Where will the 2024 Latin Grammy Awards be held?

This Thursday, November 14, the 25th edition of the Latin Grammy Awards will take place, honoring the best of Latin music. As part of such a special celebration, the event will feature new categories and an expanded list of stars who will appear during the event.

After the 2023 edition was held in the city of Seville, Spain, the awards return to the United States at the spectacular Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, at 20:00 ET/17:00 PT.

While the night's guests include: producer Edgar Barrera, Residente, Myke Towers, DJ Khaled, Jon Bon Jovi, Joe Jonas, Anitta, Becky G, Eladio Carrion, Grupo Frontera, Kali Uchis, Pitbull, Luis Fonsi, Juan Luis Guerra and Carin Leon, among many others.

And the lineup of performers confirmed for the night includes Pepe Aguilar, Chiquis, Goyo, Mon Laferte, Nathy Peluso and Rauw Alejandro, as well as previous nominees such as Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan, Juanes and Julieta Venegas. Also performing will be Colombian singer Carlos Vives, who was awarded the 2024 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Award.

The favorites of the night

For the second year in a row, producer and composer Edgar Barrera leads the nominations, for his work with personalities such as Madonna, Karol G, Peso Pluma, Shakira and Grupo Frontera, and for this edition he appears in nine nominations. In 2023, he appeared in 13 nominations and took home three gramophones.

They are followed by Karol G and Bad Bunny, with eight nominations each.

This year there are two new categories: Best Latin Electronic Music Performance, within the new field of electronic music, and Best Contemporary Mexican Music Album.

What is the relationship between the Latin Grammy Awards and the Grammy Awards?

According to Manuel Abud, both the Latin Recording Academy and the Recording Academy are sister organizations.

"Or maybe even mother and daughter," she says. "The foundation is the same: we are membership-based organizations for music creators and music professionals. So, we are celebrating musical excellence. We have the same DNA. Our whole process is a Grammy process."

The big difference between the two awards is that the Grammy Awards focus on the US market, while the Latin Grammy Awards have different global considerations, mainly Spanish-language music.

"Our voting process is, I would say, identical, but it has some tweaks for the international component that we have and that they don't have."

Both academies allow the same artists to be part of their ranks, as long as they are Latin artists working in the United States. The awards are very similar: both are shaped like a gramophone, but the base of a Latin Grammy is wine-colored, while that of the Grammy is black.

"We are licensees of the Recording Academy," said Abud. "The Recording Academy has four members on my board, including its president and CEO."

The first Latin Grammy Awards ceremony was held in Los Angeles in 2000, followed by ceremonies in Miami, New York, Houston, Seville, Spain and Las Vegas.

Initially, the awards ceremony was broadcast in English, a decision that proved to be a mistake, so a change to Spanish was requested because "the artists didn't want to (participate) because they felt that we were disrespecting them by making them speak in a language that was not their own," the organizers said.

The Mexican audience, which "comprised 75% of the market at the time," did not turn on the television to watch the show because they "hated watching it in English."