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Mana honored as Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year

By Karen Butler   |   Updated Nov. 15, 2018 at 9:38 AM
Honorees Mana accept their award onstage from President and CEO of the Latin Recording Academy Gabriel Abaroa, The Recording Academy President Neil Portnow, and Eduardo Hutt at the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI From left to right, honorees Sergio Vallin, Juan Calleros, Fher Olvera and Alex Gonzalez of Mexican rock band Mana arrive at the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI From left to right, president & CEO of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa, honorees Sergio Vallin, Fher Olvera and Alex Gonzalez of Mexican rock band Mana, and president of The Recording Academy Neil Portnow arrive at the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI President & CEO of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa (L) and president of The Recording Academy Neil Portnow arrive at the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Latin music group Maná was honored at a tribute concert in Las Vegas Wednesday night. File Photo by Gary I Rothstein/UPI Mana performs onstage during the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Las Vegas on April 26. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Latin Recording Academy honored Mexican pop-rock group Mana as its 2018 Person of the Year at a tribute concert Wednesday.

The lineup of performers expected to sing Mana's songs included Pablo Alborán, Enrique Bunbury, Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández, Iza, Beatriz Luengo, Vetusta Morla, Monsieur Perine, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Sebastian Yatra, Billboard.com said.

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The event is taking place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas the night before the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony.

"Mana is an iconic band with a profound social and environmental consciousness that has created captivating and vibrant music for over three decades," Gabriel Abaroa Jr., the academy's president and chief executive officer, said when the selection was made in September.

"It is a grand and unexpected recognition to an extensive career, a beautiful and passionate one that we continue to enjoy as if it were the first day. We are flattered that the most prestigious Latin music organization is recognizing us," lead vocalist Fher Olvera said at the time.