Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album , in German "Grammy Award for the best reggae album", is a music prize that is presented at the annual Grammy Awards . It was introduced in 1985 as the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording and renamed in 1992.
Musicians or bands are honored for outstanding albums from the reggae music field , whereby the genres roots reggae , dancehall and ska are also taken into account.
Background and story
The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States of America to honor artistic achievement, technical competence and outstanding overall performance regardless of album sales or chart position .
Originally this category was introduced as the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording to recognize artists for the best recordings in reggae music. Both albums and individual songs came into question. Since the 1992 Grammies were awarded, the name of the category has been changed to Best Reggae Album . Since 2002, the prizes have also been awarded to the sound engineers , mixers and music producers of the respective albums. According to the category description for the presentation of the Grammy Awards 2010, this prize can be awarded for vocal and instrumental albums with a minimum of 51% newly recorded material that has been released in the areas of roots reggae , dancehall or ska .
statistics
In 1985 the Jamaican band Black Uhuru received the first Grammy in this category. The musician Stephen Marley , a son of Bob Marley , received the award a total of five times, including three times as a member of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers , making him the musician with the most awards as an artist; he also received the Grammy twice for his brother Damian Marley's producer . Ziggy Marley , another son of Bob Marley, was awarded the prize four times, three of them together with his band. The award went three times to Bunny Wailer and twice each to the musicians Burning Spear , Damian Marley and Shabba Ranks . The duo Sly & Robbie was nominated together with their band Black Uhuru a total of seven times and after their dissolution a further eight times, whereby these musicians received the most nominations. With eleven nominations, Burning Spear was nominated most often as a solo artist for this category and the most frequent nominations without a win were for the band Third World , which was nominated seven times.
In 1989 the band UB40 was nominated twice, further double nominations took place in 1990 for Bunny Wailer (once with the Wailers Band) and in 2011 for Sly and Robbie (once together with Bob Sinclar and once as Sly and Robbie and the Family Taxi).
Overall, with the exception of 1987, when the British band Steel Pulse was awarded , the award for the best reggae album has always been given to Jamaican musicians.
Winner and nominated artist
Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording
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1985 February 26, 1985 |
Black Uhuru ( Sly Dunbar , Puma Jones, Michael Rose , Robbie Shakespeare , Duckie Simpson) |
 Jamaica
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Anthem |
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1986 February 25, 1986 |
Jimmy Cliff |
Jamaica
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Cliff Hanger |
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1987 February 24, 1987 |
Steel Pulse (Selwyn "Bumbo" Brown, Alvin Ewen, David Hinds, Alphonso Martin, Sidney Mills, Steve "Grizzley" Nisbett) |
 United Kingdom
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Babylon the Bandit |
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1988 March 2nd, 1988 |
Peter Tosh |
Jamaica
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No Nuclear War |
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1989 February 22, 1989 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers ( Cedella Marley , Sharon Marley , Stephen Marley , Ziggy Marley ) |
Jamaica
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Conscious party |
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1990 February 21, 1990 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers ( Cedella Marley , Sharon Marley , Stephen Marley , Ziggy Marley ) |
Jamaica
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One Bright Day |
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1991 February 20, 1991 |
Bunny Wailer |
Jamaica
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Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley |
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Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
| year | Artist / band | nationality | plant | Other nominated artists | Pictures of the artists |
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1992 February 26, 1992 |
Shabba ranks |
Jamaica
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As Raw As Ever |
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1993 February 24, 1993 |
Shabba ranks |
Jamaica
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X-tra Naked |
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1994 March 1, 1994 |
Inner Circle (Lester Adderly, Calton Coffie, Lancelot Hall, Bernard (Touter) Harvey, Ian Lewis, Roger Lewis) |
Jamaica
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Bad boys |
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1995 March 1, 1995 |
Bunny Wailer |
Jamaica
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Crucial! Roots Classics |
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1996 February 28, 1996 |
Shaggy |
Jamaica United States
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Boombastic |
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1997 February 26, 1997 |
Bunny Wailer |
Jamaica
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Hall of Fame: A Tribute to Bob Marley's 50th Anniversary |
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1998 February 25, 1998 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers ( Cedella Marley , Sharon Marley , Stephen Marley , Ziggy Marley ) |
Jamaica
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Fall Is Babylon |
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1999 February 24, 1999 |
Sly and Robbie ( Sly Dunbar , Robbie Shakespeare ) |
Jamaica
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Friends |
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2000 February 23, 2000 |
Burning Spear |
Jamaica
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Calling Rastafarian |
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2001 February 21, 2001 |
Beenie Man |
Jamaica
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Art and Life |
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2002 February 27, 2002 |
Damian Marley Arlick Thompson (sound engineer), Stephen Marley (producer) |
Jamaica
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Halfway tree |
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2003 February 23, 2003 |
Lee "Scratch" Perry Roger Lomas (sound engineer, mixer, producer) |
Jamaica
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Jamaican ET |
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2004 February 4, 2004 |
Sean Paul |
Jamaica
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Dutty skirt |
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2005 February 13, 2005 |
Toots & the Maytals (Andrew Bassford, Radcliffe Bryan, Paul Douglas, Charles Farquharson, Carl Harvey, Frederick "Toots" Hibbert, Clifton Jackie Jackson, Stephen Stewart, Leba Thomas) Richard S. Feldman, Rudolph Valentino & Tom Weir (toning engineers, mixers ), Richard S. Feldman (producer) |
Jamaica
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True love |
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2006 February 8, 2006 |
Damian Marley Marc Lee (sound engineer), James "Bonzai" Caruso (sound engineer, mixer), Stephen Marley (producer) |
Jamaica
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Welcome to Jamrock |
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2007 February 11, 2007 |
Ziggy Marley Dave Way , Marc Moreau (toning engineers, mixers) |
Jamaica
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Love is my religion |
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2008 February 10, 2008 |
Stephen Marley "Bonzai" James Caruso, Greg Morrison, Marc Lee (sound engineers, mixers), Stephen Marley (producer) |
Jamaica United States
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Mind control |
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2009 February 8, 2009 |
Burning Spear Brian Thorn, Chris Daley (Toningineurs, Mixers) |
Jamaica
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Jah is real |
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2010 January 31, 2010 |
Stephen Marley |
Jamaica United States
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Mind Control - Acoustic |
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2011 February 13, 2011 |
Buju Banton Austin Green, Jermaine Reid, Linford Marshall (Toningineurs, Mixers), Buju Banton (Producer) |
Jamaica
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Before the dawn |
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2012 February 12, 2012 |
Stephen Marley |
Jamaica
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Revelation Pt. 1 - The Root of Life |
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2013 February 10, 2013 |
Jimmy Cliff |
Jamaica
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Rebirth |
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2014 January 26, 2014 |
Ziggy Marley |
Jamaica
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In concert |
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2015 February 8, 2015 |
Ziggy Marley |
Jamaica
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Fly Rasta |
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2016 February 15, 2016 |
Morgan Heritage |
Jamaica
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Strictly roots |
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2017 February 12, 2017 |
Ziggy Marley |
Jamaica
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Ziggy Marley |
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2018 January 28, 2018 |
Damian Marley |
Jamaica
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Stony Hill |
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2019 February 10, 2019 |
Sting and Shaggy |
United Kingdom
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44/876 |
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2020 January 26th, 2020 |
Coffee |
Jamaica
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Rapture |
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Controversy surrounding Buju Banton's 2010 nomination
The nomination of Buju Banton and his album Rasta Got Soul in 2010 sparked controversy and protests from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation over his homophobic lyrics. Particularly controversial is the 1988 song Boom, Bye Bye , which advocates the shooting and burning of gay men.
In response to Buju Banton's nomination, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center placed an advertisement in Daily Variety magazine calling on Grammy Awards officials to condemn any music used to counter violence calls on other people. The advertisement appeared in the form of a letter signed by activists from the lesbian, gay and civil rights movements . The Recording Academy responded to the ad that musicians are recognized for the quality of their work and regardless of political content. The 2010 Grammy went to Stephen Marley. Buju Banton was nominated again in 2011, this time with the album Before the Dawn , and won a Grammy that year.
Web links
- Official homepage of the Grammy Awards (English)
- Past Winners Search ( English ) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved on March 17, 2012. Attention: The category “Reggae” must be selected in the search field.
supporting documents
- ↑ "Honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position" Overview ( English ) The Recording Academy . Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ Grammy Awards at a Glance ( English ) In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ 52nd OEP Category Description Guide ( English , PDF ; 85 kB) The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ Dan Auerbach, Fun., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West Lead 55th GRAMMY Nominations , Recording Academy press release, December 5, 2012. (English)
- ↑ 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees. From: grammy.com, accessed December 6, 2012.
- ^ NARAL Final Nomination List 57th Grammy Awards , accessed December 31, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d Jill Serjeant: Gay groups urge Grammys to denounce Buju Banton (English) , Reuters . January 29, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ August Brown: Buju Banton's Grammy nomination angers gay rights groups (English) . In: Los Angeles Times , Tribune Company, January 29, 2010. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ Grammy Doesn't Honor Buju Banton Archived from the original on February 5, 2010. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Here Media (Ed.): The Advocate . January 31, 2010. Accessed November 27, 2010. (English)
