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Latin Grammy Award winners

  • Penélope CruzPenélope Cruz was fifteen years old in 1989 when she won an audition against more than 300 other girls. Only a short time earlier, an agent had sent her away three times because she was too young. Cruz kept coming back anyway, and she says…
  • Pharrell WilliamsPharrell Williams, the American musician, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer, was once behind a startling share of the songs on the radio. An August 2003 survey cited by The Age found that his production duo, the Neptunes,…
  • Justin BieberScooter Braun found Justin Bieber by clicking a YouTube video by accident. He had been searching for a different singer.
  • ShakiraAt age four, Shakira climbed onto a restaurant table and danced to a doumbek. It happened in Barranquilla, Colombia.
  • Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera sang "A Sunday Kind of Love" on the television contest Star Search in 1990 and was eliminated in the semi-final round. That loss decided nothing. She would go on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide, and…
  • Bad BunnyBad Bunny once bagged groceries at an Econo supermarket. He later won Album of the Year at the Grammys.
  • RosalíaRosalía Vila Tobella, born on the 25th of September 1992 and known by her first name alone, was fifteen when she competed on the Spanish television show Tú Sí Que Vales. The judges did not select her. Today she is a Spanish…
  • Enrique IglesiasEnrique Iglesias once went to great lengths to hide the most famous surname in Spanish pop. He was a young man in Miami holding a demo cassette with one Spanish song and two English songs. He had borrowed the money to make it from his…
  • The WeekndThe Weeknd is the stage name of Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian singer-songwriter born on the 16th of February 1990. The spelling is deliberate. Tesfaye chose the name because he had left home on a weekend, then dropped the last 'e' to avoid…
  • Travis ScottTravis Scott, born Jacques Bermon Webster II, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Houston, Texas. Within a single twelve-month span, three of his songs entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number one. No artist…
  • Ricky MartinRicky Martin once played a new song for a record executive and was told he had ruined his career. The Puerto Rican singer, born Enrique Martín Morales in San Juan, had walked away from the ballads that filled his first two albums. In their…

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