This is a list of notable events in
Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese language, Portuguese and es, música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America (including Music of Spain, Spain and Portuguese music, Portugal) ...
(i.e. music from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas Latin America, Latin Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2002.
Events
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September 18
Events Pre-1600
* 96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.
* 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor a ...
The
3rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards are held at the
Kodak Theatre
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in Los Angeles.
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Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, better known as Alejandro Sanz (; born 18 December 1968), is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. Sanz has won 22 Latin Grammy Awards and four Grammy Awards. He has received the Latin Grammy for Latin Grammy Awar ...
wins the Latin Grammy Awards for
Song of the Year and
Record of the Year
The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without reg ...
for "Y Sólo Se Me Ocurre Amarte" and
Album of the Year for ''
MTV Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is an American television series on MTV showcasing musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments. The show aired regularly from 1989 to 1999 and less frequently from 2000 to 2009, when it was usually billed as ''MTV Un ...
''.
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Jorge Moreno
Jorge Moreno is a Cuban-American musician and entrepreneur whose career has ranged from winner of the 2002 Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist,Best New Artist
The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year. The award was not presented in 1967. The official guidelines are as ...
.
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Vicente Fernández
Vicente Fernández Gómez (17 February 1940 – 12 December 2021) was a Mexican singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer. Nicknamed "Chente" (short for Vicente), "El Charro de Huentitán" (The Charro from Huentitán), "El Ídolo de México ...
is honored as the
Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
The Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year is an award presented annually by the Latin Recording Academy, the same organization that distributes the Latin Grammy Awards, to commend musicians of Ibero-American heritage for their "artistic ach ...
.
Bands formed
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Arcuri Overthrow (Venezuela)
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Asesino
Asesino (Spanish for "assassin" or "murderer") is an American deathgrind supergroup and a side project of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Min ...
(Mexico)
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Cali Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia)
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El Efecto (Brazil)
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El Hombre Misterioso (Peru)
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El Sueño de Morfeo
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American p ...
(Spain)
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Mambrú
Mambrú was a male pop group from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They saw both local and international success from 2002 until 2005 when they disbanded. The group's debut album, released in October 2002, had become a triple platinum record by 2003. Duri ...
(Argentina)
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Mercadonegro (Chile)
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Trazendo a Arca
Trazendo a Arca is a Christian band from Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biography
The group was formed in 2002 in the Church Ministério Apascentar. In 2003 they released the album entitled Restitution, which sold over a million copies, ...
(Brazil)
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Tribalistas (Brazil)
Bands disbanded
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Flema
Flema is an Argentine punk rock band, that managed to find a unique style in South America, among others. The last configuration of the band was: Ricky Espinosa (Vocals and Guitar), Fernando Rossi (Bass), Luis Garibaldo (Guitar), and Pepe Carvallo ...
(Argentina)
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Mujeres Encinta (international)
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Tijuana No!
Tijuana No! is a Mexican ska, Rock music, rock and Punk rock, punk band from Tijuana, Baja California, México. The band is considered a punk rock, ska band in Mexico and influenced by The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols and Black Flag. In ...
(Mexico)
Number-ones albums and singles by country
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List of number-one albums of 2002 (Spain)
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List of number-one singles of 2002 (Spain)
This is a list of the Spanish Singles number-ones of 2002.
Chart history
See also
*2002 in music
*List of number-one hits (Spain)
References
{{Spanish number-one hits
Lists of number-one songs in Spain, 2002
2002 record charts, Spain Si ...
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List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2002
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List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 2002
This is a list containing the ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Tracks
The ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs (formerly Hot Latin Tracks and Hot Latin 50) is a record chart in the United States for Latin songs, published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. Sin ...
Awards
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2002 Latin Grammy Awards
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2002 Premio Lo Nuestro
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2002 ''Billboard'' Latin Music Awards
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2002 Tejano Music Awards
Albums released
First quarter
January
February
March
Second quarter
April
May
June
Third quarter
July
August
September
Fourth quarter
October
November
December
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Best-selling records
Best-selling albums
The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums in the United States in 2002, according to ''
Billboard
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''.
Best-performing songs
The following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2002, according to ''Billboard''.
Births
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March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a t ...
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Júlia Gomes, actress and singer
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May 3
Events Pre-1600
* 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
* 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
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MC Pedrinho, singer
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May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
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Maisa Silva
Maisa da Silva Andrade (born 22 May 2002) is a Brazilian television presenter and actress. She first gained fame for hosting the children's TV program ''Bom Dia & Cia'' from the age of six years old, and for playing the role of Valéria Ferrei ...
, singer, TV hostess and actress
Deaths
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January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
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Juan García Esquivel
Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often known mononymously as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisti ...
, 83, Mexican band leader, pianist and composer
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March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off ...
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Wilson Fonseca, Brazilian composer, conductor and writer
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June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
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Carmelo Bernaola
Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (16 July 1929 5 June 2002) was a Spanish composer and clarinetist from Basque Country. A member of the Generation of '51, he was one of the most influential composers in the Spanish musical scene of the second half of t ...
, 72, Spanish composer and clarinetist
[Luis Mazorra Incera,]
Carmelo Bernaola
. ''Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia''. .p. Fondo Bernardo Estornés Lasa, 2009.
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December 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköpi ...
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El Carrao de Palmarito
Juan de los Santos Contreras; April 7, 1928 – December 10, 2002), was a Venezuelan singer. He was a llanero, specialising in the music of the Orinoco floodplains. He was better known by his stage name El Carrao de Palmarito which identifies hi ...
, 74, Venezuelan llanero singer
References
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Latin music by year