{{Short description|Dominican music award}} {{Infobox award | name = Soberano Awards | image = Premios Soberano.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | current_awards =28th Annual Soberano Awards | awarded_for = | presenter = Asociación de Cronistas de Arte {{small|(Acroarte)}} | country = Dominican Republic | network = | year = 1985 | website = [http://premiosoberano.com/ www.premiosoberano.com] }}
The '''Soberano Awards''' (formerly '''Casandra Awards''') are the Dominican music awards, which are awarded annually by the Asociación de Cronistas de Arte of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.televisiondominicana.tv/casandra/historia.html|title=27 Años de Historia|publisher=Television Dominicana|language=Spanish|date=2012|accessdate=2012-09-14}}</ref> Often referenced in music line-ups to delineate a musician's popularity in Hispanic countries. Notable winners include Mozart La Para, Bad Bunny, El Alfa, Prince Royce, and Don Omar. It airs annually in the spring on Color Visión in the Dominican Republic.
==History== The Soberano Awards (formerly known as Casandra Awards) is an award given since 1985, by the Association of Art Critics of the Dominican Republic. The ceremony is held annually since 1992 in Santo Domingo at the Teatro Nacional.<ref>{{cite news|title=Del cine Olimpia al Teatro Nacional|language=Spanish|url=http://www.hoy.com.do/alegria/2008/3/8/103687/print|date=2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006073307/http://hoy.com.do/alegria/2008/3/8/103687/print|archivedate=2014-10-06}}</ref>
===Name change=== The awards were called ''Casandra Awards'' (Premios Casandra in Spanish) since 1985, which was honoring the entertainer Casandra Damirón, but it was later renamed in 2012 ending the dispute with her family, to Soberano Awards (Premios Soberano<ref>''Note'': the name "Premios Soberano" is still a tribute to Casandra Damirón, who is recognized in her country as "La Soberana de la Canción"</ref> in Spanish).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.listindiario.com.do/entretenimiento/2012/9/1/245716/|title="Soberano" es el nuevo nombre del Casandra|newspaper=Listin Diario|language=Spanish|date=2012-09-02|accessdate=2012-09-14}}</ref> The descendants of Casandra Damirón decided to withdraw the authorization to use Casandra's name from the awards name arguing that for the previous two years the ceremony departed from the rules which "have governed the award in terms of its content and ''raison d'être''".<ref>[http://www.dominicancentral.com/newsarticle/casandra_awards_are_in_conflict/ "Casandra awards are in conflict"], ''Dominican Central'', August 6, 2012 (retrieved December 20, 2017)</ref>
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==External links== *[http://premiosoberano.com/ Premios Soberano Official website]
Category:Awards established in 1985 Category:Latin American music awards Category:Dominican Republic awards Category:1985 establishments in the Dominican Republic