After debuting at the 2014 Billboard Latin
Music Conference to resounding success, the One-on-One sessions once again
offered up-and-coming artists and other attendees the opportunity to interact
directly with the Latin music industry’s top executives and thought leaders at
this year’s conference 2015 Billboard Latin Music Conference.
The sessions took place on Monday, April
27 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach in Miami, prior to the
Billboard Latin Music Marketing Awards. This year’s stellar roster featured Bryant
Pino of SiriusXM, Elisabeth Bohlmann of InPulse Digital, Johnny Phillips of
Select-O-Hits, Jeff Young of Venetian Marketing Group, and Tracey Gill of CD
Baby, Yvonne Drazan of peermusic, entertainment attorney Alexander P. Hartnett,
and Kevin “Pills” Montano of Creative Media Group.
TV actress Gaby Espino and renowned Mexican singer-actor Pedro Fernandez will co-host the 2015 Billboard Latin Music Awards, presented by State Farm.
The longest-running and most prestigious awards show in the Latin music world will be produced and broadcast live by Telemundo tonight at 7pm/6c live from BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Florida.
Confirmed performers for the show so far include finalists J Balvin, Carlos Vives and Daddy Yankee, as well as special honorees Roberto Carlos (who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award) and Carlos Santana who’ll receive the Spirit of Hope Award.
Espino, one of Telemundo’s leading soap opera actresses, has also hosted Telemundo’s youth award show Premios Tu Mundo since its inception in 2012.
Fernandez, who came to fame as a child actor and singer in the '70s, is established as one of the leading interpreters of Mexican music and is also a coach in Telemundo’s current season of La Voz Kids, along with Daddy Yankee and Natalia Jimenez.
The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor the most popular albums, songs, and performers in Latin music, as determined by the actual sales, radio airplay, streaming and social data that informs Billboard's weekly charts. Topping the list of this year’s finalists are Romeo Santos (21 entries), Enrique Iglesias (19), J Balvin (12), Marc Anthony (7), Drake (7), Descemer Bueno (6), Gente de Zona (6), Julion Alvarez y Su Norteño Banda (6), Farruko (6) and Banda Sinaloense MS de Sergio Lizarraga (6).
The event is the culmination of the Billboard Latin Music Conference, now in its 26th year and under the slogan “The Top Artists, The Top Trends, The Top Names in Music.” The conference is the biggest and longest-running event dedicated to Latin music in the world and took place April 27-30, 2015 at The Ritz-Carlton in Miami Beach, Florida.
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