Grammy Awards: Fito Páez and Natalia Lafourcade among the winners

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The previous ceremony for the Grammy Awards took place on Sunday afternoon.

In it, the first winners were known, among them, the majority of the Latin categories.

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Grammy Award:

Best Latin or Alternative Rock Album

The first Latin American winner during the previous ceremony was Fito Páez, who won the Grammy award for "best Latin or alternative rock album" for his album

La conquista del Espacio. 

On his Twitter account, the singer said he was in shock and did not know what to say after the award.

He also remembered Gustavo Cerati.

"I'm very excited.

Gustavo Cerati had a beautiful phrase that said that he felt that the universe was conspiring in his favor.

This could be a moment like that, of absolute fulfillment as far as I'm concerned and I feel infinitely grateful, "said the Argentine icon on Twitter.

The production was launched exactly one year ago: on March 13, 2020.

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In an interview with Zona Pop CNN in 2020, Páez said that something unusual happened to him with this album.

«

Something very funny happened with this album, you know?

Which is not very common.

I would tell you that on two or three occasions nothing else has happened to me, which is to start working, you never know where you are getting into and in the course of the album it was all relaxed and it was leaving and there were no problems.

For example,

The Liberated City

, the previous album were only problems: logistical, financial, technical, that is, it was nonsense.

On the contrary, this was from the beginning ... We started it, I remember on March 13, 2019 in a small town in the south of the state of Bahia in Brazil, in Trancoso.

There those ten or twelve days I composed twelve songs, of which nine make up the album almost with the lyrics finished, with the structures that remained in the album, I would tell you in a ninety-odd percent ", Páez told Zona Pop CNN.

This is the first Grammy that Fito Páez has won in his career.

Grammy Award:

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)

Natalia Lafourcade followed Fito Páez in victory in the Latin categories.

The Mexican singer-songwriter won the Grammy for "Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano)" for "Un Canto Por México, Vol. 1".

This album received the Latin Grammy 2020 for "album of the year."

In addition, "My religion", one of the singles on the album, was awarded the "best regional song."

This is Lafourcade's second Grammy.

He won the first one in 2015 for "Hasta la ruta".

Lafourcade described in an interview with Zona Pop CNN that this album reminds him of a Mexican dish.

«The album tastes like a mole to me.

Mole is such a complex dish to prepare.

The lady who helps me around the house prepares a delicious mole from scratch, from grinding all the chilies, the powders and the entire dish from scratch.

Mole has so many ingredients and it's so exotic and it goes well with so many things and for me, that's this album, with so many musical ingredients, talent and collaboration.

I like to compare it a lot with a saucer or with this part of the tree of life that is our craft that they put even the pot, the goat, the hen and the molcajete.

This is really a song for Mexico, an album with a lot of allegiance, life and who we are, our history and the daily life of the Mexican, "said Lafourcade in Zona Pop CNN.

Grammy Award:

Best Latin Tropical Album

The Colombian group Grupo Niche won the Grammy for "best Latin tropical album" for their album "40".

This is the first time that Colombian salsa players have won in this ceremony.

On his Twitter account, the band thanked the late maestro Jairo Varela, the founder of the band.

"Thanks to God, to the teacher Jairo Varela who has always guided us from heaven, to the Academy for this great recognition and of course to the salseros and nichistas of the world!", Said the group.

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Grammy Award:

Best Orchestral Performance

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel won the Grammy Award in the category "best orchestral performance" for his work on the album "Ives: Complete Symphonies" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

This is the third Grammy for the Venezuelan director.

Grammy Award:

Best Latin Jazz Album

The Mexican musician Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra were the winners in the category "Best Latin Jazz Album" for the production "Four Questions."

This is the third Grammy award that the group has won.

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