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Univision’s Premio Lo Nuestro 2021 Latin Music Awards Show & Winners

The 2021 Premio Lo Nuestro Latin music awards, were live on Univision from Miami’s American Airlines Arena on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 7pm ET.

Awards Show Performers

It’s great to see who is nominated and who wins, but the real show is the awards ceremony itself. It’s a night of the biggest stars in Latin music.

Yuri 🇲🇽 hosted and a grand opening tribute to Mexican Mayan composer Armando Manzanero 🇲🇽 (1935-2020). Manzanero was one of the great Latin songwriters. He’s a Latin Grammy and Grammy Lifetime Achievement award winner. Lila Downs 🇲🇽, Alejandra Guzmán 🇲🇽 and Arthur Hanlon 🇺🇸 sang his tribute. Hanlon’s a gringo who makes great Latin music. It’s cool when someone from one culture truly understands and participates in another culture.

Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance and thanked the artists for bringing OUR country together. We love you so much Kamala because you represent us.

Everybody seems to love Maluma 🇨🇴 baby. He sang a medley of songs off his new album #7DJ (Seven days in Jamaica).

Marc Anthony honored Fania Records co-founder Johnny Pacheco (1935-2021) who really made the salsa dura sound in the 1970s.

Natti Nattasha 🇩🇴 raised eyebrows in a different way than usual by showing off her baby bump. Congratulations Natti and Daddy Raphy Pina.

Gloria Trevi 🇲🇽 received the Premio a la Trayectoria Award for the 30th anniversary of her hit album “Tu Angel de la Guarda” (1991) and the hit “Pelo Suelto.” Los Ángeles Azules 🇲🇽, Kinky 🇲🇽 and Chiquis 🇲🇽 join her tribute. Has it been 30 years since that song? We must be getting old.

Wisin 🇵🇷 was joined by a bunch of guest artists including Jhay Cortez 🇵🇷, Rauw Alejandro 🇵🇷, Zion & Lennox 🇵🇷 and Carlos Vives 🇨🇴.

Anuel AA and Ozuna closed the show with a performance that finally brought everyone in the arena to their feet. ¡Bravo!


Premio Lo Nuestro 2021 Winners

This is some of the best in Latin music of the last year.

New York and Miami are very Caribbean, but the most popular Latin music in the United States is Regional Mexican. It’s called “Regional” because Mexico is a big and diverse country with many distinct local styles, yet they are all son Méxicano (the Mexican sound).

The Latin Grammys are out of Miami. Univision is out of New York, but it started in Texas. So there’s a distinction between the two.

Regional Mexican – Song of the Year

“Yo Ya No Vuelvo Contigo” (En Vivo) by Lenin Ramírez featuring Grupo Firme.

Pop Song of the Year

“ADMV” by Maluma

Artist of the Year

Bad Bunny

Album of the Year

“YHLQMDLG” by Bad Bunny

Song of the Year

“Tusa” by Karol G and Nicki Minaj

New Female Artist

Nicki Nicole

New Male Artist

Camilo

Remix of the Year

“La Jeepeta” (Remix) by Nio Garcia, Anuel, Myke Towers, Brray & Juanka

That’s funny, but quite common Spanglish for “jeep.”

Video of the Year

“TKN” by Rosalía 🇪🇸 and Travis Scott

Pop Artist of the Year

Camilo

Pop Collaboration of the Year

“Si me dices que sí” by Reik, Farruko and Camilo

Pop Group or Duo of the Year

CNCO is a new boy band, the latest Menudo.

Pop Album of the Year

“Por Primera Vez” by Camilo

Pop/Ballad Song of the Year

“ADMV” by Maluma

Urban Female Artist of the Year

Karol G

Urban Male Artist of the Year

Bad Bunny

Urban Song of the Year

“La Difícil” by Bad Bunny

Urban Collaboration of the Year

“Tusa” by Karol G & Nicki Minaj

Urban Album of the Year

“YHLQMDLG” by Bad Bunny

Urban/Trap Song of the Year

“Vete” by Bad Bunny

Tropical Artist of the Year

Romeo Santos

Tropical Song of the Year

“La mejor versíon de mi” by Natti Natasha and Romeo Santos

Tropical Collaboration of the Year

“Nuestro amor” by Alex Bueno & Romeo Santos

Regional Mexican Artist of the Year

Christian Nodal

Regional Mexican Collaboration of the Year

“Yo ya no vuelvo contigo” (En Vivo) by Lenin Ramírez featuring Grupo Firme

Regional Mexican Group or Duo of the Year

Grupo Firme

Regional Mexican Sierreña Song of the Year

“El Güero” by Marca MP

We had to look this one up. “Sierreña” is guitar-based Norteña (border music). That gives it a more “mountain” or country sound. It’s also a joke with “sirena” or mermaid.

Regional Mexican Banda Song of the Year

“Yo ya no vuelvo contigo” (En Vivo) by Lenin Ramírez featuring Grupo Firme

Regional Mexican Norteño Song of the Year

“El envidioso” by Los Dos Carnales

Regional Mexican Mariachi/Ranchera Song of the Year

“Se me olvidó” by Christian Nodal

Regional Mexican Cumbia Song of the Year

“Tú y yo” by Raymix and Paulina Rubio

Regional Mexican Album of the Year

“En vivo desde Anaheim, CA” by Grupo Firme


Premio Lo Nuestro 2021 Nominees

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 ~ Univision announced the 2021 Premio Lo Nuestro Nominees.

J Balvin leads with 14 nominations, followed by Maluma with 12, Camilo 🇨🇴 with 10 and Ozuna with 8. The pack of artists with 7 nominations includes: Anuel AA 🇵🇷, Bad Bunny 🇵🇷, Karol G 🇨🇴, Natti Natasha, Sebastian Yatra 🇨🇴 and Sech 🇵🇦.

There are new categories this year for Album of the Year in Pop, Urban, and Mexican Regional categories, plus Cumbia Song of the Year.

Premio Lo Nuestro, Latin Music Awards

The Premio Lo Nuestro Latin music awards are hot! (Misha/Adobe)
The Premio Lo Nuestro Latin music awards are hot! (Misha/Adobe)

The Univision Premio Lo Nuestro (Our Awards) have recognized the year’s best Latin musicians since 1989. It was considered the Grammys for Latin artists in the United States until the Latin Grammys started in 2000.

Now, we have Premio Lo Nuestro in spring and Latin Grammys in fall.

We can’t wait to see the performers and winners at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2020 Latin music awards.

univision.com


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Published February 18, 2021 ~ Updated June 24, 2022.

Filed Under: Colombian, Dominican, Indigenous, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican, Univision

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