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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Juan Luis Guerra to receive honors from recording industry
Dominican singer/songwriter Juan Luis Guerra will receive Person of the Year honors from the Latin Recording Academy (LRA). The 50-year-old musician will be recognized during the Latin Grammys on November 7th not only for his music but also for his “professional, financial, and cultural” contributions according to a statement from the LRA.
Guerra is a musical jack of all trades whose style blends different types of genres such as salsa, gospel and meringue.Last year he recorded “Bendita Luz” along with famed Mexican rockeros Maná which we include below (video link):
Sources (English)- Los Angeles Times – The Envelope, YouTube
2 comments:
JLG was born in 1957. He is 50 years old not 41.
Duly noted. Typo on my part. The post has been corrected.
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