Latin Grammys 2019: The Complete Winners List (2024)

The Latin Recording Academy kicked off its 20th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday evening, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. An international celebration of music from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, it is the only peer-presented Latin music accolade.

Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía was the top winner in this year’s show. Her one-off single with J Balvin and El Guincho, “Con Altura” won Best Urban Song; meanwhile, her landmark 2018 album El Mal Querer scored accolades for Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album, Best Engineered Album and Best Recording Package.

Together Cuban-American star Camila Cabello and Spanish pop icon Alejandro Sanz were awarded with Record of the Year and Best Pop Song for their 2019 collaboration, “Mi Persona Favorita.” (Cabello was not present.)

Dominican bachata legend Juan Luis Guerra won Best Contemporary/Tropical Fusion Album for his 2019 album Literal, plus Best Tropical Song for lead single, “Kitipun.”

Pedro Capó won Song of the Year for his laid-back reggaeton hit, “Calma”; his remix with Farruko, won Best Urban Fusion Performance. Together they performed their song onstage, along with “Calma (Alicia Remix)” co-star Alicia Keys. The performance also featured R&B singer Miguel, who promoted a snippet of his new English-language duet with Keys, “Show Me Love.”

Chilean singer Mon Laferte won Best Alternative Album for her 2018 opus, Norma. During her acceptance speech, she wore a green scarf — a symbol of solidarity with the Latin American reproductive freedom movement — and read a chilling poem from an anonymous friend, dedicated to those resisting government repression in Chile. “Chile hurts me inside,” she read. “You bleed through my every vein/Every chain weighs on me/That imprisons you.” On the red carpet she also bared her chest, on which she wrote in black marker, “In Chile they torture and kill.”

Bad Bunny‘s 2018 album X 100pre was named Best Urban Music Album. The Puerto Rican singer notably dodged the Latin Grammys boycott — as called for by J Balvin and Daddy Yankee, his frequent collaborators. “Reggaeton is a global genre,” said Bad Bunny between bleeps on the broadcast. “To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!”

Winners are represented in bold.

Record Of The Year:

“Parecen Viernes” — Marc Anthony
“Verdades Afiladas” — Andrés Calamaro
“Ahí Ahí” — Vicente García
“Kitipun” — Juan Luis Guerra 4.40
“Querer Mejor” — Juanes Featuring Alessia Cara
“La Plata” — Juanes Featuring Lalo Ebratt
“Aute Couture” — Rosalía
“Mi Persona Favorita” — Alejandro Sanz & Camila Cabello — WINNER
“No Tengo Nada” — Alejandro Sanz
“Cobarde” — Ximena Sariñana

Song Of The Year:

“Calma” — Pedro Capó, Gabriel Edgar González Pérez & George Noriega, songwriters (Pedro Capó) — WINNER
“Desconstrução” — Tiago Iorc, songwriter (Tiago Iorc)
“El País” — Rubén Blades, songwriter (Rubén Blades)
“Kitipun” — Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter (Juan Luis Guerra 4.40)
“Mi Persona Favorita” — Camila Cabello & Alejandro Sanz, songwriters (Alejandro Sanz & Camila Cabello)
“No Tengo Nada” — Alejandro Sanz, songwriter (Alejandro Sanz)
“Quédate” — Kany García & Tommy Torres, songwriters (Kany García & Tommy Torres)
“Querer Mejor” — Rafael Arcaute, Alessia Cara, Camilo Echeverry, Juanes, Mauricio Montaner, Ricardo Montaner & Tainy, songwriters (Juanes Featuring Alessia Cara)
“Un Año” — Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres & Sebastián Yatra, songwriters (Sebastián Yatra Featuring Reik)
“Ven” — Fonseca, songwriter (Fonseca)

Song Of The Year:

Visceral — Paula Arenas
Paraíso Road Gang — Rubén Blades
Cargar La Suerte — Andrés Calamaro
Agustín — Fonseca
Vida — Luis Fonsi
El Mal Querer — Rosalía — WINNER
#Eldisco — Alejandro Sanz
¿Dónde Bailarán Las Niñas? — Ximena Sariñana
Mas De Mi — Tony Succar
Fantasía — Sebastián Yatra

Best Pop Song:

“Bailar” — Leonel García, songwriter (Leonel García)
“Buena Para Nada” — Paula Arenas, Luigi Castillo & Santiago Castillo, songwriters (Paula Arenas)
“Mi Persona Favorita” — Camila Cabello & Alejandro Sanz, songwriters (Alejandro Sanz & Camila Cabello) — WINNER
“Pienso En Tu Mirá” — Antón Álvarez Alfaro, El Guincho & Rosalía, songwriters (Rosalía)
“Ven” — Fonseca, songwriter (Fonseca)

Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album:

El Mal Querer — Rosalía — WINNER
Montaner — Ricardo Montaner
Balas Perdidas — Morat
#Eldisco — Alejandro Sanz
Fantasía — Sebastián Yatra

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:

Agustín — Fonseca — WINNER
Visceral — Paula Arenas
Rosa — Cami
Hacia Adentro — Camila
Sentimientos — Pavel Núñez

Best Urban Fusion/Performance:

“Tenemos Que Hablar” — Bad Bunny
“Calma (Remix)” — Pedro Capó & Farruko — WINNER
“Pa’ Olvidarte (Remix)” — ChocQuibtown, Zion & Lennox, Farruko Featuring Manuel Turizo
“Con Calma” — Daddy Yankee Featuring Snow
“Otro Trago” — Sech Featuring Darell

Best Urban Music Album:

Kisses— Anitta
X 100PRE — Bad Bunny — WINNER
Mi Movimiento— De La Ghetto
19— Feid
Sueños— Sech

Best Urban Song:

“Baila Baila Baila” — Ozuna & Vicente Saavedra, songwriters (Ozuna)
“Caliente” — J Balvin, René Cano, De La Ghetto & Alejandro Ramirez, songwriters (De La Ghetto Featuring J Balvin)
“Con Altura” — J Balvin, Mariachi Budda, Frank Dukes, El Guincho, Alejandro Ramirez & Rosalía, songwriters (Rosalía & J Balvin Featuring El Guincho) — WINNER
“Otro Trago” — Kevyn Mauricio Cruz, Kevin Mauricio Jimenez Londoño, Bryan Lezcano Chaverra, Josh Mendez, Sech & Jorge Valdes, songwriters (Sech Featuring Darell)
“Pa’ Olvidarte” — René Cano, ChocQuibtown, Kevyn Cruz Moreno, Juan Diego Medina Vélez, Andrés David Restrepo, Mateo Tejada Giraldo, Andrés Uribe Marín, Juan Vargas & Doumbia Yohann, songwriters (ChocQuibTown)

Best Alternative Music Album:

Latinoamericana— Alex Anwandter
Discutible —Babasónicos
Bach— Bandalos Chinos
Prender Un Fuego— Marilina Bertoldi
Norma — Mon Laferte — WINNER

Best Pop/Rock Album:

Cargar La Suerte — Andrés Calamaro — WINNER
Manual De Viaje A Un Lugar Lejano — Jumbo
Lebón & Co. — David Lebón
Nuclear — Leiva
Madame Ayahuasca — Taburete

Best Rock Song:

“Verdades Afiladas” — Andrés Calamaro & German Wiedemer, songwriters (Andrés Calamaro) — WINNER
“Conectar” — Rodrigo Crespo, songwriter (Rodrigo Crespo)
“Godzilla” — Leiva, songwriter (Leiva Featuring Enrique Bunbury y Ximena Sariñana)
“Nirvana” — Arawato, songwriters (Arawato)
“Punta Cana” — Roberto Musso, songwriter (El Cuarteto De Nos)

Best Rock Album:

Monte Sagrado — Draco Rosa — WINNER
Una Razón Para Seguir — A.N.I.M.A.L
Arawato — Arawato
Basado En Hechos Reales — Carajo
MTV Unplugged: El Desconecte — Molotov

Best Traditional Tropical Album:

Andrés Cepeda Big Band(En Vivo) — Andrés Cepeda — WINNER
Vereda Tropical— Olga Cerpa y Mestisay
Lo Nuestro— Yelsy Heredia
A Journey Through CubanMusic— Aymée Nuviola
La Llave Del Son— Septeto Acarey

Best Tropical Song:

“Kitipun” — Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter (Juan Luis Guerra 4.40) — WINNER
“El Afortunado” — Luis Enrique & Jorge Luis Piloto, songwriters (Septeto Acarey Featuring Luis Enrique)
“Mas De Mi” Jorge Luis Piloto & Tony Succar, songwriters (Tony Succar Featuring Angel López)
“Subiendo Y Bajando” — Bobby Allende, Waddys Jáquez, David Maldonado & Adan Pérez, songwriters (8 y Más Featuring Rubén Blades)
“Vivir Es Complicado” — Jorge Luis Piloto, songwriter (Andrés Cepeda & Dayhan Díaz)

Best Singer-Songwriter Album:

Acústica— Albita
Contra El Viento — Kany García — WINNER
Amor Presente— Leonel García
Algo Ritmos— Kevin Johansen
Intuición— Gian Marco

Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album:

Mi Persona Preferida— El Bebeto
Sigue La Dinastía…— Alex Fernández
Más Romántico Que Nunca— Vicente Fernández
Indestructible— Flor De Toloache
Ahora— Christian Nodal — WINNER

Best Norteño Album:

Por Más —Bronco
Las Canciones De La Abuela— Buyuchek
Mitad Y Mitad— Calibre 50
Percepción— Intocable — WINNER
Amo— La Maquinaria Norteña

Best Long Form Music Video:

“Anatomía De Un Éxodo” — Mastodonte
“Piazzolla, Los Años Del Tiburón” — Astor Piazzolla
“Hotel De Los Encuentros” — Draco Rosa
“Lo Que Fui Es Lo Que Soy” — Alejandro Sanz — WINNER
“Déjame Quererte” — Carlos Vives

Producer of the Year:

Andrés Torres, Mauricio Rengifo (Juanes, Sebastián Yatra, Paulina Rubio, Luis Fonsi)
Julio Reyes Copello (Alejandro Sanz with Nicky Jam and Camila Cabello, Sebastián Yatra)
Rafa Sardina (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Flor De Toloache)
Tony Succar (Self, Eric Chacón, Raul Stefano, Gian Marco Featuring Grupo 5) — WINNER
Juan Pablo Vega (Self, Ximena Sariñana, Esteman, Santiago Cruz y Vicente García)

Additional winners have been announced via LatinGRAMMY.com.