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Prêmio da Música Brasileira

The Prêmio da Música Brasileira, today titled Prêmio BTG Pactual da Música Brasileira, is a Brazilian music award created in 1987 and based in Rio de Janeiro.

Premio Lo Nuestro 2019

Premio Lo Nuestro 2019 (Premios Lo Nuestro 2019) was the 31st edition of Univision's annual Latin music awards, held in Miami on February 21, 2019, where Ozuna won nine trophies.

Premios Tu Mundo

Premios Tu Mundo (Your World Awards) was a fan-voted Spanish-language awards show broadcast by Telemundo, honoring Latin celebrities in music, telenovelas, and sports in Miami from 2012 to 2017.

Premium Latin Music

Premium Latin Music is a record label founded in 1996 by Franklin Romero, known for urban bachata as the longtime label of Aventura and major Dominican artists.

Pressure Busspipe

Pressure Busspipe, born Delyno Brown in 1981, is a reggae singer-songwriter from St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, best known for the 2007 hit "Love and Affection".

Presuntos Implicados

Presuntos Implicados is a Spanish pop band formed in 1983 in Yecla, Murcia, whose album Ser de agua (1991) and hit "Cómo hemos cambiado" sold millions.

Primavera Club

Primavera Club is a club-based music festival in Spain, launched in Barcelona in 2006 by the Primavera Sound team as a smaller sister event for emerging acts.

Prince Buster

Prince Buster, born Cecil Bustamente Campbell, was a Jamaican singer and record producer, born in Kingston in 1938, whose ska hits included "Al Capone" and "One Step Beyond".

Prince Far I

Prince Far I, born Michael James Williams, was a Jamaican reggae deejay known for chanting Psalms in a deep voice; he was murdered in 1983.

Prince Royce

Prince Royce (Geoffrey Royce Rojas, b. 1989), Bronx-born Dominican American bachata singer. 2010 debut, 22 #1 radio hits, Guinness 29-week Tropical Airplay record, albums Alter Ego, Eterno, Better Late Than Never with Romeo Santos.

Problem Child (musician)

Problem Child is the sobriquet of Shertz James, a soca artist from St Vincent and the Grenadines based in New York, with six Vincy Mas Road March titles.

Projota

Projota (José Tiago Sabino Pereira, born 1986) is a Brazilian rapper from São Paulo whose 2016 hit Ela só quer paz brought rap into the mainstream.

Provenza

"Provenza" is a 2022 solo single by Colombian singer Karol G, produced with Ovy On The Drums and named for the Medellín neighborhood where she grew up.

Pupy y Los Que Son Son

Pupy y Los Que Son Son is a Cuban timba orchestra founded in 2001 by pianist and composer César "Pupy" Pedroso after three decades with Los Van Van.

QBO

QBO is a Mexican alternative rock power trio from Mexico City, formed around 2002 by Tonio Ruiz, Lu Salinas, and Tarro Martínez, with five albums since 2003.

Quilmes Rock

Quilmes Rock is a major rock festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, created in 2003 by Pop Art and the Quilmes brewery and held at venues including River Plate and Tecnópolis.

Quinteto Violado

Quinteto Violado is a Pernambuco instrumental and vocal group formed in Recife in 1970, known for modernizing northeastern Brazilian music with jazz-influenced harmony and its celebrated arrangement of "Asa Branca".

Radio Mix FM (São Paulo)

Rádio Mix FM is a young- and adult-pop FM radio station in São Paulo on 106.3 MHz, owned by the Di Genio family's Objetivo education group.

Rádio Transamérica

Rádio Transamérica was a national Brazilian radio network founded by banker Aloysio de Andrade Faria, first broadcasting in Recife in 1976 and rebranded as TMC in 2025.

Rafael Buendía

Rafael Buendía, born in Zacatecas, Mexico, is a ranchera and corrido singer, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker who has recorded more than 150 albums and earned a 1987 Grammy nomination.

Rafael Escalona

Rafael Escalona (1927–2009) was a Colombian composer of vallenato who wrote classics like 'La Casa en el Aire' and co-founded the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata.

Rafael Hernández Marín

Rafael Hernández Marín (El Jibarito), Puerto Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist (1892-1965) of Aguadilla, wrote Lamento borincano, Preciosa, and El Cumbanchero; 369th Regiment band, Trío Borinquen, Conjunto Victoria.

Rafael Ithier

Rafael Ithier was a Puerto Rican pianist, arranger, and bandleader who served for more than six decades as musical director of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.

Rafo Ráez

Rafo Ráez (Rafael Adolfo Ráez Luna, born 1968 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian singer-songwriter and anthropologist, a leading voice of Peruvian rock with more than 15 albums.

Raimundos (1994 debut)

Raimundos is the 1994 self-titled debut album by the Brasília band Raimundos, which fused forró with hardcore punk into forró-core, went gold, and launched the band nationally.

RaiNao

RaiNao is the stage name of Naomi Ramírez Rivera, a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter from Santurce, San Juan, blending reggaeton, jazz, R&B, and alternative pop; albums CAPICÚ (2024) and Marcriá (2026), featured on Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos.

Ram Herrera

Ram Herrera, born Ramiro Herrera, is a Tejano vocalist from San Antonio, Texas, who fronted David Lee Garza y Los Musicales before a four-decade solo career.

Randy

Randy, known as Nota Loca, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer who forms one half of the duo Jowell & Randy, active since the early 2000s.

Randy Chin

Vincent "Randy" Chin (1937–2003) was a Jamaican record producer who founded Randy's Records and Studio 17 in Kingston, later cofounding VP Records in New York.

Ranking Joe

Ranking Joe, born Joseph Jackson in 1959 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a reggae and dancehall deejay known for his fast toasting style and career spanning more than fifty years.