Premios Nuestra Tierra

The Premios Nuestra Tierra or Our Country Awards  is an annual Colombian music award show. They have a format similar to that of the Grammy Awards, but restricted to the Colombian scope. The first Premios Nuestra Tierra were held in 2007. From 2015 through 2019 the show was discontinued for unknown reasons, until 2020 when they returned.

History 
The awards began in 2007 and were created by Blanca Luz Holguín, Fernán Martínez and Alejandro Villalobos with the purpose of encouraging Colombian artists and trying to encourage new Colombian singers so that the music industry in Colombia has much greater movement.

In 2008 and 2009 Movistar bought half of the proposal that was renamed "Premios Movistar nuestra tierra" in order to promote its other colombian project "Movistar Radio". Since 2010 the prizes have been renamed "premios nuestra tierra" without any sponsored.

On May 16, 2020, after seven years since the last award ceremony, the ninth edition is held.

Method of choice 
The winners are chosen through an association that has the organization of the awards, where directors participate, some representatives of the Colombian record companies and executives of RCN and Caracol Radio.

Trophy 
The current award is a heart with musical notes around and a crown at the top representing the heart of Jesus. 

At first the trophy was a plaque that symbolized the signs that Colombian public buses put to inform people where they are going, however, they realized that the plaque was very uncomfortable, and was later modernize to the current one.

Categories 

General

 Best Song of the Year
 Best Artist of the Year.
 Best Album of the Year.
 Best New Artist. 
 Best Producer.

Tropical Pop

 Best Tropical Pop Interpretation.
 Best Tropical Pop Artist of the Year.

Pop

 Best Pop Artist of the Year
 Best Pop Song

Urban

 Best Urban Song of the Year
 Best Urban Artist

Alternative

 Best Alternative Artist
 Better Alternative Interpretation

Vallenato

 Best Performance 
 Best Artist

Tropical

 Best Solo Artist or Tropical Group
 Best Tropical Interpretation

Folkloric

 Best Solo Artist or Folkloric Group of the Year
 Best Performance

Videos

 Best Video for Artist
 Best Music for TV
 Best Movie Soundtrack:

Popular (colombian popular music)

 Best Artist of the year
 Best Song of the Year:

Christian

 Best Christian Song
 Best Christian Artist:

Públic

 Best Interpretation of the Public
 Best Public Artist
 Best Fan Club:

Digital

 Best Website: 
 Twitterer of the Year
 Best DJ:

Records

Most wins
The record for most Premios Nuestra Tierra won is held by J Balvin with 30 awards. The record for most Premios Nuestra Tierra won by a female artist belongs to Karol G with 11 awards. The record for most wins for a group belongs to ChocQuibTown, who have collected 8 awards.

Most wins in a single ceremony
The record for the most Premios Nuestra Tierra won in a single year is held by Juanes and J Balvin in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

Silvestre Dangond (in 2009) and Carlos Vives (in 2013 and 2014) follow with 6 awards. Additionally Fonseca (in 2007), Andrés Cepeda (in 2010), J Balvin (in 2020) and Karol G (in 2022) follow with 5 awards won in a single year.

 Juanes: 8 (2008)
 J Balvin: 8 (2012)

See also

 Latin American television awards

References

External links 

 Web official

Colombian music awards
Latin American television awards
Pages with unreviewed translations