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Last night (March 5, 2019) was a memorable night for the music industry. It was the 27th annual ceremony for ASCAP Latin Awards. The ceremony had a lot of great performances including live performances from Maluma and Daddy Yankee. ASCAP honored the star Daddy Yankee as its songwriter/artist of the year and Maluma was honored as the Latin songwriter of the year. The ceremony took place at the San Juan Hotel in Puerto Rico.

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Maluma was very proud of himself and he said: “I’m standing here with a lot of respect for artists like Draco Rp and Daddy Yankee “I know I’m young. But I’ve worked hard. I’m a hardworking dreamer who wants to show the new talent that it’s possible (Si Se Puede), ‘’(Billboard, 2019). Not only that but the president of Sony/ATV Discos Music Jorge Mejia accepted Sony/ATV’s Publisher of the year award for the 16th time in the past 17 years.

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Draco Rosa was also received an award from award-winning Desmond Child, who collaborated with Rosa in the hit song ‘’Living La Vida Loca’’, Child co-writer the song with Rosa and ‘’he couldn’t hold back the tears when he recounted Rosa’s fight for life after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma’’ (Billboard, 2019).

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