Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

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Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
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, 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

File:TonyBennett210-1000.jpg
Twelve-time award winner Tony Bennett
A woman wearing earrings, a bracelet and a multi-colored spaghetti strapped dress, with both holds folded over a microphone.
Two-time award winner Natalie Cole
Black and white image of a man with his eyes closed and lips pressed.
2002 award winner, Harry Connick, Jr., performing in 2007
A woman wearing a white suit with her eyes closed, holding a microphone.
2004 award winner, k.d. lang, performing in 2008
A man on a stage, wearing a suit and holding a mic and its stand at an angle. Behind him, a man is playing a drum set.
2005 award winner, Rod Stewart
A man wearing a blue suit, a white dress shirt and a tie.
Four-time award winner Michael Bublé at the Juno Awards of 2009
A woman on a stage, wearing a red gown and holding a mic at an angle
2015 award winner, and the first artist to win a Grammy in Traditional Pop, Pop and Dance/Electronic categories, Lady Gaga performing at the Cheek to Cheek Tour
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Nationality Work Nominees Ref.
1992 Natalie Cole United States "Unforgettable" [6]
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1993 Tony Bennett United States Perfectly Frank [8]
1994 Tony Bennett United States Steppin' Out [9]
1995 Tony Bennett United States MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett [10]
1996 Frank Sinatra United States Duets II [11]
1997 Tony Bennett United States Here's to the Ladies [12]
1998 Tony Bennett United States Tony Bennett on Holiday [13]
1999 Patti Page United States Live at Carnegie Hall: The 50th Anniversary Concert [14]
2000 Tony Bennett United States Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool [15]
2001 Joni Mitchell Canada Both Sides Now [16]
2002 Harry Connick, Jr. United States Songs I Heard [17]
2003 Tony Bennett United States Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues [18]
2004 Tony Bennett and k.d. lang United States
Canada		 A Wonderful World [19]
2005 Rod Stewart United Kingdom Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III [20]
2006 Tony Bennett United States The Art of Romance [21]
2007 Tony Bennett United States Duets: An American Classic [22]
2008 Michael Bublé Canada Call Me Irresponsible [23]
2009 Natalie Cole United States Still Unforgettable [24]
2010 Michael Bublé Canada Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden [25]
2011 Michael Bublé Canada Crazy Love [26]
2012 Tony Bennett United States Duets II
2013 Paul McCartney United Kingdom Kisses on the Bottom
2014 Michael Bublé Canada To Be Loved [27]
2015 Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga United States Cheek to Cheek [28]
2016 [29]

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

See also

References

General
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External links

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