Dr. José Valentino Ruiz Receives Five Global Music® Outstanding Achievement Awards

Dr. José Valentino Ruiz has been honored with five Global Music® Outstanding Achievement Awards, recognizing his excellence in bass guitar performance, contemporary composition, jazz arranging, production, and engineering across multiple genres. These distinctions bring Dr. Ruiz’s total to 40 Global Music® Awards, establishing him as a record-holding figure in the organization’s history. The honors include the following categories and projects:

Dr. José Valentino Ruiz Was Also Named Among Billboard’s 2025 Latin Power Players

The Billboard Latin Power Players® distinction stands among the highest recognitions in the global music industry, honoring individuals whose creative output and leadership have generated measurable influence in the commercial marketplace. Selected among a distinguished cohort of twenty Frost School of Music alumni honorees worldwide, Dr. José Valentino Ruiz, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Music Business & Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida, was recognized for his transformative contributions to the economic advancement of the Latin music sector through his extensive body of work as a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and publisher contributing to internationally recognized recordings spanning classical, jazz, global, urban, and folk genres within the Latin music industry. These projects—many of which have earned GRAMMY® Awards, nominations, and global honors—have collectively expanded the reach, quality, and commercial success of Latin music on the world stage.