Lo Nuestro Award for Merengue Artist of the Year

Lo Nuestro Award for Merengue Performance
Awarded for	Best Merengue Performance
Country	United States
Presented by	Univision
First awarded	2001
Currently held by	Olga Tañón (2014)
Most awards	Olga Tañón (7)
Most nominations	Elvis Crespo (9)
Website	univision.com/premiolonuestro

The Lo Nuestro Award for Best Merengue Performance (or Lo Nuestro Award for Merengue Artist of the Year) is an honor presented annually by American network Univision. The Lo Nuestro Awards were first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music.^[1] The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte.^[1][2] At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey.^[3] The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.^[1]

The award was first presented to Puerto-Rican American singer Elvis Crespo in 2001. Puerto-Rican American performer Olga Tañón holds the record for the most awards with seven, out of the same number of nominations; Crespo, Tañón and Dominican singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra are the only performers awarded, with four, seven and three wins, respectively. Grupo Manía are the most nominated performers without a win, with six unsuccessful nominations.

Winners and nominees

Listed below are the winners and nominees of the award for each year.

Key	Meaning
‡	Indicates the winner

Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra (pictured in 2005), winner in 2010, 2011 and 2013

Dominican singer Eddy Herrera (pictured in 2012), three-time nominee

Year	Performer	Ref
2001 (13th)	Elvis Crespo‡	[4][5]
	Gisselle
	Ilegales
	Los Toros Band
2002 (14th)	Olga Tañón‡	[6][7]
	Eddy Herrera
	Fulanito
	Grupo Manía
	Milly Quezada
2003 (15th)	Elvis Crespo‡	[8][9]
	Fulanito
	Ilegales
	Oro Solido
2004 (16th)	Olga Tañón‡	[3][10]
	Joseph Fonseca
	Limi-T 21
	Grupo Manía
2005 (17th)	Elvis Crespo‡	[11][12]
	Grupo Manía
	Limi-T 21
	Los Toros Band
2006 (18th)	Olga Tañón‡	[13][14]
	Juan Luis Guerra
	La Gran Banda
	Los Toros Band
2007 (19th)	Olga Tañón‡	[15][16]
	Grupo Manía
	Limi-T 21
	Chichí Peralta
2008 (20th)	Olga Tañón‡	[17][18]
	Elvis Crespo
	Juan Luis Guerra
	Toño Rosario
2009 (21st)	Olga Tañón‡	[19][20]
	Elvis Crespo
	Juan Luis Guerra
	Los Hermanos Rosario
	Raúl Acosta and Oro Solido
2010 (22nd)	Juan Luis Guerra‡	[21][22]
	Elvis Crespo
	Grupo Manía
	Eddy Herrera
	Rafely Rosario
2011 (23rd)	Juan Luis Guerra‡	[23][24]
	Grupo Manía
	Limi-T 21
	Omar Enrique
2012 (24th)	Elvis Crespo‡	[25][26]
	Limi-T 21
	Los Hermanos Rosario
	Sohanny
2013 (25th)	Juan Luis Guerra‡	[27][28]
	Elvis Crespo
	Eddy Herrera
	Juan Luis Juancho
2014 (26th)	Olga Tañón	[29][30]
	Elvis Crespo
	Juan Luis Juancho
	Kalimete
2015 (27th)	TBA	[31]
	Héctor Acosta
	Elvis Crespo
	Grupo Treo
	Limi-T 21

Multiple wins/nominations

Number	Performer(s)
Wins
7	Olga Tañón
4	Elvis Crespo
3	Juan Luis Guerra
Nominations
10	Elvis Crespo
7	Olga Tañón
6	Juan Luis Guerra
	Limi-T 21
3	Grupo Manía
	Eddy Herrera
	Los Toros Band
2	Fulanito
	Ilegales
	Juan Luis Juancho
	Los Hermanos Rosario
	Oro Solido

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Merengue Album
• Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album
• Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album

References

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