Best Global Music Album
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
![A man in an orange=colored shirt and white pants, sitting; he is wearing eyeglasses along with a microphone on his collar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Mickey_Hart%2C_Web_2.0_Conference.jpg/170px-Mickey_Hart%2C_Web_2.0_Conference.jpg)
![A man in a printed shirt wearing eyeglasses and a cap on his head, playing a guitar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Ry_Cooder_playing.jpg/170px-Ry_Cooder_playing.jpg)
![A man with dreadlocks wearing eyeglasses and a striped dress shirt; he is playing a guitar and standing behind a microphone stand](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Bituca.jpg/170px-Bituca.jpg)
![A man holding a microphone wearing a white suit](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/25o_Premio_da_Musica_Brasileira_%2814189658954%29.jpg/170px-25o_Premio_da_Musica_Brasileira_%2814189658954%29.jpg)
![A man under a blue light](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Caetano_Veloso_at_TIM_Festival.jpg/170px-Caetano_Veloso_at_TIM_Festival.jpg)
![A woman singing](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Angelique_Kidjo_-_Photo-_Cotonou%2C_2017.jpg/170px-Angelique_Kidjo_-_Photo-_Cotonou%2C_2017.jpg)
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