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Tania León to Receive Trustees Award from the Recording Academy in 2025

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Tania León is receiving a special honor…

The 81-year-old Cuban composer, who renowned as a conductor, educator and advisor to arts organizations, is among the artists selected to receive lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy in 2025.

Tania LeónLeón will receive the Trustees Award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony on February 1 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

During her storied career, she has been commissioned by orchestras worldwide, held Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for its 2023-24 season, and currently serves as composer-in-residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

She studied under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, and has guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic and Johannesburg Philharmonic, among others.

She has lectured globally and received honorary doctorate degrees from 10 institutions.

In 2010, León founded Composers Now, for which she currently serves as artistic director. She received her only Grammy nomination in 2013 — best contemporary classical composition for “Inura for Voices, Strings & Percussion.”

In 2021, she became the first Latin American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

She received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2022.

Trustees Awards are presented to individuals who have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording.

Shakira: Future Bollywood Star?

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Shakira is known for her belly dancing and hip shaking moves… And, now she could be taking them to Bollywood. Hips don’t lie!

The 35-year-old Colombian superstar is reportedly considering making her acting debut in Desire, an upcoming Bollywood film to be directed by Bangladeshi director Enamul Karim Nirjhar.

Shakira, who is part Lebanese, is still negotiating with executives to not only act in the film, but also sing as part of the movie’s soundtrack, according to The Daily Record.

Should Shakira and the film’s executives come to an agreement, the pop star would film a large part of the movie in Scotland and Pending record the soundtrack with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Shakira is no stranger to Bollywood.

During a performance of her smash hit “Hips Don’t Lie” at the 2006 MTV Video Awards, Shakira broke out some Bollywood moves, as well as her own take on traditional Indian attire. At the time, she expressed interest in doing a Bollywood-style dance video with film director Farah Khan, who worked with her on the performance, according to BBC News.