The folks in charge of Capif (Chamber Producers’ Argentina of Phonograms and Videogramas) announced the winners of the Gardel Awards 2009 on July 22. Celeste Carballo with her album "CELOS" was the winner of Best Female Tango Artist, Daniel Melingo with his album "Maldito Tango" was the winner of Best Male Tango Artist, Sexteto Mayor with their album "Vida pasión y tango" was the winner of Best Tango Orchestra, Tanghetto with their album "El miedo a la libertad" was the winner of Best Electronic Tango Music,
non tango related winners were: The most awaited award, the Golden Gardel, was for Luis Alberto Spinetta for his album “Un mañana” The Orozco-Barrientos duo was the winner for the better album of alternative folklore with “Pulpa” The special Award to the artistic and musical Trajectory in this opportunity was for Cacho Castaña. On the other hand, The Fabulous Cadillacs were recognized as Personality of the Year 2008. In the 11th edition of the Awards there was a whole of 183 artists nominated, distributed in 42 categories. And this year the ceremony was cancelled due to the situation of sanitary emergency for the swine flu pandemic. Bests, Burak
