MUSIC GROUPS LATIN
Alejandro Duque Leila Oliveira
PRESIDENT, WARNER MUSIC LATIN AMERICA
PRESIDENT, WARNER MUSIC BRAZIL Guillermo González Arévalo PRESIDENT, WARNER MUSIC IBERIA
Tomás Rodríguez
MANAGING DIRECTOR, WARNER MUSIC MEXICO Warner’s Latin Iberian team had a wildly creative year. Duque’s Warner Music
Latina teamed up with Warner Music Entertainment and Warner Chappell Music to produce the Amazon Prime Video series Melody, starring Warner Music Latina artists Yas Gagliardi and Sarah Lenore. González Arévalo announced a partnership with Yamaha in Spain, where the company will invest in high-end instruments for WMG Spain’s in-house recording studios, The Music Station. Warner Spain also hosted She Sounds, a three-day songwriting camp, conference and showcase for women. And in Mexico, Rodríguez signed up-and-comers Bellakath and Yng Lvcas, who entered the Hot 100 in April with the Peso Pluma collaboraton “La Bebe.”
Jesús López
CHAIRMAN/CEO, UNIVERSAL MUSIC LATIN AMERICA/IBERIAN PENINSULA
Paulo Lima
PRESIDENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC BRAZIL Alfredo Delgadillo
MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNIVERSAL MUSIC MEXICO
Narcis Rebollo Melcio PRESIDENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC IBERIAN PENINSULA
Victor González
PRESIDENT, VIRGIN MUSIC LATIN AMERICA & IBERIAN PENINSULA
“Universal Music Group has always been on the leading edge of developing world-class talent and has a knack for setting trends industrywide,” says López. The company began the year with a bang, when star Karol G became the first woman to place an all-Spanish-language album (Mañana Será Bonito) at No. 1 on the Billboard 200; it is only the third time an all-Spanish album has topped the chart. Feid’s recent meteoric rise to stardom included his first U.S. tour selling out in 2022, which he’s following up with an additional 30-plus-date run this year, while growing his Spotify followers from 470,000 to 4 million in a year. Colombian Sebastián Yatra also had a standout year, performing the Oscar-nominated “Dos Oruguitas” from Disney’s Encanto at the 2022 ceremony following his successful Dharma release and his “Tacones Rojos” remix alongside John Legend.
Afo Verde
CHAIRMAN/CEO, SONY MUSIC LATIN-IBERIA
Maria Fernandez
COO/EXECUTIVE VP, SONY MUSIC LATIN-IBERIA Damián Amato
PRESIDENT, SONY MUSIC SUR (ARGENTINA, CHILE, URUGUAY AND PARAGUAY)
José Maria Barbat
PRESIDENT, SONY MUSIC IBERIA
Paulo Junqueiro
PRESIDENT, SONY MUSIC BRAZIL
Roberto Lopez
PRESIDENT, SONY MUSIC MEXICO Fernando Cabral
EXECUTIVE VP OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, SONY MUSIC LATIN-IBERIA
Sony’s recent successes make a case for having and developing artists who cross borders. While newcomer Camilo cemented his success with a historic performance at Puerta de Alcalá in Madrid in front of 80,000 people last fall, veteran Shakira returned with hits like her “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53” with Bizarrap, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200. Then, of course, there’s Bizarrap himself, another global-charting phenom signed to indie label Dale Play, which has a partnership with
Sony. Elsewhere, Maluma kept churning out hits and performed for 50,000 in his native Medellín, Colombia, and star couple Rauw Alejandro and Rosalía are jointly topping charts with their collaborative EP, RR.