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Grammy Award 'Best Reggae Album' Goes To Sting & Shaggy - 44/876
02/10/2019 by Reggaeville
Just announced via the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony hosted by Shaggy:
The Grammy Award winner in the category BEST REGGAE ALBUM are Sting & Shaggy with 44/876. Congratulations!
Shaggy accepted the Award live on stage. His partner in crime Sting was absent. Watch Shaggy's acceptance speech below.
Shaggy was nominated as a solo artist six times (5x Best Reggae Album, 1x Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for It Wasn't Me) and won the Grammy in 1996 for his album Boombastic.
Most recently Shaggy announced the release of his new album Wah Gwaan?! for May 10, 2019. Read more about it here!
Also nominated in the BEST REGGAE ALBUM category were:
Black Uhuru - As The World Turns
Etana - Reggae Forever
Ziggy Marley - Rebellion Rises
Protoje - A Matter of Time
Below you find the complete REGGAE CATEGORY* winner list of from 1984 to 2018:
1984 Black Uhuru - Anthem
1985 Jimmy Cliff - Cliff Hanger
1986 Steel Pulse - Babylon the Bandit
1987 Peter Tosh - No Nuclear War
1988 Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Conscious Party
1989 Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - One Bright Day
1990 Bunny Wailer - Time Will Tell: A Tribute to Bob Marley
1991 Shabba Ranks - As Raw As Ever
1992 Shabba Ranks - X-tra Naked
1993 Inner Circle - Bad Boys
1994 Bunny Wailer - Crucial! Roots Classics
1995 Shaggy - Boombastic
1996 Bunny Wailer - Hall of Frame: A Tribute to Bob Marley’s 50th Anniversary
1997 Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers - Fallen Is Babylon
1998 Sly and Robbie - Friends
1999 Burning Spear - Calling Rastafari
2000 Beenie Man - Art and Life
2001 Damian Marley - Halfway Tree
2002 Lee Perry - Jamaican E.T.
2003 Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
2004 Toots & the Maytals - True Love
2005 Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
2006 Ziggy Marley - Love Is My Religion
2007 Stephen Marley – Mind Control
2008 Burning Spear - Jah Is Real
2009 Stephen Marley - Mind Control Acoustic
2010 Buju Banton - Before the Dawn
2011 Stephen Marley - Revelation Pt. 1 – The Root of Life
2012 Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
2013 Ziggy Marley - In Concert
2014 Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta
2015 Morgan Heritage - Strictly Roots
2016 Ziggy Marley - Ziggy Marley
2017 Damian Marley - Stony Hill
2018 Sting & Shaggy - 44/876
*CATEGORY NAME CHANGE:
BEST REGGAE RECORDING (1984 - 1990)
BEST REGGAE ALBUM (1991 - 2018)