Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song

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Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
Awarded forquality rock music songs
CountryUnited States
Presented by The Latin Recording Academy
First awarded2000
Currently held byJuan Galeano for "Leche de Tigre" (2023)
Website latingrammy.com

The Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. [1] The award is reserved to the songwriters of a new song containing at least 51% of the lyrics in Spanish. Instrumental recordings or cover songs are not eligible. Songs in Portuguese may be entered in the Brazilian field. [2]

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The award has been given every year since the 1st Latin Grammy Awards ceremony being presented to the Argentine singer-songwriter Fito Páez with the song "Al Lado del Camino". [3]

The award has been presented to songwriters originating from Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. Colombian musician Juanes is the biggest winner in this category, having won in all the four occasions he's been nominated for (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005). Other multiple winners are Gustavo Cerati with three wins out of four nominations; and Emmanuel de Real of Café Tacvba and Juan Galeano of Diamante Eléctrico, both winning twice. Beto Cuevas holds the record for most nominations without a win with four.

Recipients

Year [I] Songwriter(s)WorkPerforming artist(s) [II] Nominees [III] Ref.
2000 Fito Páez "Al Lado del Camino" Fito Páez
[3]
2001 Juanes "Fíjate Bien" Juanes
[4]
2002 Juanes "A Dios le Pido" Juanes
[5]
2003 Juanes "Mala Gente" Juanes
[6]
2004 Emmanuel del Real "Eres" Café Tacuba
[7]
2005 Juanes "Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor" Juanes
  • Beto Cuevas – "Bienvenido Al Anochecer" (La Ley)
  • Martin Chan and JD Natasha – "Lágrimas" (JD Natasha)
  • Fito Páez – "Polaroid de Ordinaria Locura" (Fito Páez)
  • J. L. Abreu and Egui Santiago – "Un Accidente" (Circo)
 [8]
2006 Gustavo Cerati "Crimen" Gustavo Cerati
[9]
2007 Gustavo Cerati "La Excepción" Gustavo Cerati
  • Bruno Bressa, Chalo Galván and Gerardo Galván – "Monitor" (Volován)
  • Arturo Arredondo, José Madero Vizcaíno, Ricardo Treviño and Jorge Vázquez – "Narcisista por excelencia " performed by (Panda)
  • Gustavo F. Napoli – "Un Dia No Vuelvo A Empezar" (La Renga)
  • Roberto Musso – "Yendo A La Casa de Damian" (El Cuarteto de Nos)
 [10]
2008 Rubén Albarrán,
Emmanuel del Real,
Enrique Rangel,
Joselo Rangel 		"Esta Vez" Café Tacvba
[11]
2009 Saúl Hernández "Entre Tus Jardines" Jaguares
[12]
2010 Gustavo Cerati "Déjà Vu" Gustavo Cerati
  • Chetes – "Arena" (Chetes)
  • Sebastián Franco, Jesús Herrera, Amauri Sepúlveda, Diego Suárez and Marcos Zavala – "Cárcel" (Bengala)
  • Bruno Albano Naughton, Luis G. Balcarce, Guido Colzani, Daniel Melero, Tomas Putruele, Diego "Uma" Rodriguez, Tuta Torres and Patricio Troncos – "Lo Comandas" (Banda de Turistas)
  • Andrés Calamaro – "Los Divinos" (Andrés Calamaro)
 [13]
2011 León Larregui and Zoé "Labios Rotos" Zoé
[14]
2012 Roberto Musso"Cuando Sea Grande" El Cuarteto de Nos
  • Manuel Diquez – "Anti Idolo" (Manuel Diquez)
  • Leo Felipe Campos & Ulises Hadjis – "Dónde Va" (Ulises Hadjis)
  • Doctor Krápula – "Exigimos" (Doctor Krápula)
  • Luis Jiménez – "Indeleble" (Los Mesoneros)
 [15]
2013 Cachorro López and Vicentico "Creo Que Me Enamoré" Vicentico
2014 Andrés Calamaro "Cuando No Estás" Andrés Calamaro
2015 Cachorro López and Vicentico "Esclavo de Tu Amor" Vicentico
2016 Flavio Cianciarulo "La Tormenta" Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
[16]
2017 Juan Galeano"Déjala Rodar" Diamante Eléctrico
Andrés Calamaro "La Noche" Andrés Calamaro
2018 Fito Páez "Tu Vida Mi Vida" Fito Páez
2019 Andrés Calamaro and German Wiedemer"Verdades Afiladas" Andrés Calamaro
2020 Mon Laferte "Biutiful" Mon Laferte
[17]
2021 Vicentico "Ahora 1"Vicentico
 [18]
2022 Fito Páez "Lo Mejor de Nuestras Vidas"Fito Páez
  • Eruca Sativa – "Día Mil" (Eruca Sativa)
  • Bunbury – "Esperando una Señal" (Bunbury)
  • Juan Manuel Latorre – "Finisterre" (Vetusta Morla)
  • Molotov – "No Olvidamos" (Molotov)
  • WOS & Facundo Yalve – "QUE SE MEJOREN" (WOS)
 [19]
2023 Juan Galeano"Leche de Tigre" Diamante Eléctrico featuring Adrian Quesada
  • Andrés Giménez & Andreas Kisser, songwriters – "Depredadores" (De La Tierra)
  • Todo Aparenta Normal, songwriter – "El Piso es Lava" (Todo Aparenta Normal featuring An Espil & Evlay)
  • Juanes, songwriter – "Gris" (Juanes)
  • Arde Bogotá, songwriters – "Los Perros" (Arde Bogotá)
 [20]

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