1. Since releasing his solo debut album Fijate Bien in 2000, Juanes has won 26 Latin Grammy Awards and sold more than 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time.
40 Facts About Juanes
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When Juanes was 17, he started his first band, Ekhymosis, in 1988, which went on to release eight albums, achieving recognition in his native Colombia.
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In 1997 after the band broke up, Juanes continued solo and in 2000 he released the album, Fijate Bien, which earned him three Latin Grammys.
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Juanes has won 26 Latin Grammy Awards and three Grammy Awards.
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Juanes received the BMI President's Award at the 2010 BMI Latin Awards.
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Juanes is known for his humanitarian work, especially with aid for Colombian victims of anti-personnel mines through his NGO Fundacion Mi Sangre.
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Juanes grew up in Medellin during the height of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's reign, when the city had the highest homicide rate in the world.
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Juanes's cousin was killed by kidnappers, and gunmen executed a close friend.
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Juanes started the rock band Ekhymosis in 1988, and it released its debut album, Nino Gigante, that same year.
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In 2000, Juanes released his solo debut Fijate Bien, produced by Gustavo Santaolalla.
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The album earned him three Latin Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Rock Solo Vocal Album, and Best Rock Song, and Juanes performed at the award show.
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Later that night, Juanes brought demos for over forty new songs to Santaolalla's studio, ready to begin work on another album.
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Juanes later worked with Furtado on a remix of "Powerless ", the lead single from her 2003 album Folklore, and on "Te busque", a single from her 2006 album Loose.
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Juanes won the most awards at the 2003 Latin Grammy Awards, where he won each of the 5 awards for which he had been nominated, including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year.
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At the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards, Juanes won three additional awards to his nine previous Grammy awards.
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Juanes took the award for Best Rock Song for "Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor", Best Rock Solo Album for Mi Sangre and Best Music Video for "Volverte a Ver".
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On 9 December 2005, Juanes performed "La camisa negra" at an international gala in Germany celebrating the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final Draw evening.
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In June 2006, Juanes began a year-long sabbatical to spend time with his wife, model Karen Martinez, and their daughters Luna and Paloma.
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Juanes was working on an album that was released on October 23,2007.
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On 11 December 2007, Juanes performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway together with a variety of artists, which was broadcast live to over 100 countries.
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In 2010, Juanes performed in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Kickoff Concert, as well as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
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In February 2012, the Colombian singer Juanes took the stage at Juanes MTV Unplugged to record a live album at the direction of Juan Luis Guerra.
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On 11 March 2014, Juanes released his sixth studio album by Universal Music Latino Loco de amor.
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On 12 May 2017, Juanes released Mis planes son amarte.
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In June 2017, Juanes collaborated with Chilean singer Mon Laferte on the cumbia-influenced single "Amarrame".
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On 23 May 2018, Juanes performed with Mon Laferte as part of National Public Radio's Tiny Desk Concerts series.
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In December 2019, Juanes released the album Mas futuro que pasado.
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On 28 May 2021, Juanes released his 10th studio album, Origen.
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The release of the album was accompanied by a documentary released on Amazon Prime, in which Juanes explains why he chose each song, speaks with several of the songwriters he covers, and performs music videos that channel the era in which they were written.
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Juanes contributed a cover of the Metallica song "Enter Sandman" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021.
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On recording in other languages, Juanes noted in 2017, "It's hard when you have to change the way your muscles work," he said.
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Juanes is outspoken in both his music and the media about violence and inequality in Colombia.
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On 19 April 2006, Juanes performed before the European Parliament, as part of a campaign to increase awareness against the use of landmines around the world, including in his native Colombia.
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Juanes was first singer to perform in the hemicycle where the European Parliament holds its plenary sessions.
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Juanes held a benefit concert on 24 May 2006, in conjunction with KLVE and Univision which raised roughly US$350,000 to care for injured children and provide prosthetics, wheelchairs, and land rehabilitation.
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On 5 August 2009, it was announced that Juanes would hold his second "Peace Without Borders" concert in Havana's storied Plaza de la Revolucion on 20 September 2009.
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Juanes expressed in an interview for Univision that he had no affiliation whatsoever to the Cuban government or their political views and that he saw it only as an artistic performance and nothing more.
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On 20 August 2009, Juanes announced that he had considered canceling the peace concert citing "fears for his safety as well as his family", who reside with him in Miami on Key Biscayne.
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Juanes closed it along with 15 other Cuban and international artists and with more than one million people attending the concert.
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Juanes is a vegetarian and lives in Key Biscayne, Florida.