Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance

The Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.^[1] According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for solo, duo/groups or collaborative (vocal or instrumental) R&B recordings and is limited to singles or tracks only.^[2]

The award was originally awarded from 1959 to 1961 as Best Rhythm & Blues Performance and then from 1962 to 1968 as Best Rhythm & Blues Recording before being discontinued. In 2012, the award was brought back combining the previous categories for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards and to eliminate the distinctions between male and female performances, and between solo and duo/groups performances.^[3]

Recipients

The award was discontinued in 1968, Aretha Franklin being the last winner

Corinne Bailey Rae was the recipient of the reintroduced award in 2012

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance
• Grammy Award for Best R&B Song

References