Winners were announced at the live event and included Puerto-Rican American singer Olga Tañón receiving four competitive awards.Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel, Chilean band La Ley, and Mexican-American performer Lupillo Rivera earned two accolades.Puerto-Rican American singer Gilberto Santa Rosa also was awarded in two categories and received a special tribute along with Juan Gabriel.[1] The nominees and winners were selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and the results were tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.[7] Mexican band Palomo won three awards in the Regional/Mexican field: Tejano Performance, Group and Song of the Year for the track "No Me Conoces Aún", which spent 31 weeks at number-one in the Billboard Regional Mexican Songs chart, the longest reign on any Nielsen Company BDS-based airplay chart in history.
Mexican performer
Eduardo Verástegui
(pictured in 2008)
was named Pop New Artist of the Year.
Singer-songwriter
Pepe Aguilar
(pictured in 2006)
received the Ranchero Performance Award.