Grammy Award for Best Banda or Norteño Album
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The Grammy Award
for Best Banda or Norteno Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.
It combines the previous categories for Best Banda Album
and Best Norteno Album
.
The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards. According to the Academy, "it was determined that musical distinctions among some of the regional Mexican subgenres were often very difficult to draw, so the restructuring in categories was warranted".
Other Latin categories were also either merged or discontinued.
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
for Best Banda or Norteno Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.
It combines the previous categories for Best Banda Album
Grammy Award for Best Banda Album
The Grammy Award for Best Banda Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the banda music genre...
and Best Norteno Album
Grammy Award for Best Norteño Album
The Grammy Award for Best Norteño Album was an honor presented to recording artists at the 51st, 52nd and 53rd Grammy Awards for quality norteño music albums...
.
The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards. According to the Academy, "it was determined that musical distinctions among some of the regional Mexican subgenres were often very difficult to draw, so the restructuring in categories was warranted".
Other Latin categories were also either merged or discontinued.
2010s
Nominees- El Guero & Su Banda Centenario for Estare Mejor
- IntocableIntocableIntocable is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 90's. Within a couple years as a band, Intocable had already risen to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that had fused Tejano's...
for Intocable 2011 - Los Tigres Del NorteLos Tigres del NorteLos Tigres del Norte is a norteño-band ensemble based out of San Jose, California, hailing from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico.- History :...
for Los Tigres del Norte & Friends - Los Tucanes de TijuanaLos Tucanes de TijuanaLos Tucanes de Tijuana is a Latino Regional Band founded on April 13, 1987 by Mario Quintero Lara and a group of talented friends in the City of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. From humble beginnings, starting their musical career by playing at nightclubs they rose to become the most successful...
for El Arbol - Michael SalgadoMichael SalgadoMichael Salgado is a popular Tejano artist.Tejano singer/accordionist Michael Salgado gained prominence in the mid-1990s by looking back to the 'norteño' sound influenced by Ramon Ayala, and by susequently introducing the style to the younger generation...
for No Vengo A Ver Si Puedo...Si Por Que Puedo Vengo