The Billboard Latin Music Awards brought a splash of pop glamour to BankUnited Center in Coral Gables on Thursday night.
The top two contenders going into the awards were the big winners coming out of them. Enrique Iglesias, the perpetual prince of Latin pop, came away with nine awards, including those for Latin Artist of the Year and Latin Album of the Year. Just behind him was Shakira, with six trophies, including awards for Hot Latin Songs Artist of the Year, Female, and Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year, Female.
The Billboard awards honor the top-selling Latin artists (Album awards) and those whose music is played most frequently on the radio (Song awards), as measured by sales and airplay charts in Billboard magazine. The event, broadcast live on Miami-based Telemundo, is one of the Spanish-language network’s biggest shows of the year.
Winners were concentrated among a small group, with just 17 artists taking home prizes out of 55 nominated. Other big winners were pop-reggaeton singer Prince Royce and bachata-R&B group Aventura, with four awards each; while pop rockers Camila, reggaeton star Daddy Yankee and veteran merengue-pop star Juan Luis Guerra each earned three.
Miami’s Gloria Estefan was honored with the Billboard Spirit of Hope Award, which recognizes charitable and philanthropic achievement, for her work with the Gloria Estefan Foundation.
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2 Responses to 'Enrique Iglesias and Shakira are top winners at Billboard Latin Music Awards'
On May 5th, 2011 at 5:43 am ur huge fan says:
Good job miss mebarack keep it up instead of kissing around in public
On May 5th, 2011 at 5:44 am ur huge fan says:
good job
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