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MIAMI - New York-based Dominican band Aventura was the big winner of Latin music's "Premio Lo Nuestro" awards Thursday, taking home four prizes that included best tropical band, best album and best song of the year.
Puerto Rican merengue star Olga Tanon followed with three awards: tropial merengue artist of the year, female tropical artist of the year and a lifetime achievement award for her 20-year career.
Mexican groups Mana and Camila each received two awards, as did Dominican bachata king Juan Luis Guerra and Puerto Rico's Winsin and Yandel.
Ricky Martin, who was nominated in three categories, won best pop album of the year for "Ricky Martin MTV Unplugged." Chayanne won best male pop artist of the year. Jennifer Lopez won for best solo pop singer, and her husband, Marc Anthony, received salsa artist of the year.
"Premio Lo Nuestro" annually hands out awards in 32 categories in five areas of Latin music: pop, tropical, Mexican regional, rock and urban. It also awards the best video of the year, this year "Impact" by Daddy Yankee.
Groups and singers are selected from lists compiled by radio and records magazine. Winners are chosen by the public in a vote on Univision Communications Inc.'s Web site.
Mexican actor and singer Vicente Fernandez also received a special award Mexican actor Vicente Fernandez, who with Tañón presented a show at the ceremony televised live on the U.S. channel Univision.
The "king of ranchera," who has produced more than 100 albums, 25 films, and is among the artists to have received the most Premio Lo Nuestro nominations, received the excellence award for his dedication during a 45-year artistic career.
The ceremony was broadcast live from the American Airlines Arena and hosted by the legendary singer and actor Pedro Fernandez, winner of nine Premios Lo Nuestros, and Paty Navidad, a banda singer twice-nominated twice for the awards.
The television broadcast began with artists on the red carpet, and the three-hour show featured performances by Adentura, Pepe Aguilar, AB Quintanilla III Presents Kumbia II Allstarz, Elvis Crespo, Gloria Estefan, Vicente Fernandez, Juanes, Mana, Tañón, and Martin, among others.
Aventura, who gained stardom with his super production "Obsession," triumphed in four of the five categories in which he was nominated, among them best tropical group and best traditional tropical artist. His album "K.O.B" won big in the tropical category, where it competed with "Arroz con habichuela" by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, "Haciendo historia" by Xtreme, "La llave de mi corazón" by Guerra, and "Soy como tú" by Tañón.
In the tropical category, the song "Mi corazoncito" by Aventura won over "Infieles," also by Aventura, "La otra" by Ilegales con Alexandra, "Que me des tu cariño" by Guerra and "Shorty Shortys" by Xtreme.
Dominican artist Guerra, who like Aventura was nominated in five categories, became famous as a tropical artist and then as a rock artist with the Mexican band Mana and the hit song "Belinda tu luz."
Mana also won the award for rock artist of the year.
The 2007 awards show was seen by more than 11 million viewers, according to the organizers.
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