Angela Aguilar, Gloria Estefan, Lenny Tavárez, Enrique Bunbury & More Celebrate Songwriting at La Musa

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The 12th yearly variation of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame grant was a heartfelt affair.

Angela Aguilar and Delia Orjuela astatine La Musa Awards el jueves, 16 de octubre en Miami.

The 12th yearly La Musa Awards, presented by the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, took spot this twelvemonth astatine the Flamingo Theater successful Downtown Miami connected Thursday (Oct. 16). The venue’s intimacy, coupled with a much informal, speakeasy vibe, permeated an grant ceremonial that was notable for its moments of laughter and casual congeniality.

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It was besides notable for its prima power. Those successful attendance included Gloria and Emilio Estefan, with Gloria presenting the La Musa Founders Award to Mike O’Neill, president and CEO of BMI and a large protagonist of Latin music, who Gloria praised for his “genuine bosom and unwavering dedication.”

Alex González, drummer for Mexican stone set Maná, introduced caller inductee Enrique Bunbury, the eclectic Spanish rocker.

Angela Aguilar gave a heartfelt code accepting the La Musa Elena Casals award, and Lenny Tavárez, the reggaetón prima who’s written large hits for galore antithetic artists, confessed that conscionable a twelvemonth ago, he’d sat successful the assemblage yearning for an award. He accepted the La Musa Triunfador grant from shaper Sergio George.

As La Musa cofounder Rudy Pérez noted, George was 1 of 3 producers contiguous that evening who made it onto the Top Producers of the 21st Century connected Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs Chart list. The different 2 were Pérez himself, landing astatine No. 2, and Emilio Estefan, the No. 1 shaper connected the list. And though Estefan himself wasn’t honored past nighttime — helium came to enactment BMI’s O’Neill — helium got a 2nd shout-out from inductee Jorge Luis Piloto, who recalled how, arsenic an up-and-coming writer, Gloria Estefan had recorded 1 of his songs. At the time, helium said, Emilio played a yet-unreleased “Conga” for him.

“You truly deliberation Americans volition spell for this?” Piloto recalled asking Estefan.

“They’ll devour it, with French fries,” Estefan replied, to which the country burst with laughter.