{"id":124200,"date":"2019-03-20T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124200"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:59:46","slug":"anthony-santos-wins-el-gran-soberano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/anthony-santos-wins-el-gran-soberano\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Santos wins El Gran Soberano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Anthony-Santos-Wikipedia-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124247\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\"\/><figcaption>Anthony Santos \/ Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Santos was honored during the 35th Soberano Awards for his contributions to positioning bachata as an international dance music. The Dominican Republic has requested that the Unesco list Dominican bachata as intangible cultural heritage. Santos received the honor from Emely Baldera, president of the Dominican Show Business Writers Association and Franklin Le\u00f3n, president of Cervecer\u00eda Nacional Dominicana, the sponsor of the event. On the same evening, Anthony Santos had been honored as the Best Bachata Performer and for the Best Bachata (Mal educado) for 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another big winner of the Soberano Awards was Al\u00e1 Jaz\u00e1 (Emmanuel Jim\u00e9nez), who won in the categories of Merengue of the Year (Nadie se meta), Best Collaboration (Mi forma de ser) and Street Merengue. Al\u00e1 Jaz\u00e1 is credited for creating the 21st Century style of urban merengue known as MamWali, that merges merengue and trap music. He is also an acclaimed mambo, bachata, and ballad singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the movie category, Tabar\u00e9 Blanchard took to the stage of the National Theater on three occasions to receive awards for \u201cVeneno,\u201d the story of wrestler Jack Veneno. In the theater category, the big winner was Juancito Rodr\u00edguez for \u201cAgosto.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another highlight of the evening was the performance by singer Juliana O\u2019Neal, who is battling cancer. Merengue star Alex Bueno performed his long-time merengue hit \u201cColegiala\u201d on the stage. Danny Rivera sang the music of the late Anthony R\u00edos. Others that were remembered that evening were radio innovator Teo Veras, singer Luchi Vicioso and movie-maker Fernando B\u00e1ez in a segment with Lily Goodman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were many expressions of solidarity to Venezuelan artists who expressed their appreciation to Dominicans for local support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the list of the award winners:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdn.com.do\/2019\/03\/20\/listado-de-los-ganadores-en-premio-soberano-2019\/\">Listado&nbsp;Soberanos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bebzedSk9a0\">YouTube<\/a><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/ala-jaza-mn0003064876\/biography\">All&nbsp;Music<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Santos was honored during the 35th Soberano Awards for his contributions to positioning bachata as an international dance music. The Dominican Republic has requested that the Unesco list Dominican bachata as intangible cultural heritage. Santos received the honor from Emely Baldera, president of the Dominican Show Business Writers Association and Franklin Le\u00f3n, president of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/20\/anthony-santos-wins-el-gran-soberano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124249,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124200\/revisions\/124249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}