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    Romeo Santos’s Melodramatic Return, and 13 More New Songs

    Hear tracks by Jack Harlow, Flock of Dimes, Tame Impala and others.Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.Romeo Santos, ‘Sus Huellas’“Sus Huellas,” the first single from Romeo Santos’s forthcoming fifth solo album, “Formula, Vol. 3,” finds him reprising the bleeding-heart theatrics he’s known for, recalling the kind of cortavenas (roughly, “wrist cutting”) torment of bachata classics. This time, the genre’s white-pants-wearing, antics-obsessed lover boy is trying to recover from the despair of a lost love, and the melodrama is in overdrive: “Come, pull out my veins/Because the plasma inside of me has the poison of her love,” he sings. “And take this lighter, I want you to burn my lips/Eliminate the taste of her tongue, which did me harm.” It’s not all tradition though; Santos drops in an EDM interlude that will have uptown clubs losing it. ISABELIA HERRERAJack Harlow, ‘Nail Tech’Last year Jack Harlow went to No. 1 as the guest on Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” and he’s learned something from that experience. “Nail Tech” has echoes of that song’s horns, and Harlow approaches the beat similarly, with imagistic rapping — “You ain’t one of my dogs, why do you hound us?” — and a confidence that makes this song sound like a victory lap. JON CARAMANICAC. Tangana, Omar Montes, Daviles de Novelda and Canelita, ‘La Culpa’The Spanish singer-rapper C. Tangana gets top billing on “La Culpa” (“The Blame”), a song added to the deluxe version of his 2021 Latin Grammy-winning album “El Madrileño.” But except for a brief, vulnerable bridge, he spends most of the song merged in harmony with three other singers who are more robust and closer to flamenco — Omar Montes, Daviles de Novelda and the especially gutsy Canelita — while rock drums and electric guitars join flamenco handclaps to pace the song. While the lyrics profess guilt and regret, they’re delivered with jolly camaraderie, suggesting that male bonding can easily overcome pangs of conscience. JON PARELESTame Impala, ‘The Boat I Row’Kevin Parker, a.k.a. the one-man studio band Tame Impala, took so long to release his 2020 album, “The Slow Rush,” that of course he had outtakes. “The Boat I Row” is from his collection “The Slow Rush B-Sides and Remixes.” It shares the album’s stately, logy, time-warped sound — psychedelically phased drums playing a hip-hop beat, multitracked vocal harmonies suggesting both the Beatles and ELO — and its thoughts about dogged persistence. “Even if it takes a hundred thousand goes/The way’s in front of me ’cause that’s the one I chose,” Parker sings, at once diffident and determined. PARELESFlock of Dimes, ‘Pure Love’Jenn Wasner, who records as Flock of Dimes, ponders unsatisfied desire — material and emotional — in “Pure Love,” recorded with the producer Nick Sanborn from Sylvan Esso: “I keep dreaming of a better moment,” she sings. She’s surrounded by looped voices and instruments, with ricocheting programmed beats that hit like 1980s drums; she sounds like she’ll persist. PARELESAsa, ‘Ocean’The songwriter Asa has forged a long career in Nigeria, singing about adversity and conflict as well as romance. But “Ocean” is pure affection. Asa is about to release her fifth studio album, “V,” and “Ocean” distills the ways Nigerian Afrobeats exalts Minimalism. The percussion is just a few syncopated taps, the bass lines are only two or three notes and Asa’s breathy voice floats with professions of pure devotion: “Boy, you are the ocean,” she coos, and everything about the song promises bliss. PARELESYeat featuring Young Thug, ‘Outsidë’Two generations of surrealists in one liquid pool of syllables. Yeat is still swooning over abstraction, and Young Thug, several years older, has learned how to form word-like shapes while still seeming to melt in real time. CARAMANICASigurd Hole, ‘The Presentation Dance’Like so many, the Norwegian bassist Sigurd Hole — a nimble-fingered player and a composer of sonically expansive, thoughtfully paced music — has been overcome with dismay at the fast-worsening climate crisis. Like too few, in the face of it he’s sought out wisdom and theory from non-industrialized societies. “The Presentation Dance” comes from his newest album, “Roraima,” which he made after reading “The Falling Sky,” a book by the Yanomami shaman and mouthpiece Davi Kopenawa. The rain-like pitter-patter of a marimba interacts with a small corps of strings, playing fluid and intertwined melodies that sometimes fall into a pizzicato repartee with the marimba’s mallets. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOEd Sheeran featuring Bring Me the Horizon, ‘Bad Habits’Last week Ed Sheeran released a new version of his song “The Joker and the Queen,” accompanied by Taylor Swift. Pfft. Predictably pretty. Plain. This is more like it. “Bad Habits” is maybe Sheeran’s most anodyne pop hit, and this version, which is theatrically stomped all over by the British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon, rescues it, recalling the essential and overlooked “Punk Goes Pop” compilation series. CARAMANICAFrontperson, ‘Parade’Frontperson is the indie-rock duo of Kathryn Calder, from the New Pornographers, and Mark Hamilton, from Woodpigeon. Blooping, calliope-like keyboard arpeggios and layers of nonsense-syllable vocals give “Parade” a blithe, circusy tone as Calder and Hamilton sing about anticipation, connection and disconnection, accepting it all: “Sometimes you’re left/Sometimes you leave.” PARELESAmbar Lucid, ‘Dead Leaves’Ambar Lucid’s music bottles youthful longing. The 21-year-old, whose debut album, “Garden of Lucid,” collected stories about escape and radical self-acceptance, seems to know exactly how to stir the soul. “Should I even bother letting anybody know how I feel?” she wonders on “Dead Leaves.” It’s soft winter balladry that contains all the pain and promise of the change of seasons. HERRERAHurray for the Riff Raff, ‘Jupiter’s Dance’“Jupiter’s Dance” is from the newly released “Life on Earth,” the seventh album Alynda Segarra has made as Hurray for the Riff Raff. The new songs contemplate the natural world and humanity’s toll on it. “Jupiter’s Dance” is a quasi-mystical reassurance — “Celestial children coming through/You never know who you’ll become” — with a glimmering bell tones and an undercurrent of Puerto Rican bomba, a brief benediction. PARELESJavon Jackson featuring Nikki Giovanni, ‘Night Song’The poet Nikki Giovanni selected the repertoire for “The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni,” a new album by the strapping tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson that explores the lineage of Black American spirituals and hymns. But her voice appears on only one track, and it’s the one that’s not a church melody: “Night Song.” Rather that recite her own poetry, Giovanni sings this ode to unbelonging — a favorite of her old friend Nina Simone — with wistful conviction, picking up where Jackson’s gentle treatment of the melody leaves off. Her voice crinkles up on the high notes but loses none of its gravitas or tenderness as she sings: “Music, by the lonely sung/When you can’t help wondering:/Where do I belong?” RUSSONELLOChris Dingman, ‘Silently Beneath the Waves’For the vibraphonist Chris Dingman, solo playing was becoming central to his practice even before the pandemic hit. Since then, it’s been his primary mode, and he’s increasingly sought to use the big, chiming instrument as a vehicle for transcendence. That pursuit has guided him into a close study of a far tinier instrument: the mbira, a thumb piano with spiritual applications across southern Africa. On “Silently Beneath the Waves” — the opener to a new album of solo performances, “Journeys Vol. 1” — you can hear evidence of that research, as he repeats fetching, hypnotizing patterns that pull you into their force field before gradually giving way to a different shape. RUSSONELLO More

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    Latin Grammys 2021 Winners: Complete List of Awards

    Camilo and Juan Luis Guerra both won four awards at the 22nd annual ceremony.The 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Thursday night. The ceremony honored Latin music released between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021.Roselyn Sánchez, Ana Brenda Contreras and Carlos Rivera hosted; Gloria Estefan, Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Rubén Blades and C. Tangana were among the many performers.Many winners were announced at a preshow ceremony. The full list of winners is below.Record of the Year“Talvez,” Caetano Veloso and Tom VelosoAlbum of the Year“Salswing!,” Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & OrquestaSong of the Year“Patria y Vida,” Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo and Yotuel, songwriters (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky)Best New ArtistJuliana VelásquezBest Pop Vocal Album“Mis Manos,” CamiloBest Traditional Pop Vocal Album“Privé,” Juan Luis GuerraBest Pop Song“Vida De Rico,” Édgar Barrera and Camilo, songwriters (Camilo)Best Urban Fusion/Performance“Tattoo (Remix),” Rauw Alejandro and CamiloBest Reggaeton Performance“Bichota,” Karol GBest Urban Music Album“El Último Tour Del Mundo,” Bad BunnyBest Rap/Hip Hop Song“Booker T,” Bad Bunny and Marco Daniel Borrero, songwriters (Bad Bunny)Best Urban Song“Patria Y Vida,” Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo and Yotuel, songwriters (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky).css-1xzcza9{list-style-type:disc;padding-inline-start:1em;}.css-3btd0c{font-family:nyt-franklin,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.375rem;color:#333;margin-bottom:0.78125rem;}@media (min-width:740px){.css-3btd0c{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.5rem;margin-bottom:0.9375rem;}}.css-3btd0c strong{font-weight:600;}.css-3btd0c em{font-style:italic;}.css-1kpebx{margin:0 auto;font-family:nyt-franklin,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.3125rem;color:#121212;}#NYT_BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION .css-1kpebx{font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,’times new roman’,times,serif;font-weight:700;font-size:1.375rem;line-height:1.625rem;}@media (min-width:740px){#NYT_BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION .css-1kpebx{font-size:1.6875rem;line-height:1.875rem;}}@media (min-width:740px){.css-1kpebx{font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.4375rem;}}.css-1gtxqqv{margin-bottom:0;}.css-1g3vlj0{font-family:nyt-franklin,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.375rem;color:#333;margin-bottom:0.78125rem;}@media (min-width:740px){.css-1g3vlj0{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.5rem;margin-bottom:0.9375rem;}}.css-1g3vlj0 strong{font-weight:600;}.css-1g3vlj0 em{font-style:italic;}.css-1g3vlj0{margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0.25rem;}.css-19zsuqr{display:block;margin-bottom:0.9375rem;}.css-12vbvwq{background-color:white;border:1px solid #e2e2e2;width:calc(100% – 40px);max-width:600px;margin:1.5rem auto 1.9rem;padding:15px;box-sizing:border-box;}@media (min-width:740px){.css-12vbvwq{padding:20px;width:100%;}}.css-12vbvwq:focus{outline:1px solid #e2e2e2;}#NYT_BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT_REGION .css-12vbvwq{border:none;padding:10px 0 0;border-top:2px solid #121212;}.css-12vbvwq[data-truncated] .css-rdoyk0{-webkit-transform:rotate(0deg);-ms-transform:rotate(0deg);transform:rotate(0deg);}.css-12vbvwq[data-truncated] .css-eb027h{max-height:300px;overflow:hidden;-webkit-transition:none;transition:none;}.css-12vbvwq[data-truncated] .css-5gimkt:after{content:’See more’;}.css-12vbvwq[data-truncated] .css-6mllg9{opacity:1;}.css-qjk116{margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden;}.css-qjk116 strong{font-weight:700;}.css-qjk116 em{font-style:italic;}.css-qjk116 a{color:#326891;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:1px;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:1px;text-decoration-thickness:1px;-webkit-text-decoration-color:#326891;text-decoration-color:#326891;}.css-qjk116 a:visited{color:#326891;-webkit-text-decoration-color:#326891;text-decoration-color:#326891;}.css-qjk116 a:hover{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}Best Rock Album“El Pozo Brillante,” VicenticoBest Rock Song“Ahora 1,” Vicentico, songwriter (Vicentico)Best Pop/Rock Album“Origen,” JuanesBest Pop/Rock Song“Hong Kong,” Alizzz, Andrés Calamaro, Jorge Drexler, Víctor Martínez and C. Tangana, songwriters (C. Tangana and Andrés Calamaro)Best Alternative Music Album“Calambre,” Nathy PelusoBest Alternative Song“Nominao,” Alizzz, Jorge Drexler and C. Tangana, songwriters (C. Tangana and Jorge Drexler)Best Salsa Album“Salsa Plus!,” Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado and OrquestaBest Cumbia/Vallento Album“Las Locuras Mías,” Silvestre DangondBest Merengue/Bachata Album“Es Merengue ¿Algún Problema?,” Sergio VargasBest Traditional Tropical Album“Cha Cha Chá: Homenaje A Lo Tradicional,” Alain Pérez, Issac Delgado y Orquesta AragónBest Contemporary Tropical Album“Brazil305,” Gloria EstefanBest Tropical Song“Dios Así Lo Quiso,” Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Marrufo and Ricardo Montaner, songwriters (Ricardo Montaner and Juan Luis Guerra)Best Singer-Songwriter Album“Seis,” Mon LaferteBest Ranchero/Mariachi Album“A Mis 80’s,” Vicente FernándezBest Banda Album“Nos Divertimos Logrando Lo Imposible,” Grupo FirmeBest Tejano Album“Pa’ la Pista y Pa’l Pisto, Vol. 2,” El PlanBest Norteño Album“Al Estilo Rancherón,” Los Dos Carnales“Volando Alto,” PalomoBest Regional Song“Aquí Abajo,” Edgar Barrera, René Humberto Lau Ibarra and Christian Nodal, songwriters (Christian Nodal)Best Instrumental Album“Toquinho e Yamandu Costa – Bachianinha – (Live at Rio Montreux Jazz Festival),” Toquinho and Yamandu CostaBest Folk Album“Ancestras,” Petrona MartinezBest Tango Album“Tinto Tango Plays Piazzolla,” Tinto TangoBest Flamenco Album“Un Nuevo Universo,” Pepe De LucíaBest Latin Jazz/Jazz Album“Voyager,” Iván Melon LewisBest Christian Album (Spanish Language)“Ya Me Vi,” AroddyBest Portuguese Language Christian Album“Seguir Teu Coração,” Anderson FreireBest Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album“Cor,” AnavitóriaBest Portuguese Language Rock or Alternative Album“Álbum Rosa,” A Cor Do SomBest Samba/Pagode Album“Sempre Se Pode Sonhar,” Paulinho Da ViolaBest MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) Album“Canções d’Além Mar,” Zeca BaleiroBest Sertaneja Music Album“Tempo de Romance,” Chitãozinho e XororóBest Portuguese Language Roots Album“Arraiá Da Veveta,” Ivete SangaloBest Portuguese Language Song“Lisboa,” Ana Caetano & Paulo Novaes, songwriters (Anavitória e Lenine)Best Latin Children’s Album“Tu Rockcito Filarmónico,” Tu Rockcito y Orquesta Filarmónica De MedellínBest Classical Album“Latin American Classics,” Kristhyan Benitez; Jon Feidner, album producerBest Classical Contemporary Composition“Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata Para Guitarra,” Roberto Sierra, composer (Manuel Barrueco)Best Arrangement“Ojalá Que Llueva Café (Versión Privé),” Juan Luis Guerra, arranger (Juan Luis Guerra)Best Recording Package“Colegas,” Ana Gonzalez, art director (Gilberto Santa Rosa)“El Madrileño,” Orlando Aispuro Meneses, Daniel Alanís, Alizzz, Rafa Arcaute, Josdán Luis Cohimbra Acosta, Miguel De La Vega, Máximo Espinosa Rosell, Alex Ferrer, Luis Garcié, Billy Garedella, Patrick Liotard, Ed Maverick, Beto Mendonça, Jaime Navarro, Alberto Pérez, Nathan Phillips, Harto Rodríguez, Jason Staniulis and Federico Vindver, engineers; Delbert Bowers, Alex Ferrer, Jaycen Joshua, Nineteen85, Lewis Pickett, Alex Psaroudakis and Raül Refree, mixers; Chris Athens, mastering engineer (C. Tangana)Producer of the YearEdgar BarreraBest Short Form Music Video“Un Amor Eterno,” Marc AnthonyBest Long Form Music Video“Entre Mar Y Palmeras,” Juan Luis Guerra More

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    Premios Grammy Latinos 2021: lista completa de ganadores

    Estos son los galardonados de la vigésimo segunda edición de la ceremonia de premiación.Esta noche se está celebrando la vigésimo segunda edición de los Grammy Latinos. El espectáculo tiene lugar en el MGM Grand Garden Arena de Las Vegas y rinde homenaje a la música lanzada entre el 1 de junio de 2020 y el 31 de mayo de 2021. La ceremonia se transmite en directo por Univision y por la aplicación de Univision.[Grammy Latinos 2021: Haz clic aquí para ver la cobertura en vivo.]Roselyn Sánchez, Ana Brenda Contreras y Carlos Rivera conducen el espectáculo de esta noche. Se espera que actúen Gloria Estefan, Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Rubén Blades y C. Tangana, entre otros artistas.Muchos de los ganadores se dieron a conocer en una ceremonia previa. A continuación está la lista completa de ganadores.Mejor canción pop“Vida de rico”, Édgar Barrera y Camilo, compositores (Camilo)Mejor fusión/interpretación urbana“Tattoo (Remix)”, Rauw Alejandro y CamiloMejor canción de rap/hip hop“Booker T”, Bad Bunny y Marco Daniel Borrero, compositores (Bad Bunny)Mejor canción urbana“Patria y vida”, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo y Yotuel, compositores (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky)Mejor álbum de rockEl pozo brillante, VicenticoMejor canción de rock“Ahora 1”, Vicentico, compositor (Vicentico)Mejor álbum pop/rockOrigen, JuanesMejor canción pop/rock“Hong Kong”, Alizzz, Andrés Calamaro, Jorge Drexler, Víctor Martínez y C. Tangana, compositores (C. Tangana y Andrés Calamaro)Mejor álbum de música alternativaCalambre, Nathy PelusoMejor canción alternativa“Nominao”, Alizzz, Jorge Drexler y C. Tangana, compositores (C. Tangana y Jorge Drexler)Mejor álbum de salsaSalsa Plus!, Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & OrquestaMejor álbum de cumbia/vallenatoLas locuras mías, Silvestre DangondMejor álbum de merengue y/o bachataEs merengue. ¿Algún problema?”, Sergio VargasMejor álbum tropical tradicionalCha cha chá: Homenaje a lo tradicional, Alain Pérez, Issac Delgado y la Orquesta AragónMejor álbum tropical contemporáneoBrazil305, Gloria EstefanMejor canción tropical“Dios así lo quiso”, Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Marrufo y Ricardo Montaner, compositores (Ricardo Montaner y Juan Luis Guerra)Mejor álbum cantautorSeis, Mon LaferteMejor álbum de música ranchera/mariachiA mis 80’s, Vicente FernándezMejor álbum de música bandaNos divertimos logrando lo imposible, Grupo FirmeMejor álbum de música tejanaPa’ la pista y pa’l pisto, vol. 2, El PlanMejor canción regional mexicana“Aquí abajo”, Edgar Barrera, René Humberto Lau Ibarra y Christian Nodal, compositores (Christian Nodal)Mejor álbum instrumentalToquinho e Yamandu Costa – Bachianinha – (Live At Rio Montreux Jazz Festival), Toquinho y Yamandu CostaMejor álbum folclóricoAncestras, Petrona MartinezMejor álbum de tangoTinto Tango Plays Piazzolla, Tinto TangoMejor álbum de música flamencaUn nuevo universo, Pepe de LucíaMejor álbum de jazz latino/jazzVoyager, Iván Melon LewisMejor álbum cristiano (en español)Ya me vi, AroddyMejor álbum cristiano (en portugués)Seguir teu coração, Anderson FreireMejor álbum de pop contemporáneo en lengua portuguesaCor, AnavitóriaMejor álbum de rock o música alternativa en lengua portuguesaÁlbum rosa, A Cor Do SomMejor álbum de samba/pagodeSempre se pode sonhar, Paulinho da ViolaMejor álbum de música popular brasileñaCanções d’além mar, Zeca BaleiroMejor álbum de música sertanejaTempo de romance, Chitãozinho e XororóMejor álbum de música de raíces en lengua portuguesaArraiá da veveta, Ivete SangaloMejor canción en lengua portuguesa“Lisboa”, Ana Caetano y Paulo Novaes, compositores (Anavitória y Lenine)Mejor álbum de música latina para niñosTu Rockcito filarmónico, Tu Rockcito y la Orquesta Filarmónica de MedellínMejor álbum de música clásicaLatin American Classics, Kristhyan Benitez; Jon Feidner, productorMejor obra/composición clásica contemporánea“Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: sonata para guitarra”, Roberto Sierra, compositor (Manuel Barrueco)Mejor arreglo“Ojalá que llueva café (versión privé)”, Juan Luis Guerra, arreglista (Juan Luis Guerra)Mejor diseño de empaqueColegas, Ana Gonzalez, directora de arte (Gilberto Santa Rosa)Mejor ingeniería de grabación para un álbumEl madrileño, Orlando Aispuro Meneses, Daniel Alanís, Alizzz, Rafa Arcaute, Josdán Luis Cohimbra Acosta, Miguel de la Vega, Máximo Espinosa Rosell, Alex Ferrer, Luis Garcié, Billy Garedella, Patrick Liotard, Ed Maverick, Beto Mendonça, Jaime Navarro, Alberto Pérez, Nathan Phillips, Harto Rodríguez, Jason Staniulis y Federico Vindver, ingenieros; Delbert Bowers, Alex Ferrer, Jaycen Joshua, Nineteen85, Lewis Pickett, Alex Psaroudakis y Raül Refree, mezcla; Chris Athens, ingeniero de masterización (C. Tangana)Productor del añoEdgar BarreraMejor video musical versión corta“Un amor eterno”, Marc AnthonyMejor video musical versión larga“Entre mar y palmeras”, Juan Luis Guerra More

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    Grammy Latinos 2021: lista completa de nominados

    Aquí tienes a los contendientes para la vigésima segunda edición de los premios.La 22.ª entrega anual de los Grammy Latinos tendrá lugar el jueves en Las Vegas en el MGM Grand Garden Arena. La ceremonia, que homenajea a la música latina lanzada entre el 1 de junio de 2020 y el 31 de mayo de 2021, se transmitirá en vivo por Univision a partir de las 8 p.m., hora del este. (Muchos premios se entregarán a partir de las 4 p. m. en un evento separado que será transmitido por los canales de Facebook Live y YouTube de los Grammy Latinos).Roselyn Sánchez, Ana Brenda Contreras y Carlos Rivera están programados para conducir el espectáculo principal. Está previsto que actúen Gloria Estefan, Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Rubén Blades y C. Tangana.El cantante colombiano Camilo lidera con diez nominaciones, incluidas las de disco del año, álbum del año y canción del año.Puedes ver la lista completa de nominados a continuación.Grabación del año“Si hubieras querido”, Pablo Alborán“Todo de ti”, Rauw Alejandro“Un amor eterno (Versión Balada)”, Marc Anthony“A tu lado”, Paula Arenas“Bohemio”, Andrés Calamaro y Julio Iglesias“Vida de rico”, Camilo“Suéltame, Bogotá”, Diamante Eléctrico“Amén”, Ricardo Montaner, Mau y Ricky, Camilo, Evaluna Montaner“Dios así lo quiso”, Ricardo Montaner y Juan Luis Guerra“Te olvidaste”, C. Tangana y Omar Apollo“Talvez”, Caetano Veloso y Tom VelosoÁlbum del añoVértigo, Pablo AlboránMis amores, Paula ArenasEl último tour del mundo, Bad BunnySalswing!, Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & OrquestaMis manos, CamiloNana, Tom, Vinicius, Nana CaymmiPrivé, Juan Luis GuerraOrigen, JuanesUn canto por México, Vol. II, Natalia LafourcadeEl madrileño, C. TanganaCanción del año“A tu lado”, Paula Arenas y Maria Elisa Ayerbe, compositoras (Paula Arenas)“A veces”, Diamante Eléctrico, compositores (Diamante Eléctrico)“Agua”, J Balvin, Alejandro Borrero, Jhay Cortez, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, Alejandro Ramirez, Ivanni Rodríguez, Blaise Smith, Tainy y Juan Camilo Vargas, compositores (Tainy y J Balvin)“Canción bonita”, Rafa Arcaute, Ricky Martin, Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres & Carlos Vives, compositores (Carlos Vives y Ricky Martin)“Dios así lo quiso”, Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Jesús Marrufo y Ricardo Montaner, compositores (Ricardo Montaner y Juan Luis Guerra)“Hawái”, Édgar Barrera, René Cano, Kevyn Cruz, Johan Espinosa, Kevin Jiménez, Miky La Sensa, Bryan Lezcano, Maluma, Andrés Uribe y Juan Camilo Vargas, compositores (Maluma)“Mi guitarra”, Javier Limón, compositores (Javier Limón, Juan Luis Guerra y Nella)“Patria y vida”, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo & Yotuel, compositores (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky)“Que se sepa nuestro amor”, El David Aguilar y Mon Laferte, compositores (Mon Laferte y Alejandro Fernández)“Si hubieras querido”, Pablo Alborán, Nicolás “Na’vi” De La Espriella, Diana Fuentes y Julio Reyes Copello, compositores (Pablo Alborán)“Todo de ti”, Rauw Alejandro, José M. Collazo, Luis J. González, Rafael E. Pabón Navedo y Eric Pérez Rovira, compositores (Rauw Alejandro)“Vida de rico”, Édgar Barrera y Camilo, compositores (Camilo)Mejor nuevo artistaGiulia BeMaría BecerraBizarrapBozaZoe GotussoHumbeRita IndianaLassoPaloma MamiMarco MaresJuliana VelásquezMejor álbum vocal popDios los cría, Andrés CalamaroMis manos, CamiloMunay, Pedro CapóK.O., Danna PaolaDe México, ReikMejor álbum vocal pop tradicionalVértigo, Pablo AlboránMis amores, Paula ArenasPrivé, Juan Luis GuerraDoce margaritas, NellaAtlántico a pie, Diego TorresMejor canción pop“Adiós”, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Pablo López y Sebastián Yatra, compositores (Sebastián Yatra)“Ahí”, Javier Limón, compositor (Nella)“Canción bonita”, Rafa Arcaute, Ricky Martin, Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres y Carlos Vives, compositores (Carlos Vives y Ricky Martin)”La mujer”, Mon Laferte, compositora (Mon Laferte y Gloria Trevi)“Vida de rico”, Édgar Barrera y Camilo, compositores (Camilo)Mejor fusión/interpretación urbana“El amor es una moda”, Alcover, Juan Magan y Don Omar“Tattoo (Remix)”, Rauw Alejandro y Camilo“Nathy Peluso: BZRP music sessions, Vol.36”, Bizarrap y Nathy Peluso“Diplomatico”, Major Lazer con Guaynaa“Hawái (Remix)”, Maluma y The WeekndMejor interpretación reguetón“Tu veneno”, J. Balvin“La tóxica”, Farruko“Bichota”, Karol G“Caramelo”, Ozuna“La curiosidad”, Jay Wheeler, DJ Nelson y Myke TowersMejor álbum de música urbanaGoldo Funky, AkapellahEl último tour del mundo, Bad BunnyMonarca, Eladio CarriónEnoc, OzunaLyke Mike, Myke TowersMejor canción de rap/hip hop“Booker T”, Bad Bunny y Marco Daniel Borrero, compositores (Bad Bunny)“Condenados”, Akapellah y Pedro Querales, compositores (Akapellah)“La vendedora de placer”, Lito MC Cassidy, compositor (Lito MC Cassidy)“Sana Sana”, Rafa Arcaute, Gino Borri, Illmind, Ángel López, Nathy Peluso y Federico Vindver, compositores (Nathy Peluso)“Snow Tha Product: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol.39”, Bizarrap y Snow Tha Product, compositores (Bizarrap, Snow Tha Product)Mejor canción urbana“A fuego”, Farina, Joshua Javier Méndez, Sech, Jonathan Emmanuel Tobar y Jorge Valdés Vásquez, compositores (Farina)“Agua”, J Balvin, Alejandro Borrero, Jhay Cortez, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, Alejandro Ramírez, Ivanni Rodríguez, Blaise Smith, Tainy & Juan Camilo Vargas, compositores (Tainy y J Balvin)“Dákiti”, Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez, Nydia Laner, Gabriel Mora, Egbert Rosa y Tainy, compositores (Bad Bunny y Jhay Cortez)“La curiosidad”, Myke Towers y Jay Wheeler, compositores (Jay Wheeler, DJ Nelson y Myke Towers)“Patria y vida”, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo y Yotuel, compositores (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky)Mejor álbum de rockCurso de levitación intensivo, BunburyControl, Caramelos de CianuroLos Mesoneros live desde Pangea, Los MesonerosLuz, No Te Va GustarEl pozo brillante, VicenticoMejor canción de rock“Ahora 1”, Vicentico, compositor (Vicentico)“Distintos”, Andrés Giménez y Andreas Kisser, compositores (De La Tierra)“El Sur”, Santi Balmes y Julián Saldarriaga, compositores (Love Of Lesbian con Bunbury)“Hice todo mal”, Anabella Cartolano, compositores (Las Ligas Menores)“Venganza”, Emiliano Brancciari y Nicki Nicole, compositores (No Te Va Gustar y Nicki Nicole)Mejor álbum pop/rockMira lo que me hiciste hacer, Diamante EléctricoMis grandes éxitos, Adan Jodorowsky & The French KissOrigen, JuanesV. E. H. N., Love of LesbianEl reflejo, Rayos LáserMejor canción pop/rock“A veces”, Diamante Eléctrico, compositores (Diamante Eléctrico)“Cosmos (Antisistema Solar)”, Santi Balmes y Julián Saldarriaga, compositores (Love of Lesbian)“El duelo”, Sergio Eduardo Acosta y León Larregui, compositores (Zoé)“Ganas”, Zoe Gotusso, Nicolás Landa y Diego Mema, compositores (Zoe Gotusso)“Hong Kong”, Alizzz, Andrés Calamaro, Jorge Drexler, Víctor Martínez y C. Tangana, compositores (C. Tangana y Andrés Calamaro)Mejor álbum de música alternativaKiCk I, ArcaTropiplop, AterciopeladosCabra, CabraUn segundo MTV Unplugged, Café TacvbaCalambre, Nathy PelusoMejor canción alternativa“Agarrate”, Rafa Arcaute, Pedro Campos y Nathy Peluso, compositores (Nathy Peluso)“Antidiva”, Andrea Echeverri, compositora (Aterciopelados)“Confía”, Gepe, compositor (Gepe y Vicentico)“Nominao”, Alizzz, Jorge Drexler y C. Tangana, compositores (C. Tangana y Jorge Drexler)“Te olvidaste”, Omar Apollo, Rafa Arcaute, C. Tangana & Federico Vindver, compositores (C. Tangana y Omar Apollo)Mejor álbum de salsaSalsa Plus!, Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & OrquestaEn cuarentena, El Gran Combo De Puerto RicoEl día es hoy, Willy GarcíaColegas, Gilberto Santa RosaEn Barranquilla me quedo, el disco homenaje a Joe Arroyo, Varios artitas, José Gaviria y Milton Salcedo, productoresMejor álbum de cumbia/vallenatoLas locuras mías, Silvestre DangondPa’ que se esmigajen los parlantes, Diego Daza y Carlos RuedaDe Buenos Aires para el mundo, Los Ángeles AzulesEsencia, Felipe PeláezNoche de serenata, Osmar Pérez y Geño GamezMejor álbum de merengue y/o bachataBachata queen, AlexandraLove dance merengue, Manny CruzEl papá de la bachata, su legado (Añoñado I, II, III, IV)”, Luis SeguraEs merengue. ¿Algún problema?”, Sergio VargasInsensatez, Fernando VillalonaMejor álbum tropical tradicionalGente con alma, José Aguirre Cali Big BandChabuco en La Habana, ChabucoCha cha chá: Homenaje a lo tradicional, Alain Pérez, Issac Delgado y la Orquesta AragónSolos, Jon Secada y Gonzalo RubalcabaAlma cubana, Leoni TorresMejor álbum tropical contemporáneoLegendarios, BillosRío abajo, Diana BurcoBrazil305, Gloria EstefanAcertijos, Pedrito MartínezLa música del carnaval – XX aniversario, Juventino Ojito y su Son MocanáMejor canción tropical“Bolero a la vida”, Santiago Larramendi y Gaby Moreno, compositores (Omara Portuondo con Gaby Moreno)“Dios así lo quiso”, Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Marrufo y Ricardo Montaner, compositores (Ricardo Montaner y Juan Luis Guerra)Mas feliz que ayer, Alfredo Nodarse, compositor (Chabuco)Pambiche de novia, Juan Luis Guerra, compositor (Juan Luis Guerra)Un sueño increíble (Homenaje a Jairo Varela), Jorge Luis Piloto, compositor (Dayhan Díaz y Charlie Cardona)Mejor álbum cantautorAlemorología, AleMorMendó, Alex CubaSeis, Mon LaferteMañana te escribo otra canción, Covi QuintanaEl árbol y el bosque, RozalénMejor álbum de música ranchera/mariachiCuando te enamores, El BebetoA mis 80’s, Vicente Fernández#Charramillennial – Lady, Nora GonzálezAyayay! (Súper Deluxe), Christian NodalSoy México, Pike RomeroMejor álbum de música bandaConcierto Mundial Digital Live, Banda El Recodo De Cruz LizárragaVivir la vida, Banda Los RecoditosSin miedo al éxito, Banda Los SebastianesLlegando al rancho, Joss FavelaNos divertimos logrando lo imposible, Grupo FirmeMejor álbum de música tejanaPa’ la pista y pa’l pisto, vol. 2, El PlanBack on track, Ram HerreraHistórico, La FiebreIncomparable, SolidoUn Beso es suficiente, VilaxMejor álbum de música norteñaVamos bien, Calibre 50De vieja escuela, Gera DemaraDiez, La Energía NorteñaAl estilo rancherón, Los Dos CarnalesRecordando a una leyenda, Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho y Christian NodalVolando alto, PalomoMejor canción regional mexicana“Aquí abajo”, Edgar Barrera, René Humberto Lau Ibarra y Christian Nodal, compositores (Christian Nodal)“Cicatrices”, Pepe Portilla, compositor (Nora González con Lupita Infante)“40 y 21”, Erika Vidrio, compositora (Beto Zapata)“Que se sepa nuestro amor”, El David Aguilar y Mon Laferte, compositores (Mon Laferte y Alejandro Fernández)“Tuyo y mío”, Édgar Barrera, Camilo y Alfonso de Jesús Quezada Mancha, compositores (Camilo y Los Dos Carnales)Mejor álbum instrumentalEntretiempo y tiempo, Omar Acosta y Sergio MenemCristóvão Bastos e Rogério Caetano, Cristovão Bastos y Rogério CaetanoCanto da praya – Ao vivo, Hamilton De Holanda y MestrinhoLe Petit Garage (Live), Ara MalikianToquinho e Yamandu Costa – Bachianinha – (Live At Rio Montreux Jazz Festival), Toquinho y Yamandu CostaMejor álbum folclóricoAmor pasado, Leonel GarcíaJemas, Tato MarencoAncestras, Petrona MartinezRenacer, Nahuel PennisiVocal, Alejandro ZavalaMejor álbum de tangoTango of the Americas, Pan American Symphony Orchestra348, Federico Pereiro100 años, Quinteto RevolucionarioTanghetto Plays Piazzolla, TanghettoTinto Tango Plays Piazzolla, Tinto TangoMejor álbum de música flamencaAlma de pura raza, Paco CandelaUn nuevo universo, Pepe de LucíaAmor, Israel Fernández y Diego del MoraoHerencia, Rafael RiqueniEl rey, María ToledoMejor álbum de jazz latino/jazzBruma: Celebrating Milton Nascimento, Antonio AdolfoOntology, Roxana AmedFamily, Edmar CastanedaVoyager, Iván Melon LewisEl arte del bolero, Miguel Zenón y Luis PerdomoMejor álbum cristiano (en español)Hora dorada, AnagraceYa me vi, AroddyRedención, Aline BarrosVida encontré, Majo y DanMilagro de amar, William PerdomoMejor álbum cristiano (en portugués)Catarse: Lado B, Daniela AraújoSarah Farias (Ao vivo), Sarah FariasSeguir teu coração, Anderson FreireSentido, Leonardo GonçalvesElis Soares 10 anos, Eli SoaresMejor álbum de pop contemporáneo en lengua portuguesaCor, AnavitóriaA bolha, Vitor KleyDuda Beat y Nando Reis, Nando Reis y Duda BeatSerá que você vai acreditar?, Fernanda TakaiChegamos sozinhos em casa, vol.1, TuyoMejor álbum de rock o música alternativa en lengua portuguesaÁlbum rosa, A Cor Do SomEmidoinã, André AbujamraOxeaxeexu, BaianaSystemAssim tocam meus tambores, Marcelo D2Fôlego, ScaleneO bar me chama, Velhas VirgensMejor álbum de samba/pagodeRio: só vendo a vista, Martinho da VilaSempre se pode sonhar, Paulinho da ViolaNei Lopes, Projeto Coisa Fina e Guga Stroeter No Pagode Black Tie, Nei Lopes, Projeto Coisa Fina y Guga StroeterSamba de verão, Diogo NogueiraOnze (Músicas inéditas de Adoniran Barbosa), varios artistasMejor álbum de música popular brasileñaCanções d’além mar, Zeca BaleiroH.O.J.E, Delia FischerTempo de viver, Thiago HolandaBom mesmo é estar debaixo d’água, Luedji LunaDo meu coração nu, Zé ManoelMejor álbum de música sertanejaTempo de romance, Chitãozinho e XororóDaniel em casa, DanielPatroas, Marília Mendonça, Maiara y MaraísaConquistas, Os Barões da PisadinhaPra ouvir no fone, Michel TelóMejor álbum de música de raíces en lengua portuguesaSambadeiras, Luiz CaldasDo coração, Sara CorreiaOrin a língua dos anjos, Orquestra AfrosinfônicaEu e vocês, Elba RamalhoArraiá da veveta, Ivete SangaloMejor canción en lengua portuguesa“A cidade”, Francisco Ribeiro Eller y Lucas Veneu Videla, compositores (Chico Chico y João Mantuano)“Amores e flores”, Diogo Melim y Rodrigo Melim, compositores (Melim)“Espera a primavera”, Nando Reis, compositor (Nando Reis)“Lágrimas de alegria”, Tales De Polli y Deko, compositores (Maneva y Natiruts)“Lisboa”, Ana Caetano y Paulo Novaes, compositores (Anavitória y Lenine)“Mulheres não têm que chorar”, Tiê Castro, Emicida y Guga Fernandes, compositores (Ivete Sangalo y Emicida)Mejor álbum de música latina para niñosOtra vuelta al sol, Edith Derdyk, Daniel Escobar, Luis Fernando Franco, Jesús David Garcés, Fito Hernández, Paulo Tatit y José Julián Villa, productoresDanilo & Chapis, vol. 1, Danilo y ChapisCanciones de Cuna, Mi Casa Es Tu CasaNanas consentidoras, Victoria SurTu Rockcito filarmónico, Tu Rockcito y la Orquesta Filarmónica de MedellínMejor álbum de música clásicaBeethoven: révolution, symphonies 1 à 5, Jordi Savall y Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, director de orquesta; Manuel Mohino, productorClaudio Santoro: a obra integral para violoncelo e piano, Ney Fialkow y Hugo Pilger; Maria de Fátima Nunes Pilger y Hugo Pilger, productoresLatin American Classics, Kristhyan Benitez; Jon Feidner, productorMusic From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata para guitarra, Manuel Barrueco; Asgerdur Sigurdardottir, productorTres historias concertantes, Héctor Infanzón; Konstantin Dobroykov, conductor; Héctor Infanzón, productorMejor obra/composición clásica contemporánea“Concierto para violín y orquesta-remembranzas”, Héctor Infanzón, compositor (Héctor Infanzón y William Harvey)“Cuatro”, Orlando Jacinto García, compositor (Orlando Jacinto García con Amernet String Quartet)“Desde la tierra que habito”, Eddie Mora, compositor (Ensamble Contemporáneo Universitario (ECU) y Banda de Conciertos de Cartago (BCC))“Falling Out Of Time”, Osvaldo Golijov, compositor (Osvaldo Golijov)“Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: sonata para guitarra”, Roberto Sierra, compositor (Manuel Barrueco)Mejor arreglo“Blue In Green (Sky And Sea)”, Kendall Moore, arreglista (Roxana Amed)“Tierra mestiza”, César Orozco, arreglista (America Viva Band)“Adiós Nonino”, Jorge Calandrelli, arreglista (Jorge Calandrelli)“Um beijo”, Vince Mendoza, arreglista (Melody Gardot)“Ojalá que llueva café (versión privé)”, Juan Luis Guerra, arreglista (Juan Luis Guerra)Mejor diseño de empaqueColegas, Ana Gonzalez, directora de arte (Gilberto Santa Rosa)Lo que me dé la gana, Boa Mistura, directores de arte (Dani Martín)Madrid nuclear, Emilio Lorente, director de arte (Leiva)Puta, Emilio Lorente, director de arte (Zahara)Tragas o escupes, Marc Donés, director de arte (Jarabe De Palo)Mejor ingeniería de grabación para un álbumBpm, Nelson Carvalho, ingeniero; Leo Aldrey y Rafael Giner, mezcladores; Tiago De Sousa, ingeniero de masterización (Salvador Sobral)Bruma: Celebrating Milton Nascimento, Roger Freret, ingeniero; Claudio Spiewak, mezcla; André Dias, ingeniero de masterización (Antonio Adolfo)El madrileño, Orlando Aispuro Meneses, Daniel Alanís, Alizzz, Rafa Arcaute, Josdán Luis Cohimbra Acosta, Miguel de la Vega, Máximo Espinosa Rosell, Alex Ferrer, Luis Garcié, Billy Garedella, Patrick Liotard, Ed Maverick, Beto Mendonça, Jaime Navarro, Alberto Pérez, Nathan Phillips, Harto Rodríguez, Jason Staniulis y Federico Vindver, ingenieros; Delbert Bowers, Alex Ferrer, Jaycen Joshua, Nineteen85, Lewis Pickett, Alex Psaroudakis y Raül Refree, mezcla; Chris Athens, ingeniero de masterización (C. Tangana)Iceberg, Mauro Araújo, Tó Brandileone, Kassin, Luciano Scalercio y Alê Siqueira, ingenieros; Kassin y Arthur Luna, mezcla; Carlos de Freitas, ingeniero de masterización (Priscila Tossan)Un canto por México, Vol. II, Pepe Aguilar, Rodrigo Cuevas, José Luis Fernández, Camilo Froideval, Edson R. Heredia, Manu Jalil, Rubén López Arista, Nacho Molino, David Montuy, Lucas Nunes, Alan Ortiz Grande y Alan Saucedo, ingenieros; Rubén López Arista, mezcla; Michael Fuller, ingeniero de masterización (Natalia Lafourcade)Productor del añoAlizzzEdgar BarreraMarcos SánchezBizarrapDan WarnerMejor video musical versión corta“Un amor eterno”, Marc Anthony“Reza forte”, BaianaSystem con BNegão“Mi huella”, Fuel Fandango con Maria Jose Llergo“Visceral”, Fran, Carlos Do Complexo y Bibi Caetano“De una vez”, Selena GomezMejor video musical versión larga“Un segundo MTV Unplugged”, Café Tacvba“Mulher”, Carolina Deslandes“Entre mar y palmeras”, Juan Luis Guerra“Origen (Documental)”, Juanes“Quien me tañe escucha mis voces (Documental)”, Gastón Lafourcade More

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    Latin Grammys 2021: Complete Nominees List

    Here are the nominees for the 22nd annual ceremony.The 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards will take place Thursday in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The ceremony, which honors Latin music released between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021, will air live on Univision beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern. (Many awards will be handed out starting at 4 p.m. at a separate event that will be webcast via the Latin Grammys’ Facebook Live and YouTube channel.)Roselyn Sánchez, Ana Brenda Contreras and Carlos Rivera are slated to host the main show. Gloria Estefan, Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Rubén Blades and C. Tangana are scheduled to perform.The Colombian singer Camilo leads with 10 nominations including for record of the year, Aalbum of the year and song of the year.See the full list of nominees below.Record of the Year“Si Hubieras Querido,” Pablo Alborán“Todo De Ti,” Rauw Alejandro“Un Amor Eterno (Versión Balada),” Marc Anthony“A Tu Lado,” Paula Arenas“Bohemio,” Andrés Calamaro and Julio Iglesias“Vida De Rico,” Camilo“Suéltame, Bogotá,” Diamante Eléctrico“Amén,” Ricardo Montaner, Mau y Ricky, Camilo and Evaluna Montaner“Dios Así Lo Quiso,” Ricardo Montaner and Juan Luis Guerra“Te Olvidaste,” C. Tangana and Omar Apollo“Talvez,” Caetano Veloso and Tom VelosoAlbum of the Year“Vértigo,” Pablo Alborán“Mis Amores,” Paula Arenas“El Último Tour Del Mundo,” Bad Bunny“Salswing!,” Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta“Mis Manos,” Camilo“Nana, Tom, Vinicius,” Nana Caymmi“Privé,” Juan Luis Guerra“Origen,” Juanes“Un Canto Por México, Vol. II,” Natalia Lafourcade“El Madrileño,” C. TanganaSong of the Year“A Tu Lado,” Paula Arenas and Maria Elisa Ayerbe, songwriters (Paula Arenas)“A Veces,” Diamante Eléctrico, songwriters (Diamante Eléctrico)“Agua,” J Balvin, Alejandro Borrero, Jhay Cortez, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, Alejandro Ramirez, Ivanni Rodríguez, Blaise Smith, Tainy and Juan Camilo Vargas, songwriters (Tainy and J Balvin)“Canción Bonita,” Rafa Arcaute, Ricky Martin, Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres and Carlos Vives, songwriters (Carlos Vives and Ricky Martin)“Dios Así Lo Quiso,” Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Jesús Marrufo and Ricardo Montaner, songwriters (Ricardo Montaner and Juan Luis Guerra)“Hawái,” Édgar Barrera, René Cano, Kevyn Cruz, Johan Espinosa, Kevin Jiménez, Miky La Sensa, Bryan Lezcano, Maluma, Andrés Uribe and Juan Camilo Vargas, songwriters (Maluma)“Mi Guitarra,” Javier Limón, songwriter (Javier Limón, Juan Luis Guerra and Nella)“Patria y Vida,” Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo and Yotuel, songwriters (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky)“Que Se Sepa Nuestro Amor,” El David Aguilar and Mon Laferte, songwriters (Mon Laferte and Alejandro Fernández)“Si Hubieras Querido,” Pablo Alborán, Nicolás “Na’vi” De La Espriella, Diana Fuentes and Julio Reyes Copello, songwriters (Pablo Alborán)“Todo De Ti,” Rauw Alejandro, José M. Collazo, Luis J. González, Rafael E. Pabón Navedo and Eric Pérez Rovira, songwriters (Rauw Alejandro)“Vida De Rico,” Édgar Barrera and Camilo, songwriters (Camilo)Best New ArtistGiulia BeMaría BecerraBizarrapBozaZoe GotussoHumbeRita IndianaLassoPaloma MamiMarco MaresJuliana VelásquezBest Pop Vocal Album“Dios Los Cría,” Andrés Calamaro“Mis Manos,” Camilo“Munay,” Pedro Capó“K.O.,” Danna Paola“De México,” ReikBest Traditional Pop Vocal Album“Vértigo,” Pablo Alborán“Mis Amores,” Paula Arenas“Privé,” Juan Luis Guerra“Doce Margaritas,” Nella“Atlántico A Pie,” Diego TorresBest Pop Song“Adiós,” David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Pablo López and Sebastián Yatra, songwriters (Sebastián Yatra)“Ahí,” Javier Limón, songwriter (Nella)“Canción Bonita,” Rafa Arcaute, Ricky Martin, Mauricio Rengifo, Andrés Torres and Carlos Vives, songwriters (Carlos Vives and Ricky Martin)“La Mujer,” Mon Laferte, songwriter (Mon Laferte and Gloria Trevi)“Vida De Rico,” Édgar Barrera and Camilo, songwriters (Camilo)Best Urban Fusion/Performance“El Amor Es Una Moda,” Alcover, Juan Magan and Don Omar“Tattoo (Remix),” Rauw Alejandro and Camilo“Nathy Peluso: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol.36.,” Bizarrap and Nathy Peluso“Diplomatico,” Major Lazer featuring Guaynaa“Hawái (Remix),” Maluma and The WeekndBest Reggaeton Performance“Tu Veneno,” J. Balvin“La Tóxica,” Farruko“Bichota,” Karol G“Caramelo,” Ozuna“La Curiosidad,” Jay Wheeler, DJ Nelson and Myke TowersBest Urban Music Album“Goldo Funky,” Akapellah“El Último Tour Del Mundo,” Bad Bunny“Monarca,” Eladio Carrion“Enoc,” Ozuna“Lyke Mike,” Myke TowersBest Rap/Hip Hop Song“Booker T,” Bad Bunny and Marco Daniel Borrero, songwriters (Bad Bunny)“Condenados,” Akapellah and Pedro Querales, songwriters (Akapellah)“La Vendedora De Placer,” Lito MC Cassidy, songwriter (Lito MC Cassidy)“Sana Sana,” Rafa Arcaute, Gino Borri, Illmind, Ángel López, Nathy Peluso and Federico Vindver, songwriters (Nathy Peluso)“Snow Tha Product: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol.39,” Bizarrap and Snow Tha Product, songwriters (Bizarrap, Snow Tha Product)Best Urban Song“A Fuego,” Farina, Joshua Javier Méndez, Sech, Jonathan Emmanuel Tobar and Jorge Valdés Vásquez, songwriters (Farina)“Agua,” J Balvin, Alejandro Borrero, Jhay Cortez, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Derek Drymon, Mark Harrison, Stephen Hillenburg, Alejandro Ramírez, Ivanni Rodríguez, Blaise Smith, Tainy and Juan Camilo Vargas, songwriters (Tainy and J Balvin)“Dákiti,” Bad Bunny, Jhay Cortez, Nydia Laner, Gabriel Mora, Egbert Rosa and Tainy, songwriters (Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez)“La Curiosidad,” Myke Towers and Jay Wheeler, songwriters (Jay Wheeler, DJ Nelson and Myke Towers)“Patria Y Vida,” Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente De Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo, Maykel Osorbo and Yotuel, songwriters (Yotuel, Gente De Zona, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo and El Funky)Best Rock Album“Curso De Levitación Intensivo,” Bunbury“Control,” Caramelos De Cianuro“Los Mesoneros Live Desde Pangea,” Los Mesoneros“Luz,” No Te Va Gustar“El Pozo Brillante,” VicenticoBest Rock Song“Ahora 1,” Vicentico, songwriter (Vicentico)“Distintos,” Andrés Giménez and Andreas Kisser, songwriters (De La Tierra)“El Sur,” Santi Balmes and Julián Saldarriaga, songwriters (Love Of Lesbian featuring Bunbury)“Hice Todo Mal,” Anabella Cartolano, songwriter (Las Ligas Menores)“Venganza,” Emiliano Brancciari and Nicki Nicole, songwriters (No Te Va Gustar y Nicki Nicole)Best Pop/Rock Album“Mira Lo Que Me Hiciste Hacer,” Diamante Eléctrico“Mis Grandes Éxitos,” Adan Jodorowsky and The French Kiss“Origen,” Juanes“V. E. H. N.,” Love of Lesbian“El Reflejo,” Rayos LaserBest Pop/Rock Song“A Veces,” Diamante Eléctrico, songwriters (Diamante Eléctrico)“Cosmos (Antisistema Solar),” Santi Balmes and Julián Saldarriaga, songwriters (Love Of Lesbian)“El Duelo,” Sergio Eduardo Acosta and León Larregui, songwriters (Zoé)“Ganas,” Zoe Gotusso, Nicolás Landa and Diego Mema, songwriters (Zoe Gotusso)“Hong Kong,” Alizzz, Andrés Calamaro, Jorge Drexler, Víctor Martínez and C. Tangana, songwriters (C. Tangana and Andrés Calamaro)Best Alternative Music Album“KiCk i,” Arca“Tropiplop,” Aterciopelados“Cabra,” Cabra“Un Segundo MTV Unplugged,” Café Tacvba“Calambre,” Nathy PelusoBest Alternative Song“Agarrate,” Rafa Arcaute, Pedro Campos and Nathy Peluso, songwriters (Nathy Peluso)“Antidiva,” Andrea Echeverri, songwriter (Aterciopelados)“Confía,” Gepe, songwriter (Gepe and Vicentico)“Nominao,” Alizzz, Jorge Drexler and C. Tangana, songwriters (C. Tangana and Jorge Drexler)“Te Olvidaste,” Omar Apollo, Rafa Arcaute, C. Tangana and Federico Vindver, songwriters (C. Tangana and Omar Apollo)Best Salsa Album“Salsa Plus!,” Rubén Blades y Roberto Delgado and Orquesta“En Cuarentena,” El Gran Combo De Puerto Rico“El Día Es Hoy,” Willy García“Colegas,” Gilberto Santa Rosa“En Barranquilla Me Quedo, El Disco Homenaje A Joe Arroyo,” Various Artists, José Gaviria and Milton Salcedo, album producersBest Cumbia/Vallento Album“Las Locuras Mías,” Silvestre Dangond“Pa’ Que Se Esmigajen Los Parlantes,” Diego Daza and Carlos Rueda“De Buenos Aires Para El Mundo,” Los Ángeles Azules“Esencia,” Felipe Peláez“Noche De Serenata,” Osmar Pérez and Geño GamezBest Merengue/Bachata Album“Bachata Queen,” Alexandra“Love Dance Merengue,” Manny Cruz“El Papá De La Bachata, Su Legado (Añoñado I, II, III, IV),” Luis Segura“Es Merengue ¿Algún Problema?,” Sergio Vargas“Insensatez,” Fernando VillalonaBest Traditional Tropical Album“Gente Con Alma,” José Aguirre Cali Big Band“Chabuco En La Habana,” Chabuco“Cha Cha Chá: Homenaje A Lo Tradicional,” Alain Pérez, Issac Delgado y Orquesta Aragón“Solos,” Jon Secada and Gonzalo Rubalcaba“Alma Cubana,” Leoni TorresBest Contemporary Tropical Album“Legendarios,” Billos“Río Abajo,” Diana Burco“Brazil305,” Gloria Estefan“Acertijos,” Pedrito Martínez“La Música Del Carnaval – XX Aniversario,” Juventino Ojito y Su Son MocanáBest Tropical Song“Bolero A La Vida,” Santiago Larramendi and Gaby Moreno, songwriters (Omara Portuondo featuring Gaby Moreno)“Dios Así Lo Quiso,” Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Marrufo and Ricardo Montaner, songwriters (Ricardo Montaner and Juan Luis Guerra)“Mas Feliz Que Ayer,” Alfredo Nodarse, songwriter (Chabuco)“Pambiche De Novia,” Juan Luis Guerra, songwriter (Juan Luis Guerra)“Un Sueño Increíble (Homenaje A Jairo Varela),” Jorge Luis Piloto, songwriter (Dayhan Díaz and Charlie Cardona)Best Singer-Songwriter Album“Alemorología,” AleMor“Mendó,” Alex Cuba“Seis,” Mon Laferte“Mañana Te Escribo Otra Canción,” Covi Quintana“El Árbol y El Bosque,” RozalénBest Ranchero/Mariachi Album“Cuando Te Enamores,” El Bebeto“A Mis 80’s,” Vicente Fernández“#Charramillennial – Lady,” Nora González“Ayayay! (Súper Deluxe),” Christian Nodal“Soy México,” Pike RomeroBest Banda Album“Concierto Mundial Digital Live,” Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga“Vivir La Vida,” Banda Los Recoditos“Sin Miedo Al Éxito,” Banda Los Sebastianes“Llegando Al Rancho,” Joss Favela“Nos Divertimos Logrando Lo Imposible,” Grupo FirmeBest Tejano Album“Pa’ la Pista y Pa’l Pisto, Vol. 2,” El Plan“Back On Track,” Ram Herrera“Histórico,” La Fiebre“Incomparable,” Solido“Un Beso Es Suficiente,” VilaxBest Norteño Album“Vamos Bien,” Calibre 50“De Vieja Escuela,” Gera Demara“Diez,” La Energía Norteña“Al Estilo Rancherón,” Los Dos Carnales“Recordando A Una Leyenda,” Los Plebes Del Rancho De Ariel Camacho y Christian Nodal“Volando Alto,” PalomoBest Regional Song“Aquí Abajo,” Edgar Barrera, René Humberto Lau Ibarra and Christian Nodal, songwriters (Christian Nodal)“Cicatrices,” Pepe Portilla, songwriter (Nora González Con Lupita Infante)“40 y 21,” Erika Vidrio, songwriter (Beto Zapata)“Que Se Sepa Nuestro Amor,” El David Aguilar and Mon Laferte, songwriters (Mon Laferte & Alejandro Fernández)“Tuyo y Mío,” Édgar Barrera, Camilo and Alfonso De Jesús Quezada Mancha, songwriters (Camilo and Los Dos Carnales)Best Instrumental Album“Entretiempo y Tiempo,” Omar Acosta and Sergio Menem“Cristóvão Bastos e Rogério Caetano,” Cristovão Bastos and Rogério Caetano“Canto Da Praya – Ao Vivo,” Hamilton De Holanda and Mestrinho“Le Petit Garage (Live),” Ara Malikian“Toquinho e Yamandu Costa – Bachianinha – (Live at Rio Montreux Jazz Festival),” Toquinho and Yamandu CostaBest Folk Album“Amor Pasado,” Leonel García“Jemas,” Tato Marenco“Ancestras,” Petrona Martinez“Renacer,” Nahuel Pennisi“Vocal,” Alejandro ZavalaBest Tango Album“Tango Of The Americas,” Pan American Symphony Orchestra“348,” Federico Pereiro“100 Años,” Quinteto Revolucionario“Tanghetto Plays Piazzolla,” Tanghetto“Tinto Tango Plays Piazzolla,” Tinto TangoBest Flamenco Album“Alma De Pura Raza,” Paco Candela“Un Nuevo Universo,” Pepe De Lucía“Amor,” Israel Fernández and Diego Del Morao“Herencia,” Rafael Riqueni“El Rey,” María ToledoBest Latin Jazz/Jazz Album“Bruma: Celebrating Milton Nascimento,” Antonio Adolfo“Ontology,” Roxana Amed“Family,” Edmar Castaneda“Voyager,” Iván Melon Lewis“El Arte Del Bolero,” Miguel Zenón and Luis PerdomoBest Christian Album (Spanish Language)“Hora Dorada,” Anagrace“Ya Me Vi,” Aroddy“Redención,” Aline Barros“Vida Encontré,” Majo y Dan“Milagro De Amar,” William PerdomoBest Portuguese Language Christian Album“Catarse: Lado B,” Daniela Araújo“Sarah Farias (Ao Vivo),” Sarah Farias“Seguir Teu Coração,” Anderson Freire“Sentido,” Leonardo Gonçalves“Elis Soares 10 Anos,” Eli SoaresBest Portuguese Language Contemporary Pop Album“Cor,” Anavitória“A Bolha,” Vitor Kley“Duda Beat & Nando Reis,” Nando Reis and Duda Beat“Será Que Você Vai Acreditar?,” Fernanda Takai“Chegamos Sozinhos Em Casa Vol1,” TuyoBest Portuguese Language Rock or Alternative Album“Álbum Rosa,” A Cor Do Som“Emidoinã,” André Abujamra“Oxeaxeexu,” BaianaSystem“Assim Tocam Meus Tambores,” Marcelo D2“Fôlego,” Scalene“O Bar Me Chama,” Velhas VirgensBest Samba/Pagode Album“Rio: Só Vendo A Vista,” Martinho Da Vila“Sempre Se Pode Sonhar,” Paulinho Da Viola“Nei Lopes, Projeto Coisa Fina e Guga Stroeter No Pagode Black Tie,” Nei Lopes, Projeto Coisa Fina e Guga Stroeter“Samba De Verão,” Diogo Nogueira“Onze (Músicas Inéditas De Adoniran Barbosa),” Various ArtistsBest MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) Album“Canções d’Além Mar,” Zeca Baleiro“H.O.J.E,” Delia Fischer“Tempo de Viver,” Thiago Holanda“Bom Mesmo é Estar Debaixo D´água,” Luedji Luna“Do Meu Coração Nu,” Zé ManoelBest Sertaneja Music Album“Tempo de Romance,” Chitãozinho e Xororó“Daniel em Casa,” Daniel“Patroas,” Marília Mendonça, Maiara & Maraísa“Conquistas,” Os Barões da Pisadinha“Pra Ouvir no Fone,” Michel TelóBest Portuguese Language Roots Album“Sambadeiras,” Luiz Caldas“Do Coração,” Sara Correia“Orin A Língua Dos Anjos,” Orquestra Afrosinfônica“Eu e Vocês,” Elba Ramalho“Arraiá Da Veveta,” Ivete SangaloBest Portuguese Language Song“A Cidade,” Francisco Ribeiro Eller and Lucas Veneu Videla, songwriters (Chico Chico e João Mantuano)“Amores e Flores,” Diogo Melim and Rodrigo Melim, songwriters (Melim)“Espera a Primavera,” Nando Reis, songwriter (Nando Reis)“Lágrimas De Alegria,” Tales De Polli and Deko, songwriters (Maneva and Natiruts)“Lisboa,” Ana Caetano & Paulo Novaes, songwriters (Anavitória e Lenine)“Mulheres Não Têm Que Chorar,” Tiê Castro, Emicida and Guga Fernandes, songwriters (Ivete Sangalo and Emicida)Best Latin Children’s Album“Otra Vuelta Al Sol,” Edith Derdyk, Daniel Escobar, Luis Fernando Franco, Jesús David Garcés, Fito Hernández, Paulo Tatit and José Julián Villa, album producers“Danilo & Chapis, Vol. 1,” Danilo & Chapis“Canciones De Cuna,” Mi Casa Es Tu Casa“Nanas Consentidoras,” Victoria Sur“Tu Rockcito Filarmónico,” Tu Rockcito y Orquesta Filarmónica De MedellínBest Classical Album“Beethoven: Révolution, Symphonies 1 à 5,” Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, conductor; Manuel Mohino, album producer“Claudio Santoro: a Obra Integral para Violoncelo e Piano,” Ney Fialkow and Hugo Pilger; Maria de Fátima Nunes Pilger and Hugo Pilger, album producers“Latin American Classics,” Kristhyan Benitez; Jon Feidner, album producer“Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata Para Guitarra,” Manuel Barrueco; Asgerdur Sigurdardottir, album producer“Tres Historias Concertantes,” Héctor Infanzón; Konstantin Dobroykov, conductor; Héctor Infanzón, album producerBest Classical Contemporary Composition“Concierto Para Violín y Orquesta-Remembranzas,” Héctor Infanzón, composer (Héctor Infanzón and William Harvey)“Cuatro,” Orlando Jacinto García, composer (Orlando Jacinto García featuring Amernet String Quartet)“Desde La Tierra Que Habito,” Eddie Mora, composer (Ensamble Contemporáneo Universitario (ECU) and Banda de Conciertos de Cartago (BCC))“Falling Out Of Time,” Osvaldo Golijov, composer (Osvaldo Golijov)“Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata Para Guitarra,” Roberto Sierra, composer (Manuel Barrueco)Best Arrangement“Blue In Green (Sky And Sea),” Kendall Moore, arranger (Roxana Amed)“Tierra Mestiza,” César Orozco, arranger (America Viva Band)“Adiós Nonino,” Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Jorge Calandrelli)“Um Beijo,” Vince Mendoza, arranger (Melody Gardot)“Ojalá Que Llueva Café (Versión Privé),” Juan Luis Guerra, arranger (Juan Luis Guerra)Best Recording Package“Colegas,” Ana Gonzalez, art director (Gilberto Santa Rosa)“Lo Que Me Dé La Gana,” Boa Mistura, art directors (Dani Martín)“Madrid Nuclear,” Emilio Lorente, art director (Leiva)“Puta,” Emilio Lorente, art director (Zahara)“Tragas O Escupes,” Marc Donés, art director (Jarabe De Palo)Best Engineered Album“Bpm,” Nelson Carvalho, engineer; Leo Aldrey and Rafael Giner, mixers; Tiago De Sousa, mastering engineer (Salvador Sobral)“Bruma: Celebrating Milton Nascimento,” Roger Freret, engineer; Claudio Spiewak, mixer; André Dias, mastering engineer (Antonio Adolfo)“El Madrileño,” Orlando Aispuro Meneses, Daniel Alanís, Alizzz, Rafa Arcaute, Josdán Luis Cohimbra Acosta, Miguel De La Vega, Máximo Espinosa Rosell, Alex Ferrer, Luis Garcié, Billy Garedella, Patrick Liotard, Ed Maverick, Beto Mendonça, Jaime Navarro, Alberto Pérez, Nathan Phillips, Harto Rodríguez, Jason Staniulis and Federico Vindver, engineers; Delbert Bowers, Alex Ferrer, Jaycen Joshua, Nineteen85, Lewis Pickett, Alex Psaroudakis and Raül Refree, mixers; Chris Athens, mastering engineer (C. Tangana)“Iceberg,” Mauro Araújo, Tó Brandileone, Kassin, Luciano Scalercio and Alê Siqueira, engineers; Kassin and Arthur Luna, mixers; Carlos de Freitas, mastering engineer (Priscila Tossan)“Un Canto Por México, Vol. II,” Pepe Aguilar, Rodrigo Cuevas, José Luis Fernández, Camilo Froideval, Edson R. Heredia, Manu Jalil, Rubén López Arista, Nacho Molino, David Montuy, Lucas Nunes, Alan Ortiz Grande and Alan Saucedo, engineers; Rubén López Arista, mixer; Michael Fuller, mastering engineer (Natalia Lafourcade)Producer of the YearAlizzzEdgar BarreraMarcos SánchezBizarrapDan WarnerBest Short Form Music Video“Un Amor Eterno,” Marc Anthony“Reza Forte,” BaianaSystem featuring BNegão“Mi Huella,” Fuel Fandango featuring Maria Jose Llergo“Visceral,” Fran, Carlos Do Complexo & Bibi Caetano“De Una Vez,” Selena GomezBest Long Form Music Video“Un Segundo MTV Unplugged,” Café Tacvba“Mulher,” Carolina Deslandes“Entre Mar Y Palmeras,” Juan Luis Guerra“Origen (Documental),” Juanes“Quien Me Tañe Escucha Mis Voces (Documental),” Gastón Lafourcade More

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    Alicia Keys’s Hypnotic Love Jam, and 12 More New Songs

    Hear tracks by Anaïs Mitchell, Hurray for the Riff Raff, ASAP Rocky and others.Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.Alicia Keys, ‘Best of Me’The steady, diligent beat is from Sade’s “Cherish the Day” by way of Raphael Saadiq; the promises of loyalty, honesty and absolute devotion are from Alicia Keys as she channels Sade’s utterly self-sacrificing love. “We could build a castle from tears,” Keys vows. The track is hypnotic and open-ended, fading rather than resolving, as if it could go on and on. It’s from a double album coming Dec. 10 featuring two versions of the songs: “Originals,” produced by Keys, and “Unlocked,” produced by Keys and Mike Will Made-It. JON PARELESHurray for the Riff Raff, ‘Rhododendron’The first single from Hurray for the Riff Raff’s forthcoming album “Life on Earth” is frisky and poetic, contrasting the wisdom of the natural world with the chaos of humanity. The New Orleans singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra (who uses they/she pronouns) is so enthralled with the wonders of plant life that they are able to extract lyricism from simply listing off some famous flora (“night blooming jasmine, deadly nightshade”) in a wonderfully Dylan-esque growl. The chorus, though, comes as a warning in the face of ecological destruction: “Don’t turn your back on the mainland.” LINDSAY ZOLADZKylie Minogue and Jessie Ware, ‘Kiss of Life’Following her excellent 2020 disco-revival record “What’s Your Pleasure?” (and this year’s Platinum Pleasure Edition, which contained enough top-tier bonus material to make an equally excellent EP) Jessie Ware gets the ultimate co-sign from the dancing queen herself, Kylie Minogue, on this playful duet. Their breathy vocals echo throughout the lush arrangement, as they trade whispered innuendo (“Cherry syrup on my tongue/how about a little fun?”) and eventually join together in sumptuous harmony. ZOLADZBaba Harare featuring Kae Chaps and Joseph Tivafire, ‘Vaccine’Baba Harare, from Zimbabwe, is a master of the genre called jiti: a speedy four-against-six beat that carries stuttering, syncopated guitars and deep gospel-tinged harmony vocals. In “Vaccine,” he’s joined by fellow Zimbabweans Kae Chaps and Joseph Tivafire, and between the hurtling beat and the call-and-response vocals, the song is pure joy. PARELESBitchin Bajas, ‘Outer Spaceways Incorporated’The latest project from the freewheeling ambient drone group Bitchin Bajas is boldly conceptual: a homage to one of the Chicago trio’s formative heroes, Sun Ra. As daunting as it may sound to reinterpret some of the cosmic jazz god’s most innovative compositions, Bitchin Bajas approach the challenge with a playful ingenuity. Take their cover of “Outer Spaceways Incorporated,” which in its original form is a loose, interstellar groove. Bitchin Bajas refract it instead through the lens of one of their other major influences, Wendy Carlos (hence the title “Switched on Ra”) and turn it into a kind of retro-futuristic waltz. The guest vocalist Jayve Montgomery uses an Electronic Wind Instrument to great effect, enlivening the song with an energy that’s both eerie and moving. ZOLADZASAP Rocky, ‘Sandman’ASAP Rocky has been featured on plenty of other artists’ tracks over the past few years, but “Sandman” — released to commemorate his breakthrough 2011 mixtape “Live.Love.ASAP” finally coming to streaming services — is his first new solo song since 2018. Produced by Kelvin Krash and ASAP fave Clams Casino, “Sandman” toggles between hazy atmospherics and sudden gearshifts into the more exacting side of Rocky’s flow. Plus, it gives him an opportunity to practice his French: “Merci beaucoup, just like Moulin Rouge/And I know I can, can.” Quelle surprise! ZOLADZCollectif Mali Kura, ‘L’Appel du Mali Kura’The project Collectif Mali Kura gathered 20 singers and rappers to share a call for hard work, civic responsibility (including paying taxes) and national unity in Mali. Sung in many languages, with bits of melody and instrumental flourishes that hint at multiple traditions, the song starts as a plaint and turns into an affirmation of possibility. PARELESJorge Drexler and C. Tangana, ‘Tocarte’“Tocarte” (“To Touch You”) is the second deceptively skeletal collaboration released by Jorge Drexler, from Uruguay, and C. Tangana, from Spain; the first, a tale of a showbiz has-been titled “Nominao,” has been nominated for a Latin Grammy as best alternative song. “Tocarte” is a pandemic-era track about longing for physical contact: It constructs a taut, ingenious phantom gallop of a beat out of plucked acoustic guitar notes, hand percussion and sampled voices, and neither Drexler nor Tangana raises his voice as they envision long-awaited embraces. PARELESHayes Carll, ‘Nice Things’In the twangy, foot-stomping, gravel-voiced, fiddle-topped country-rocker “Nice Things,” which opens his new album, “You Get It All,” the Texan songwriter Hayes Carll imagines a visit from God. She (yes, she) runs into pollution, over-policing and close-minded religion. “This is why I blessed you with compassion/This is why I said to love your neighbor,” she notes, before realizing, “This is why y’all can’t have nice things.” PARELESAnaïs Mitchell, ‘Bright Star’Before she wrote the beloved Tony-winning musical “Hadestown,” Anaïs Mitchell was best known as a gifted if perpetually underrated folk singer-songwriter with a knack for traditional storytelling. The stage success of “Hadestown” (which itself began life as a 2010 Mitchell album) forced her to put her career as a solo artist on hold, but early next year she’ll return with a self-titled album, her first solo release in a decade. Its leadoff single “Bright Star” is a worthy reintroduction to the openhearted luminosity of Mitchell’s voice and lyricism: “I have sailed in all directions, have followed your reflection to the farthest foreign shore,” she sings atop gently strummed acoustic chords, with all the contented warmth of someone who, after a long time away, has at last returned home. ZOLADZAoife O’Donovan featuring Allison Russell, ‘Prodigal Daughter’Aoife O’Donovan sings delicately about a reunion that could hardly be more fraught; after seven years, a daughter returns to her mother with a new baby, needing a home and knowing full well that “forgiveness won’t come easy.” O’Donovan reverses what would be a singer’s typical reflexes; as drama and tension rise, her voice grows quieter and clearer, while Allison Russell joins her with ghostly harmonies. As a tiptoeing string band backs O’Donovan’s pleas, Tim O’Brien plays echoes of Irish folk tunes on mandola, a musical hint at multigenerational bonds. PARELESMarissa Nadler, ‘Bessie, Did You Make It?’How about a chillingly beautiful modern murder ballad to cap off spooky season? The folk singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler’s new album “The Path of the Clouds,” (out Friday on, appropriately enough, Sacred Bones) was partially inspired by her quarantine binge-watch of choice: “Unsolved Mysteries.” The opening track “Bessie, Did You Make It?” creates a misty atmosphere of reverb-heavy piano and arpeggiated guitar, as Nadler tells a tale of a nearly century-old boat accident that was never quite explained. “Did you make it?” she asks her elusive subject, who seems to have perished that day along with her husband. Or: “Did you fake it, leave someone else’s bones?” ZOLADZArtifacts, ‘Song for Joseph Jarman’Artifacts features three of the leading creative improvisers on the Chicago scene: the flutist Nicole Mitchell, the cellist Tomeka Reid and the drummer Mike Reed. All are deeply entwined in the lineage of their home city, and on “Song for Joseph Jarman” — from Artifacts’ sophomore release, “ … and Then There’s This” — the trio pays homage to an influential ancestor with this slow, hushed, deeply attentive group improvisation. It’s not unlike something Jarman himself might have played. Reid and Mitchell hold long tones more than they move around, sounding as if they’re listening for a response from within each note. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO More

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    Mitski’s Sharp Take on a Creative Life, and 12 More New Songs

    Hear tracks by Arca featuring Sia, Kelis, Tambino and others.Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes). Like what you hear? Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.Mitski, ‘Working for the Knife’Mitski monumentalizes an artist’s self-doubts — the creative impulse versus the editorial knife — in “Working for the Knife.” The track begins as a trudging march with stark, droning synthesizer tones, but Patrick Hyland’s production expands into ever-wider spaces with lofty, reverberating guitars. Mitski sings about missteps and rejections at first, but her imagination perseveres: “I start the day lying and end with the truth.” JON PARELESArca featuring Sia, ‘Born Yesterday’This unexpected collaboration just had to happen. Sia has a memorably broken voice and a songwriting strategy of victim-to-victory that has brought her million-selling hits, both on her own and behind the scenes. Arca, who has made music with Björk and Kanye West, has an operatic voice and a mastery of disorienting electronics from eerie atmospherics to brutal beats. In “Born Yesterday,” Sia wails, “You took my heart and now it’s broken,” confronting a partner’s betrayal. Arca twists the electronic track all over the place, bringing in and warping and subtracting a four-on-the-floor beat, pumping up the drama as Sia decides whether she’ll be “your baby any more.” The twists never stop. PARELESTainy with Bad Bunny and Julieta Venegas, ‘Lo Siento BB:/’Cynics might see a Tainy-produced track featuring Bad Bunny and the beloved pop-rock icon Julieta Venegas as the type of collaboration engineered in major label conference rooms. But “Lo Siento BB:/” is a seamless matchup that leverages both artists’ capacities for pointed vocal drama. Venegas’s sky-high melodies and funereal piano transition into El Conejo Malo’s signature baritone. Sad boys, sad girls and sad people, consider this your new anthem. ISABELIA HERRERARobert Glasper featuring D Smoke & Tiffany Gouché, ‘Shine’The Black church has been close to the center or at the very root of many big changes in American popular music; and over in the jazz world recently, gospel has been reasserting its influence. The pianist and bandleader Robert Glasper is a main driver of the trend, and this week he released “Shine,” an early single from the forthcoming “Black Radio 3,” featuring the rising M.C. D Smoke and the vocalist Tiffany Gouché. Glasper gifts the session with a signature sparkly harmonic vamp, and D Smoke projects farsighted conviction on his verses; Gouché’s vocals are beatific. This is the trinity that made the first “Black Radio” a smash, and has fed Glasper’s star formula: a gospel core, backpack-generation rap wisdom and bravado performances from female singers. But the track’s low-key showstopper is the bassist Burniss Travis, who’s doing more here than you might at first realize, which is exactly the intent. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOglaive and ericdoa, ‘Mental Anguish’This is one of the standout tracks on “Then I’ll Be Happy,” the new collaborative EP from the rising hyperpop stars glaive and ericdoa. At the beginning, it has some of the parchedness of early emo, but then lightning-bolt squelchy synths arrive, and fraught vocals that sound like they’re being microwaved in real time. JON CARAMANICAJames Blake featuring SZA, ‘Coming Back’James Blake is smart to let SZA upstage him in “Coming Back.” It starts as one more slice of his usual keyboard-and-falsetto melancholy, but when SZA arrives she challenges both his morose narrative — “Don’t you have a clue about where my mind is right now?” — and his stolid music, as she bounces syllables around the beat and brings new zigzags to the melody. Blake rises to the competition, chopping up the production and pepping up his tune. Even so, the song may not convince her to come back. PARELESJustin Bieber featuring TroyBoi, ‘Red Eye’It has been clear for a long time, but just to spell it out: Justin Bieber is the world’s savviest beat-shopper. While the lyrics of “Red Eye” flaunt the prerogatives of glamorous bicoastal American living — “You should be hopping on a redeye”— the track, by the British producer TroyBoi, plays with electronics, reggaeton, Afrobeats, dubstep and dembow: so digital, so professional, so perky, so slick. PARELESC. Tangana and Nathy Peluso, ‘Ateo’Latin pop’s geographical borders are dissolving. C. Tangana, a rapper turned singer from Spain, and Nathy Peluso, an R&B-loving singer from Argentina, find a meeting place amid the light-fingered guitar syncopations of bachata, a style from the Dominican Republic. “Ateo” translates as “atheist,” but the song quickly makes clear that desire and bachata add up to “a miracle come down from heaven”; now they’re believers. PARELESKelis, ‘Midnight Snacks’Kelis’s first new song in seven years sneaks up on you. Full of whispered astral funk and understated steaminess, it’s a welcome return for one of R&B’s left-field luminaries. CARAMANICATambino, ‘Estos Días’Tambino lets genres slip through his fingers like fine grains of white sand. On “Estos Días,” a sliced-up baile funk rhythm blends into dance-punk verve, only to burst into the soaring drama of a pop ballad. The track is a meditation on the protests that spread across the world last year, and the police violence that continues to plague marginalized communities. “Nos mata la policía,” he intones. “The police kill us.” But in the trembling fragility of the Peruvian-born artist’s voice, there lies a kind of radical hope. “Yo voy hacer mejor/Dejar todo el dolor,” it quivers. “I’m going to do better/Leave behind all the pain.” HERRERASusana Baca, ‘Negra del Alma’Susana Baca, the Afro-Peruvian songwriter and folklorist who has also served as Peru’s Minister of Culture, marks the 50th year of her career with her new album “Palabras Urgentes” (“Urgent Words”), connecting age-old injustices to the present. “Negro del Alma” is a traditional Andean song commemorating a complicated past, when Andean natives met Afro-Peruvians and fell in love. Baca complicates it further, meshing disparate Peruvian traditions of marimbas, hand percussion and horns. But her voice carries through the song’s anguish and determination. PARELESSuzanne Ciani, ‘Morning Spring’Suzanne Ciani’s “Morning Spring” is the first taste of “@0,” a new charity compilation showcasing the works of ambient creators past and present. Here, orbs of synth bubbles float to the surface like a cool carbonated drink, while others wash beneath, ebbing and flowing like the low tide. Ciani — a synth pioneer recently celebrated in the documentary “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines” — renders an aquatic concerto, its symphonic movements receding and transforming at every turn, like the curling crests of ocean waves. HERRERAKenny Garrett, ‘Joe Hen’s Waltz’As his contribution to “Relief,” a forthcoming compilation benefiting the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians’ Emergency Fund, the esteemed alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett provided an unreleased outtake from the sessions for his standout 2012 album, “Seeds From the Underground.” With a teetering melody and a swaggering mid-tempo swing feel, “Joe Hen’s Waltz” pays homage to the saxophonist Joe Henderson, nodding to his knack for slippery melodies that seem to move through a house of mirrors. In Garrett’s quartet at the time, much of the energy was being generated by his partnership with the pianist Benito Gonzalez, whose playing is rooted in Afro-Latin clave and the influence of McCoy Tyner, but has an effervescent phrasing style of its own. RUSSONELLO More

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    A Rapper, Hitting His 30s, Reinvents Himself as a Scion of Spanish Pop

    C. Tangana was a provocative star of trap music. Now, his songs are played in supermarkets and praised by 50- and 60-somethings on YouTube.LONDON — C. Tangana, one of Spain’s biggest rap stars, two years ago hit “a little bit of a crisis.”He was riding a wave of fame, known for provocative songs and equally provocative interviews. But he was fast approaching his 30s, he said in a recent Zoom interview, and risked becoming one of those “cringe-y, embarrassing” rappers who act a decade younger than they are.So C. Tangana — real name Antón Álvarez Alfaro — did a U-turn and decided to try his hand at other styles of music that he had loved since childhood, like flamenco and rumba, even Spanish folk.“I was opening a window I’d kept closed,” he said, adding, “I assumed it would go wrong.”Álvarez’s experiment appears to have paid off. In February, he released “El Madrileño,” an album that mixes traditional Spanish and Latin American styles, including rock, with electronic sounds and beats more familiar to his trap and reggaeton fans. It’s turned him from Spain’s biggest rapper into one of its biggest pop stars.One of the album’s early tracks, “Tú Me Dejaste De Querer” (“You Stopped Loving Me”), has over 100 million views on YouTube.“You can listen to his music anytime, in any shop” Pablo Gil, a music journalist at El Mundo, a Spanish daily newspaper, said in a telephone interview.Some of the musical styles it features were last popular in Spain in the 1970s, when the country was under Franco’s dictatorship, Gil added. Álvarez, he said, was taking old-fashioned sounds, “subverting their meaning and making them modern.”In a review for the newspaper El País, the music critic Carlos Marcos wrote, “It remains to be seen whether this is the birth of a new Spanish pop, or something that we will forget in a few years.”“But who cares?” he added. “Let’s enjoy it today, and we’ll see tomorrow.”On YouTube, C. Tangana’s videos now attract comments from older music fans who would presumably never have gone near his records before. “I thought the music my son listened to was for landfill,” wrote Felix Guinnot, who said he was in his 50s, “but this boy is changing my musical perception.”On the set for the music video of “Tú Me Dejaste De Querer” (“You Stopped Loving Me”).Javier RuizÁlvarez’s road to fame has been winding, with multiple changes of name to reflect new musical personas. Born in Madrid, he started rapping in his teens, he said, but twice gave up on music entirely. When the 2008 global financial crisis hit Spain particularly hard — its lingering effects are still felt by the country’s youth — he stopped rapping to work in a fast-food restaurant. Later, he got a job in a call center selling cellphones.He started rapping again after falling in love with a colleague. It was a toxic relationship, Álvarez said, but it inspired him to get back into the studio. “I said, ‘It must be possible for me to make money doing this rather than selling phones or cleaning,’” he recalled. “It changed my whole mentality. I started to think I had to sell myself. I started to do things to get attention.”In 2017, Álvarez had his first major hit with “Mala Mujer,” a track about his longing for a “bad woman” whose “gel nails have left scars all over my body.” But he was soon known more for his relationship with Rosalía, a Spanish pop star (he co-wrote much of “El Mal Querer,” or “Bad Love,” her breakthrough album, although they have since broken up) and for getting into political controversies.Álvarez with the team filming a video for the song “Comerte Entera.” “You can listen to his music anytime, in any shop,” one music journalist said.Javier RuizÁlvarez used a derogatory term to refer to King Felipe VI at a 2018 news conference after being asked about the fate of another rapper who had been given a jail term for insulting the royal family. He also described the monarchy as “a robbery” and called for an end to “representative democracy,” arguing that it prevented the public from being directly involved in important decisions.The next year, the northern Spanish city of Bilbao threw C. Tangana off a concert lineup, saying that his lyrics were degrading to women.More recently, he called for people to reclaim Spain’s flag from fascists, a potentially contentious endorsement in a country where some associate it with Franco’s dictatorship.Ana Iris Simón, a music journalist and author who has written about the reaction to “El Madrileño,” praised Álvarez’s outspoken nature. “He’s not afraid of getting involved or giving his opinion,” she said in an email.Some critics still accuse him of being overly macho, Simón said. They point out that only one of the new album’s 15 guests is a woman (La Húngara, a flamenco singer). But Simón said those comments were out of touch with how Spaniards viewed him. “Public opinion and published opinion have never been as far apart as they are now,” she noted.Álvarez’s with the director Santos Bacana in Cuba, where they recorded a song with the guitarist Eliades Ochoa.Javier RuizThe new album also plays to Spain’s class divides, Simón said. It involves artists and musical styles “reviled by the cool cultural scene for years for being music typical of the common people,” she said. Álvarez uses those styles without irony, Iris added, instead embracing them as would an heir.Álvarez said his choice of collaborators — who include the Gypsy Kings, the flamenco band that was hugely popular in the 1980s; Ed Maverick, a “Mexican folk romantic”; and Jorge Drexler, a Uruguayan singer-songwriter — was driven by his love of artists who’ve taken their own distinct musical paths. But he also hoped the collaborations with Latin American musicians might change some Spaniards’ view of the region.“In Spain, we have this problem that a lot of people still have this colonial mentality,” Álvarez said. “They think that our culture is better than their culture, and that’s so stupid.”During the interview, Álvarez said he was overjoyed that his experiment had paid off. He talked a lot about the joy of being seen as a good songwriter. But he seemed happiest when asked about the album’s impact on one specific person. His mother had “always been super proud” of him, he said, “but now she can sing my songs.”Comments on his YouTube tracks suggest that is mother is not the only member of another generation doing that. Antonio Remacha, in Madrid, wrote a long message beneath one track saying that his daughter had forced him to listen to the record against his better judgment, but that he had loved it.“I have to admit that at 62 years of age, he’s managed to impress me,” Remacha wrote of Álvarez, before politely and formally signing off: “Congratulations and all of my praise.” More