The Billboard Latin Music Awards celebrates the year in music as well as sets the standard for the years to come. Check out this exclusive mix of nominated artists and songs from 2009. All the biggest names are represented – from pop stars like Nelly Furtado and Alejandro Fernandez, to reggaetón masters like Don Omar and Wisin & Yandel.
Track listing:
1. Alejandro Fernández – Se Me Va la Voz
2. Marco Antonio Solís – No Molestar
3. Wisin & Yandel – Abusadora
4. Nelly Furtado – Manos al Aire
5. Espinoza Paz – Lo Intentamos
6. Luis Fonsi – Aqui Estoy Yo
7. Jenni Rivera – Tu Camisa Puesta
8. Alejandro Sanz & Alicia Keys – Looking for Paradise
9. Banda el Recodo – Te Presumo
10. Don Omar – Virtual Diva
11. Maná – Si No Te Hubieras Ido
12. Calle 13 – Clean Los de Atrás Vienen Conmigo
13. Ednita Nazario – Sin Querer
14. Jencarlos – Amor Quédate

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“Indispensible, illuminating, and comprehensive.” –The Times (London) This has remained the best and most successful guide to classical music for more than forty years. Fully revised by its team of eminent authors and written with wit and passion, The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music offers reviews of all the latest releases as well as the finest established recordings.

About the Author

Ivan March is a well-known lecturer, journalist, and personality in the world of recorded music. Edward Greenfield was a music critic at The Guardian for forty years. Robert Layton is a journalist and broadcaster. Paul Czajkowski is the longtime editor of The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music.

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Korea Released Edition / 17 Tracks CD / Jewel Case / Manufactured and Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Korea / Made in Korea Feb. 2010 /

Track List:

01. Proud Mary
02. Endless Love
03. I’ll Stand By You
04. Don’t Stand So Close To Me / Young Girl
05. Crush
06. (You’re) Having My Baby
07. Lean On Me
08. Don’t Make Me Over
09. Imagine
10. True Colors
11. Jump
12. Smile (Cover of Lily Allen Song)
13. Smile (Cover of Charlie Chaplin Song)
14. And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going
15. Don’t Rain On My Parade
16. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
17. My Life Would Suck Without You

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Greenberg aims to recapture the raw flavor and psychological acuity of 1970s character portraits like Five Easy Pieces–but the character in question is completely of the moment. Neurotic and anxious Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) comes to L.A. to stay in his brother’s house, where he reconnects with old bandmates and falls, with painful awkwardness, into a relationship with his brother’s personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig, sweetheart of the “mumblecore” movement). But this movie is not about plot–it’s about human frailty and finding a moral or spiritual significance in caring for a dog or driving someone on an errand. Stiller sheds his usual bag of twitchy tricks and conveys the brittle spirit of a man defeated by his own intelligence. Gerwig has an odd, hapless charm; she makes aimlessness appealing. As a romance, the movie falters–while it’s obvious why Roger would be attracted to Florence’s youth and vulnerability, it’s less clear why Floren (more…)

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Greenberg aims to recapture the raw flavor and psychological acuity of 1970s character portraits like Five Easy Pieces–but the character in question is completely of the moment. Neurotic and anxious Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) comes to L.A. to stay in his brother’s house, where he reconnects with old bandmates and falls, with painful awkwardness, into a relationship with his brother’s personal assistant, Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig, sweetheart of the “mumblecore” movement). But this movie is not about plot–it’s about human frailty and finding a moral or spiritual significance in caring for a dog or driving someone on an errand. Stiller sheds his usual bag of twitchy tricks and conveys the brittle spirit of a man defeated by his own intelligence. Gerwig has an odd, hapless charm; she makes aimlessness appealing. As a romance, the movie falters–while it’s obvious why Roger would be attracted to Florence’s youth and vulnerability, it’s less clear why Floren (more…)

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Can love really conquer all–including the biggest alpha dads in the universe? That’s what the adorable young couple in Our Family Wedding gets to find out. The couple, played winningly by Lance Gross (Marcus) and America Ferrera (Lucia), are so deeply in love that they never realized the possible backlash of their respective dads, Brad (the always-compelling Forrest Whitaker) and Miguel (standup comic Carlos Mencia). While similar, earlier films like Guess Who’s Coming Together played off black and white racial prejudices, Our Family Wedding tackles black and Latino prejudices, which make up the bulk of the plot and the dialogue (the film also takes on class differences; the African-American family is quite wealthy, while the Hispanic one is working class). Our Family Wedding is crisply directed by Rick Famuyiwa, at a mere 90 minutes, and he manages to pack a lot of Dad vs. Dad antagonism into the festivities, leavening the arch with some decent belly laughs (more…)

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Can love really conquer all–including the biggest alpha dads in the universe? That’s what the adorable young couple in Our Family Wedding gets to find out. The couple, played winningly by Lance Gross (Marcus) and America Ferrera (Lucia), are so deeply in love that they never realized the possible backlash of their respective dads, Brad (the always-compelling Forrest Whitaker) and Miguel (standup comic Carlos Mencia). While similar, earlier films like Guess Who’s Coming Together played off black and white racial prejudices, Our Family Wedding tackles black and Latino prejudices, which make up the bulk of the plot and the dialogue (the film also takes on class differences; the African-American family is quite wealthy, while the Hispanic one is working class). Our Family Wedding is crisply directed by Rick Famuyiwa, at a mere 90 minutes, and he manages to pack a lot of Dad vs. Dad antagonism into the festivities, leavening the arch with some decent belly laughs (more…)

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City Island is chock-full of the simple pleasures to be gleaned from a warm, generous, and skillful script, performed with humor and charisma by a talented cast. Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia, Ocean’s Eleven) is a prison guard–or “corrections officer,” as he prefers–and has a family full of secrets: his son has some atypical desires and his daughter has been kicked out of school, while his wife Joyce (Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife) is powerfully attracted to the hunky young ex-con on parole that Vince has brought to stay with them. But Vince has some potent secrets of his own, including taking acting classes. He tells Joyce he’s playing poker, which leads her to believe he’s having an affair–and when she meets his acting partner (Emily Mortimer, Lovely and Amazing), she thinks her fears are confirmed. This plot could easily have been melodramatic or sentimental, but thanks to the relaxed and confident guiding hand of writer-director Raymond De Felitta and t (more…)

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With unflappable cool and surprising gentleness, Denzel Washington strides a bleak and barren world in The Book of Eli. Eli is headed west, but on the way, he passes devastation and squalor, and occasionally he must mete out some devastation of his own with a sharp blade. But when he arrives in what passes for a town in this dust-and-ash future, the power-hungry owner of the town’s bar, Carnegie (Gary Oldman, looking a million years old), covets his one important possession. (Spoiler alert, sort of: it becomes apparent pretty quickly that it’s a King James Bible.) Conflict ensues! Though the plot is simple and the “mystery” of the book doesn’t last long, The Book of Eli is carried along effortlessly by its star. Washington has always had a compelling mixture of authority and tenderness, and it’s this latter quality that makes this contribution to the testosterone-and-violence-drenched post-apocalyptic subgenre unexpectedly human. The script, while not particu (more…)

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With unflappable cool and surprising gentleness, Denzel Washington strides a bleak and barren world in The Book of Eli. Eli is headed west, but on the way, he passes devastation and squalor, and occasionally he must mete out some devastation of his own with a sharp blade. But when he arrives in what passes for a town in this dust-and-ash future, the power-hungry owner of the town’s bar, Carnegie (Gary Oldman, looking a million years old), covets his one important possession. (Spoiler alert, sort of: it becomes apparent pretty quickly that it’s a King James Bible.) Conflict ensues! Though the plot is simple and the “mystery” of the book doesn’t last long, The Book of Eli is carried along effortlessly by its star. Washington has always had a compelling mixture of authority and tenderness, and it’s this latter quality that makes this contribution to the testosterone-and-violence-drenched post-apocalyptic subgenre unexpectedly human. The script, while not particu (more…)