Smack-Dab In the middle of the month of Hispanic inheritance, PBS will issue the 38th Hispanic heritage awards tonight.
The show took place on September 4 at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC, and honored a collection of musicians, artists, actors, journalists and business leaders.
The honorees of this year, selected by the Heritage Foundation, including The journalist “Alt. Latino” by NPR Felix ContrerasStoner Comic and Chicano Art Collector Cheech MarinPuerto Rican pop visionary Rauw Alejandro, actor and dancer nominated for Oscar Rosie Perez, the executive director of Rizos Curls, Julissa Prado, and the “Mexican Pop Queen” Gloria Trevi.
The honoree Felix Contreras accepts the journalism award on stage during the 38th Hispanic Heritage Awards in Washington, DC
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Contreras is one of the few journalists to receive the estimated honor, although he was initially reluctant to accept. “We learn at the beginning of that [journalists] The story is not supposed to be, ”Contreras told Times earlier this year.
Recently, Marin moved from a successful career that makes Stoner's comedy films and is now better known for his work as a Chicano art collector. After being a lifelong art collector, the Chicano Art and Culture Center of the Riverside Art Museum opened to the public in June 2022.
Meanwhile, Rauw Alejandro has innovated the Latin music scene with his experimental albums, such as the psychedelic album with technological infusion of 2022, “Saturn”; his beach monitoring, “Playa Saturn”, in 2023; And his 2024 ode to the Salsa scene in New York City of the 1970s, “ours.”
Cheech Marin accepts the Award of Arts on stage during the 38 Hispanic Heritage Awards.
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Rosie Pérez made a name as a dancer on the television program “In Living Color” and with protagonists in Spike Lee Films before being nominated for an Oscar for “Fearless” of 1993.
Gloria Trevi is one of the most successful Latin artists of her time. He has obtained more than 30 million albums sold and 7 billion combined transmissions, along with several best -selling albums and an induction in the fame hall of Latin music composers.
As the co -founder and CEO of curls curls, Prado is being honored, according to HHF, for “his personal self -discovery trip in a famous national and multimillionaire business that specializes in textured hair care.”
Gloria Trevi acts on stage at the 38th Hispanic Heritage Awards.
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The ceremony was organized by the actor and writer Mayan López, and the spectators will be able to take performances of Trevi, together with the artists Daymé Arocena, Dannylux, Lisa Lisa and Rainao.
The awards exhibition was established in 1988 by the White House to honor cultural visionaries within the Latin community. The previous winners include Bad Bunny, Anthony Quinn, Sonia Sotomayor, Linda Ronstadt, the Northern Tigers, Gloria Estefan and Tito Puente, among others.
