“For the first time in the organization’s history, the 24th annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will be held from the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions (FIBES), in Seville“, Andalusia in southern Spain, indicates a statement from the academy.
“We are convinced that it will be a memorable celebration,” Manuel Abud, executive director of the academy, was quoted as saying in the statement, who stressed that the fact of holding the gala in Spain confirms the institution’s commitment “to elevate Latin music and its creators around the world”, complements the statement.
The Latin Grammys are an annual awards ceremony, whose first edition was held in the year 2000. It is traditionally held in Las Vegas, although on occasions it has moved to other American metropolises with a powerful population in the Americas such as Miami, New York or Houston.
Are Spain and Portugal Latin?
The origin of the concept of Latin America has questioned the use of the term “Latin” in our times, since in its definition by the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, “Latin America” is the set of American countries that were colonized by Latin nations, that is, Spain, Portugal or France; although the concept of “Latin nations” comes exclusively from the origin of their language, which has Latin as its root.
The concepts to include Spain with the Americas would be Hispanoamerica, which includes all Spanish-speaking countries.which leaves out nations such as Brazil, Haiti, Guyana, Suriname and the Lesser Antilles. To add Portugal, it is called Ibero-America, which is added to the entire Iberian Peninsula and Brazil.
Although this Latin Grammy Award has never been held outside the United States, a nation that by definition would not be Latin, has territories that were part of Mexico and a significant population of Mexican and Latin American origin, in addition to being the place of origin of This award. “Latinos” represent a very lucrative group in terms of entertainment consumption in the North American country.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States, which is estimated to have more than 60 million speakers., according to the Cervantes Institute. This is a figure higher than all the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries, except Mexico, which has more than 127 million speakers. In the world there are 600 million people who communicate in the language of Cervantes, being the second mother tongue with the most interlocutors and the third most used language on the Internet. Not bad to know to know how to use the “eñe”.
Spain returns to the conquest
Spain is a benchmark for cultural and artistic production in the language we share, so this resource has been placed at the center of the 20 nations that speak the language, so series, movies, music, literature, and even streamers, tiktokers, and Youtubers of Spanish origin are idols on both sides of the Atlantic.
Yes ok, We cannot speak of the “Latino” in only one way, from Patagonia to the Río Bravo conditions are shared that are very asymmetrical with their former colonial metropolises. Latin music has European roots, however, it has been mixed with other elements from Africa and the native peoples of the entire subcontinent, of which there are examples in all the countries of the region.
From Spain, the aim is to concentrate large artistic and cultural events that attract language talents to be on the map. And even the idea of the controversial president Madrid’s community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in making the Spanish capital the “Capital of Spanish”.
This can result in a controversy such as the final of the Copa Libertadores that due to organizational problems in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was transferred to Madrid, Spain. In 1965 the tournament adopted the name “Libertadores” in honor of the leaders of the Spanish-American and Brazilian wars of independence in South America, so having it in Spain was somewhat ironic to the spirit of the cup.
With this international event like the Latin Grammy, we already see that rhythms purely born in our continent such as reggaeton have Spanish exponents and Caribbean accents are permeating the expressions of the Spanish.
This episode can be summed up, as they called it in the United States, the “Latino power”. It’s on and everyone wants a slice of the value it holds.