2023 Latin Grammy nominees include Shakira, Bad Bunny, and Karol G
thefader.comThe Latin Grammys have announced their 2023 nominees. Mexican-American songwriter and producer Edgar Barrera leads the pack with 13 nominations, followed by four Colombian artists — Shakira, Karol G, Camilo, and the composer Kevyn Mauricio Cruz (aka Keityn) — with seven each.
Argentine producer Bizarrap — who’s carved a niche making one-off beats for and hosting established superstars (including Shakira) and ascendant ones (such as Peso Pluma) in his BZRP Music Sessions — is nominated for six Latin Grammys, Producer of the Year among them (he’ll face off with Barrera and others for that award).
And Bad Bunny is one of six artists tied behind Bizarrap with six nominations a piece. Read Next: Shakira’s performance was the high point of the 2023 MTV VMAs Notably, while Peso Pluma is nominated twice for “Ella Baila Sola” — a joint track with Eslabon Armado that became the first-ever “regional Mexican” song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart — he isn’t nominated for Best New Artist.
Nor are Grupo Frontera, a Mexican-American band who’ve brought the corridos tumbados sound to some of the biggest crossover hits of the year. (They’re also nominated twice, though, for Bad Bunny’s “un X100to,” which lists Barrera as a co-writer).
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