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Latin Grammy Awards Add New Categories for Regional Mexican and Electronic Music
The Latin Recording Academy announced two new categories for regional Mexican and electronic music. Get all the details here.
The Latin Recording Academy announced the changes after receiving criticism in 2023 for the lack of representation of regional Mexican music in the general categories. After criticism arose in 2023 for a lack of representation for regional Mexican artists, especially within the top four categories, the Latin Academy is now paving a way for better recognition of the música Mexicana scene. These include a name change for the best MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) / MAPB (Música Afro Portuguesa-Brasileira) album category (adding the second acronym) in the Portuguese language field; and a definition amendment for the best singer-songwriter song category in the singer-songwriter field (for songs that contain at least 60% of the lyrics in Spanish, Portuguese or any native regional dialect; before that percentage was 51%).
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