Luis Fonsi won four of the night’s biggest awards for his global mega-hit, while Ruben Blades showed there is still life in salsa with his best album win
In the final minutes of the Latin Grammys’ three-hour broadcast last night, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi sauntered on stage for an acoustic rendition of Despacito, the pop-meets-reggaeton juggernaut he popularised with the help of Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber. His performance was an appropriate way to close a ceremony that belonged to the viral hit all along: few eyelids were batted when Despacito took four of the evening’s major awards, including record of the year and song of the year.
The global smash holds the joint record for the most weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and the video is the most viewed ever on YouTube, with 4.3bn views. Despacito’s reign brought new hope to Latin artists eager for crossover success, so it comes as little surprise that the Latin Recording Academy would reward the song.
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