2014 in Latin music

This is a list of notable events in Latin music (i.e. Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking music from Latin America, Europe, and the United States) that took place in 2015.

Events

 * May 7 – Argentine singer-songwriter Teresa Parodi is appointed her country's first Minister of Culture following the president's decision to promote the Culture Secretariat to a cabinet-level ministry.
 * July 30 – Telemundo announces that it has acquired the rights to produce a Spanish-language version of the American Music Awards from the Dick Clark Productions. The inaugural awards show is planned to air in fall 2015.
 * October 29 — "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno breaks the record for the longest-running song at number-one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, surpassing "La Tortura" by Shakira and Alejandro Sanz.
 * November 19 — Joan Manuel Serrat is honored by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as the Person of the Year.
 * November 20
 * 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
 * "Bailando" by Enrique Iglesias, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno wins Song of the Year.
 * "Universos Paralelos" by Jorge Drexler and Ana Tijoux wins Record of the Year.
 * Paco de Lucía posthumously wins Album of the Year for Canción Andaluza.
 * Mariana Vega wins Best New Artist.

Number-ones albums and singles by country

 * List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2014 (Brazil)
 * List of number-one songs of 2014 (Colombia)
 * List of number-one albums of 2014 (Mexico)
 * List of number-one albums of 2014 (Portugal)
 * List of number-one albums of 2014 (Spain)
 * List of number-one singles of 2014 (Spain)
 * List of number-one Billboard Latin Albums from the 2010s
 * List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2014
 * List of number-one singles of 2014 (Venezuela)

Awards

 * 2014 Premio Lo Nuestro
 * 2014 Billboard Latin Music Awards
 * 2014 Latin Grammy Awards
 * 2014 Tejano Music Awards

Best-selling albums
The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling Latin albums in the United States in 2014, according to Billboard.

Best-performing songs
The following is a list of the top 10 best-performing Latin songs in the United States in 2014, according to Billboard.

Deaths

 * January 2 – Simone Bosé, 51, president of Universal Music Iberian Peninsula
 * January 6 — Nelson Ned, 66, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
 * January 21 — Tony Pabón, 74, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader.
 * January 26 — Juanita Garica, 84, tejano music hall of fame inductee, natural causes.
 * February 12 — Santiago Feliú, 51, Cuban singer-songwriter, heart attack.
 * February 19 — Simón Díaz, 85, Venezuelan singer and composer.
 * February 25 — Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart attack.
 * March 14 – Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (post-surgery complications)
 * April 5 — Óscar Avilés, 90, Peruvian guitarist and singer.
 * April 14:
 * Júnior, 70, Filipino-born Spanish singer
 * Armando Peraza, 89, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist
 * April 17 — Cheo Feliciano, 78, American Puerto Rican salsa and bolero composer and singer, traffic collision.
 * April 19 — Sonia Silvestre, 61, Dominican singer and announcer, stroke.
 * April 23 — Benjamín Brea, 67, Spanish-born Venezuelan musician, stomach cancer.
 * May 1 — Juan Formell, 71, Cuban Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and director (Los Van Van).
 * May 8 — Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer, heart attack.
 * May 23 — Uña Ramos, 80, Argentine musician.
 * May 29 — Tito Torbellino, 31, American banda singer and musician, shot.
 * June 3 — Virginia Luque, 86, Argentine singer and actress.
 * June 7 — Helcio Milito, 83, Brazilian musician.
 * July 7 – Jaime Morey, 73, Spanish singer
 * July 8 – Renato Capriles Venezuelan audio engineer (Los Melódicos)
 * July 14 — Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.
 * July 25 – Luis Fernando Muñoz Castro, 25, Mexican clarinetist
 * August 3:
 * Daladier Arismendi, 39, Colombian singer, stabbed.
 * Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer
 * June 20 – María Luisa Landín, 92, Mexican singer
 * August 4 — Rafael Santa Cruz, 53, Peruvian cajon musician and actor, heart attack.
 * August 7 — Peret, 79, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer, lung cancer.
 * August 24 – Cybele (cantora), 74, Brazilian vocalist (Quarteto em Cy)
 * September 4 — Gustavo Cerati, 55, Argentine singer and musician (Soda Stereo), respiratory arrest.
 * September 19 — Milton Cardona, 69, Puerto Rican jazz musician, heart failure.
 * September 30 — Jadir Ambrósio, 91, Brazilian musician and composer.
 * October 3 — Nati Cano, 81, Mexican-born American mariachi musician (Mariachi los Camperos), recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1990).
 * October 30 – Jorge Saldaña, 83, Mexican music journalist and TV personality
 * November 11 – Carlos Emilio Morales, 75, Cuban guitarist (Irakere)
 * December 5 – Luis Herrera de la Fuente, 98, Mexican conductor
 * December 19 – Luis Chi Sing, Mexican bassist for Marcos Witt
 * December 21 — Horacio Ferrer, 81, Uruguayan/Argentine poet and tango lyricist.
 * December 28 — Leopoldo Federico, 87, Argentine tango musician.