The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance was first handed out in 1968. It was discontinued after 1977. For four years, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977 it was awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance (other than soul gospel). The Academy split the award into two new awards in 1978. It was divided into the Grammy Awards for Best Gospel Performance, Traditional and Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary. In 2008, the award had two recipients, The Clark Sisters for Blessed and Highly favored and Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige for Never Gonna Break My Faith.
Winners: Grammys Best Gospel Performance
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Year
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Winner/s
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Song
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2010
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Donnie McClurkin & Karen Clark Sheard
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"Wait On The Lord"
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2009
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Mary Mary
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"Get Up"
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2008
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The Clark Sisters
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"Blessed & Highly Favored"
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2008
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Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige
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"Never Gonna Break My Faith"
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2007
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Yolanda Adams
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"Victory"
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2006
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CeCe Winans
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"Pray"
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2005
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Ray Charles & Gladys Knight
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"Heaven Help Us All"
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1977
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The Oak Ridge Boys
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"Where the Soul Never Dies"
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1976
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The Imperials
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No Shortage
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1975
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The Oak Ridge Boys
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"The Baptism of Jesse Taylor"
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1974
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The Blackwood Brothers
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Release Me (From My Sin)
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1973
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The Blackwood Brothers
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L*O*V*E
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1972
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Charley Pride
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"Let Me Live"
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1971
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The Oak Ridge Boys
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"Talk About the Good Times"
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1970
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Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers
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"In Gospel Country"
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1969
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The Happy Goodman Family
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The Happy Gospel of the Happy Goodmans
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1968
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Porter Wagoner & The Blackwood Brothers Quartet
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More Grand Old Gospel
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