Grammy Award for Best Urban / Alternative Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Urban / Alternative Performance , in German roughly “Grammy Award for the best urban / alternative performance”, is a music prize that has been awarded at the annual Grammy Awards since 2003 . Performances from the urban / alternative music (contemporary R&B) with singing were awarded. Since 2012, this award has been added to the Best R&B Performance category.

Background and story

The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America for artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of the album - Honor sales or chart position.

Erykah Badu has been nominated three times for a Grammy, but has never received it.

The Grammy Award for Best Urban / Alternative Performance was first given to India.Arie at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2003 for her song Little Things . According to the price description, it was awarded to artists who presented newly recorded performances from the urban / alternative music field with singing. The aim is to honor artists who are influenced by an area of ​​urban music and who presented music that is outside the mainstream . This award has not been awarded since the Grammy Awards in 2012 because it was added to the Best R&B Performance category.

India.Arie won the first Grammy in this category and, along with Jill Scott and Cee-Lo Green (once as part of the duo Gnarls Barkley and once as a solo artist), is one of the artists to have received the award twice so far. The record for the most nominations is shared by Erykah Badu , Big Boi (once as part of OutKast ) and will.i.am (once as a member of The Black Eyed Peas ), who were each nominated three times. Erykah Badu is thus also the artist with the most nominations without ever having received the award. The only artists nominated twice in a year are Sérgio Mendes and will.i.am, both of whom were jointly involved in both nominated titles. The award was dominated by American artists, but with Damian Marley it was also won by a Jamaican, and Dobet Gnahoré (duet partner of India.Arie) comes from the Ivory Coast .

Winner and nominated artist

year	Artist / band	nationality	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
2003 February 27, 2003	India.Arie	United States	Little things	Erykah Badu and Common - Love of My Life (Ode to Hip-Hop) Floetry - Floetic Cee-Lo Green - Getting Grown Raphael Saadiq and D'Angelo - Be Here
2004 February 8, 2004	OutKast	United States	Hey ya!	Erykah Badu - Danger Kelis - Milkshake Les Nubians - J'veux D'la Musique Musiq - Forthenight
2005 February 13, 2005	Jill Scott	United States	Cross My Mind	Mos Def - Sex, Love & Money Musiq - Are You Experienced? NERD - She Wants to Move The Roots - Star
2006 February 8, 2006	Damian Marley	Jamaica	Welcome to Jamrock	Floetry - SupaStar Gorillaz - Dirty Harry Mos Def - Ghetto Rock Van Hunt - Dust
2007 February 11, 2007	Gnarls Barkley	United States	Crazy	Sérgio Mendes , Erykah Badu and will.i.am - That Heat Sérgio Mendes and The Black Eyed Peas - Mas que Nada | Mas Que Nada OutKast - Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me) Prince - 3121
2008 February 10, 2008	Lupe Fiasco and Jill Scott	United States	Daydreamin '	Dwele - That's the Way of the World Vikter Duplaix - Make a Baby Alice Smith - Dream Meshell Ndegeocello - Fantasy
2009 February 8, 2009	Chrisette Michele and will.i.am	United States	Be OK	Kenna - Say Goodbye to Love Maiysha - Wanna Be Janelle Monáe - Many Moons Wayna and Koytai - Lovin 'You
2010 January 31, 2010	India.Arie and Dobet Gnahoré	United States Ivory Coast	Pearls	The Foreign Exchange and Muhsinah - Daykeeper Robert Glasper and Bilal - All Matter Eric Roberson , Ben O'Neill and Michelle Thompson - A Tale of Two Tonéx - blend
2011 February 13, 2011	Cee-Lo Green	United States	Fuck you!	Bilal - Little One Carolyn Malachi - Orion Janelle Monáe and Big Boi - Tightrope Eric Roberson - Still

supporting documents

1. ↑ “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position” Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
2. ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved May 29, 2011.
3. ↑ “newly recorded urban / alternative performances with vocals”, “who have been influenced by a cross section of urban music”; according to 52nd OEP Category Description Guide (PDF; 85 kB) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2011. 
4. ↑ Awards Category Comparison Chart ( PDF ; 80 kB) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. P. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2011.

Web links

• Official homepage of the Grammy Awards
• Past Winners Search . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved July 19, 2011.
• Grammy Awards: Best Urban / Alternative Performance . Rock on the Net. Retrieved July 19, 2011.

This version was added to the selection of informative lists and portals on June 8, 2011 .