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.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 19 — Joan Manuel Serrat is honored by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as the Person of the Year.
• November 20
  • 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
    • "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno wins Song of the Year.
    • "Universos Paralelos" by Jorge Drexler and Ana Tijoux wins Record of the Year.
    • Paco de Lucía posthumously wins Album of the Year for Canción Andaluza.
    • 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

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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.

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.

Deaths

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

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