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Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year honors a single track's performance and production, awarded annually since 2000; Alejandro Sanz holds the record with eight wins.

Latin Grammy Awards

The Latin Grammy Awards (Latin Grammys) are annual peer-voted honors for Latin music recording, presented by the Latin Recording Academy since 2000 and open to Spanish and Portuguese recordings.

Latin Grammy Awards ceremonies, 2017–2023

The Latin Grammy Awards ceremonies of 2017 to 2023 covered the 18th through 24th editions, opening with "Despacito's" four wins and ending with Karol G and Shakira.

Latin Grammy Hall of Fame

The Latin Grammy Hall of Fame, established by the Latin Recording Academy in 2001, honors recordings of lasting significance released more than 25 years earlier.

Latin Grammy regional Mexican categories

The Latin Grammy regional Mexican categories are six Latin Grammy Awards, numbered 28 through 33, honoring albums and songs in ranchero, mariachi, banda, Tejano, norteño, and contemporary Mexican genres.

Latin hip-hop

Latin hip-hop: rap by Latino and Latin American artists, usually in Spanish or Spanglish; Bronx roots with DJs Disco Wiz and Charlie Chase, pioneers Vico C and Mellow Man Ace, and its place beside reggaeton and Latin trap in urbano.

Latin Mafia

Latin Mafia is a Mexican trio of De la Rosa brothers, producer Mike and twin vocalists Emilio and Milton, formed in Monterrey in 2020 via TikTok. Known for "Julieta," "Patadas de Ahogado," the debut album Todos los días todo el día (2024), Rimas Entertainment signing, Latin Grammy nominations, and the 2026 Fred again.. mixtape 9 months & 50 hours.

Latin pop

Latin pop (pop latino, pop en español) is Spanish- or Portuguese-language pop music blending mainstream pop songcraft with Latin American rhythms. US-market genre tag from the 1990s; late-1990s crossover boom; 363.2 billion global streams in early 2026.

Latin rock

Latin rock (rock latino) is a genre fusing rock with Latin American and Caribbean rhythms and languages, named around Santana in 1971 after Carlos Santana's 1969 breakthrough, with 1950s Chicano precursors and a 1990s US "Latin Alternative" marketing wave.

LaTocha Scott

LaTocha Scott (LaTocha Reney Scott-Bivens, born 1973), American R&B and gospel singer, lead vocalist of Xscape; solo albums Solo Flight 404 (2003) and The Invitation: A Conversation With God (2023); Made Girl brand founder.

Latto

Latto (Alyssa Michelle Stephens, born 1998), formerly Miss Mulatto and Mulatto, is an Atlanta rapper who won The Rap Game season 1, signed to RCA, and is known for Big Energy, Seven, and the 2026 album Big Mama.

Latvian dainas

Latvian dainas are short Latvian folk songs, two to four lines long, regarded as symbols of Latvian identity and collected in the monumental edition Latvju dainas.

Latvian folk song

Latvian folk song, known in Latvian as latviešu tautasdziesmas and classically as dainas, is the oral song folklore of Latvia, rooted in pre-Christian Baltic tradition.

Latvian Music Awards

The Latvian Music Awards, known since 2014 as Zelta Mikrofons (Golden Microphone), are Latvia's national awards for music recordings, presented annually since the mid-1990s and judged by an industry jury.

Lauana Prado

Lauana Prado is a Brazilian sertanejo singer and songwriter from Goiânia, a leading voice of feminejo, best known for the 2018 hit "Cobaia" and her Raiz live albums.

Laudi

Laudi, also called laude or lauda, are informal non-liturgical religious songs in the Italian vernacular that flourished from the mid-13th century, with Jacopone da Todi as their greatest author.

Laufey

Laufey (Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir), Icelandic-Chinese jazz-pop singer-cellist from Reykjavík, Los Angeles-based; TikTok breakout, albums Everything I Know About Love, Bewitched, A Matter of Time; two Grammy wins for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock, Talk Talk's fifth and final studio album, released 16 September 1991 on Verve/Polydor; recorded at Wessex Studios 1990-91 with Tim Friese-Greene, Phill Brown, about 50 musicians; UK chart No. 26; foundational post-rock influence.

Laura Branigan

Laura Branigan (1952-2004), American singer and actress, reached #2 with "Gloria" and #4 with "Self Control," sold over ten million US records, earned four Grammy nominations, and recorded seven Atlantic albums.

Laura Imbruglia

Laura Imbruglia, Australian indie rock singer-songwriter born 1983 in Sydney, younger sister of Natalie Imbruglia; self-releasing artist behind four albums including Laura Imbruglia (2006) and Scared of You (2019), and creator of the web series Amateur Hour.

Laura Jane Grace

Laura Jane Grace (born 1980) is the American punk musician who founded Against Me! and came out as transgender in 2012 while fronting the band, chronicled in Transgender Dysphoria Blues; distinguish her from other Laura Janes by the Against Me! and Tranny memoir connections.

Laura Lee (bassist)

Laura Lee (Laura Lee Ochoa) is the American bassist and vocalist of Houston trio Khruangbin, known for self-taught, Jamerson-style melodic grooves, an SX Jazz Bass copy, and her 2025 Fender signature Jazz Bass.

Laura Les

Laura Les (born 1994), also known as osno1, is an American producer, singer, and guitarist, one half of the hyperpop duo 100 gecs with Dylan Brady; known for nightcore-style solo work and 1000 gecs.

Laura Marling

Laura Marling (born 1990) is an English folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Hampshire, central to the late-2000s nu-folk scene. Eight solo albums from Alas, I Cannot Swim (2008) to Patterns in Repeat (2024), four Mercury nominations, 2011 Brit Award.

Laura Mvula

Laura Mvula (née Douglas), born 1986 in Birmingham, is a British soul singer-songwriter and composer whose albums Sing to the Moon (2013), The Dreaming Room (2016), and Pink Noise (2021) all earned Mercury Prize nominations, plus two Ivor Novello Awards.

Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro (Laura Nigro, 1947-1997), Bronx-born American singer-songwriter and pianist of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry; wrote hits covered by the 5th Dimension, Three Dog Night, and Blood Sweat & Tears, yet never had a Top 40 hit herself; Rock Hall inductee 2012.

Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini (born 1974, Faenza or Solarolo) is an Italian pop singer who won Sanremo 1993 with "La solitudine", records paired Italian/Spanish albums, won a 2006 Grammy and five Latin Grammys, and tours on Io Canto World Tour 2026/2027.

Laura Story

Laura Story (Laura Mixon Story Elvington), American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter born September 5 in Augusta, Georgia; wrote "Indescribable" (Chris Tomlin hit) and Grammy-winning "Blessings"; worship leader at Atlanta's Perimeter Church since 2005 and author of several books.

Laura Tesoro

Laura Tesoro, Belgian singer, actress, and presenter born 1996 in Antwerp; The Voice van Vlaanderen 2014 runner-up; represented Belgium at Eurovision 2016 with "What's The Pressure", finishing tenth.

Laurel Halo

Laurel Halo is an American composer, producer, and DJ born in Detroit and based in Los Angeles, best known for her acclaimed 2012 avant-pop album Quarantine on Hyperdub.