Armando Manzanero
received the Billboard Artistic Career Award for his exceptional career, which has taken Latin music to another level in the international arena.
Luis Fonsi
,
Pablo Alborán
,
Jesús Navarro (Reik)
and
Joy Huerta (Jesse & Joy)
sang together with the Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, musician and music producer their greatest hits in an emotional tribute at the 2020 Billboard Awards: 'No sé tú', 'With you I learned', 'Under the table', 'How I loved you' and 'This afternoon I saw it rain'.
"I feel very proud and at the same time very grateful that life gives me the opportunity to share with current generations, that is very relevant to me," Manzanero told
Jorge Bernal
and
Sofía Castro
, as they passed through the red carpet from the 2020 Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Then, already in the
show
, the romanticism took over the place with the voices of all those involved in the tribute.
"I have no words to express what my heart feels to have shared with this generation so great, so strong, so talented, in a show so beautiful and as beautiful as this. God bless the Latin American song. Thank you," he said the 84-year-old Mexican artist at the end of his live performance.
Joy immediately spoke: "With your songs we learn that love is a song, and this Lifetime Achievement Award is for your whole life, and it is also for our lives, because with you we have been fortunate to enjoy your immense musical legacy. Personally, I adore you, "he said amid the applause of the people.
The Billboard Artistic Trajectory Award is presented to an artist for an exceptional professional trajectory, who remains relevant for his artistic and personal contributions and whose influence has shaped the development of Latin music in the world.
Previous winners include Flaco Jiménez, Jorge Pinos, Los Lobos, Miguel Bosé, Conjunto Primavera, Carlos Santana, Los Temerarios, Emmanuel, Intocable, José José, Andrea Bocelli, Roberto Carlos, Marco Antonio Solís, Ricardo Arjona and Maná.
With more than half a century of creating songs that have sounded on the radio, and have been sung and repeated by countless voices around the world, Manzanero, master of romanticism, creator of classic boleros such as' Contigolearned ',' Mía ',' Adoro 'and' This afternoon I saw it rain ', is still valid in the world songbook.
Born in Mérida, Yucatán, son of one of the founding musicians of the Typica Yucalpetén orchestra, he was close to music since his arrival in the world and began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Mérida at the age of eight, to later receive training. musical by teachers such as Mario Ruiz Armengol, Chucho Zarzosa and Vicente Garrido, in Mexico City.
He created his first song: "Never in the world" in 1950, and recorded his first album in 1959. In 1969, Carlos Lico placed his ballad "No" in the first places of the popularity charts of all Latin America, so it was not It should be surprising that to date he has written more than 400 songs and of them more than 50 have achieved international fame.
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