A name synonymous with Latin music, it's hard to imagine a time when Juanes was just a fledgling singer/songwriter working his way up the ranks. But that's where the Colombian was before the 2nd Latin GRAMMY Awards.

On the strength of his debut solo album, Fijate Bien, Juanes racked up seven Latin GRAMMY nominations in 2001, including nods for Album Of The Year and Record and Song Of The Year for the album's title track.

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The 2nd Latin GRAMMYs was slated to take place on Sept. 11, 2001, however, in light of the tragic events of the day, the show was canceled and a press conference was held at a later date where the Latin GRAMMY Awards were given out to their respective winners, including Juanes.

Juanes took home the coveted Latin GRAMMY for Best New Artist, along with Best Rock Solo Vocal Album and Best Rock Song. Since then, he has gone on to win 21 Latin GRAMMYs to date, making him one of the top Latin GRAMMY winners of all time, and two GRAMMY Awards.

The 2024 Latin GRAMMYs are officially here and so is the stunning red carpet fashion.

The 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, officially known as the 25th Latin GRAMMY Awards, take place tonight, Thursday, Nov. 14, and will air live beginning at 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. CT). A one-hour pre-show, preceding the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs telecast, starts at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Ahead of the telecast, nominated singers, musicians, producers, and others made appearances on the red carpet — with outfits that displayed as much creativity and distinction as their musical output.

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Below, see some of our favorite looks from the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs red carpet at the Kaseya Center in Miami.

Check out the full winners and nominations list for the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs.

Anitta attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Maria Becerra attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

(L-R) Emilio Estefan and Gloria Estefan attend the 22024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Becky G attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Ela Taubert attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

(L-R) Karen Martínez and Juanes attend the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy)

Alok and Brazilian indigenous Artists attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Bizarrap attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Eladio Carrion attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Pedro Vives, Carlos Vives, Aracely Florez Restrepo, and Claudia Elena Vásquez and guests attend the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs Awards at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo: John Parra/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Sofia Saar attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

Nicole Zignago attends the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs at Kaseya Center on November 14 in Miami, Florida | Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy

The Latin Recording Academy today announced additional performers and special artist presentations for the upcoming 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, which take place Thursday, Nov. 14, live in Miami: Current nominees Pepe Aguilar, Chiquis, Goyo, Mon Laferte, Nathy Peluso, and Rauw Alejandro, as well as previous Latin GRAMMY nominees Alejandro Sanz, Gloria Estefan, Juanes, and Julieta Venegas, have been added.

Additionally, salsa music icon Marc Anthony will executive-produce a special salsa segment during the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, with musical direction from Sergio George.

GRAMMY winner Andy García and Latin GRAMMY nominee Roselyn Sánchez will also return to showcase iconic moments from the last 25 years of the Latin GRAMMYs and celebrate this milestone with the Latin Recording Academy.

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Previously announced performers and artists also include Ángela Aguilar, Leonardo Aguilar, Christian Alicea, Anitta, Edgar Barrera, Becky G, David Bisbal, Jon Bon Jovi, Eladio Carrión, DARUMAS, Oscar D’León, Álvaro Díaz, DJ Khaled, Emilia, Alejandro Fernández, Luis Figueroa, Luis Fonsi, Leonel García, Grupo Frontera, Grupo Niche, Juan Luis Guerra, Tiago Iorc, Joe Jonas, Carín León, Tito Nieves, Danny Ocean, Pitbull, Quevedo, Reik, Carlos Rivera, Elena Rose, Ela Taubert, The Warning, Myke Towers, Trueno, and Kali Uchis, as well as the 2024 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year, Carlos Vives.

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Pepe Aguilar is nominated for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album, and Chiquis received a nomination for Best Banda Album. Goyo earned a nomination for Best Alternative Song, while Mon Laferte received three nominations including Record Of The Year and Album Of The Year. Marc Anthony has two nominations for Best Salsa Album and Best Short Form Music Video, and Nathy Peluso is nominated in three categories including Best Rap/Hip Hop Song, Best Alternative Song and Best Long Form Music Video. Rauw Alejandro received a nomination for Best Reggaeton Performance.

The 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, officially known as the 25th Latin GRAMMY Awards, marks the 25th anniversary of the Latin GRAMMY Awards, a massive milestone for both the Latin Recording Academy and the Latin GRAMMY Awards, and a return to Miami. The 2024 Latin GRAMMYs will debut two new Latin GRAMMY categories: Best Latin Electronic Music Performance and Best Contemporary Mexican Music Album.

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Ahead of the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, the Latin Recording Academy will host the official Latin GRAMMY Week 2024, a weeklong celebration comprising multiple events throughout Miami-Dade County. Marquee events at Latin GRAMMY Week 2024 include Leading Ladies of Entertainment; the Best New Artist Showcase; Special Awards Presentation; Nominee Reception; the Latin Recording Academy Person of The Year gala honoring 18-time Latin GRAMMY winner and two-time GRAMMY winner Carlos Vives; and the Latin GRAMMY Premiere preceding the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs telecast in which the majority of the night's awards will be awarded.

Additionally, the Latin Recording Academy is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Latin GRAMMYs via a series of exhibits throughout 2024 held at the Paley Museum in New York City, the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, and the Gary Nader Art Centre in Miami. Enrique "Kike" Congrains, who was recently announced as the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs official artist, is currently displaying his work at the exhibit hosted at Miami's Gary Nader Art Centre.

Learn more about how the Latin GRAMMYs have honored and elevated Latin music and its creators across the past 25 years and listen to the 25 songs that have defined the Latin GRAMMYs. For more information about the 2024 Latin GRAMMYs, read this year's official program book and shop the Latin GRAMMY 25th anniversary merchandise collection.

The 2024 Latin GRAMMYs take place Thursday, Nov. 14, and will air live from the Kaseya Center in Miami. The three-hour telecast, produced by TelevisaUnivision, will air live on Univision, UniMás, Galavisión, and ViX beginning at 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. CT), preceded by a one-hour pre-show starting at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

The five nominated works for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album at the 2024 GRAMMYs underscore how incredibly pluralistic the genre has become. 

Recorded live on tape with a cadre of virtuoso players, Mexican songstress Natalia Lafourcade’s De Todas las Flores explores grief, impressionism and the healing power of love. Motivated by a deep marital crisis, Vida Cotidiana by Colombia’s Juanes is a middle-aged rocker’s message of hope — and it grooves like crazy. A collage of alternative sonics hand-crafted at his Puerto Rico home studio, MARTÍNEZ finds former Calle 13 founder Cabra delving into trance-inducing electro and slick Afrobeats. A cool, sophisticated affair, Diamante Eléctrico’s seventh album Leche de Tigre fuses Colombian rock with nocturnal vibes and cosmopolitan funk. In Argentina, Fito Páez lovingly reinvented his 1992 masterpiece El Amor Después del Amor on EADDA9223, populated by a gallery of iconic guest stars.

If the nominees at the 66th GRAMMY Awards are any indication, Latin rock and alternative are more than a sound. They signify a point of view, a credo, a way of doing things that spans countries.

With that in mind, GRAMMY.com organized a roundtable with this year’s nominees, who discussed their influences, the current state of the multifarious genre, and the dreams of future albums that keep their creative fires burning. 

Is rock 'n'roll eternal? Will its mystique continue to influence musicians for generations to come?

Natalia Lafourcade: It is eternal, yes. Rock is like life itself. It evolves and transforms in language and form — its tempests, energy and meaning. I would never have imagined my album being nominated in this category. But then I think about the idiosyncrasies of rock — a style spawned from broken places, the crevice where a flower can blossom   and it makes sense. I cherish the fact that rock can encompass so many different possibilities of singing about emotion.

Cabra: I understand rock’n’roll as an agent of change and attitude is already dead. In my work, I like using musical references from the past as I create in the present mode.

Juanes: Rock will be eternal to me for as long as I live. In my own universe, rock was the channel that allowed me to transform as a person and I find in it a very powerful energy. I hope future generations will learn to play instruments, form their own bands and write songs — even with the current avalanche of technology and AI.

Fito Páez: Rock is much more than just a genre. It represents an open minded, eccentric cultural reality that fears nothing and transcends the music itself.

Juan Galeano (vocalist and bassist, Diamante Eléctrico): Rock has evolved, just like music has. It will live on as long as it preserves its avant-garde qualities and continues to challenge the establishment.

Who were the rock artists who first inspired you?

Juanes: Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. Heavier stuff too: Slayer, Sepultura. Even Venom. [Laughs.] That was my path during the ‘80s here in Medellín. Before I discovered rock, the sounds of Latin American popular music that I heard during childhood defined my path as a musician as well.

Lafourcade: The works of women like Julieta Venegas, Joni Mitchell, Björk, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey and Erykah Badu, among many others. All of them acted as anchors on my artistic path. They offered guidance and illumination.

Páez: I was influenced by artists outside the confines of rock — people who played all kinds of music, like Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta. Is [Brazilian MPB icon] Chico Buarque rock? Sort of. You could say he’s part of the rock culture, much like [tango master] Astor Piazzolla was. 

There’s something really cool about the Alternative Field. It goes beyond the mainstream — there’s an extra serving of fun in it; it defies logic. An artist is truly alternative when he’s different from everyone else.

During the ‘70s, rock became exceedingly ambitious — incorporating elements of jazz and classical, folk and the avant-garde. I believe the same ethos informs the Latin Alternative today, a time when stylistic experimentation is accepted as the norm. Do you agree?

Cabra: I agree about 50 percent. I believe the experimental tendencies of the ‘70s and ‘80s signified the genre’s finest moment. Right now, there are artists who dare to innovate. At the same time, many defend the purity of various musical styles, and as a result, everything sounds the same.

Lafourcade: Rock will always be linked to that utmost freedom of expression. It’s connected to the soul, and it’s deeply spiritual. There is no strategy in it. It’s about seeking the disruptive, the unexpected — that which will surprise and shake us up. It allows you to scream, weep and laugh — to be silent following heartbreaking chaos.

Galeano: Something that we really enjoy about the last few years is the increasing blurring of genre boundaries. We’ve always believed that Diamante is much more than just a rock band. We borrow from different styles: funk, soul and cumbia; jazz and classical; Black music in general, and, of course, rock 'n' roll. I love that the younger generations don’t listen to any specific genres anymore — just good songs.

Are reggaetón and urbano the new rock? Could they coexist with the works of Soda Stereo or Café Tacvba?

Páez: No, they’re not. Clearly not. I’m writing a lengthy essay on the current state of the music scene. I think it will generate an interesting debate.

Juanes: I notice in artists like Bad Bunny the same kind of rebellious spirit and desire to provoke that was present in rock. That said, I think music will continue to evolve. It can never stagnate.

Cabra: Rock is a feeling, a lifestyle. That is why I believe it is dead.

Within a rock context, is there a fusion or experiment that you have yet to attempt? Is there a treasured album percolating in your soul, waiting to emerge?

Lafourcade: I’d love to return to the electric guitar at one point, and explore beyond the familiar limits. To navigate alternate possibilities that can continue to surprise me and make me feel like it’s the first time doing this.

Juanes: I’d like to record an album or EP focused on cumbias, slow and heavy. Haven’t found the time yet, but it’s something I would love to do at one point.

Páez: The music I desire the most is the one I have yet to record — that much is clear. The advantage of music over words is that the potential combinations are infinite. You just have to play, something I’ve been doing my entire life. Sometimes you have to push the new melodies away so that you don’t step on them when you get out of bed in the morning. At other times, you can’t find a single tune. It’s all about being adventurous, studying and researching — the kind of activities that are not in vogue at the moment.

Cabra: This year I’d love to make a record of complicated duets in different genres. Right now I’m dreaming of that album.

Galeano: We’d love to experiment with jazz, corridos tumbados, cumbia and Brazilian. Whenever we collaborate, we gravitate to artists who come from different worlds. I’d love to record a song with Carín León.

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2022 was the year of Rosalía’s Motomami and Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti — two groundbreaking albums that expanded both the artistic scope and mainstream appeal of Latin music. How do you top that?

As it turns out, 2023 had a number of surprises in store: the emergence of música mexicana on an international scale, but also the further globalization of Latin sounds and new developments in urbano music, which continues to gain in influence and sophistication. It was also a particularly prolific year — with hundreds of singles, EPs and albums expanding the scope of Latin across genres and formats.

Here are some of the notable trends that emerged during the past 12 months.

Finally, Música Mexicana Gets The Chance To Shine

Reggaetón and urbano were at the forefront of the Latin music tsunami that began to take hold of the entire planet a good three years ago. During that time, many insiders pondered if the huge field of so-called regional Mexican music would ever enjoy such levels of exposure. Turns out there was nothing regional about it.

Far from stagnating, the genre evolved with the rise of the sparse, melancholy sound known as sad sierreño, and the swagger of hip-hop informing the zeitgeist of young artists like Natanael Cano and Junior H.

2023 will be forever remembered as the year when música mexicana connected with the world at large, and it happened mostly through one song: "Ella Baila Sola," the collaboration between Jalisco singer Peso Pluma and Cali group Eslabón Armado — a tune whose spiraling groove is so buoyant and infectious, it transcends borders. The subversive duet of Bad Bunny and Grupo Frontera on mega-hit "un x100to" didn’t hurt either, and the movement gained strength with Peso Pluma’s excellent third LP, as well as the talents of young stars such as Fuerza Regida, Gabito Ballesteros and Yahritza y Su Esencia.

When It Comes To Latin Rock, Argentina Is Still At The Forefront

From Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta to Soda Stereo and Babasónicos, Argentina boasts a fierce tradition for generating legendary rock albums. Even though the South American nation has embraced the present with such urbano stars as Bizarrap, Duki and Nicki Nicole, there will always be a place of honor reserved for good old fashioned rock’n’roll in Argentina’s clubs and recording studios.

2023 was no exception. Hailing from the city of La Plata, Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado released Súper Terror. Their first full length album since 2017's La Síntesis O’Konor, the new LP includes atmospheric ballads like the gorgeous "Medalla de Oro." Another top contender is Tripolar, the third effort by Mendoza indie darlings Usted Señalemelo.

Also of note: Lo Más Cercano a Caer, the stunning debut by Nenagenix. Fronted by singer Martina Sampietro, the band has dreamed up a ferocious collection of songs with inspired touches of grunge and shoegaze.

Pop Stardom Is A Young Artist’s Game…

Popular music has always reflected the combustion and adrenaline of youth, but the immediacy of the digital era has heightened this fact. It seems that the transition from self-taught teens uploading their demos in TikTok to fully fledged stars performing at Coachella has become even more rapid.

Some of the most successful Latin artists climbing the 2023 charts have had only a couple of years to transition into pop icon status — and the vulnerability of their emotional state is often expressed in their music. From the reggaetón-fueled erotic narratives of 21 year-old Madrid rapper Quevedo ("PUNTO G") to the bachata-pop warmth of 19 year-old Mexican/American DannyLux ("MI HOGAR," with maye) and the confessional urbano narratives of 22-year-old Argentine vocalist Tiago PZK (the TINI duet "Me Enteré"), many young artists found the global platform where they could freely express their longings and dreams.

...But The Veterans Have Still Plenty To Say

Years of accolades have not dimmed the creative vision of veteran Latin artists. In the case of Juanes, a marital crisis during the pandemic inspired Vida Cotidiana — arguably the Colombian singer’s best album to date. Just listen to the gritty guitar textures of the majestic "Gris" and the spiraling Afro lines of "Cecilia," a sun-is-shining-again duet with Juan Luis Guerra. Vida Cotidiana is nominated for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album alongside Cabra's MARTÍNEZ, Leche De Tigre by Diamante Eléctrico, Natalia Lafourcade's De Todas Las Flores and EADDA9223 by Fito Paez.

At 46, Shakira finds herself at the top of her game, with major pop culture moments like her Bizarrap collaboration — the most epic revenge song of the year and a Latin GRAMMY winner— and the jagged edges of "TQG," her duet with KAROL G.

Having developed a tradition of recording solo excursions in Paris, Zoé frontman León Larregui explored his hazy psychedelic mystique on PRISMARAMA, the Mexican singer’s excellent — and first self-produced — third outing.

The Urbano Groove May Never Run Out Of Steam

You may think that global audiences would have tired of the ubiquitous reggaetón beat. But the music of Puerto Rico — just like traditional salsa in the ‘70s – has a gravitas that rewards longer attention spans. Fittingly for a genre known for its prolific work ethic, some of the biggest names in urbano released albums in 2023, and none of them disappoint.

One listen to the refined melody of "MÓNACO" — like a reggaetón take on a James Bond theme — is enough to realize that Bad Bunny’s creative streak hasn’t slowed down since he reimagined the Latin pop atlas with Un Verano Sin Ti. Known for his honeyed dance hits, Ozuna put out an EP (Afro) and an album (Cosmo), including the synth-pop magic of "Vocation," with producer David Guetta.

Last but not least, KAROL G’s MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO demonstrates on luminous tracks like "PROVENZA" and "CAIRO" that her work with fellow Colombian producer Ovy on the Drums is one of the defining artistic partnerships of the decade. MAÑANA is nominated for Best Música Urbana Album at the 2024 GRAMMYs alongside Rauw Alejandro's SATURNO and Tainy's DATA.

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