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  Christina Aguilera biography | Christina @ Xtina Aguilera [dot] Info August 31st, 2007
Aguilera won the "Best New Artist" award at the 2000 Grammy Awards, and she was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Genie in a Bottle".
According to the album's songwriters who appeared on the documentary Driven, Aguilera wanted to display the power and audacity in her voice during the promotion of the album, and performed acoustic sets and appeared on television shows accompanied only by a piano.
The album was not received as well as her debut by most critics, and Aguilera's vocals were overlooked as she began to cultivate a more sexually provocative image.
xtinaaguilera.info /biography   (2949 words)

  
  Bacilos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their album Caraluna won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Pop Latin Album and its 2004 release Sinverguenza has again been nominated for Best Latin Pop Album in the Grammy Awards of 2005.
The selftitled album was nominated for two Latin Grammy awards and went gold in Colombia.
The single Tabaco Y Chanel was widely played on Latin radio stations and the success of their major label debut earned them a slot as support artist on a world tour by Spanish artist Alejandro Sanz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bacilos   (402 words)

  
 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Gr'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /g/gr   (609 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the...
The 47th Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2005 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Categories: Grammy Awards for latin music The 31st Grammy Awards were held in 1989.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grammy-Award-for-Best-Latin-Pop-Album   (981 words)

  
 Grammy Award Online Research :: Information about Grammy Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligiblilty period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Grammys begins October 1, which results in September being considered the Christmas sales period for the music industry (in which artists generally release big albums to qualify for the next year's Grammy).
So, for example, John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's album Double Fantasy was released in November, 1980 in music, a month-and-a-half too late to qualify for the 1981 Grammys, and thus eligible for the 1982 awards (it eventually won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year).
Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) and Norah Jones (Grammy Awards of 2003) are the only artists to receive the "Big Four" (Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and Grammy Award for Best New Artist) in a single ceremony.
in-northcarolina.com /search/Grammy_Award.html   (1534 words)

  
 PUERTO RICO HERALD: Bienvenidos, Bacilos…Latin Rock Group Living Busy Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It was George who suggested the direct approach when the trio was writing material for Caraluna, up for best album and best pop album by a duo or group.
There's also a Grammy Award for best Latin pop album, which Bacilos won in February for Caraluna, exceeding the modest expectations of a band that took years to gain a foothold in its own city.
The members of Bacilos say that holding the Latin Grammys at last in South Florida is monumental, after the inaugural event was moved because of a county ban that would have prevented some Cuban acts from performing.
www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2003/vol7n37/BienvenBacilos-en.shtml   (2116 words)

  
 Latin Grammy Nomination 2002 : Ileana Garces : Best Christian Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Today¹s nomination puts Garces in a class by herself as the first female vocalist to be nominated for both a Latin Grammy and a Dove Award for her debut project.
The Latin Grammy Awards were established in 2000 to represent the continued growth and diversity of Latin music.
Among those nominated for Best Christian Album, Garces is the not only the sole performer whose first album has been nominated for both a Latin Grammy and a Dove Award, but she is the only female solo
www.one-voice.com /espanol/main/info/LatinGrammy_en.htm   (493 words)

  
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The album was a big success and it sold more than six million copies worldwide.
The Spanish-language version of the album Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte (EMI-Latin) became the number one Latin album of 1992 and earned Jon his first Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
His third EMI album Amor was released in 1995 and earned the singer his second Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Performance.
www.ndtv.com /ent/musicprofiles.asp?id=20&language=English   (643 words)

  
 ¿Dónde está Shakira?: News/Tours - Noticias
Congratulations to Shakira for her Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for MTV Unplugged.
Congratulations to Shakira for her Grammy Nomination for Best Latin Pop Album for MTV Unplugged.
Shakira won 2 Latin Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal for Ojos Así & Best Female Rock Vocal for Octavo Día both from MTV Unplugged.
www.shakira-shakira.com /news   (604 words)

  
 Golden Slumbers :: A Father's Love
With his noticeable florid and solid singing style, this first album sold more than an astonishing six million copies worldwide and was certified triple platinum in the U.S., where it reached No. 15 among Billiboard Pop albums.
A two-time Grammy award winning recording artist, a dynamic live performer, a talented, insightful, songwriter, Jon is an international superstar in his own right.
He’s performed with opera legend Luciano Pavarotti and duetted with the late Frank Sinatra on “The Best is Yet to Come” from Sinatra’s Duets II album.
goldenslumbers.com /artist/secada.html   (1174 words)

  
 hip online: artists: jon secada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
When his self-titled debut album Jon Secada (SBK/EMI) was released in 1992, Jon Secada was a seasoned veteran of stage and studio, well-prepared for his own astonishing success.
The album sold more than six million copies worldwide and was certified triple platinum in the US, where it reached No. 15 among Billboard Pop Albums.
The album went platinum in the US and spun off the Top Ten Pop hit "If You Go" and a Top 30 follow-up, "Mental Picture." His third EMI album, Amor, was released in 1995 and earned the singer his second Grammy Award, for Best Latin Pop Performance.
www.hiponline.com /artist/music/s/secada_jon   (1151 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album - Definition, explanation
The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album has been awarded since 1984.
From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gr/grammy_award_for_best_latin_pop_album.php   (288 words)

  
 Florida Keys Maps
KEY WEST, Florida Keys - Two-time Grammy Award winner and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Jon Secada is to showcase his talents with a concert on Key West's Mallory Square during the island city's Cuban American Heritage Festival.
His third album earned another Grammy for best Latin pop performance, and his career album sales have exceeded 20 million units worldwide.
Tickets for Secada's Key West concert are $35 per person for general admission, $17.50 per person for children under 10, and $75 for reserved seating, and are available on-line at www.cubanfest.com.
floridakeys.net /news.cfm?newsid=900   (256 words)

  
 Jazz News: Columbia Jazz Scores a Hat Trick with Three Artists Grabbing Nominations at the 43rd Annual Grammy® Awards!
Marsalis has been nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group for Contemporary Jazz, and Sánchez was nominated for the second time for Best Latin Jazz Album for his latest release, Melaza.
Branford is currently a two-time Grammy® Award winning artist: 1993 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group for I Heard You Twice The First Time, and 1994 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his contribution to Bruce Hornsby’s Barcelona Mona.
Grammy® winners will be revealed for the first time during the 43rd Annual Grammy® Awards telecast on February 21, 2001.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=387   (723 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Maria Conchita Alonso tickets, concerts and tour dates
Alonso had the lead role in the NBC situation comedy, "One Of The Boys." Alonso's first Grammy nomination came in 1985 when she was nominated as Best Latin Artist for her self-titled album.
Her second album, Otra Mentira Mas, released in 1988, was nominated for a Grammy as Best Latin Pop Performance.
Alonso's 1992 album, Imaginame, which she co-produced with K.C. Porter and Mari Spiro, was nominated for a Grammy as Best Latin Pop Album.
www.ticketmaster.com /artist/754776?brand=none   (683 words)

  
 Richmond Newsletter
Jorge Villamizar (1990-1992) and his band Bacilos earned a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for Caraluna and captured two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Tropical Song “Mi Primer Millon”.
His song-writing style is unique and blends his Latin roots with world beats and pop.
Since moving to Miami, Jorge has produced two albums, Bacilos and Caraluna and another one is about to be launched on the Warner label.
www.richmond.ac.uk /newsletter0804/grammy_for_villamizar.html   (284 words)

  
 Business Wire: Shakira, Juanes With Nelly Furtado, and Thalia ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Pop superstar Justin Timberlake (*NSYNC) will be on hand to present, along with noted actor Hector Elizondo ("Chicago Hope"), recording artist/actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, actor Esai Morales ("NYPD Blue"), actor Cheech Marin ("Nash Bridges"), and former Latin GRAMMY nominee Laura Pausini.
The Latin Recording Academy is a membership-based organization comprised of recording artists, musicians, producers and other creative and technical recording professionals who are dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural conditions for Latin music and its makers.
In addition to producing the Latin GRAMMY Awards to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences, the Latin Recording Academy provides educational and human services programs to the Latin music community.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:91027981&refid=holomed_1   (660 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV features - Video Stars Sing for MTV Praise
The three-hour show is a gathering of established artists as well as a coming-out party for singers who have made their marks recently.
I think it's going to be great for my career." She followed that tune -- nominated for four Video Music Awards (best female video, best pop video, best dance video and best cinematography in a video) -- with another hit, "Underneath Your Clothes," that also received substantial MTV play.
In preparing her performance for the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, Shakira is keeping the details to herself.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274|77827|1|,00.html   (759 words)

  
 Deep Discount CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ever since the mainstream acceptance of Latin pop in the late '90s, it's become fairly common for artists who first came to prominence singing in Spanish to put out English-language albums, but MI REFLEJO is one of the few examples of the opposite process.
Teen pop goddess Christina Aguilera, who comes from Ecuadorian stock, uses this album as an opportunity to pay homage to her roots.
Most of the album, however, features new songs chosen specifically for this project and recorded with a Latin pop approach in mind.
www.deepdiscountcd.com /cd.cfm?upc=078636932323   (341 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Julio Iglesias Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva aka Julio Iglesias (born September 23, 1943-) in Madrid is Spain's best selling singer in history and one of the best selling hispanic singers of all time.
The album sold three million albums in the US alone with the first single "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", a duet with Willie Nelson reaching top five on the Billboard Hot 100.
Iglesias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in the 1988 Grammy Awards for the album Un Hombre Solo or "A Single Man".
www.ipedia.com /julio_iglesias.html   (762 words)

  
 newburycomics.com - Christina Aguilera : Mi Reflejo
Ever since the mainstream acceptance of Latin pop in the late '90s, it's become fairly common for artists who first came to prominence singing in Spanish to put out English-language albums, but MI REFLEJO is one of the few examples of the opposite process.
Teen pop goddess Christina Aguilera, who comes from Ecuadorian stock, uses this album as an opportunity to pay homage to her roots.
Most of the album, however, features new songs chosen specifically for this project and recorded with a Latin pop approach in mind.
www.newburycomics.com /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=103&upc=07863693232&pt=1   (395 words)

  
 SinVerguenza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Following a Grammy Award for best Latin pop album for its last project, "Caraluna," Bacilos returns with an earthier-sounding recording, and socially conscious lyrics take center stage.
It's a challenge for listeners used to slicker pop.
But the album is by no means brooding.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /bb/reviews/album_article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000662737   (125 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
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(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/49th_Show/list.aspx   (3904 words)

  
 Entertainer Ricky Martin Urges Effort Against Human Trafficking
Singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Ricky Martin and Delegate Luis Fortuno, R-P.R., testified on Capitol Hill.
Martin’s Vuelve won the 1999 Grammy award for Best Latin Pop Album.
In 2004 at the Latin Billboard Awards in Miami, he won Latin track of the year, top male Latin pop airplay track and top Latin album.
usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=September&x=20060926161740bcreklaw0.1397364   (546 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Jon Secada
Jon (Juan) Secada was born in Cuba on October 4, 1962, and was raised in Miami, FL.
Jon's musical style of combining Latin appeal with soothing vocals has allowed him to become one of the biggest adult contemporary artists in the 1990s.
Secada was named the Best-selling Latin-American Artist of the Year at the World Music Awards.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-s/jonsecada_main.htm   (235 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com - News
Nominations for the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced today by The Recording Academy, reflecting a year in which multiple genres were represented in top categories, new up-and-comers were nominated alongside established artists and a diverse array of producers and other creative professionals garnered multiple nominations.
Best Jazz Vocal Album nominees are Footprints by Karrin Allyson, Easy To Love by Roberta Gambarini, Live At Jazz Standard With Fred Hersch by Nancy King, From This Moment On by Diana Krall and Turned To Blue by Nancy Wilson.
GRAMMY ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed to the voting members of The Recording Academy on Dec. 13.
www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/News/Default.aspx?newsID=2294&newsCategoryID=1   (995 words)

  
 Top Music Blog » Awards
Award for Entertainer of the Year, John Legend, who won Best Male Single for Save Room and Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter won the Michael Jackson award for Best Soul Or Rap Video for Show Me What You Got.
The award is given only to singers who have sold more than 100 million albums.
Continuing the list Red Hot Chili Peppers took the best album award for ‘Stadium Arcadium,’ while Hip-Hop star Kanye West (who announced that his loss in the Best Video category was a mistake because his video Touch the Sky” costed him “millions of dollars”) was voted best hip hop act.
www.topmusicblog.com /category/awards   (2335 words)

  
 Enrique Iglesias MP3 Downloads - Enrique Iglesias Music Downloads - Enrique Iglesias Music Videos
That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1996), sold more than a million copies in three months (it earned him his first gold record in Portugal in a mere seven days) and to date has sold more than six million worldwide.
Then came Enrique, Enrique Iglesias' first Interscope album and first in English, which achieved gold or platinum status in 32 countries and brought his global album sales to a total of more than 23 million.
While on his Spanish-language albums Enrique Iglesias allows himself to focus on ballad material, his English albums must please a wider audience -- scattered Latin pop fans, straight pop...
www.mp3.com /artist/enrique-iglesias/summary/?tag=footer;link   (877 words)

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