Jarabe de Palo Somos for Album of the Year
"Best Rock Song" and Best Pop/Rock Album
La Vida Boheme Flamingo for Best Music Video
Ana Tijoux Vengo for Best Urban Song plus Jorge Drexler featuring
Ana Tijoux for Record of the Year and Song of the Year"
Leading independent label Nacional Records is proud to announce 7 Latin Grammy nominations across a variety of genres and categories, with nominations for Jarabe de Palo, Ana Tijoux and La Vida Boheme. In its first 9 years, Nacional Records has earned 67 Latin Grammy and Grammy wins and nominations.
Latin Grammy winner Jarabe de Palo is nominated for 3 awards, including Album of the Year Best Rock Song and Best Pop/Rock Album for his latest record Somos. Fronted by prolific songwriter Pau Donés, Barcelona-based Jarabe de Palo originally broke onto the international scene with their timeless smash hit La Flaca. Throughout their storied career, Jarabe de Palo has been nominated for 16 Latin Grammys and sold more than five million albums worldwide, collaborating with a wide variety of major artists such as Celia Cruz, Compay Segundo, Pavarotti and Chrissy Hynde (The Pretenders).
Ana Tijoux is nominated for 3 Latin Grammys, including Best Urban Song for the title track from her new album Vengo, which debuted #1 on the iTunes Latin charts and has earned strong praise and multiple features at Newsweek, NPR, Billboard, Spin, Rolling Stone, NY Times and more. Vengo is the follow-up to Ana Tijouxs Grammy and Latin Grammy nominated album La Bala, which was widely celebrated by critics as one of the best albums of the year. The buzz around Ana Tijoux has been steadily building since her Grammy nominated debut 1977 was featured in Breaking Bad, ABCs Dancing With the Stars and EA Sports FIFA video game. Ana Tijoux is also twice nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Universos Paralelos, her collaboration with Academy Award winner Jorge Drexler.
After winning “Best Rock Album” for Será at last years Latin Grammys, La Vida Boheme is once again nominated this year for “Best Music Video” for “Flamingo.” NPR Music chose La Vida Bohemes Latin Grammy-winning sophomore album ‘Será’ as one of their 50 Favorite Albums of 2013, after iTunes celebrated the band as the Latino Breakthrough Artist of 2011. La Vida Boheme was nominated for a Grammy and two Latin Grammys for their debut record Nuestra. Their music appears in the hit video games Grand Theft Auto V and FIFA. Esquire magazine writes, “When I saw La Vida Boheme at SXSW, I flashed to seeing The Clash in 1979. It was the fierceness, the original sound, the hodgepodge of styles — it was the clash of cultures and sound.”
