Latin Grammy Awards

The Latin Grammy Awards, presented by the Latin Recording Academy, are a prestigious event that recognizes outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. These awards celebrate works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere in the world, as long as they have been released in Ibero-America, which includes Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States. Submissions in other recognized languages, dialects, or idiomatic expressions from Ibero-America, such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Valencian, Nahuatl, Guarani, Quechua, or Mayan, may also be accepted.

The Latin Grammy Awards have a similar nominating and voting process to the regular Grammy Awards, with selections decided by peers within the Latin music industry. The first annual Latin Grammys ceremony took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on September 13, 2000, and was broadcast by CBS, making it the first primarily Spanish language primetime program carried on an English-language American television network. Since 2005, the awards have been broadcast in the United States by Univision.

The Latin Grammy Awards cover various music genres, including pop, electronic, urban, rock, alternative, tropical, singer-songwriter, regional Mexican, instrumental, traditional, jazz, Christian, Portuguese language, children's, and classical music. The awards also recognize special categories such as arrangement, recording package, songwriter, production, and music video.

The Latin Recording Academy's voting members live in various regions in the US and outside of the US, including Latin America and Iberia. For a recording to be eligible for a nomination, it must have at least 60% (previously 51% until 2024) of its content recorded in Spanish or Portuguese and commercially released in North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Spain, or Portugal.

The Latin Grammy Awards are the preeminent international honor and the only peer-selected award celebrating excellence in Latin music worldwide. Nominees for the awards are announced in September, followed by the awards ceremony in November, which concludes a full week of events. The Latin Grammy Awards are more than just an awards ceremony; they are a celebration of Latin music and its rich cultural heritage.