Alt.Latino talks all the surprise nominations for the 2024 Latin Grammys

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Wait a minute — does Alt.Latino actually agree with a lot of the Latin Recording Academy's nominations this year?

Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento run through as many of the whopping 58 categories as they can in this episode dissecting the nominations for the upcoming ceremony.

Songs featured in this episode:

•Grupo Frontera, "CANSADO DE SUFRIR"
•Grupo Frontera and Yahritza y Su Esencia, "LAS FLORES"
•Grupo Frontera and Christian Nodal, "Ya Pedo Quién Sabe"
•Dayme Arocena, "A fuego lento"
•Hamilton de Holanda, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, "Saudade, Saudade"
•Kali Uchis and Karol G, "Labios Mordidos"
•Karol G, "MI EX TENÍA RAZÓN"
•Latin Mafia, "Julieta"
•Kevin Aguilar, "Bonita"
•Nicolle Horbath, "Carmen"
•Nicole Horts, "Bitch3"
•Ana Frango Elétrico, "Dela"
•Angélica Olivo, Juan Pablo Contreras, and Orquesta Latino Mexicana, "La Minerva - III. Himno a la Mujer"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:16.5	So Felix, the Latin Grammy nominations have just arrived. I know I printed them out and I'm going through them as we speak. Can you hear it? You have them printed? Yes, of course. I need everything on paper. You know that.
0:33.7	No, I wish I had them printed. That would be so nice.
0:37.1	All right, carry on. Let's go. I'm ready.
0:39.4	Why weren't you ready five minutes ago?
0:41.1	I'm ready now. Look Look there are 58 categories that we got to get
0:45.4	through today so let's go. Let's hit it. From NPR Music this is all Latino I'm
0:50.4	Felix Contreras and I'm Anamanias Sayer that the cheese may begin.
0:55.8	And the cheese may be.
0:57.2	So the thing about the Latin Grammys, Felix, is every year when I see this list come out based on how aligned we are.
1:06.4	I'm either like the Academy has no idea what it's talking about, this is so stupid,
1:10.5	or I'm like they really have a point here. So this year I felt pretty validated so I'm going to get in here and say I like the Academy this year.
1:19.0	And I might as well get in here and introduce who's sitting in the studio with me because she gave me some validating snaps and I like that.
1:29.0	So we have the amazing culture reporter.
1:33.0	Isabella go more sagnan.
1:35.0	Thank you for joining us.
1:36.0	Ollis.
1:37.0	She's like sitting here in real time doing some serious digital reporting work and
1:42.0	I'm scrolling through the nominations I should have printed them
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