Barrera leads Latin Grammy nods
…dgar Barrera — the producer and songwriter known for his work with artists like Madonna,
Karol G, Peso Pluma, Shakira and Grupo Frontera — leads the 2023 Latin Grammy nominations with 13.
The Latin Recording Academy announced this year’s nominees in a livestream Tuesday.
Barerra is nominated for best pop song, record, album, songwriter and producer of the year — and has two nominations in the song of the year category. He also has three nods apiece in the best tropical song and best regional song categories.
Just behind him are some of his collaborators, like Karol G, Shakira and Camilo. They have seven nods each, as does Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, the Colombian songwriter who works under the moniker Keityn.Argentine record producer Bizarrap, known for his Bzrp Music Sessions, has six.
Barrera and Moreno are also nominated in the songwriter of the year category alongside Felipe González Abad, Manuel Lorente Freire, Horacio Palencia and Elena Rose.
The 24th Latin Grammy Awards will take place Nov. 16 in Spain.
There are 11 nominees in the record of the year category, including Christina Aguilera, Rosalía, Natalia Lafourcade, Maluma and Marc Anthony. Vying for album of the year are Pablo Alborán, Camilo, Karol G, Juanes and Carlos Vives.
Song of the year nominees include Lasso’s
“Ojos Marrones,” Grupo Frontera featuring Bad Bunny’s “Un X100to,” and Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola.” Shakira holds three of the 10 nominations in the category: “Acróstico,” “TQG” by Karol G and Shakira, and “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53” by Bizarrap featuring Shakira.
Oprah picks ‘Wellness’ for book club:
For her latest book club pick, Oprah Winfrey broke the news to author Nathan Hill by arranging with his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, to pop up during a video conference meeting.
In the video, Hill is chatting with his publicist about “Wellness,” a 600-page narrative about an embattled married couple in Chicago that came out this week. A new box appears and there is Winfrey, holding Hill’s novel in front of her.
“I have an idea, why not choose it for Oprah’s book club?” she says.
“You’re kidding,” an astonished Hill responds.
“What. A. Book!” Winfrey tells him, adding that the novel made her nostalgic for Chicago, where she used to film her talk show.
“Wellness” is Winfrey’s 102nd book club pick and the first since Abraham Verghese’s “The Covenant of Water” in May.
Grande officially splits from Gomez:
Ariana Grande and estranged husband Dalton Gomez officially filed to dissolve their marriage Monday.
The Grammy winner cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for ending the two-year marriage. Gomez filed his response swiftly, in what reportedly was a coordinated effort set up prior to the filing. According to TMZ, the couple has a prenuptial agreement in place.
Their date of separation was documented as Feb. 20. They married at her California home in May 2021 after a fivemonth engagement.