The president of the Government said Monday that the Catalan was "the first Spanish artist to win an international Grammy"
From Escudellers Street to the world: the piano trip of Alicia de Larrocha
The luck of having Montserrat Caballe, by Ainhoa Arteta
The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , congratulated on Monday the Spaniards who obtained a Grammy in the last edition of the awards of the American phonographic industry. First he did it with Alejandro Sanz , awarded in the category of Best Latin Pop Album, and then congratulated Rosalía , winner of Best Rock Album, urban or alternative, ensuring that she was the "first Spanish artist to win a Grammy international".
However, the statement regarding the Catalan singer was not correct. Before her, other Spaniards achieved "international" recognition, which is the way to refer to the awards established in 1959, long before the Latin Grammys were established, whose first ceremony took place in the year 2000.
This is the case of pianist Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009), one of the greatest performers in the history of classical music. As detailed in the Grammy archive, it was nominated up to 14 times, and took a golden gramophone in four of them (1974, 1975, 1988 and 1991), all of them in the category of interpretation without orchestra and with recordings of pieces of Albéniz (twice), Ravel and Granados.
The singer Montserrat Caballé was also a candidate in several editions (five, specifically) and won the award in 1968, in the category of Best vocal performance, for an album of 'oddities' by Rossini. Bellini, Donizetti and the Spanish Renaissance repertoire set up the repertoire of the other candidacies of the Catalan soprano, who died in 2018 at age 85.
Much later, another singer, although in this case of pop, would add to this payroll. Natalia Jiménez , vocalist and composer of the group La Quinta Estación , took the stage in 2009 to collect the award for Best Latin Pop Album (the same one Alejandro Sanz took on Sunday) for 'Sin brakes', the farewell album of the Spanish formation based in Mexico.
Without appearing on the list of Grammy winners, the Galician bagpipe Cristina Pato was one of the instrumentalists who participated in the Christmas album of the cellist Yo-Yo Ma 'Songs of joy and peace', which won the 2010 prize Best classic crossover album.
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