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# Latin Grammy Awards 2018 – Full Winners List
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/latin-grammys-2018-full-winners-list/
- Published: 2018-11-16T08:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2018-11-16T08:15:00.000Z
- Description: The winners of last night's 2018 Latin Grammy Awards came from a broad spectrum of styles and genres. The awards were televised on Univision from the MGM Grand Arena in. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/11/latin-grammys-2018-full-winners-list.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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[![Latin Grammy Awards 2018](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3c05f6b200b-200wi "Latin Grammy Awards 2018")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad3c05f6b200b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)The winners of last night's 2018 Latin Grammy Awards came from a broad spectrum of styles and genres. The awards were televised on Univision from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. **Top Awards** **Record of the year –** “Telefonía”, Jorge Drexler.**Album of the year -**  “¡México por siempre!”, Luis Miguel.**Song of the year –** “Telefonía”, Jorge Drexler, composer (Jorge Drexler).**Best new artist –** Karol G.

## Video

**Best short form music video –** “Pa dentro”, Juanes; Lionel Hirle y Grégory Ohrel, directors; Bret Rea yJocelyn Webber, producers.**Best long form music video –** “En letra de otro”, documental, Pedro Capó; Diego Álvarez, director; Vicente Solís, producer.**ALSO: [Latin Music Is Now YouTube's Dominate Genre](https://www.hypebot.com/latin-music-has-become-youtubes-dominate-genre/)**

## **Pop**

Best contemporary pop vocal album: “F.A.M.E.”, Maluma.Best traditional pop vocal album: “Hazte sentir”, Laura Pausini.

## Urban

Best urban fusion/performance: “Malamente”, Rosalía.Best urban music album: “Vibras”, J Balvin.Best urban song: “Dura”, Daddy Yankee, Urbani Mota Cedeño, Juan G. Rivera Vázquez and Luis Jorge Romero, composers (Daddy Yankee).

## Rock

Best rock album: “Expectativas”, Bunbury.Best pop/rock album: “Geometría del rayo”, Manolo García.Best rock song : “Tu vida mi vida”, Fito Páez, composer (Fito Páez). 

## Alternative

Best alternative music album: “Claroscura”, Aterciopelados”.Best alternative song: “Malamente”, Antón Alvarez Alfaro, Pablo Díaz-Reixa and Rosalía, composers (Rosalía).

## Tropical

Best salsa album: “25/7”, Víctor Manuelle.Best cumbia/vallenato album: “Esto es vida”, Silvestre Dangond.Best contemporary tropical album: “Vives”, Carlos Vives.Best traditional tropical album: “A mí qué – Tributo a los clásicos cubanos”, José Alberto El Canario and El Septeto Santiaguero.Best tropical fusion album: “Como anillo al dedo”, Aymee Nuviola.Best tropical song: “Quiero tiempo”, Juan Luis Guerra, Juan Carlos Luces and Víctor Manuelle, composers (Víctor Manuelle with Juan Luis Guerra).

## Singer-songwriter

Best singer-songwriter album: “Salvavidas de hielo”, Jorge Drexler. 

## Regional Mexican

Best ranchero/mariachi album: “¡México por siempre!”, Luis Miguel.Best banda album: “Los gustos que me doy”, Banda Los Recoditos.Best Tejano album ALBUM: “Tex Mex Funk”, Roger Velásquez & The Latin Legendz.Best Norteño album (tie): “Guerra de poder”, Calibre 50\. Y “Los ángeles existen”, Pesado.Best regional song: “Probablemente”, Christian Nodal, compositor (Christian Nodal).

## Instrumental

Best Instrumental album: “Identidad”, Miguel Siso.

## Traditional

Best folk album: “Musas (Los Macorinos), Vol. 2”, Natalia Lafourcade.Best tango album: “Vigor tanguero”, Pedro Giraudo.Best Flamenco album: “Al este del cante”, Arcángel.

## Jazz

 Best latin jazz/jazz album: “Naturaleza universal”, Hermeto Pascoal & Big Band.

## Christian

Best Christian album (Spanish): “Setenta veces siete”, Alfareros.Best Christian album (Portuguese): “Som da minha vida”, Fernanda Brun.

## Portuguese

Best Portuguese contemporary pop album: “Nocturno”, Anaadi.Best Portuguese rock or alternative album: “Lenine Em Trânsito”, Lenine.Best samba/pagode album: “Amor e música”, Maria Rita.Best MPB (Brazilian pop music) album: “Caravanas”, Chico Buarque.Best sertaneja music album: “Elas Em Evidências”, Chitãozinho & Xororó.Best Portuguese roots album: “+AR”, Almir Sater & Renato Teixeira.Best Portuguese song: “As caravanas”, Chico Buarque, composer (Chico Buarque).

## Children

Best Latin children's album: “Imaginare”, ClaraLuna.

## Classical

Best classical album: “Mágica y misteriosa”, Claudia Montero; José Manuel Domenech y Claudia Montero, productores.Best classical contemporary composition: “Luces y sombras. Concierto para guitarra y orquesta de cuerdas”, Claudia Montero, compositora (Claudia Montero).

## Arrangement

Best arrangement: “Se le ve”, Milton Salcedo (Milton Salcedo with Amaury Gutiérrez, Carlos Oliva and Michel Puche).

## Recording package

Best recording package: “Diferentes tipos de luz”, Carlos Sadness, art director (Carlos Sadness).

## Production

Best engineered album album: “50 años tocando para ti”, Rafa Sardina, ingeniero; Rafa Sardina, mezclador; Eric Boulanger, ingeniero de mastering (Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá).Producer of the year: Linda Briceño.

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