Latin Grammy Trustees Award

The Latin Grammy Trustees Award is an award presented annually by the Latin Recording Academy, the same organization that distributes the Latin Grammy Awards, to individuals "who have made significant contributions, other than performance, to Latin music during their careers".[1] Recipients can include producers, songwriters, composers, record label executives, and journalists. Award recipients are honored during "Latin Grammy Week", a string of galas prior to the annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony.[2] Since its inception, the award has been presented to recipients originating from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The award was first presented to Mexican composer and musician Manuel Esperón.[3] Since 2005, the Trustees Awards has been presented to more than one recipient.[4] Pierre Cossette is the only recipient of the Latin Grammy Trustees Award to also receive the Grammy Trustees Award in 1995.[5] The accolade, along with the Person of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement awards, were not presented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]

Latin Grammy Trustees Award
Awarded for	"significant contributions, other than performance, to Latin music during their careers".[1]
Presented by	Latin Recording Academy
First awarded	2004
Currently held by	Jon Fausty and Lalo Schifrin
Highlights
Total awarded	14
Website	www.latingrammy.com

Recipients

Year^[I]	Image	Recipient	Occupation(s)^[II]	Nationality	Ref.
2004	—	Manuel Esperón	Composer pianist	Mexico	[3]
2005		Eduardo Magallanes	Producer arranger	Mexico	[4]
	—	Rafael Pérez Botija	Songwriter	Spain
		Pierre Cossette	Television producer	Canada
2006	—	Alejandro Quintero	Publisher record label executive	Mexico	[7]
		Rafael Escalona	Songwriter poet	Colombia
2007	—	João Araujo	Record company executive	Brazil	[8]
		Leopoldo Federico	Bandoneón player songwriter bandleader	Argentina
	—	Fernando Hernández	Record company executive	Mexico
2008		Simón Díaz	Singer songwriter	Venezuela	[9]
	—	Larry Harlow	Pianist composer arranger producer	United States
	—	Juanito Márquez	Guitarist songwriter arranger	Cuba
2009		José Antonio Abreu	Music educator	Venezuela	[10]
	—	Roberto Cantoral García	Songwriter	Mexico
2010	—	Manuel Bonilla	Singer songwriter	Mexico	[11]
	—	Juan Carlos Calderón	Producer composer arranger	Spain
		Hebe Camargo	Television host singer	Brazil
2011	—	Manuel Alejandro	Songwriter	Spain	[12]
		Jesus "Chucho" Ferrer	Interpreter orchestrator	Mexico
	—	Ray Santos	Composer orchestrator musician	United States
2012		Juan Carmona Habichuela	Flamenco guitar performer	Spain	[13]
		Yomo Toro	Cuatro performer	Puerto Rico
2013		Mario Kreutzberger "Don Francisco"	Entertainer TV Personality	Chile	[14]
	—	Pedro Ramírez Velazquez	Musician songwriter arranger music director	Mexico
2014		André Midani	Record executive	Brazil	[2]
		Juan Vicente Torrealba	Composer	Venezuela
2015	—	Federico Britos	Violinist	Uruguay	[15]
		Humberto Gatica	Record producer	Chile United States
	—	Chelique Sarabia	Composer	Venezuela
2016		Carlos Mejía Godoy	Journalist singer	Nicaragua	[16]
		Nelson Motta	Record producer journalist performer	Brazil
	—	Rafael Solano	Songwriter	Dominican Republic
2017	—	Jon Fausty	Record engineer	United States	[17]
		Lalo Schifrin	Pianist arranger orchestra conductor composer	Argentina
2018	—	Horacio Malvicino	record label executive jazz and tango guitarist composer arranger	Argentina	[18]
	—	Tomás Muñoz	record label executive	Spain
2019	—	Mario Kaminsky	record label executive	Argentina	[19]
2020	No award due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[6]

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to an article about the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony of that year.

^{^[II]} The artists's occupation(s) are listed on the Special Awards page on the Latin Grammy Award website.

See also

• List of Latin Grammy Awards categories
• Grammy Trustees Award
• Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

References

General

• "Special Awards". The Latin Recording Academy. Retrieved February 11, 2016.

Specific

1. "The Latin Recording Academy to honor Lucecita Benítez, João Bosco, Ilan Chester, Víctor Heredia, Los Del Río, Guadalupe Pineda, and Cuco Valoy with the Lifetime Achievement Award". Latin Recording Academy. September 13, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
2. Cobo, Leila (November 19, 2014). "Los Lobos, Willy Chirino & Valeria Lynch Among Latin Academy Special Award Winners". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
3. "Les dan el Grammy por su trayectoria" (in Spanish). El Universal. August 29, 2004. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
4. Gallo, Phil (October 17, 2005). "Latin Grammys set fetes". Variety. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
5. Lewis, Randy (September 12, 2009). "Pierre Cossette dies at 85; 'father' of the Grammy Awards telecast". Los Angeles Times. Tronc. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
6. Latin Recording Academy (2020). 21.a Entrega Anual del Latin GRAMMY. Latin Recording Academy. p. 59. Retrieved December 4, 2020. This year, however, those activities were paused because of COVID-19.
7. "Premiarán a Paloma San Basilio, Vázquez, Ventura, Gieco". Terra Networks (in Spanish). August 30, 2006. Archived from the original on February 25, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
8. "Alberto Cortez, Lucho Gatica, Olga Guillot, Los Tigres del Norte, Os Paralamas do Sucesso and Chavela Vargas to Receive the 2007 Latin Recording Academy® Lifetime Achievement Award". Terra Networks. September 17, 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
9. "Vikki Carr, Cheo Feliciano, Astrud Gilberto, Angelica Maria, Maria Dolores Pradera, and Estela Raval to Receive the 2008 Latin Recording Academy(R)Lifetime Achievement Award". Hispanic PR Newswire. September 30, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
10. "Candido Camero, Beth Carvalho, Charly Garcia, Tania Libertad, Marco Antonio Muniz, and Juan Romero to Receive the 2009 Latin Recording Academy(R) Lifetime Achievement Award". PR Newswire. September 24, 2009. Archived from the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
11. "Joao Donato, Armando Manzanero, Las Hermanas Marquez, Joseito Mateo, Jorge Onate, and Susana Rinaldi to Receive the Latin Recording Academy® Lifetime Achievement Award". PR Newswire. September 21, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
12. Salomon, Gisela (November 9, 2011). "Arroyo, Costa, Lora y Les Luthiers honrados por Academia Latina". Terra Networks (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 25, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
13. "Latin Recording Academy to honor Poncho Sánchez, Rita Moreno". Los Angeles Times. September 13, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
14. "Honrarán a Óscar D'León, Palito Ortega y Miguel Ríos". La Nación (in Spanish). September 4, 2013. Archived from the original on September 6, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
15. Cantor-Navas, Judy (September 16, 2015). "Latin Academy Honors Diverse Artists With Lifetime Achievement Awards". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
16. Cobo, Leila (November 17, 2016). "Ednita Nazario, Ricardo Montaner, Piero and More Honored by Latin Academy". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
17. Fernandez, Suzettte (November 15, 2017). "Los Del Rio, Lucecita Benitez & More Honored With Latin Grammys Special Awards". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
18. Roiz, Jessica (August 29, 2018). "Yuri, Chucho Valdes and Wilfrido Vargas Among Latin Grammys 2018 Special Award Honorees". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
19. Cantor-Navas, Judy (August 22, 2019). "El Puma, Joan Baez, Omara Portuondo & Others to Receive Latin Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 22, 2019.

External links

• Latin Grammy Awards