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. 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.
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".
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 Songwriter(s) Work Performing artist(s) Nominees Ref.2000 Fito Páez Fito Páez 2001 Juanes Juanes 2002 Juanes Juanes 2003 Juanes Juanes 2004 Emmanuel del Real "Eres" Café Tacuba 2005 Juanes Juanes 2006 Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Cerati 2007 Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Cerati 2008 Rubén Albarrán, Emmanuel del Real, Enrique Rangel & Joselo Rangel Café Tacvba 2009 Saúl Hernández Jaguares 2010 Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Cerati 2011 León Larregui and Zoé Zoé 2012 Roberto Musso "Cuando Sea Grande" El Cuarteto de Nos 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" Vicentico2016 Flavio Cianciarulo "La Tormenta" Los Fabulosos Cadillacs 2017 Juan Galeano "Déjala Rodar" Diamante Eléctrico Andrés Calamaro "La Noche" Andrés Calamaro2018 Fito Páez "Tu Vida Mi Vida" Fito Páez 2019 Andrés Calamaro and German Wiedemer "Verdades Afiladas" Andrés Calamaro 2020 Mon Laferte "Biutiful" Mon Laferte 2021 Vicentico "Ahora 1" Vicentico 2022 Fito Páez "Lo Mejor de Nuestras Vidas" Fito Páez 2023 Juan Galeano "Leche de Tigre" Diamante Eléctrico featuring Adrian Quesada 2024 Jesús Quintero & Draco Rosa "No Me Preguntes (Live)" Draco Rosa 2025 Nicole Shirel Davidovich, RENEE & Pablo Stipicic "La Torre" RENEE Fito Páez "Sale el Sol" Fito Páez
Each year is linked to the article about the Latin Grammy Awards held that year. The performing artist is only listed but does not receive the award. Showing the name of the songwriter(s), the nominated song and in parentheses the performer's name(s).
See also Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Album Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year Lo Nuestro Award for Rock/Alternative Song of the Year
References
External links Official site of the Latin Grammy Awards