,” Lafourcade’s “Cancionera,” Alejandro Sanz’s “¿Y Ahora Qué?,” Carin León’s “Palabra de To’s (Seca)” and LPs by Gloria Estefan, Vicente García, Joaquina, Liniker and Elena Rose.
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