Rosalía Is Producer of the Year at 2023 Billboard Women in Music – Billboard

Rosalía will obtain the inaugural Producer of the 12 months Award on the Billboard Girls in Music Awards. The Spanish celebrity is about to obtain the distinction on March 1 on the YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles. 

“We’re thrilled to honor Rosalía with this award and acknowledge her behind the scenes work within the recording studio to carry her imaginative and prescient to fruition,” Hannah Karp, Billboard’s editorial director, mentioned in a press release. “With quite a few groundbreaking hits that blur the strains between conventional music genres, Rosalía persistently makes use of her distinctive producing skills to interrupt the mildew and ship the sudden. There are such a lot of proficient producers like Rosalía on the market, in search of their massive break — we’re excited to offer these girls and non-binary creatives with help and a much-needed platform by our new partnership with Bose.”

Earlier this month, the 30-year-old artist’s Motomami gained finest Latin rock or various album on the Grammys. The genre-hopping set (dembow, bachata, reggaeton, bolero) additionally gained album of the 12 months on the Latin Grammys. The 16-track LP peaked at No. 3 on Billboard‘s Prime Latin Albums chart. In regards to the imaginative and prescient for her award-winning and critically acclaimed album, Rosalía beforehand advised Billboard: “There isn’t any appropriate or incorrect in making music; if I believed like that I wouldn’t do something. I all the time really feel music is about an urge. And [in] Motomami, there are such a lot of completely different influences, and I have to be at liberty to create and I have to create with the intention to be at liberty. I make music as a result of that’s my reality.”

It adopted Rosalía’s 2018 breakthrough set El Mal Querer (which additionally gained a Grammy for finest Latin rock or various album) and her debut album, Los Ángeles. In 2019, she was honored with the Rising Star Award on the Billboard Girls in Music Awards, changing into the primary Spanish artist to obtain that honor.

Additionally a drive within the touring realm, Rosalía’s Motomami World Tour earned $28.1 million and offered 343,000 tickets throughout three continents, in response to figures reported then to Billboard Boxscore. She landed at No. 7 on the 2022 year-end Prime Latin Excursions chart.

By way of alignment with the Billboard Girls in Music Awards, Bose will each highlight current girls and non-binary producers breaking boundaries and supply a platform devoted to uplifting and amplifying aspiring creatives. As a Class Sponsor, Bose and Billboard will honor the inaugural Producer of the 12 months as part of this 12 months’s Girls in Music celebrations. This primary-of-its-kind program will additional cement Bose’s dedication to uplifting underrepresented voices whereas instantly spotlighting a trailblazer within the house. 

This 12 months’s occasion, hosted by Quinta Brunson, will acknowledge music’s prime artists, girls producers and executives for his or her contributions to the music trade, their communities and past. SZA will obtain the Girl of the 12 months Award; Becky G might be honored with the Affect Award offered by American Specific; Doechii with the Rising Star Award offered by Honda; Ivy Queen with the Icon Award; Kim Petras with the Chartbreaker Award; Latto with the Powerhouse Award; Lainey Wilson with the Rulebreaker Award; Lana Del Rey with the Visionary Award, and TWICE with the Breakthrough Award.

Tickets can be found to the general public, and might be bought through Ticketmaster right here, with extra info at billboardwomeninmusic.com. Costs vary from $85 to $275. Sponsors for the 2023 Girls in Music Awards embody American Specific, Honda, Mugler, Nationwide, Bose and Smirnoff ICE.