Grammy Award for Best World Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the world music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[1] Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
Awarded forQuality world music albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1992
Currently held byAngelique Kidjo, Celia (2020)
Websitegrammy.com

The award for Best World Music Album, reserved for international performers exhibiting "non-European, indigenous traditions", was first presented to Mickey Hart in 1992 for the album Planet Drum.[3][4] In 1996, Academy trustees attempted to solve the problem of "compressing 75% or more of the world's music into a single award category" by broadening the definition of "world music" to include non-Western classical music.[5] Beginning in 2001, award recipients included the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. Following the 45th Grammy Awards (2003), the award was split into two separate categories for Best Traditional World Music Album and Best Contemporary World Music Album. In 2012, the two categories were merged back to Best World Music Album.[6]

Angélique Kidjo, Ry Cooder and Ravi Shankar are the only performing artists to win the award more than once: Kidjo won in 2015, 2016 and 2020; Cooder won in 1994 with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and in 1995 with Ali Farka Touré; Shankar won in 2002 and posthumously in 2013. Brazilian artists have been presented with the award more than any other nationality, though it has been presented to musicians or groups from the United States three times, from India twice, and from France, Ireland, Mali and Panama once. Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora, Gipsy Kings, and sitarist Anoushka Shankar share the record for the most nominations, with five each (none have yet won the award).

Recipients
Mickey Hart, the first award recipient (1992), at the Web 2.0 Conference in 2005
Two-time award recipient Ry Cooder performing in 2009
1998 award winner Milton Nascimento in 2008
1999 award winner Gilberto Gil performing in 2007
2000 award winner Caetano Veloso performing in 2006
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Nationality Work Nominees Ref.
1992 Mickey Hart United States Planet Drum
[7]
1993 Sérgio Mendes Brazil Brasileiro
[8]
1994 Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt United States
India		 A Meeting by the River
[9]
1995 Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Touré United States
Mali		 Talking Timbuktu
[10]
1996 Deep Forest France Boheme
[11]
1997 The Chieftains Ireland Santiago [12]
1998 Milton Nascimento Brazil Nascimento
[13]
1999 Gilberto Gil Brazil Quanta Live [14]
2000 Caetano Veloso Brazil Livro [15]
2001 João Gilberto Brazil João Voz e Violão
[16]
2002 Ravi Shankar India Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 [17]
2003 Rubén Blades Panama Mundo
2012 Tinariwen Mali Tassili [18]
2013 Ravi Shankar India The Living Room Sessions Part 1
[19]
2014 Gipsy Kings France Savor Flamenco
Ladysmith Black Mambazo South Africa Live: Singing for Peace Around the World
2015 Angelique Kidjo Benin Eve
[20]
2016 Angelique Kidjo Benin Sings
[20]
2017 Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble United States Sing Me Home
[21]
2018 Ladysmith Black Mambazo South Africa Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration
[22]
2019 Soweto Gospel Choir South Africa Freedom
[23]
2020 Angelique Kidjo Benin Celia
[24]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

References
General
  • "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 4, 2011. Note: User must select the "World" category as the genre under the search feature.
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  24. 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/2020-grammy-awards-complete-nominees-list 2020 Grammy Awards nominations list Check |url= value (help). Missing or empty |title= (help)

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