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03-11-2008, 04:10 PM
Dominican singer/songwriter continued to collect hardware yesterday as he was awarded the Soberano at last night's Casandra Ceremony, presented by Acroarte, the local show business critics association. The Casandra is the Dominican artistic community's night of awards. Guerra took the opportunity to thank God, his wife and children and all the musicians who have accompanied him during his career. Guerra won in six of the seven categories he was nominated for, including Album of the Year, Best Video Clip, Best Song, Best Foreign Artist, Best Composer and Arrangement of the Year. Also receiving prizes at the annual awards was Hector 'El Torito' Acosta, who was awarded two Casandras for Bachata of the Year and Band of the Year. His colleague "El Jeffrey" was awarded Merengue of the Year and Aventura won the Popular Foreign Group award. Also receiving recognition last night was TV host Jatnna Tavarez and film maker Alfonso Rodriguez. The awards "Casandra al Merito" were given to musician Fernando Echavarria and salsa singer Jose "El Canario" Alberto. International Casandras were given out to Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario, Israel Lopez and Colombian singer Juanes. Dominican- American artist Kat de Luna was awarded the Revelation of the Year, Kiko "El Presidente" received the prize for best "Tipico" Band of the Year, Zacarias Ferreira was honored with Bachata Group of the Year, Jackeline Estevez was honored for Female Vocalist of the Year while Wason Brazoban won best male vocalist of the year. Sex Appeal was recognized as Salsa performer of the Year, Calor Urbano was awarded Rock Group of the Year, Ivan Tejada was honored as Choreographer of the Year while Nancy Amancio was awarded Religious Performer of the Year. Fausto Mata received the award for Comedian of the Year.
For the list of winning performers, see http://dr1.com/news/2008/031108_CasandraAwards.shtml.
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For the list of winning performers, see http://dr1.com/news/2008/031108_CasandraAwards.shtml.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#15)