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Latin Grammys Finally Add Contemporary Mexican Music Album Category
The Latin Recording Academy has made changes to its categories ahead of the 25th annual Latin Grammys.
An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times last year bemoaned the exclusion of Rancho Humilde, a label that specializes in corridos tumbados and puts out records by Junior H and Natanael Cano. To be eligible, more than half of an album should be Latin electronic music, and samples should not represent more than a quarter of the lyrics, as well as other qualifications. The Academy also made minor tweaks to its definition of what qualifies for the singer-songwriter field (60 percent of tracks must be in Spanish, Portuguese, or other native dialect) and to the long-form video category, reducing the length of a film from 20 minutes to 12.
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