Manuel Alejandro, Jose Angel "Ferrusquilla" Espinosa,
Jose Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, Armando Manzanero, and Concha Valdez Miranda
are the first five songwriters to be honored by the recently created Latin
Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony presented in association with Billboard.
The composers, from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba,
will be inducted at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 23, at the New World Center in
Miami Beach. John Leguizamo will host the gala event, which takes place during
the Billboard Latin Music Conference.
Composer Desmond Child and composer/producer Rudy Perez,
co-founders of the hall, announced the inaugural inductees today (January 28)
at a press conference in Miami. Spanish pop singer/songwriter Natalia Jiménez
-- who will receive a special award for young songwriters, Jon Secada, and
members of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Board of Directors joined Perez
and Child for the announcement.
April's black-tie gala and subsequent Hall of Fame events will
"honor the world's greatest Latin songwriters and their music in every
genre."
A nominating committee made up of songwriters, performing
artists, musicians, producers, recording engineers, music critics and industry
executives will meet once a year to nominate twenty-four candidates from all
genres of Spanish and Portuguese-language music in the categories of Performing
Songwriters and Non-Performing Songwriters.
All members of the organization were eligible to vote for five
out of the twenty-four of the inaugural round of nominees.
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