Leslie Grace hopes to nab her first Latin Billboard award | VIDEO

Leslie Grace is talented on stage in English and Spanish; now this New York-born Latina is hoping those talents pay off and get her a Latin Billboard award after only two years of musical career.

This Latina of Dominican descent didn’t hesitate to tell VOXXI how it feels to be nominated.

“Aw man! I am very very honored and super excited about what the possibilities are,” Leslie Grace said backstage before her ASCAP Showcase performance in South Beach’s Lincoln Road.

The Dominican beauty was honored to participate in the showcase that formed part of the Billboard Latin Music Conference held in Miami.

The 19-year-old is nominated for Debut Artist of the Year and Hot Latin Songs Female Artist of the Year, an honor she calls “really huge.”

“It would be very rewarding for me, my team and my family,” Grace said. “They have seen me come a very long way and it would be very special.”

“I also want to bring forth a new generation that likes to hear fusion and want to hear a little bit of both [English and Spanish],” she said.If the “Be My Baby” singer manages to take home an Billboard Latin Music award, she said it would give young girls hope, considering she is a female voice in the male dominated bacahata genre.

Leslie Grace was born in New York, has lived in South Florida for nine years. She is revolutionizing traditional bachata and making it a success in the music charts.

“Bachata is something that has been in my blood and part of my roots,” she said. “I had to bring something that I listen to in my own time, like R&B and Pop, and mesh it with music I am already familiar with.”

When asked about which bachata artist she would like to work with in a future, her response was very sincere.

“Juan Luis Guerra; he is the man at everything!,” she said, also stating she respects him for what he stands, being an excellent musician and a great example.

“Just to see him work and pick his brain would be an honor,” Leslie Grace added.

The “Odio No Odiarte” songstress also teased us with some news on her sophomore album, which is expected to have lots of new music:

“Melodies are very-pop oriented and at the same time keeping the bachata roots. I have written four months straight, so you are going to get to know more of me.”

As our time with the beautiful artist wrapped up, she sent some motivating words to those young Hispanic-Americans chasing a dream.

“Whatever the circumstances, what fulfills your purpose is your passion,” she said. “Make it your responsibility to spread it to the world, it’s your gift.”

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