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. 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".
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. 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. 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. In 2020, The Recording Academy announced it would be changing the name of the category to Best Global Music Album.
Angelique Kidjo 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, who have won four times during the combined history of Global/World categories. Soweto Gospel Choir have three wins in the Global/World categories. 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.
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
thumb|right|upright|alt=A man in an orange=colored shirt and white pants, sitting; he is wearing eyeglasses along with a microphone on his collar|[[Mickey Hart, the first award recipient (1992), at the Web 2.0 Conference in 2005]]
thumb|right|upright|alt=A man in a printed shirt wearing eyeglasses and a cap on his head, playing a guitar|Two-time award recipient [[Ry Cooder performing in 2009]]
thumb|right|upright|alt=A man with dreadlocks wearing eyeglasses and a striped dress shirt; he is playing a guitar and standing behind a microphone stand|[[40th Grammy Awards|1998 award winner Milton Nascimento in 2008]]
thumb|right|upright|alt=A man holding a microphone wearing a white suit|[[41st Grammy Awards|1999 award winner Gilberto Gil.]]
thumb|right|upright|alt=A man under a blue light|[[42nd Grammy Awards|2000 award winner Caetano Veloso performing in 2006]]
thumb|right|upright|alt=A woman singing|Four-time recipient [[Angélique Kidjo.]]
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1992
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| United States
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1993
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| Brazil
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1994
| and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
| United States<br />India
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1995
| and Ali Farka Touré
| United States<br />Mali
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1996
| Deep Forest
| France
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1997
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| Ireland
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1998
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| rowspan="4" | Brazil
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|1999
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2000
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2001
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2002
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| India
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2003
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| Panama
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2012
| Tinariwen
| Mali
| Tassili
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2013
| Ravi Shankar
| India
| The Living Room Sessions Part 1
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! rowspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2014
| Gipsy Kings
| France
| Savor Flamenco
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| Ladysmith Black Mambazo
| South Africa
| Live: Singing for Peace Around the World
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2015
| Angelique Kidjo
| Benin
| Eve
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2016
| Angelique Kidjo
| Benin
| Sings
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2018
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo
| South Africa
|Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2019
| Soweto Gospel Choir
| South Africa
| Freedom
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2020
| Angelique Kidjo
| Benin
| Celia
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2021
| Burna Boy
| Nigeria
| Twice as Tall
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2022
| Angélique Kidjo
| Benin
| Mother Nature
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2023
| Masa Takumi
| Japan
| Sakura
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2024
| Shakti
| India<br />United Kingdom
| This Moment
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2025
|Matt B featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
|United States<br />United Kingdom
|Alkebulan II
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;"|2026
|Caetano Veloso & Maria Bethânia
|Brazil
|Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo
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<sup></sup> 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
- Note: User must select the "World" category as the genre under the search feature.
;Specific
External links
- Official site of the Grammy Awards