Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album

Template:Short description Template:Infobox award The Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album is an honor presented to recording artists for influential music from around the globe at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.<ref name=Grammy>Template:Cite news</ref> 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".<ref name=Overview>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

The award for Best Global Music Album, reserved for international performers exhibiting "non-European, indigenous traditions", was first presented to Mickey Hart in 1992 for the album Planet Drum.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name=Parales>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> In 2020, The Recording Academy announced it would be changing the name of the category to Best Global Music Album.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Angelique Kidjo<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> has won the category the most, with five wins (four of which have been since 2016). The second group to win most often is Ladysmith Black Mambazo,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who have won four times during the combined history of Global/World categories. Soweto Gospel Choir have three wins in the Global/World categories.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the single merged category, Ravi Shankar and Ry Cooder have both won twice. Angelique Kidjo also has the most nominations in the combined Global/World history with twelve additional nominations. Anoushka Shankar has the second most nominations in the combined categories with nine nominations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the single, merged Global category, artists from Brazil have won the most times with five wins, the USA have won four times, Benin has also won on four occasions, India and South Africa each have three wins, Mali and France have both had artists win twice.

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.

2000 award winner Caetano Veloso performing in 2006

Four-time recipient Angélique Kidjo.

Year{{#if:[I]|[I]|[1]}}	Performing artist(s)	Nationality	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1992	Template:Sortname	United States	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1993	Template:Sortname	Brazil	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1994	Template:Sortname and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	United States India	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1995	Template:Sortname and Ali Farka Touré	United States Mali	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1996	Deep Forest	France	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1996>Template:Cite news</ref>
1997	Template:Sort	Ireland	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1999	Template:Sortname	Brazil	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2000	Template:Sortname		Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2001	Template:Sortname		Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2002	Template:Sortname		Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2002	Template:Sortname	India	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2003	Template:Sortname	Panama	Template:Sort<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Smalldiv
2012	Tinariwen	Mali	Tassili	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2013	Ravi Shankar	India	The Living Room Sessions Part 1	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>List of 2013 nominees Template:Webarchive</ref>
2014	Gipsy Kings	France	Savor Flamenco<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Smalldiv
	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	South Africa	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2015	Angelique Kidjo	Benin	Eve	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="Spin Grammys 2015">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Angelique Kidjo	Benin	Sings	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="Spin Grammys 2015" />
2017	Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble	United States	Sing Me Home	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	South Africa	Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Grammy.com, 28 November 2017</ref>
2019	Soweto Gospel Choir	South Africa	Freedom	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Angelique Kidjo	Benin	Celia	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021	Burna Boy	Nigeria	Twice as Tall	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Angélique Kidjo	Benin	Mother Nature	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023	Masa Takumi	Japan	Sakura	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Shakti	India United Kingdom	This Moment	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2025	Matt B featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	United States United Kingdom	Alkebulan II	Template:Smalldiv	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2026	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

^{^[I]{{#if:| }}} Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

• Awards for world music
• List of cultural and regional genres of music
• List of Grammy Award categories

References

General

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Specific

External links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards Template:Webarchive

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