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The Latin Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. | |
| Academia Latina de la Grabación (Spanish) Academia Latina da Gravação (Portuguese) | |
 Latin Recording Academy Logo | |
| Abbreviation | LARAS |
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| Formation | 1997 |
| Type | Music organization |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Official language | English Portuguese Spanish |
Key people | Manuel Abud (President & CEO) |
| Affiliations | The Recording Academy |
| Website | latingrammy |
The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.[1] (LARAS), doing business as the Latin Recording Academy (Spanish: Academia Latina de la Grabación; Portuguese: Academia Latina da Gravação), is a multinational membership-based association composed of Latin music industry professionals, musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other creative and technical recording professionals. The Latin Recording Academy places greater emphasis on aesthetic and technical accomplishments than on sales or chart positions. They aim to provide a broader platform and raise the profile of Latino artists and creators, both domestically and internationally.
They promote the genre and its makers, both inside and outside the United States.[2] The Academy is internationally known for its annual Latin Grammy Awards. It is headquartered in Miami and is led by president and CEO Manuel Abud.
The Latin Recording Academy draws its membership from music professionals from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking communities worldwide, namely Latin America, Iberia, and the United States.[7][8] Through its efforts, the Latin Academy works to strengthen these communities through networking opportunities and educational outreach.
Under the nearly two-decade leadership of Gabriel Abaroa, the Latin Recording Academy experienced significant growth.[9] He was instrumental in transitioning the Latin Grammy Awards telecast from English to Spanish, broadening its appeal to Spanish-speaking audiences worldwide.
The Latin Grammy Awards were the first prime-time English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-language telecast on U.S. television.[2] Members of the Latin Recording Academy are also eligible to vote for the categories in the Latin field of the Grammy Awards.[10]
The Latin Recording Academy has produced educational outreach programs in Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, San Juan, Bogotá, São Paulo, and in the U.S. in Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, New York, and San Antonio. The Latin Academy has also produced the e-Latin GRAMMY Carreras Y Música events. These events provide educational outreach to more than 10,000 high school-age participants from at least 11 countries.[2] The Latin Academy's programs provide interested students the opportunity, using interactive satellite technology, to discuss with musicians and members of the music industry what it is like to work in the business and what it takes to be successful in the field.
The Latin Recording Academy is best known for its role in putting on the annual Latin Grammy Awards. The Latin Grammy Awards typically take place every November in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Latin Grammys have many awards to showcase artists that are involved in the music industry. Some of the main awards that fans focus on are "Album of the Year," "Record of the Year," "Song of the Year," and "Best New Artist."
The Latin Grammy Awards were originally broadcast by CBS and, after 2005, they switched to Univision, the largest U.S. Hispanic network. The Latin Grammy Week includes the Special Awards Tribute (Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Trustees Awards), the Person of the Year Gala, the Pre-Telecast simulcast event, the Latin Grammy Telecast ceremony, the Official After Party, and several other concerts aiming to promote the different genres of music. The Latin Grammy Awards have taken place in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami and Madrid. The Latin Grammy Week closes a cycle of music celebration formed by the Latin Grammy Street Parties (attended by 1.5 million people) and the Latin Grammy Intimate Concerts.
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The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (LARAS), doing business as the Latin Recording Academy (Spanish: Academia Latina de la Grabación; Portuguese: Academia Latina da Gravação), is a multinational membership-based association composed of Latin music industry professionals, musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other creative and technical recording professionals. The Latin Recording Academy places greater emphasis on aesthetic and technical accomplishments than on sales or chart positions. They aim to provide a broader platform and raise the profile of Latino artists and creators, both domestically and internationally. They promote the genre and its makers, both inside and outside the United States. The Academy is internationally known for its annual Latin Grammy Awards. It is headquartered in Miami and is led by president and CEO Manuel Abud.
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (NARAS), doing business as the Recording Academy, is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is widely known for its Grammy Awards, which recognize achievements in the music industry of songs and music that are popular worldwide. The Recording Academy is a founding partner of the Grammy Museum, a non-profit organization whose stated mission is preserving and educating about music history and significance. The Recording Academy also founded MusiCares, a charity with the stated goal of impacting the health and welfare of the music community. The Recording Academy's advocacy team lobbies for music creators' rights at the local, state, and federal levels.
The Grammy Award for Best Dance Pop Recording is an award presented by the Recording Academy to honor quality dance pop music performances in any given year. The award was presented for the first time at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in 2024, as a complement to the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording and the first new category honoring dance/electronic music since 2005. It was originally presented as Best Pop Dance Recording, but received its current name as of the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. The academy announced the new category in June 2023, stating that the award goes to "tracks and singles that feature up-tempo, danceable music that follows a pop arrangement." Eligible pop dance recordings were also described as featuring "strong rhythmic beats, significant electronic-based instruments", and an emphasis on the "vocal performance, melody and hooks." Dance remixes are not eligible in this category and instead compete in the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical category. The award goes to the artist(s), producer(s), and mixer(s) of the song. Kylie Minogue, Charli XCX and Lady Gaga are the only acts so far to win in this category. David Guetta and Troye Sivan lead all performers with two nominations each, but they have yet to win in this category.
The Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for high quality works on albums in the urban contemporary subgenre within the R&B field. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". In 2013, this was one of the three newly created categories for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Urban Contemporary Album. In June 2020, the Recording Academy announced a renaming and redefining of the category. Its new name was Best Progressive R&B Album, with immediate effect, "to appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre. This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B." Adding to this, the description of this category is now as follows: "[t]his category is intended to highlight albums that include the more progressive elements of R&B and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music. It may also incorporate production elements found in pop, euro-pop, country, rock, folk, and alternative." According to Recording Academy president Harvey Mason Jr. in the same press release, these changes reflected "the current state of the music industry and how it's evolved over the past 12 months." In the weeks leading up to this decision, the label "urban" to indicate music made by African American musicians, songwriters and producers had come under fire. The award goes to the artist, producer and engineer/mixer, provided they are credited with more than 50% of playing time on the album. A producer and engineer with less than 50% of playing time, as well as the mastering engineer, can apply for a "Winners Certificate".
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