The Latin Recording Academy introduced its 2025 particular awards recipients on Thursday (Aug. 7).
As a part of its annual Particular Awards Presentation throughout Latin Grammy week, Afro-Peruvian artist Susana Baca, Spanish rock icon Enrique Bunbury, Brazilan musician Ivan Lins, Mexican vocal trio Pandora and Puerto Rican tropical star Olga Tañón will obtain this yr’s lifetime achievement award. Moreover, Eric Schilling will obtain the Trustees Award, and for the primary time, the Latin Music Educator Award can even be awarded to 1 music educator through the ceremony.
“It’s an immense privilege to honor these musical legends — who proceed redefining our Latin music and heritage — in addition to our inaugural Latin Music Educator Award recipient,” stated Manuel Abud, CEO of The Latin Recording Academy, in a press assertion. “We sit up for celebrating all of them as a part of our twenty sixth Annual Latin Grammy Week festivities.”
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The lifetime achievement award is offered to performers who’ve made unprecedented contributions of excellent creative significance to Latin music; the Trustees Award is given to people who’ve made vital contributions, aside from in efficiency, to music throughout their careers. Each are voted on by The Latin Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees.
In the meantime, the brand new Latin Music Educator Award, in partnership with the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Basis, will acknowledge one music educator making a major impression by incorporating Latin music into their curriculum. In response to the press assertion, “The recipient’s faculty music program will obtain a $10,000 instrument donation to assist continued music schooling.”
The 2025 Latin Recording Academy’s Particular Awards non-public occasion can be held on Sunday, Nov. 9, in Las Vegas.