The 2024 Latin Grammys will return house to Miami after a controversial transfer to Spain

The 2024 Latin Grammys will return to Miami — the place the Latin Recording Academy is headquartered.

The twenty fifth annual occasion will air reside from the Kaseya Heart on Nov. 14. Nominations shall be introduced on Sept. 17.

Final yr’s ceremony was held in Sevilla, Spain — the primary time the present was broadcast internationally — the results of an almost 19 million-euro deal between the federal government of Andalusia and the Latin Recording Academy, and efforts to additional the award present’s world attain.

“Worldwide progress is in keeping with our mission,” Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud mentioned on the time. “Now we have members from greater than 40 international locations, and we’ve all the time celebrated music within the Spanish language and the Portuguese language. Now, the one factor that’s altering is that we’re taking the celebration to a different place, which is able to in the end develop our world attain even additional.”

The choice was met with some controversy, with some criticizing the Latin Grammys determination to maneuver the present to the European nation that colonized a lot of Latin America.

Nonetheless, the choice to maneuver the awards present to Spain completely aligned with the nation’s try to additional develop music tourism — now house to a number of the greatest vacation spot music festivals.

The award present repeatedly celebrates artists who usually are not Latinx however carry out in Spanish or Portuguese. A simple instance is Spanish singer Rosalia, who’s Hispanic however not Latina, and who in 2022 grew to become the primary lady to win album of the yr on the award present twice.

In an announcement, Abud mentioned the choice to maneuver the present again to Miami displays town’s place as “the epicenter of Latin leisure.”

“We’re grateful for the group assist and enthusiasm we have now acquired.”