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Music Facts: Spoken Word
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The GRAMMY for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since the GRAMMY Awards first began in 1959; however, the category has undergone several minor name changes throughout the decades.
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Spoken word poetry, audiobooks, storytelling, non-musical dramas, sermons, narrations with or without music collaboration or accompaniment, and instructional recordings are eligible for the Best Spoken Word Album GRAMMY.
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John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan Baez, George Takei, and Carrie Fisher have all won the GRAMMY for Best Spoken Word Album.
Grammy Awards for Spoken Word
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Dalai Lama
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Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
Words For Days Vol. 1. Mad Skillz
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Last Sundays In Plains: A Centennial Celebration. Jimmy Carter
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Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
The Heart, The Mind, The Soul. Tank And The Bangas
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times. Michelle Obama
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Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
The Light Inside. J. Ivy
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Finding Me. Viola Davis
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Best Spoken Word Poetry Album
The Poet Who Sat By The Door. J. Ivy
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Carry On: Reflections For A New Generation From John Lewis. Don Cheadle
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, And The Richest, Most Destructive Industry On Earth. Rachel Maddow
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Becoming. Michelle Obama
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Faith - A Journey For All. Jimmy Carter
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Princess Diarist. Carrie Fisher
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox. Carol Burnett
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. Jimmy Carter
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Diary Of A Mad Diva. Joan Rivers
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't. Stephen Colbert
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Society's Child: My Autobiography. Janis Ian
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't). Betty White
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook). Jon Stewart
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Always Looking Up. Michael J. Fox
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore). Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream. Barack Obama
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. Jimmy Carter
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together. Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Dreams From My Father (Senator Barack Obama). Barack Obama
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
My Life. Bill Clinton
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right (Al Franken). Al Franken
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
A Song Flung Up To Heaven. Maya Angelou
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Q - The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Measure Of A Man. Sidney Poitier
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.. LeVar Burton
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Still Me. Christopher Reeve
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Charles Kuralt's Spring. Charles Kuralt
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
It Takes A Village. Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Phenomenal Woman. Maya Angelou
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Get In The Van - On The Road With Black Flag. Henry Rollins
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
On The Pulse Of Morning. Maya Angelou
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
What You Can Do To Avoid AIDS. Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Robert O'Keefe
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Civil War. Ken Burns
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Gracie - A Love Story. George Burns
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
It's Always Something. Gilda Radner
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Speech By Rev. Jesse Jackson. Jesse L. Jackson
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Lake Wobegon Days. Garrison Keillor
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Interviews From The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions. Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips, Rick Nelson, Chips Moman
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. (Original Broadway Cast)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Words Of Gandhi. Ben Kingsley
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait. William Warfield
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Movie On Record. (Various Artists)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Donovan's Brain. Orson Welles
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein. Pat Carroll
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Ages Of Man - Readings From Shakespeare. John Gielgud
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Citizen Kane. Orson Welles
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Belle Of Amherst. Julie Harris
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Great American Documents. Helen Hayes, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Give 'Em Hell Harry. James Whitmore
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Good Evening. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Richard Harris
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Lenny. (Original Cast)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Desiderata. Les Crane
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
We Love You Call Collect. Art Linkletter, Diane Linkletter
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Lonesome Cities. Rod McKuen
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Gallant Men. Everett M. Dirksen
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers Vol. I The War Years. Edward R. Murrow
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him. (John F. Kennedy)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
BBC Tribute To John F. Kennedy. That Was The Week That Was (Cast)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. (Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard & Melinda Dillon)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton. Charles Laughton
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
Humor In Music. Leonard Bernstein
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
FDR Speaks. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
A Lincoln Portrait. Carl Sandburg
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Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording
The Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows. Stan Freberg
Previous Winners
Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Words For Days Vol. 1
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