The Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album is an honor presented to recording artists for influential music from around the globe at the

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s, 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

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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

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, 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

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. 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 in the past eight years since 2016). The second group to win most often is

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, who have won four times during the combined history of Global/World categories.

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have three wins in the Global/World categories. In the single merged category,

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and Ry Cooder have both won twice. Angelique Kidjo also has the most nominations in the combined Global/World history with ten additional nominations.

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has the second most nominations in the combined categories with seven nominations.Anoushka Shankar , Artist , www.grammy.com
/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

Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

References

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External links

Official site of the Grammy Awards
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History

Recipients

See also

References

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