Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award

The Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award is an honor that is presented by Billboard magazine to an artist or a group "an enduring and exceptional career, encompassing artistic and personal contributions that have had a major impact on Latin music worldwide."^[1] From 1993 to 2001, the accolade was presented as "El Premio Billboard" (English: The Billboard Award).^[2] The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award is decided by the Billboard editorial committee.^[3] The Lifetime Achievement Award was first given to Morton Gould, the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), during the 4th Annual Billboard Latin Music Conference in 1993. Gould was given the accolade for his "contribution to the growth of Latin music in the U.S".^[4]

Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded for	"an enduring and exceptional career, encompassing artistic and personal contributions that have had a major impact on Latin music worldwide."[1]
Presented by	Billboard
First award	1993
Currently held by	Los Ángeles Azules (2023)
Website	billboard.com/latin

From 1994, the Lifetime Achievement Award has been presented during the Billboard Latin Music Awards.^[5] The accolade is usually awarded to a recording artist, but may be presented to industry figures who have helped raise the awareness of Spanish-language music globally. Emilio Estefan, Ralph Mercado, and Jorge Pinos, are recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award who worked in the music industry to promote Latin music.^[6] The award was not presented in 2003, 2004, and 2006.^[7][8][9]

Mexican singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís has been given the Lifetime Achievement twice, once in 2005 and again in 2016, to commemorate his 30th and 40th anniversary as a recording artist respectively.^[10][11] Solís, José José, and Armando Manzanero are recipients of the Lifetime Achievement who have also been inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame.^[6][12][7]

Recipients

Key

‡	Indicates non-performing recipient

Year	Image	Recipient	Nationality	Ref.
1993	—	Morton Gould	United States	[4]
1994		Emilio Estefan‡	Cuba United States	[5]
1995		Tito Puente	United States	[13]
1996		José Feliciano	Puerto Rico	[14]
1997		Herb Alpert	United States	[12]
1998	—	Ralph Mercado‡	United States	[15]
1999		Flaco Jiménez	United States	[16]
2000		Jorge Pinos‡	Ecuador	[6]
2001		Los Lobos	United States	[2]
2002		El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	[17]
2003	No award			[7]
2004				[8]
2005		Marco Antonio Solís	Mexico	[10]
2006	No award			[9]
2007		Miguel Bosé	Spain	[18]
2008		Conjunto Primavera	Mexico	[19]
2009		Carlos Santana	Mexico United States	[20]
2010		Los Temerarios	Mexico	[3]
2011		Emmanuel	Mexico	[21]
2012		Intocable	Mexico	[22]
2013		José José	Mexico	[23]
2014		Andrea Bocelli	Italy	[24]
2015		Roberto Carlos	Brazil	[25]
2016		Marco Antonio Solís	Mexico	[11]
2017		Ricardo Arjona	Guatemala	[26]
2018		Maná	Mexico	[27]
2019		Juan Luis Guerra	Dominican Republic	[28]
2020		Armando Manzanero	Mexico	[29]
2021		Paquita la del Barrio	Mexico	[30]
2022		Raphael	Spain	[31]
2023		Los Ángeles Azules	Mexico	[32]
2024		Alejandro Sanz	Spain	[33]

See also

• Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame
• Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lo Nuestro Excellence Award
• List of lifetime achievement awards

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