Elvis Crespo to Receive Billboard Hall of Fame Award at Billboard Latin Music Awards 2025

Elvis Crespo volition beryllium honored with the Billboard Hall of Fame Award astatine the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards, Billboard and Telemundo announced connected Tuesday (Oct. 14).

The merengue prima from Puerto Rico volition besides present a show astatine the ceremonial — acceptable to aerial Thursday, Oct. 23 connected Telemundo — that volition observe his legendary vocation and lasting impact. Crespo volition beryllium joined connected signifier by rising Dominican prima Ebenezer Guerra, legendary merengue vocalist Toño Rosario, and Dominican municipality creator La Insuperable.

“Receiving the Billboard Hall of Fame Award is 1 of the top honors of my career,” Crespo said successful a statement. “This grant is not lone for me, it’s for merengue, for Puerto Rico, and for each instrumentality who has danced and celebrated beingness with my music. To stock this infinitesimal connected the Billboard Latin Music Awards signifier is genuinely unforgettable.”

The Billboard Hall of Fame Award celebrates a vocation that extends beyond philharmonic show and takes into relationship the unthinkable power the recipient enjoys arsenic an creator globally successful aggregate fields, according to a property release. Previous winners of the grant see Vicente Fernández, Rocío Dúrcal, Marco Antonio Solís, Joan Sebastian and Marc Anthony, among others.

Crespo volition beryllium honored for his 3 decades successful euphony that see his planetary smash hits “Suavemente” and “Tu Sonrisa,” which turned him into a taste phenomenon. “Suavemente” topped Billboard‘s Hot Latin Songs illustration for six weeks successful 1998 and “Tu Sonrisa” peaked astatine No. 1 for 2 weeks that aforesaid year. In summation to those merengue classics, helium bridged genres with crossover hits similar “Azukita” alongside Steve Aoki, Daddy Yankee, and Play-N-Skillz, and “Bailar” with Deorro.

The awards amusement volition broadcast unrecorded connected Telemundo and watercourse connected the Telemundo App and Peacock, and aerial passim Latin America and the Caribbean connected Telemundo Internacional. Tickets to the lawsuit are present disposable connected Ticketmaster.

Crespo joins a agelong database of artists confirmed to execute astatine the Billboard Latin Music Awards 2025, specified arsenic Carlos Vives, Danny Ocean, Emilia, Grupo Frontera, Kapo, Laura Pausini, Netón Vega, Olga Tañón, Óscar Maydon, Peso Pluma, Ozuna, Wisin and Xavi.

The awards coincide with Billboard Latin Music Week, taking spot astatine The Fillmore Miami Beach Oct. 20-24. The afloat programming docket and summons income are disposable at BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com.