Lola Índigo has been recognized for the second time as the best Spanish artist by the public at the Europe Music Awards (EMA), the European awards on the MTV network that are awarded this Sunday. The singer and composer thus joins Amaral, El Canto del Loco and Enrique Iglesias in the still small list of artists who have won this award twice in their career, the recipient of which was announced moments before the ceremony held at the Co-Op Live in Manchester (United Kingdom).
Lola Índigo, who had already obtained it in 2019, when her career was still beginning to take off and who also came from also being one of the great winners this Friday at the Los40 Music Awards, has prevailed in the preferences of the MTV voting public over Dani Fernández, Mikel Izal, Belén Aguilera and Ana Mena.
It was in 2000 when the MTV network established this award for the best Spanish artist as part of its Europe Music Awards, which also distinguish the favorite music figures of the audience from other countries in which it is present. Since that year, in which Dover were chosen as the winners, the award has gone equally to La Oreja de Van Gogh, Enrique Bunbury, Auryn, La Excepción, Violadores del Verso, Russian Red, Miguel Bosé, Aitana, Bad Gyal or , in 2023, Samantha Hudson, the last to receive it.
Rosalía also wins the award
The other Spanish winner was the Catalan Rosalía, who, for her collaboration with the Thai Lisa on the song New Womanhas added a second trophy of these awards after the one it won in 2019, also in the Best Collaboration category, for with height with J Balvin. Even so, Rosalía was not present at a gala that, due to its large absences, has been considered “decaffeinated” by critics.
The video clip of New Womanbut this time the award went to Taylor Swift for the production that accompanied her song Fortnight with Post Malone. In addition to those two EMAs, Rosalía has four other Video Music Awards (VMAs), also awarded annually by the MTV network, but at a gala that takes place in the United States.
In the Best Song section, Espresso, by Sabrina Carpenter, has further rounded off its author’s great year by winning one of the main awards of an edition of the EMA that represents a return to normality after the suspension of the 2023 gala due to the attacks on Hamas in Israel . Among the performances at the MTV EMA 2024, those of Shawn Mendes, Benson Boone, Raye and The Pet Shop stand out
An absent Taylor Swift sweeps away
Although if there has been a winner in quantitative terms, it has been Taylor Swift. Of the seven nominations in which he had options, he has materialized four: Best live performance, Best artist, Best American artist and Best video for Fortnight with Post Malone.
The author of Bad Blood However, it has not won one of the big prizes, Best Song, which went to Sabrina Carpenter for her ubiquitous Espressowho has not come to pick him up either due to her professional commitments. Tyla has won three awards, the great sensation of the night in the absence of Swift.
The South African has won Best R&B Artist, Best Afrobeats and Best African Artist. After her, the aforementioned Lisa has won another award from her followers and Ariana Grande has won the EMA for Best Pop Artist. The k-pop band Le Sserafim has taken over the emerging ones.
The men have not left empty-handed. Benson Boone is gone with the Best New Artist trophy. Best Alternative Music Artist went to Imagine Dragons and Best Hip-Hop Artist went to Eminem. The award for Best Electronic Music Artist went to British DJ Calvin Harris and the K-Pop Music Award went to Jimin.
In the Best Latin Artist section, the Mexican Featherweight has won, beating some of the strongest fighters in this area, such as Karol G, Shakira, Bad Bunny, Anitta and Rauw Alejandro.
A gala in Manchester without Manchester artists
On a great night for women in terms of awards, among them Rosalía, with Taylor Swift again at the helm, absences like hers and even more so those of such emblematic groups from Manchester as Oasis have weakened the relevance of the first Europe Music Awards (EMAs) held in the cradle of that band that promoted the so-called britpop.
At the ceremony held this Sunday at the Co-Op Live in Manchester, some surprises were expected from the Gallaghers after confirming their long-awaited reunion on stage, especially when Liam has been awarded the award for best rock artist. But not. Not a thank you message by video, and the public has started with Wonderwall to invoke them.
For its part, MTV has decided to ignore the rich musical past of this active city in the north of England, which has seen the birth of many fundamental references in the history of pop such as The Smiths, New Order, Joy Division or The Chemical Brothers. Not a single mention has been made in the program.
At least there has been room for an involuntary absentee, since Liam Payne, the former member of One Direction who died a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires after falling from the third floor of his hotel, has received the emotional memory of this musical party in which He participated in 2017 as a solo artist. “He was always the first to offer help,” recalled Rita Ora, host of this event for the third time, very excited.
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