Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album
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The Grammy Award
for Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.
It combines the previous categories for Best Regional Mexican Album
and Best Tejano 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 Regional Mexican or Tejano Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.
It combines the previous categories for Best Regional Mexican Album
Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album
The Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album was awarded from 2009 to 2011. Previous to this field, Regional Mexican albums were awarded within the Best Mexican/Mexican American Album field....
and Best Tejano Album
Grammy Award for Best Tejano Album
The Grammy Award for Best Tejano Album was awarded from 1999 to 2011. In its first year the award was titled Best Tejano Music Performance and in 2000 it was awarded as Best Tejano Performance. The current title has been used since 2001...
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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- Pepe AguilarPepe AguilarJosé "Pepe" Aguilar Jiménez is a popular singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi and pop music. Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.-Career:...
for Bicentenario - Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea for Orale
- Mariachi Los Arrieros Del Valle for Amor a la Musica
- Paquita La Del Barrio for Eres Un Farsante
- Joan SebastianJoan SebastianJoan Sebastian is a popular Mexican singer and songwriter. He has composed hundreds of songs and been a regular staple on the top-40 charts in Mexico since his career began in 1977. His music is a mixture of Latin pop, ranchera and grupera music...
for Huevos Rancheros