The Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical 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 was first presented to Juan Luis Guerra for the song "El Niágara en Bicicleta" at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards held in 2000. He is also the most awarded performer in this category, winning on every occasion he's been nominated, a total of five times. His song "La Llave de mi Corazón" also won the award for Song of the Year in 2007, becoming the first tropical song to do so. Apart from Guerra other multiple winners include Sergio George and Jorge Villamizar, both with two wins.
Colombian songwriters have won this award a total of seven times, more than any other nationality. It has been won by songwriters from the Dominican Republic six times, the United States three times and Puerto Rico once.
Winners and nominees
Year Songwriter(s) Work Performing artist(s) Nominees Ref.2000 Juan Luis Guerra Juan Luis Guerra 440 2001 Kike Santander Gisselle 2002 Andrés Castro, Martín Madera & Carlos Vives Carlos Vives 2003 Sergio George & Jorge Villamizar Bacilos 2004 Sergio George & Fernando Osorio Celia Cruz 2005 Juan Luis Guerra Juan Luis Guerra 440 2006 Fonseca Fonseca 2007 Juan Luis Guerra Juan Luis Guerra 440 2008 Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Estefan, Alberto Gaitán & Ricardo Gaitán Gloria Estefan 2009 Jorge Luis Piloto & Jorge Villamizar Luis Enrique 2010 Juan Luis Guerra Juan Luis Guerra 440 2011 Calle 13 Calle 132012 Yoel Henríquez & Alex Puentes Milly Quezada and Juan Luis Guerra2013 Andrés Castro & Carlos Vives "Volví a Nacer" Carlos Vives2014 Andrés Castro & Carlos Vives "Cuando Nos Volvamos a Encontrar" Carlos Vives featuring Marc Anthony 2015 Juan Luis Guerra "Tus Besos" Juan Luis Guerra 2016 Omar Alfanno, Fonseca & Yadam González Cárdenas "Vine A Buscarte" Fonseca 2017 Vicente García "Bachata en Kingston" Vicente García 2018 Juan Luis Guerra, Juan Carlos Luces & Víctor Manuelle "Quiero Tiempo" Víctor Manuelle featuring Juan Luis Guerra 2019Juan Luis Guerra"Kitipun"Juan Luis Guerra 4.402020 Rubén Blades & Carlos Vives "Canción para Rubén" Carlos Vives & Rubén Blades2021 Camilo, David Julca, Jonathan Julca, Yasmil Marrufo & Ricardo Montaner "Dios Así lo Quiso" Ricardo Montaner & Juan Luis Guerra 2022 Marc Anthony & Álvaro Lenier Mesa "Mala" Marc Anthony 2023 Fonseca, Yadam González & Yoel Henríquez "Si Tú Me Quieres" Fonseca & Juan Luis Guerra 2024 Juan Luis Guerra "Mambo 23" Juan Luis Guerra 2025 Edgar Barrera, Andres Jael Correa Rios & Karol G "Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido" Karol G
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 Song of the Year Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album
References
General Note: User must select the "Tropical Field" category as the genre under the search feature.
Specific
External links Official website of the Latin Grammy Awards