Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | |
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Awarded for | quality albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks[1] in the "traditional" genre (Great American Songbook)[2] |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1992 |
Last awarded | 2015 |
Official website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is an award presented to recording artists at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[3] 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".[4]
The award has been presented every year since 1992, though the award has had two name changes throughout its history. In 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Pop Performance, from 1993 to 2000 the award was known as Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance, and since 2001 it has been awarded as Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Apart from the first year it was presented, the award has been designated for "albums containing 51% or more playing time of vocal tracks", with "traditional" referring to the "composition, vocal styling, and the instrumental arrangement" of the body of music known as the Great American Songbook.[1][2]
The 1992 award was presented to Natalie Cole for the "spliced-together" duet of her and her father, Nat King Cole, performing his original recording of "Unforgettable".[5] This is the only instance in which the traditional pop award was awarded for a song, as opposed to an album. Prior to 2001, the Grammy was presented to the performing artists only; since then the award has been given to the performing artists, the engineers/mixers, as well as the producers.
As of 2015[update], Tony Bennett holds the record for the most wins in this category, with twelve (including one along with k.d. lang and another with Lady Gaga). Natalie Cole and Michael Bublé are the only other recipients to receive the award more than once. American artists have been presented with the award more than any other nationality, though it has been presented to musicians from Canada five times (once including lang, who shared the award with Bennett) and the United Kingdom once.
Recipients
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![A woman on a stage, wearing a red gown and holding a mic at an angle](/w/images/thumb/9/93/Lady_Gaga_%26_Tony_Bennett_%2817358336861%29.jpg/230px-Lady_Gaga_%26_Tony_Bennett_%2817358336861%29.jpg)
^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
See also
References
- General
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- ↑ 2014 Nominees
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External links
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