Manuel Alejandro Accepts the Premio Lo Nuestro Visionario

Manuel Alejandro won the Visionary Award on the Premio Lo Nuestro 2025 rite. At 92 years outdated, the Spanish musician, arranger, and manufacturer used to be known on Thursday (Feb. 20) for his six-decade occupation, right through which he has written greater than 500 songs and labored with iconic romantic crooners together with José José, Rocío Jurado, and Julio Iglesias, amongst many others.

The artist used to be known with a chic and shifting presentation during which Alejandro Sanz, Niña Pastori, Carín León and Laura Pausini, with Edgar Barrera at the piano and an orchestra, carried out his classics “Procuro Olvidarte,” “Qué Sabe Nadie,” “Dueño de Nada” and “Mi Amante Amigo,” respectively, ahead of becoming a member of their voiced for “Como Yo Te Amo.”

“For me this can be a nice birthday celebration, as a result of since I began in The usa such a lot of years in the past, this gorgeous The usa, I spotted that the power of yours, of its other folks, ended once they heard a love track,” mentioned Manuel Alejandro, hoarse however beaming with pleasure. “So, the one factor I did my complete existence used to be delve deep, pay attention on your vibrations, your inner most emotions, and write them down verbatim. Not anything extra.”

Born in Jerez de l. a. Frontera–Cádiz in 1932, Manuel Álvarez-Beigbeder Pérez (his actual title) has track in his blood, as his father used to be famend composer Germán Álvarez Beigbeder.

Within the Seventies, he accomplished luck because the creator of probably the most emblematic songs for Raphael: “Yo Soy Aquel,” “Cuando Tú No Estás,” and “Cierro Mis Ojos,” to call a couple of. He endured to put in writing nice hits that decade for voices like Libertad Lamarque, Pedro Vargas, Julio Iglesias, Rocío Jurado, “El Puma” José Luis Rodríguez, and extra. Within the 80s and 90s, he additionally wrote and produced for stars similar to Emmanuel, José José, Isabel Pantoja, and Plácido Domingo.

“I proportion this award with magnificent songwriters similar to this boy right here, Edgar Barrera, who a couple of days in the past receiving a Grammy discussed me as a job type,” he added. “I additionally proportion it with the ones composers that you simply all know, like Roberto Cantoral or Armando Manzanero, who accompanied me alongside easy methods to get right here.”

Different two artists won particular awards this yr: Los angeles India, who used to be venerated with the Premio Lo Nuestro Lifetime Fulfillment Award, and Alejandro Fernández with the Premio Lo Nuestro Excellence Award.

Broadcasting are living from the Kaseya Middle in Miami, the 2025 Premio Lo Nuestro rite is co-hosted by means of Laura Pausini, Thalia, and Alejandra Espinoza. Becky G & Carin León lead the listing of nominations with 10 nods each and every. They’re adopted by means of Shakira and Myke Towers, with 9 nods each and every; and Ángela Aguilar, Emilia, Grupo Frontera and Leonardo Aguilar, with 8 nominations each and every.

This yr, the gala’s theme is “Uniendo Generaciones” (Uniting Generations), honoring the artists, songs, and albums that attach the previous, provide, and long run of Latin track.