Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album

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The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album was awarded from 1991 to 2006. From 1991 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and their director, Carol Cymbala, were the most decorated artist in this category with six wins.

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Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Recipients

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Year [I] Choir director(s)Performing artist(s)WorkNomineesRef.
1991 James Cleveland Southern California Community Choir Having Church?
1992 Gary Hines Sounds of Blackness The Evolution of Gospel
  • O'landa Draper& the Associates – Above and Beyond
  • Music and Arts Seminar Chicago Mass Choir – Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar Chicago Mass Choir
  • Christ Church Choir – Hand in Hand
  • Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers – Jesus Be Praised
  • L.A. Gospel Messengers – Rev. James Cleveland and the L.A. Gospel Messengers
 [1]
1993 Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar Mass ChoirEdwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar Mass Choir – Recorded Live in Los Angeles?
1994 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Live...We Come Rejoicing?
1995 Milton Brunson Thompson Community SingersThrough God's Eyes
  • O'landa Draper & The Associates – Live...A Celebration of Praise
  • Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar Mass Choir – Kings & Kingdoms
  • Kurt Carr and the Los Angeles Gospel Messengers – We Haven't Forgotten You
  • Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir – Live in Atlanta at Morehouse College
 [2]
1996 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Praise Him - Live!
  • Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers – Bible Stories
  • Hezekiah Walker & the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir – Live in New York by Any Means...
  • Rev. Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers – Shout
  • New Life Community Choir featuring John P. Kee – Show Up!
 [3]
1997 Shirley Caesar Shirley Caesar's Outreach Convention ChoirJust A Word
  • Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar – All Things Are Possible
  • Olanda Draper and the Associates – Gotta Feelin'
  • Mississippi Mass Choir – I'll See You in the Rapture
  • Shirley Caesar's Outreach Convention Choir – Just a Word
  • Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Mass Choir – A New Thing...Experience the Fullness
 [4]
1998 Kirk Franklin
Myron Butler
Robert Searight II 		God's Property God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation
[5]
1999 O'landa Draper The AssociatesReflections
  • Bobby Jones and New Life With the Nashville Super Choir – Just Churchin'
  • The Love Center Choir – Love Alive V--25th Anniversary Reunion
  • Hezekiah Walker and the LFT Church Choir – Live at Love Fellowship Tabernacle
  • New Life Community Choir – Strength
 [6]
2000 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir High And Lifted Up
  • VIP Music & Arts Seminar Mass Choir – Any Day
  • Mississippi Mass Choir – Emmanuel (God With Us)
  • Wilmington Chester Mass Choir – Hosanna! And They Sang The Word
  • Inner City Mass Choir – Let's Make It Better
 [7]
2001 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Live - God Is Working
  • New Direction – Get Your Praise On
  • Youth For Christ – Higher
  • University of Mississippi Gospel Choir – Send Up The Praise
  • The Tri-City Singers – tri-city4.com
 [8]
2002 Hezekiah Walker LFT Church ChoirLove Is Live!
 [9]
2003 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Be Glad
  • VIP Mass Choir – Mighty In The Spirit
  • Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers – Go Get Your Live Back
  • Hezekiah Walker and Love Fellowship Choir – Family Affair II - Live at Radio City Music Hall
  • Excelsior – Soul Interpretations
 [10]
2004 T. D. Jakes Potter's House Mass ChoirA Wing And A Prayer
 [11]
2005 Carol Cymbala Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Live...This is Your House
  • Minister Timothy Britten & Shabach Praise Co. – Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus
  • Timothy Wright & New York Fellowship Mass Choir II – Live In New York
  • New Birth Total Praise Choir – Spirit & Truth
  • Ricky Dillard & New G – Unplugged...The Way Church Used To Be
 [12]
2006 Gladys Knight Saints Unified Voices One Voice
[13]

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

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  2. ↑ "37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times. 6 January 1995. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
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