Latin Grammy Trustees Award

The Latin Grammy Trustees Award is an award presented annually by the Latin Recording Academy, the same organization that distributes the Latin Grammy Awards, to individuals "who have made significant contributions, other than performance, to Latin music during their careers".^[1] Recipients can include producers, songwriters, composers, record label executives, and journalists. Award recipients are honored during "Latin Grammy Week", a string of galas prior to the annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony.^[2] Since its inception, the award has been presented to recipients originating from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The award was first presented to Mexican composer and musician Manuel Esperón.^[3] Since 2005, the Trustees Awards have been presented to more than one recipient.^[4] Pierre Cossette is the only recipient of the Latin Grammy Trustees Award to also receive the Grammy Trustees Award in 1995.^[5] The accolade, along with the Person of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement awards, were not presented in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[6]

Latin Grammy Trustees Award
Awarded for	"significant contributions, other than performance, to Latin music during their careers".[1]
Presented by	Latin Recording Academy
First award	2004
Website	www.latingrammy.com

Recipients

Year[I]	Image	Recipient	Occupation(s)[II]	Nationality	Ref.
2004	—	Manuel Esperón	Composer pianist	Mexico	[3]
2005		Eduardo Magallanes	Producer arranger	Mexico	[4]
	—	Rafael Pérez Botija	Songwriter	Spain
		Pierre Cossette	Television producer	Canada
2006	—	Alejandro Quintero	Publisher record label executive	Mexico	[7]
		Rafael Escalona	Songwriter poet	Colombia
2007	—	João Araujo	Record company executive	Brazil	[8]
		Leopoldo Federico	Bandoneón player songwriter bandleader	Argentina
	—	Fernando Hernández	Record company executive	Mexico
2008		Simón Díaz	Singer songwriter	Venezuela	[9]
	—	Larry Harlow	Pianist composer arranger producer	United States
	—	Juanito Márquez	Guitarist songwriter arranger	Cuba
2009		José Antonio Abreu	Music educator	Venezuela	[10]
	—	Roberto Cantoral García	Songwriter	Mexico
2010	—	Manuel Bonilla	Singer songwriter	Mexico	[11]
		Juan Carlos Calderón	Producer composer arranger	Spain
		Hebe Camargo	Television host singer	Brazil
2011		Manuel Alejandro	Songwriter	Spain	[12]
		Jesus "Chucho" Ferrer	Interpreter orchestrator	Mexico
	—	Ray Santos	Composer orchestrator musician	United States
2012		Juan Carmona Habichuela	Flamenco guitar performer	Spain	[13]
		Yomo Toro	Cuatro performer	Puerto Rico
2013		Mario Kreutzberger "Don Francisco"	Entertainer TV Personality	Chile	[14]
	—	Pedro Ramírez Velazquez	Musician songwriter arranger music director	Mexico
2014		André Midani	Record executive	Brazil	[2]
		Juan Vicente Torrealba	Composer	Venezuela
2015	—	Federico Britos	Violinist	Uruguay	[15]
		Humberto Gatica	Record producer	Chile United States
	—	Chelique Sarabia	Composer	Venezuela
2016		Carlos Mejía Godoy	Journalist singer	Nicaragua	[16]
		Nelson Motta	Record producer journalist performer	Brazil
	—	Rafael Solano	Songwriter	Dominican Republic
2017		Jon Fausty	Record engineer	United States	[17]
		Lalo Schifrin	Pianist arranger orchestra conductor composer	Argentina
2018	—	Horacio Malvicino	record label executive jazz and tango guitarist composer arranger	Argentina	[18]
	—	Tomás Muñoz	record label executive	Spain
2019	—	Mario Kaminsky	record label executive	Argentina	[19]
2020	No award due to the COVID-19 pandemic				[6]
2021	—	Guillermo "Memo" Acosta	producer songwriter	Mexico	[20]
		Egidio Cuadrado	vallenato accordionist	Colombia
2022		Manolo Díaz	singer songwriter producer	Spain	[21]
		Paquito D'Rivera	saxophonist composer	Cuba United States
		Abraham Laboriel	bassist	Mexico United States
2023		Alex Acuña	drummer percussionist	Peru	[22]
		Gustavo Santaolalla	composer singer/songwriter producer	Argentina
	—	Wisón Torres	musical director	Puerto Rico United States
2024	—	Ángel Peña	trumpet player, record producer	Puerto Rico	[23]
	—	Chucho Rincón	guitarist	Mexico

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to an article about the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony of that year.

^{^[II]} The artists's occupation(s) are listed on the Special Awards page on the Latin Grammy Award website.

See also

• List of Latin Grammy Awards categories
• Grammy Trustees Award
• Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award