Question: On what date were the earliest award for Best Rock Gospel Album given out at the Grammy Awards ?

text: Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album
Recipients

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album was awarded from 1991 to 2011. From 1991 to 1993 the category was awarded as Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album. From 2007 to 2011 it was awarded as Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album. The award was discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, recordings in this category were shifted to either Best Contemporary Christian Music Album or Best Gospel Album categories.
Year Winning artist ( s ) Work Other nominees
1991 Petra Beyond Belief Phil Keaggy - Find Me in These Fields Mylon & Broken Heart - Crank It Up Eddie DeGarmo - Phase II Charlie Peacock - The Secret of Time
1992 Russ Taff Under Their Influence Kim Hill - Brave Heart DeGarmo & Key - Go to the Top DC Talk - Nu Thang Margaret Becker - Simple House
1993 Petra Unseen Power White Heart - Tales of Wonder Pray for Rain - Pray for Rain Geoff Moore and the Distance - A Friend Like U Newsboys - Not Ashamed
1994 DC Talk Free at Last Phil Keaggy - Crimson and Blue Geoff Moore and the Distance - Evolution DeGarmo & Key - Heat it Up Disciples of Christ - Pullin ' No Punches
1995 Petra Wake-Up Call Steve Taylor - Squint Newsboys - Going Public DeGarmo & Key - To Extremes Various Artists - Strong Hand of Love
1996 Ashley Cleveland Lesson of Love Big Tent Revival - Big Tent Revival Jars of Clay - Jars of Clay Geoff Moore and the Distance - Home Run ! Petra - No Doubt
1997 DC Talk Jesus Freak Audio Adrenaline - Bloom Rebecca St. James - God Newsboys - Take Me to Your Leader Big Tent Revival - Open All Nite
1998 DC Talk Welcome to the Freak Show Third Day - Conspiracy No . 5 Smalltown Poets - Smalltown Poets Geoff Moore and the Distance - Threads All Star United - All Star United
1999 Ashley Cleveland You Are There Sixpence None the Richer - Sixpence None the Richer Petra - God Fixation Big Tent Revival - Amplifier Audio Adrenaline - Some Kind of Zombie
2000 Rebecca St. James Pray Third Day - Time Gospel Gangstaz - I Can See Clearly Now Big Tent Revival - Choose Life Audio Adrenaline - Underdog
2001 Petra Double Take Third Day - Offerings : A Worship Album Switchfoot - Learning to Breathe Smalltown Poets - Third Verse Jennifer Knapp - Lay It Down
2002 DC Talk Solo The Choir - Flap Your Wings T-Bone - Tha Last Street Preacha Sonicflood - Sonicpraise Big Tent Revival - Big Tent Revival Live
2003 Third Day Come Together TobyMac - Momentum Jennifer Knapp - The Way I Am GRITS - The Art of Translation Audio Adrenaline - Lift
2004 Audio Adrenaline Worldwide Robert Randolph and the Family Band - Unclassified Relient K - Two Lefts Do n't Make a Right ... but Three Do Petra - Jekyll and Hyde Freshie - Red Letterz
2005 Third Day Wire TobyMac - Welcome to Diverse City Various Artists - Holy Hip Hop : Taking Gospel to the Streets Tait - Lose This Life Skillet - Collide Sarah Kelly - Take Me Away
2006 Audio Adrenaline Until My Heart Caves In Day of Fire - Day of Fire Fresh I.E . - Truth Is Fallin ' in Tha Streetz GRITS - Dichotomy B The Cross Movement - Higher Definition
2007 Jonny Lang Turn Around T-Bone - Bone-A-Fide Red - End of Silence DecembeRadio - DecembeRadio Sarah Kelly - Where the Past Meets Today
2008 Ashley Cleveland Before the Daylight 's Shot Skillet - Comatose Pillar - The Reckoning Da ' T.R.U.T.H . - Open Book The Cross Movement - HIStory : Our Place in His Story
2009 TobyMac Alive and Transported Superchick - Rock What You Got Sanctus Real - We Need Each Other Flame - Our World : Redeemed After Edmund - Hello
2010 Third Day Live Revelations John Wells the Tonic - The Dash Red - Innocence & Instinct Decyfer Down - Crash Da ' T.R.U.T.H . - The Big Picture