Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Recipients
Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Section Title: Recipients
Table Section Text: Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Year	Performing artists	Work	Nominees	Ref.

1968	Aretha Franklin	"Respect"	Etta James – "Tell Mama" Gladys Knight – "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Nina Simone – "You'll Go to Hell" Carla Thomas – "The Queen Alone"

1969	Aretha Franklin	"Chain of Fools"	Barbara Acklin – "Love Makes a Woman" Erma Franklin – "Piece of My Heart" Etta James – "Security" Ella Washington – "He Called Me Baby"

1970	Aretha Franklin	"Share Your Love with Me"	Gloria Taylor – "You Gotta Pay the Price" Ruth Brown - "Yesterday" Tina Turner – "The Hunter" Dee Dee Warwick – "Foolish Fool"

1971	Aretha Franklin	"Don't Play That Song"	Esther Phillips – "Set Me Free" Nina Simone – Black Gold Candi Staton – "Stand by Your Man" Dee Dee Warwick – "She Didn't Know"

1972	Aretha Franklin	"Bridge Over Troubled Water"	Jean Knight – "Mr. Big Stuff" Janis Joplin – "Pearl" Freda Payne – "Contact" Diana Ross – "(I Love You) Call Me"

1973	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted And Black	Merry Clayton – "Oh No Not My Baby" Esther Phillips – "From a Whisper to a Scream" Candi Staton – "In the Ghetto" Betty Wright – "Clean Up Woman"

1974	Aretha Franklin	"Master of Eyes (The Deepness of Your Eyes)"	Etta James – Etta James Ann Peebles – "I Can't Stand the Rain" Esther Phillips – "Alone Again (Naturally)" Sylvia – "Pillow Talk"

1975	Aretha Franklin	"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"	Shirley Brown – "Woman to Woman" Thelma Houston – "You've Been Doing Wrong for So Long" Millie Jackson – "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" Etta James – "St.

1976	Natalie Cole	"This Will Be"	Gloria Gaynor – "Never Can Say Goodbye" Gwen McCrae – "Rockin' Chair" Esther Phillips – "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" Shirley & Company – "Shame, Shame, Shame"

1977	Natalie Cole	"Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady)"	Aretha Franklin – "Something He Can Feel" Dorothy Moore – "Misty Blue" Melba Moore – "Lean On Me" Diana Ross – "Love Hangover"

1978	Thelma Houston	"Don't Leave Me This Way"	Natalie Cole – "I've Got Love on My Mind" Aretha Franklin – "Break It to Me Gently" Dorothy Moore – "I Believe You" Diana Ross – "Your Love Is So Good for Me"

1979	Donna Summer	"Last Dance"	Alicia Bridges – "I Love the Nightlife" Natalie Cole – "Our Love" Aretha Franklin – Almighty Fire Chaka Khan – "I'm Every Woman"

1980	Dionne Warwick	"Déjà Vu"	Natalie Cole – I Love You So Minnie Riperton – Minnie Amii Stewart – "Knock on Wood" Donna Summer – "Bad Girls" Anita Ward – "Ring My Bell"

1981	Stephanie Mills	"Never Knew Love Like This Before"	Roberta Flack – Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway Aretha Franklin – "I Can't Turn You Loose" Minnie Riperton – Love Lives Forever Diana Ross – "Upside Down"

1982	Aretha Franklin	"Hold On! I'm Comin'"	Patti Austin – "Razzamatazz" Chaka Khan – What Cha' Gonna Do for Me Teena Marie – It Must Be Magic Stephanie Mills – Stephanie

1983	Jennifer Holliday	"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"	Aretha Franklin – "Jump to It" Diana Ross – "Muscles" Patrice Rushen – "Forget Me Nots" Donna Summer – "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" Deniece Williams – "It's Gonna Take a Miracle"

1984	Chaka Khan	Chaka Khan	Aretha Franklin – Get It Right Jennifer Holliday – Feel My Soul Patti LaBelle – "The Best Is Yet to Come" Stephanie Mills – Merciless Deniece Williams – I'm So Proud

1985	Chaka Khan	"I Feel for You"	Patti Austin – Patti Austin Shannon – "Let the Music Play" Tina Turner – "Let's Stay Together" Deniece Williams – "Let's Hear It for the Boy"

1986	Aretha Franklin	"Freeway of Love"	Whitney Houston – "You Give Good Love" Chaka Khan – I Feel for You Patti LaBelle – "New Attitude" Teena Marie – "Lovergirl"

1987	Anita Baker	Rapture	Aretha Franklin – "Jumpin' Jack Flash" Janet Jackson – Control Chaka Khan – Destiny Patti LaBelle – Winner in You

1988	Aretha Franklin	Aretha	Natalie Cole – Everlasting Whitney Houston – "For the Love of You" Jody Watley – "Looking for a New Love" Nancy Wilson – Forbidden Lover

1989	Anita Baker	"Giving You the Best That I Got"	Taylor Dayne – "I'll Always Love You" Pebbles – "Girlfriend" Karyn White – "The Way You Love Me" Vanessa Williams – "The Right Stuff"

1990	Anita Baker	Giving You the Best That I Got	Natalie Cole – Good to Be Back Aretha Franklin – Through the Storm Janet Jackson – "Miss You Much" Vanessa Williams – "Dreamin'"

1991	Anita Baker	Compositions	Regina Belle – "Make It Like It Was" Janet Jackson – "Alright" Patti LaBelle – "I Can't Complain" Pebbles – "Giving You the Benefit"

1992	Lisa Fischer Patti LaBelle	"How Can I Ease the Pain" Burnin'	Aretha Franklin – What You See Is What You Sweat Gladys Knight – Good Woman Vanessa Williams – "Running Back to You"

1993	Chaka Khan	The Woman I Am	Oleta Adams – "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" Whitney Houston – "I Belong to You" Shanice – "I Love Your Smile" Vanessa Williams – "The Comfort Zone"

1994	Toni Braxton	"Another Sad Love Song"	Aretha Franklin – "Someday We'll All Be Free" Whitney Houston – "I'm Every Woman" Janet Jackson – "That's The Way Love Goes" Patti LaBelle – "All Right Now"

1995	Toni Braxton	"Breathe Again"	Anita Baker – "Body And Soul" Aretha Franklin – "A Deeper Love" Gladys Knight – "I Don't Want to Know" Meshell Ndegeocello – "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)"

1996	Anita Baker	"I Apologize"	Brandy – "Baby" Toni Braxton – "I Belong To You" Mariah Carey – "Always Be My Baby" Vanessa Williams – "The Way That You Love"

1997	Toni Braxton	"You're Makin' Me High"	Brandy – "Sittin' Up in My Room" Mary J. Blige – "Not Gon' Cry" Tamia – "You Put a Move on My Heart" Whitney Houston – "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"

1998	Erykah Badu	"On & On"	Chaka Khan – "Summertime" Mariah Carey – "Honey" Patti LaBelle – "When You Talk About Love" Whitney Houston – "I Believe in You and Me"

1999	Lauryn Hill	"Doo Wop (That Thing)"	Aaliyah – "Are You That Somebody?" Aretha Franklin – "A Rose Is Still a Rose" Erykah Badu – "Tyrone" Janet Jackson – "I Get Lonely"

2000	Whitney Houston	"It's Not Right but It's Okay"	Brandy – "Almost Doesn't Count" Mary J. Blige – "All That I Can Say" Faith Evans – "Love Like This" Macy Gray – "Do Something"

2001	Toni Braxton	"He Wasn't Man Enough"	Aaliyah – "Try Again" Erykah Badu – "Bag Lady" Kelly Price – "As We Lay" Jill Scott – "Gettin' in the Way"

2002	Alicia Keys	"Fallin'"	Aaliyah – "Rock the Boat" India.Arie – "Video" Mary J. Blige – "Family Affair" Blu Cantrell – "Hit 'em Up Style (Oops!)" Jill Scott – "A Long Walk"

2003	Mary J. Blige	"He Think I Don't Know"	Aaliyah – "More Than a Woman" Ashanti – "Foolish" Eartha – "I'm Still Standing" Jill Scott – "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)"

2004	Beyoncé Knowles	"Dangerously in Love 2"	Ashanti – "Rain on Me" Erykah Badu – "Back in the Day" Mary J. Blige – "Ooh!" Heather Headley – "I Wish I Wasn't"

2005	Alicia Keys	"If I Ain't Got You"	Janet Jackson – "I Want You" Teena Marie – "I'm Still in Love" Jill Scott – "Whatever" Angie Stone – "U-Haul"

2006	Mariah Carey	"We Belong Together"	Amerie – "1 Thing" Fantasia – "Free Yourself" Alicia Keys – "Unbreakable" Beyoncé – "Wishing on a Star"

2007	Mary J. Blige	"Be Without You"	India.Arie – "I Am Not My Hair" Natalie Cole – "Day Dreaming" Beyoncé – "Ring the Alarm" Mariah Carey – "Don't Forget About Us"

2008	Alicia Keys	"No One"	Mary J. Blige – "Just Fine" Fantasia – "When I See U" Chrisette Michele – "If I Have My Way" Jill Scott – "Hate On Me"

2009	Alicia Keys	"Superwoman"	Beyoncé – "Me, Myself and I (Live)" Keyshia Cole – "Heaven Sent" Jennifer Hudson – "Spotlight" Jazmine Sullivan – "Need U Bad"

2010	Beyoncé Knowles	"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"	Melanie Fiona – "It Kills Me" Lalah Hathaway – "That Was Then" Ledisi – "Goin' Thru Changes" Jazmine Sullivan – "Lions, Tigers & Bears"

2011	Fantasia Barrino	"Bittersweet"	Faith Evans – "Gone Already" Monica – "Everything to Me" Kelly Price – "Tired" Jazmine Sullivan – "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)"

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The award for the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was first presented to Aretha Franklin at the Grammy Awards ceremony in 1968, for the song "Respect".

final_sentence: The award for the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was first presented to Aretha Franklin at the Grammy Awards ceremony in 1968, for the song "Respect".