We are excited to announce that a number of Canyon Records artists were nominated in various categories by the Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards and below are the Canyon artist winners!
Best Hand Drum CD: Fawn Wood, Iskwewak
Best Duo or Group: Northern Cree, Drum Boy
Best Pow Wow CD – Contemporary: Northern Cree, Drum Boy
To view both the nominees and winners from Canyon, please click here.
World renowned percussionist, Airto Moreira, wins Best Percussionist in the 77th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll, again. This marks his third win in a row since claiming the top spot in the 75th Readers Poll. Established in 1934, DownBeat’s Annual Readers Poll award is a prestigious honor. The ‘percussion’ category was initiated in 1973 in honor of Airto. Since then, he has won Best Percussionist multiple times in both the Readers and Critics polls. A Train thanks the Readers for voting and congratulates Airto on his recognition.
“The explosive debut album from Staff Benda Bilili is perhaps an example of African street music at its finest. The sound is a curious mix of Afro Rumba, Latin Rhythms and rich vocal harmonies. Each track is diverse, vibrant and wholly unique, yet the album retains a uniformity of sound and style that is both interesting and infectious…” – Johnny Lais BBC (UK)
“Crazy People”, Sak Noel’s collaboration with Pitbull and Sensato, and “Ella No Sigue Modas”, composed and performed by Juan Magan, will be performed live November 15th on international television as part of the 13th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards Show! Both compositions come from the popular Clippers Music catalog; “Crazy People” was also performed at the Billboard Magazine Latin Music Awards, earlier this year. Congratulations to both artists!
We are very happy to announce that Lila Downs, nominated for Best Folk Album, will be performing “Zapata Se Queda” on the internationally broadcast XIII Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards. The biggest night in Latin music is set for Nov. 15 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and will air live on the Univision Network from 8-11 p.m. ET/PT
(7 p.m. Central). For a list of other performing artists, updates, and breaking news, please visit www.latingrammy.com
Lila will also be performing at the Person of the Year Gala honoring Caetano Veloso on Nov. 14th. A portion of the net proceeds from the gala will benefit Veloso’s chosen charity, Fundación Viva Cazuza in Brazil – a not-for-profit HIV prevention and treatment organization for children and young people – as well as The Latin Recording Academy’s outreach and education programs.