Juan Gabriel (1950–2016) was a Mexican singer-songwriter who received various awards and nominations during his lifetime spanning six decades in media, and posthumously. He is one of the all-time best-selling Latin musicians.
Juan Gabriel received his first major national awards in his early career in the 1970s, winning various Calendario Azteca de Oro and El Heraldo de México Awards. Beginning the 1980s, he won various Latin ACE awards from the Association of Latin Entertainment Critics in New York, achieved his first Grammy Awards nominations, and obtained nominations in the "Billboard" Number One Awards. Through the 1990s, he achieved more accolades from majors organizations, including various ASCAP Latin Awards, as well as Lo Nuestro Awards and the "Billboard" Latin Music Awards. He became the first Hispanic Songwriter of the Year by the ASCAP in 1995. Since the 2000s, Juan Gabriel achieved various other nominations and awards, including from Latin Grammy and Premios Juventud. In 2009, The Latin Recording Academy named him Person of the Year.
Juan Gabriel's career and success have been recognized in various ceremony awards, among them, two special Lo Nuestro Awards, including the Excellence Award in 1991, a special Premios Ondas in 2001, and a Latin "Billboard" Star Award in 2016.
He has also received a number of government recognitions, including by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I in 2006 with a Universal Excellence Award, and a Golden Laurel. Gabriel has been admitted into various hall and walk of Fames as well.