Alcibiades Antonio Acosta Agudelo (June 14, 1965 in
Soledad, Atlántico
Soledad () is a municipality in the Colombian department of Atlántico, part of the metropolitan area of Barranquilla. It is 6th in population in Colombia and 3rd in the Caribbean region, after Barranquilla and Cartagena. It is also the city ...
,
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
) is a Colombian folk singer.
Biography
Acosta is the son of
Alci Acosta
Alci Acosta (born Alcibiades Alfonso Acosta Cervantes on 5 November 1938) is a Colombian bolero singer, pianist, and performer of Latin American music including pasillos, corridos, valses, and rancheras.
Acosta is a highly successful artis ...
.
Discography
*1989 - ''Sencillamente''
*1990 - ''Camino Real''
*1992 - ''De Colombia''
*1993 - ''Con Sabor Y Sentimiento''
*1995 - ''Que Viva el Amor ''
*1996 - ''Esta de Moda''
*1997 - ''Herencia''
*1999 - ''Checomania''
*2000 - ''Checazos de Carnaval''
*2007 - ''15 Anos De Exitos''
*2009 - ''El folclor de mi tierra''
*2013 - ''Checumbias''
Awards
*Nominated
Latin Grammy Awards of 2007
The 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards took place on Thursday, November 8, 2007, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show aired on Univision. Juan Luis Guerra was the night's big winner, winning 5 awards including Album of the ...
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Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album: (''Checazos De Carnaval 3'')
*Nominated
Latin Grammy Awards of 2010
The 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held on Thursday, November 11, 2010, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the third time the annual event had taken place at this location. The eligibility period for recordings t ...
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Best Folk Album
The Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the folk genre. Honors in several ...
: (''El Folclor de Mi Tierra'')
External links
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Official Website
1965 births
Colombian musicians
Living people
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