I got to see the Latin Grammys Tonight
kaysee
I can see why Juanes won so many awards; there were no Cubans or Puerto
Ricans there! No Dominicans! Juanes was about the closest to música
caribeña to be found there! The sound quality was horrible for the better
part of the show. I got to speed listen to the Juanes CD that won, and it
is actually not bad - it reminded me a bit of Juan Luis Guerra's CDs, with
the mezcla of styles.
But there was, aside from the 5 minute Celia tribute segment at the
beginning performed by people like Olga and Gloria, no Afro in the Latin
Grammys. Wonder whose decision that was . . .
No wonder the awards got so little discussion here.
kaysee
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David Eduardo
"kaysee" <kays...@att.net> wrote in message
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> Well, almost all of it. Talk about HOKEY!!!
>
> I can see why Juanes won so many awards; there were no Cubans or Puerto
> Ricans there! No Dominicans! Juanes was about the closest to música
> caribeña to be found there! The sound quality was horrible for the better
> part of the show. I got to speed listen to the Juanes CD that won, and it
> is actually not bad - it reminded me a bit of Juan Luis Guerra's CDs, with
> the mezcla of styles.
>
> But there was, aside from the 5 minute Celia tribute segment at the
> beginning performed by people like Olga and Gloria, no Afro in the Latin
> Grammys. Wonder whose decision that was . . .
That was the TV broadcast, not the entire ceremony. There were merengue and
salsa awards all over the place. However, the TV show was produced with the
knowledge that nearly 70% of US Hispanics are Mexican, very few of whom are
into salsa and other Caribbean forms. So they selected the more universal
appeal pop acts as well as some Mexican acts for the TV show.
kaysee
I didn't even see a LISTING of the other awards anywhere during the course
of the show.
Question: When the other, more universal Grammys are broadcast, do they
only show highlights, or do they show all the different award categories?
If they use the highlight format, does the television audience get any
information about the other, unseen categories? (As u can tell, I haven't
watched the Grammys in years . . . . <g>)
Something about the predominantly Mexican audience rationale doesn't ring
true for me, though. I have always received the impression that many music
fans of Mexican descent / extraction enjoy merengue. I don't see the show
organizers leaving out merengue simply because it is not Mexican.
Did the TV broadcast show all of the performers?
kaysee
"David Eduardo" <radio...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Nina
> David,
>
> I didn't even see a LISTING of the other awards anywhere during the course
> of the show.
>
> Question: When the other, more universal Grammys are broadcast, do they
> only show highlights, or do they show all the different award categories?
> If they use the highlight format, does the television audience get any
> information about the other, unseen categories? (As u can tell, I haven't
> watched the Grammys in years . . . . <g>)
>
the show So and So was awarded this for Such and Such".
> Something about the predominantly Mexican audience rationale doesn't ring
> true for me, though. I have always received the impression that many
music
> fans of Mexican descent / extraction enjoy merengue. I don't see the show
> organizers leaving out merengue simply because it is not Mexican.
>
Its all about the Latin Pop and the Rock en Espanol. Ugh ugh ugh. I have MTV
Spanish and its like nothing but these monochromatic videos of some rockers
or pop stars. Where the HELL is the tropical music?
David Eduardo
> David,
>
> I didn't even see a LISTING of the other awards anywhere during the course
> of the show.
I don't think there was one. Thee were so many awards, perhaps they thought
it would be like reading the phone book.
> Question: When the other, more universal Grammys are broadcast, do they
> only show highlights, or do they show all the different award categories?
No. The Grammys have a bunch of technical categories, just like the Oscars,
that are given before the telecast. And there are some specialized music
categories, like classical and jazz, that don't seem to make the TV show
(although I regularly miss it, also)
> If they use the highlight format, does the television audience get any
> information about the other, unseen categories? (As u can tell, I haven't
> watched the Grammys in years . . . . <g>)
I did not see the last Grammy show, but don't recall the tech categories
being mentioned.
>> Something about the predominantly Mexican audience rationale doesn't ring
> true for me, though. I have always received the impression that many
music
> fans of Mexican descent / extraction enjoy merengue. I don't see the show
> organizers leaving out merengue simply because it is not Mexican.
Merengue is what I would call "tolerated" but not generally liked. I go by
the standard that any music that is liked would be on some radio station in
Mexico as part of the program format. Merengue and salsa are not played in
general on radio in Mexico with maybe a couple of exceptions our of over
1,600 stations.
Anecdote: Mexican targeted radio stations in LA (21 of the 22) have learned
that the surest way to comply with the closing time requirement on a park
event is to put a salsa band on last. By the third song, the park is empty.
David Eduardo
"Nina" <esa...@adelphia.not> wrote in message
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>
>
> Its all about the Latin Pop and the Rock en Espanol. Ugh ugh ugh. I have
MTV
> Spanish and its like nothing but these monochromatic videos of some
rockers
> or pop stars. Where the HELL is the tropical music?
I had the head of one of the big five Latin labels in my office yesterday,
and he mentioned that economically, there may be no way for the label to
justify the continued recording of salsa and merengue artists, as the genre
is "dead."
kaysee
kaysee
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kaysee
phases for the children of 2053 . . .
"Chris Smalt" <sm...@wanadoor.nl> wrote in message
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>
> > Amazing that it is still played in other countries in the world. . .
> >
> > kaysee
>
>
> Prolly because we are running 50 years behind the US.
>
>
> Chris
>
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