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Sesac’s Erika Ender Nominated For Induction Into Latin Songwriters Hall Of Fame

Sesac's Erika Ender Nominated For Induction Into Latin Songwriters Hall Of Fame

The nomination cycle for the fifth annual La Musa Awards, which are given to inductees to the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, has begun. The induction ceremony will take place in October in Miami.

SESAC Latina-affiliated artist Erika Ender is one of the nominees for this year’s class.  2017 is a milestone year for Ender, as she celebrates 25 years as a music professional, along with the success of her new #1 hit, “Despacito” (Slow). She co-wrote this song with the Latin pop legend Luis Fonsi, who performs it with the urban-music great Daddy Yankee.

“I’m very pleased,” Erika Ender says of her nomination. “I believe I’m one of the youngest artists to ever be a finalist. The members of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame are composers of high caliber, and I have admired them throughout my life. Being able to share credit with them is a huge honor.”

Ender emphasized that her songwriting has appeared on over 160 albums. Over 40 of her singles, written for artists of many different genres, have won awards throughout the world. Ender, herself, has been recognized with accolades from SESAC Latina, the Latin GRAMMYs®, Billboard and Monitor Latino, among others.

Ender also pointed out that she is the only woman to be selected as a finalist this year in the songwriter category (the other category is singer-songwriter). “We women are few and far between in this industry,” she noted. “We have to stand up and make ourselves heard with the excellence of our work and our best attitude.”

Referring to herself as a “citizen of the world” due to her Brazilian-Panamanian heritage and her home in Miami, Ender gave special credit to her birth country of Panama, where she took her first artistic steps “singing folkloric tamborera music in my traditional pollera dress.”

Panama is certainly proud of Ender’s accomplishments and her nomination to LSHOF.

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