Feb 10, 2011
DADDY YANKEE RECEIVES 7 NOMINATIONS FOR the 2011 BILLBOARD LATIN MUSIC AWARDS
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Miami, FL - February 10th, 2011- International superstar, Daddy Yankee has received seven nominations for the 2011 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Nominations include Hot Latin Songs Artist Of The Year, Tropical Airplay of The Year and Latin Rhythm Album of The Year. The nominations come as no surprise as the singer’s last production, Mundial has gained him multiple Latin Grammy, Premio Lo Nuestro, MTV Video Music Award and American Music Awards nominations. The Billboard Latin Music Award nominations were announced live this morning via the Telemundo network.
“Thanks to my fans for taking me to this level of receiving all of these nominations! The Billboard Awards are the ones with the most credibility, because they showthe music that the public really listens to.” commented Daddy Yankee from his home in Puerto Rico.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards honors the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music, as determined by sales and radio airplay data that informs Billboard’s weekly charts during a one-year period from the issue dated February 6, 2010 through this year’s January 29, 2011 issue. The awards show will take place on April 28th and will be produced and broadcast live by The Telemundo network.
Yankee is currently in the studio wrapping up his next production Club Prestige, scheduled for release June 2011.
Nominations are:
Hot Latin Song Artist of The Year Male
Tropical Airplay Artist of The Year Latin Rhythm Airplay Artist of The Year Latin Rhythm Album Artist Of The Year- Mundial Latin Rhythm Album Album of The Year- Mundial Latin Rhythm Airplay Song Of The Year- La Despedida Composer of The Year- Raymond Ayala
About Daddy Yankee:
Daddy Yankee was named by CNN as the Most Influential Hispanic Artist of 2009, and by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential in the World in May 2006. Yankee recently received awards by Billboard Magazine as Urban Latin Artist of the Decade and the Latin Album Artist of the Decade. The Puerto Rican native has broken yet another barrier for the Latin artist community and was the first Latin Urban recording artist to guest star on CBS’ Emmy Award winning soap The Bold and the Beautiful this past June. Yankee’s newest addition to his multi faceted career is his second fragrance, this time for the ladies called, DYamante. The Caribbean inspired women’s fragrance is out in department stores nationwide.
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