This year’s Lucas awards ceremony – created 17 years ago to acknowledge the best of Cuban music production – was loaded with controversy, prompted by one of the year’s award recipients, filmmaker Ian Padron, who asked that the award selection process be reviewed.Īccording to Padron, who walked away with the Year’s Best Music Video Award, “it makes no sense for a music video whose editors, photographers and directors haven’t received any awards to be acknowledged this way.” The piece, sung by Cuban artist Descemer Bueno and the band Gente de Zona and featuring Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias, was defeated at Cuba’s 2014 Lucas awards by the local band Angeles and their unsophisticated Besando tu boca (“To Kiss Your Mouth”). The decision was as surprising as it was inexplicable. ![]() ![]() HAVANA TIMES - The super-hit Bailando (“Dancing”), selected Song of the Year at the 2014 Latin Grammys, whose official version has had over 567 million views on YouTube, has made it to the top of the list in all countries around the world save Cuba, where it was unable to secure the Most Popular Music Video of the year trophy. Photo: Yander Zamoraĭaniel Benitez (Café Fuerte) Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron (left) receiving the Year’s Best Music Video Award. Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron (left) receiving the Year’s Best Music Video Award.
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