Rebeca León Accepts the Choice Award | Latin Music Power Players 2024
Rebeca León accepts the Choice Award from Billboard’s Chief Content Officer of Latin Music and Billboard Español, Leila Cobo at Billboard’s Latin Music Power Players 2024.
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00:00Well our next award is our Choice Award, which really is our People's Choice Award. So what is
00:05the Choice Award? The Choice Award is an award that is voted on by everyone in this room. So
00:13our Latin music executives, the readers of Billboard, the subscribers of Billboard,
00:18get to vote on the finalists for this award and on the ultimate winners. So think of it
00:24como el People's Choice Award, como el VMAs, the Latin Power Players. And this year our winner is
00:30a woman who has also been our Latin Executive of the Year and who now leads the careers of
00:40Anita and Danny Ocean, among others. Ladies and gentlemen, your Choice Award winner, Rebecca León.
00:58Thank you so much. Ah, you can't see anyone, it's true. Hello everyone, good evening. I just want to
01:05say thank you to Billboard, thank you to Leila. I wanted to recognize my parents who are here, who are
01:13my everything. Thank you for everything, I'm forever grateful to them.
01:17I also want to give a shout out to all the nominees who I love and admire so much.
01:22One of the things I was thinking about as I was getting ready to come over here was
01:26there's such a sense of family in this industry, in the Latin music industry. We've all known each
01:32other so long. I've known some of you like near 25 years or something like that, you know, it's
01:37been a long time. So I feel like there's just a lot of love and support always and there's something
01:43that happens in our industry where there's a lot of people crossing party lines to collaborate all
01:49the time. You know, like people coming together for a great song, for a great show, and it just
01:55feels like a general sense of camaraderie, which I think has been one of the reasons
02:00the Latin music business really exploded. It's like the collaboration idea that reggaeton gave
02:07us in a way, you know. So I just wanted to say thank you so much because this room feels like
02:13family, so this award feels like it comes from family, and that really is very special to me.
02:18So thank you all so much.