Congratulations to the following A Train artists who landed the Latin Grammy Nominations! Take a look and give ’em a spin:
Best Tropical Fusion Album
“The King Is Back”
Juan Magan
Label: Universal Music Group/AfterCluv Dance Lab
Best Folk Album
“Balas y Chocolate”
Lila Downs
Label: Sony Music Entertainment Mexico, S.A. De C.V.
World renowned Indian musician, Zakir Hussain, wins Downbeat Magazine’s 63rd Annual Critics Poll for best percussionist.
Zakir’s Moment Records is releasing Distant Kin, distributed digitally through A Train.
Congratulations to both Gregg Karukas and Lila Downs for rising to #1!
Gregg Karukas’ “Rio Drive” hits #1 on Billboard’s Smooth Jazz Radio chart.
Lila Downs’ Balas Y Chocolate goes to #1 on August’s World Music Charts Europe.
New signing David Newman saw his first release under his new deal with A Train Entertainment, Love is Awake, go to No. 1 on itunes’ World Music chart. We were delighted to welcome David to A Train and even more happy with his success!
Clippers/A Train composer Juan Magan hosts a new bi weekly, bilingual SiriusXM radio show, “MixDown with Juan Magan”, starting Feb. 6 at 9pm.
Magan’s deal with SiriusXM comes at a time when dance music and EDM are increasingly expanding into the Latin realm, in the U.S., Latin America and Spain.
Last December, Universal Music Latin America announced the launch of a new dance label called Aftercluv Dance Lab. Magan is signed to the label, which has offices throughout Latin America as well as the U.S. Juan’s collaborations with Pitbull, Don Omar along with his own hits like Mal de Amores. and Bailando por El Mundo put him at the top of the list of latin dance superstars.