The Premio Lo Nuestro Gala will take place this Thursday, February 23rd

This Wednesday, the TelevisaUnivision network is making final preparations for the Premio Lo Nuestro award ceremony, which will take place on Thursday in Miami and where Colombian Sebastián Yatra starts as the favorite with 10 nominations.

The number 35 this annual allocation of popular votes, which will be held in Miami-Dade Arena, Puerto Rican Bad Bunny, Colombian Camila, American-Mexican Becky G and Mexican band Grupo Firme are among the favorites, all with nine nominations.

Between 192 candidates of this year’s, which “cover all genres of Latin music within 39 categories”, according to the organizers, Colombian Maluma and Puerto Ricans appear with eight nominations. Ozuna and Daddy Yankee.

As the organization reports on its social networks, rehearsals have been going on for the last few days for this ceremony, which will be led by actress and beauty queen Alejandra Espinoza, who will be accompanied by Adrián Uribe, Yatra and the Mexican Pauline Rubio.

Likewise, on the stage of the Coliseum in the city, distinguished personalities such as Marc Anthony, who has four nominations in this edition, and Malum, who will perform the latest joint single “La formula”, will perform. Miami.

The gala will begin with a tribute to salsa legend Víctor Manuelle, who will receive recognition for a career spanning more than three decades. His colleagues and genre icons Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jerry Rivera, Noel Schajris, Norberto Vélez and Tito Nieves will take the stage to introduce and pay tribute to him.

Another figure, in this case a music rancher like Pepe Aguilar, will be present at these awards, where he has already won thirteen times, and this year he was nominated in three categories.

Aguilar, together with Grupo Firme, will honor the winner of this year’s Lo Nuestro Award for Excellence: the band Intocable.

During the ceremony, Sebastián Yatra, Prince Royce, Gloria Trevi, Paulina Rubio and Christian Nodal will be in charge of live performances, as well as regional Mexican band La Adictiva, Argentine pop singer Tini and regional Mexican singer Lupita Infante.

As TelevisaUnivision confirmed last week, Puerto Rican rapper Álvaro Díaz, singer-songwriter Elena Rose and Argentinian sensation Tiago PZK will “join forces in this year’s new artists segment,” while producer Maffio will join duo Genta on stage. de Zona for a “fun interpretation” of the song “Tell me about Miami”.

The South Florida city will also be honored at this party latin music Venezuelans Mau and Ricky, who have two nominations this year and will debut their latest single, “Miami”, on television.

Puerto Rican Ozuna promises to confront the public with his presentation greatest hits, as pointed out by the Premio Lo Nuestro organization whose voting ended on February 5.

The ceremony will be broadcast live on Univision Network starting at 19:00 local time (00:00 GMT on February 24), and simultaneously on Galavisión in the United States and Channel 5 in Mexico.