Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female
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The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female was an award presented at the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990 for quality soul
gospel
performances. The Grammy Award
s, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented 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".
Prior to the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female there were two categories separated by gender (Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
), both of which were first presented in 1984. The first gender-neutral award was presented to Al Green
in 1990 for his performance of "As Long as We're Together". In 1991, another category restructure resulted in the soul gospel categories being divided into awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
and Best Traditional Gospel Album, both of which lasted until the 53rd Grammy Awards
in 2011.
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
. Both awards were presented from 1984 to 1989. The first gender-neutral award was presented in 1990. In 1991, another category restructure resulted in the soul gospel categories being divided into awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
and Best Traditional Gospel Album (previously known as Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
from 1978 to 1983), both of which lasted until the 53rd Grammy Awards
in 2011.
Nominees for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female included Al Green
for "As Long as We're Together", Albertina Walker
for My Time Is Not Over, Beau Williams
for Wonderful, Daniel Winans for "You Got a Choice to Make", and Vickie Winans
for Total Victory. The "new jack swing remix" of "As Long as We're Together" was done by Al B. Sure!
and appeared on Green's 1989 album I Get Joy
, which reached peak positions of number 60 and number 13 on Billboard
magazines' R&B Albums and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively. Allmusic's Jason Elias criticized the remix for having "too much hardware". My Time Is Not Over, recorded in Tennessee, contained 1960's soul music "propelled by a choir's call-and-response" and reached number 33 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. Wonderful reached number 22 and number 2 on Billboards Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively, and earned Williams a Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Award for Best Traditional Black Gospel Recorded Song of the Year. Daniel Winans, a member of the Winans family
, was also nominated for and won the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
for Let Brotherly Love Continue. Total Victory also charted on the Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, reaching peak positions of number 31 and number 7, respectively.
, followed by awards for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional in 1983 for Higher Plane
and Precious Lord
, respectively. Green earned three awards for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male: the first in 1984 for I'll Rise Again
, another in 1987 for "Going Away" (from the album He Is the Light
), and a third in 1988 for "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (from the album Soul Survivor
). The song "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love" earned Shirley Caesar
and Green the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
in 1985. Green has earned three Grammy awards since his 1990 recognition for "As Long as We're Together"; in 1995 he and Lyle Lovett
earned the first Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
for "Funny How Time Slips Away
", and in 2009 he was presented awards for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
for "You've Got the Love I Need" and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
for "Stay with Me (By the Sea)". Of the other Best Soul Gospel Performance nominees for 1990, only Walker eventually earned a Grammy award (Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 1995 for Songs of the Church: Live in Memphis).
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
gospel
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
performances. The Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, are presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS, is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its...
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".
Prior to the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female there were two categories separated by gender (Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
), both of which were first presented in 1984. The first gender-neutral award was presented to Al Green
Al Green
Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
in 1990 for his performance of "As Long as We're Together". In 1991, another category restructure resulted in the soul gospel categories being divided into awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991. An similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary, was awarded from 1978 to 1983...
and Best Traditional Gospel Album, both of which lasted until the 53rd Grammy Awards
53rd Grammy Awards
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were...
in 2011.
Background
Prior to the category Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female there were two categories separated by gender: Best Soul Gospel Performance, FemaleGrammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
. Both awards were presented from 1984 to 1989. The first gender-neutral award was presented in 1990. In 1991, another category restructure resulted in the soul gospel categories being divided into awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991. An similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary, was awarded from 1978 to 1983...
and Best Traditional Gospel Album (previously known as Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary was awarded from 1978 to 1983. A similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991....
and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional
The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional was awarded from 1978 to 1983. A similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album has been awarded since 1991....
from 1978 to 1983), both of which lasted until the 53rd Grammy Awards
53rd Grammy Awards
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were...
in 2011.
Nominees
Al Green
Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
for "As Long as We're Together", Albertina Walker
Albertina Walker
-Early years:Walker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ruben and Camille Coleman Walker. Her mother was born in Houston County, Georgia, and her father in Bibb County, Georgia. They moved to Chicago between 1917-1920 where they lived out their lives. Albertina had four siblings born in Bibb County...
for My Time Is Not Over, Beau Williams
Beau Williams
Beau Williams is a gospel singer from Texas. Through Light Records he released an album Wonderful, whose title track became a number one gospel hit.-Early years:...
for Wonderful, Daniel Winans for "You Got a Choice to Make", and Vickie Winans
Vickie Winans
Vickie Winans is an American Gospel recording artist.-Biography:The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason...
for Total Victory. The "new jack swing remix" of "As Long as We're Together" was done by Al B. Sure!
Al B. Sure!
Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...
and appeared on Green's 1989 album I Get Joy
I Get Joy
I Get Joy is a gospel album by Al Green, released in May 1989 on A&M Records.-Track listing:#"You're Everything To Me" 4:17# "All My Praise" 4:10# "The End Is Near" 4:06# "Mighty Cloud Of Joy" 4:19# "I Get Joy" 3:55# "As Long As Were Together" 3:49...
, which reached peak positions of number 60 and number 13 on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazines' R&B Albums and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively. Allmusic's Jason Elias criticized the remix for having "too much hardware". My Time Is Not Over, recorded in Tennessee, contained 1960's soul music "propelled by a choir's call-and-response" and reached number 33 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. Wonderful reached number 22 and number 2 on Billboards Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively, and earned Williams a Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Award for Best Traditional Black Gospel Recorded Song of the Year. Daniel Winans, a member of the Winans family
Winans family
The Winans family is an African-American family of Gospel music artists from Detroit, Michigan.-Family members:* David "Pop" Winans, Sr. * Delores "Mom" Winans * David Winans Jr....
, was also nominated for and won the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
The Grammy Award for Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus was awarded from 1984 to 1990.Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.-1990s:*Grammy Awards of 1990...
for Let Brotherly Love Continue. Total Victory also charted on the Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, reaching peak positions of number 31 and number 7, respectively.
Recipient
The award was presented to Green, who has received a total of eleven Grammy awards during his lifetime. In 1982 Green was presented the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional for The Lord Will Make a WayThe Lord Will Make a Way
The Lord Will Make a Way is a gospel album by Al Green, released in 1980.-Track listing:# "The Lord Will Make A Way"# "Pass Me Not"# "Too Close"# "Highway to Heaven"# "Saved"# "None But the Righteous"# "In The Holy Name Of Jesus"...
, followed by awards for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional in 1983 for Higher Plane
Higher Plane
-Track listing:# "Higher Plane"# "People Get Ready"# "By My Side"# "The Spirit Might Come - On And On"# "Where Love Rules"# "Amazing Grace"# "His Name Is Jesus"# "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"# "Rock Of Ages"# "The Old Rugged Cross"# "Morningstar"...
and Precious Lord
Precious Lord
This article is about the gospel album. For the gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey, see "Take My Hand, Precious Lord".Precious Lord is a gospel album by Al Green released in 1982.-Track liPrecious sting:#"Lord"#"Rock of Ages"#"The Old Rugged Cross"...
, respectively. Green earned three awards for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male: the first in 1984 for I'll Rise Again
I'll Rise Again
-Track listing:#"It Don't Take Much" #"Jesus Is Coming " #"Leaning On The Everlasting Arms" #"I Close My Eyes And Smile" #"Ocean Blue "#"Look At The Things That God Made" #"I Just Can't Make It By Myself"...
, another in 1987 for "Going Away" (from the album He Is the Light
He is the Light
-Track listing:#"Going Away" - 3:38 #"True Love" - 4:31 #"He is the Light" - 3:24 #"I Feel Like Going On" - 3:13 #"Be with Me Jesus" #"You Brought the Sunshine" - 5:10 #"Power" - 5:22 #"Building Up" - 3:10 #"Nearer My God to Thee"...
), and a third in 1988 for "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (from the album Soul Survivor
Soul Survivor (Al Green album)
Soul Survivor is a gospel album by Al Green released in 1987.-Track listing:#"Everything's Gonna be Alright" #"Jesus Will Fix It" - 3:24 #"You Know and I Know" - 4:01 #"Yield Not to Temptation" - 3:35 #"So Real to Me" - 0:54...
). The song "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love" earned Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar
Shirley Ann Caesar is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades...
and Green the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
The Grammy Award for Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus was awarded from 1984 to 1990.Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.-1990s:*Grammy Awards of 1990...
in 1985. Green has earned three Grammy awards since his 1990 recognition for "As Long as We're Together"; in 1995 he and Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
earned the first Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate...
for "Funny How Time Slips Away
Funny How Time Slips Away
"Funny How Time Slips Away" is a song written by Willie Nelson and also performed by Willie Nelson. The song was included as a track on Willie Nelson's 1962, debut album, And Then I Wrote.-Cover versions:...
", and in 2009 he was presented awards for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance is an accolade presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally named the Gramophone Awards, to performers of quality traditional R&B vocal performances. The award was first given in 1999; until 2003, only...
for "You've Got the Love I Need" and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1970 and 2011. From 1967 to 1969 and in 1971 the award included instrumental performances...
for "Stay with Me (By the Sea)". Of the other Best Soul Gospel Performance nominees for 1990, only Walker eventually earned a Grammy award (Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 1995 for Songs of the Church: Live in Memphis).
See also
- Gospel Music Hall of FameGospel Music Hall of FameThe Gospel Music Hall of Fame, created in 1971 by the Gospel Music Association, is a Hall of Fame dedicated exclusively to recognizing meaningful contributions by individuals and groups in all forms of gospel music.-Inductees:...
- List of Grammy Award categories
- List of soul musicians