2014 in Latin music

This is a list of notable events in Latin music (i.e. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking music from Latin America, Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2015.

Events

• May 7 – Argentine singer-songwriter Teresa Parodi is appointed her country's first Minister of Culture following the president's decision to promote the Culture Secretariat to a cabinet-level ministry.^[2]
• July 30 – Telemundo announces that it has acquired the rights to produce a Spanish-language version of the American Music Awards from the Dick Clark Productions. The inaugural awards show is planned to air in fall 2015.^[3]
• October 29 — "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno breaks the record for the longest-running song at number-one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, surpassing "La Tortura" by Shakira and Alejandro Sanz.^[4]
• November 19 — Joan Manuel Serrat is honored by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as the Person of the Year.^[5]
• November 20
  • 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
    • "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno wins Song of the Year.^[5]
    • "Universos Paralelos" by Jorge Drexler and Ana Tijoux wins Record of the Year.^[5]
    • Paco de Lucía posthumously wins Album of the Year for Canción Andaluza.^[5]
    • Mariana Vega wins Best New Artist.

Number-ones albums and singles by country

• List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014 (Brazil)
• List of number-one songs of 2014 (Colombia)
• List of number-one albums of 2014 (Mexico)
• List of number-one albums of 2014 (Portugal)
• List of number-one albums of 2014 (Spain)
• List of number-one singles of 2014 (Spain)
• List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
• List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2014
• List of number-one singles of 2014 (Venezuela)

Awards

• 2014 Premio Lo Nuestro
• 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards
• 2014 Latin Grammy Awards
• 2014 Tejano Music Awards

Albums released

First-quarter

January

February

March

Second-quarter

April

May

June

Third-quarter

July

August

September

Fourth-quarter

October

November

December

Best-selling records

Best-selling albums

The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums in the United States in 2014, according to Billboard.^[6]

Best-performing songs

The following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2014, according to Billboard.^[7]

Deaths

• January 2 – Simone Bosé, 51, president of Universal Music Iberian Peninsula^[8]
• January 6 — Nelson Ned, 66, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.^[9]
• January 21 — Tony Pabón, 74, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader.^[10]
• January 26 — Juanita Garica, 84, tejano music hall of fame inductee, natural causes.^[11]
• February 12 — Santiago Feliú, 51, Cuban singer-songwriter, heart attack.^[12]
• February 19 — Simón Díaz, 85, Venezuelan singer and composer.^[13]
• February 25 — Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart attack.^[14]
• March 14 – Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (post-surgery complications)^[15]
• April 5 — Óscar Avilés, 90, Peruvian guitarist and singer.^[16]
• April 14:
  • Júnior, 70, Filipino-born Spanish singer^[17]
  • Armando Peraza, 89, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist
• April 17 — Cheo Feliciano, 78, American Puerto Rican salsa and bolero composer and singer, traffic collision.^[18]
• April 19 — Sonia Silvestre, 61, Dominican singer and announcer, stroke.^[19]
• April 23 — Benjamín Brea, 67, Spanish-born Venezuelan musician, stomach cancer.^[20]
• May 1 — Juan Formell, 71, Cuban Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and director (Los Van Van).^[21]
• May 8 — Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer, heart attack.^[22]
• May 23 — Uña Ramos, 80, Argentine musician.^[23]
• May 29 — Tito Torbellino, 31, American banda singer and musician, shot.^[24]
• June 3 — Virginia Luque, 86, Argentine singer and actress.^[25]
• June 7 — Helcio Milito, 83, Brazilian musician.^[26]
• July 7 – Jaime Morey, 73, Spanish singer^[27]
• July 8 – Renato Capriles [es] Venezuelan audio engineer (Los Melódicos)
• July 14 — Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.^[28]
• July 25 – Luis Fernando Muñoz Castro, 25, Mexican clarinetist^[29]
• August 3:
  • Daladier Arismendi, 39, Colombian singer, stabbed.^[30]
  • Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer
• June 20 – María Luisa Landín, 92, Mexican singer^[31]
• August 4 — Rafael Santa Cruz, 53, Peruvian cajon musician and actor, heart attack.^[32]
• August 7 — Peret, 79, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer, lung cancer.^[33]
• August 24 – Cybele [pt], 74, Brazilian vocalist (Quarteto em Cy)
• September 4 — Gustavo Cerati, 55, Argentine singer and musician (Soda Stereo), respiratory arrest.^[34]
• September 19 — Milton Cardona, 69, Puerto Rican jazz musician, heart failure.^[35]
• September 30 — Jadir Ambrósio, 91, Brazilian musician and composer.^[36]
• October 3 — Nati Cano, 81, Mexican-born American mariachi musician (Mariachi los Camperos), recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1990).^[37]
• October 30 – Jorge Saldaña [es], 83, Mexican music journalist and TV personality^[38]
• November 11 – Carlos Emilio Morales, 75, Cuban guitarist ([{Irakere]])^[39]
• December 5 – Luis Herrera de la Fuente, 98, Mexican conductor
• December 19 – Luis Chi Sing, Mexican bassist for Marcos Witt^[40]
• December 21 — Horacio Ferrer, 81, Uruguayan/Argentine poet and tango lyricist.^[41]
• December 28 — Leopoldo Federico, 87, Argentine tango musician.^[42]

References

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