Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female

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The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female was awarded from 1959 to 1968. The award had several minor name changes:

• From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Vocal Performance, Female
• In 1961 it was awarded as two awards for Best Vocal Performance Album, Female and Best Vocal Performance Single Record or Track, Female
• From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female
• From 1964 to 1968 it was again awarded as Best Vocal Performance, Female

Although in the "pop" field the award did not specify pop music performances and, in some years, ran alongside the award now presented as the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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

[edit] 1960s

• Grammy Awards of 1968
  • Bobbie Gentry for "Ode to Billy Joe"
• Grammy Awards of 1967
  • Eydie Gorme for "If He Walked Into My Life"
• Grammy Awards of 1966
  • Barbra Streisand for My Name Is Barbra
• Grammy Awards of 1965
  • Barbra Streisand for "People"
• Grammy Awards of 1964
  • Barbra Streisand for The Barbra Streisand Album
• Grammy Awards of 1963
  • Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle
• Grammy Awards of 1962
  • Judy Garland for Judy at Carnegie Hall
• Grammy Awards of 1961
  • Single Record or Track: Ella Fitzgerald for "Mack the Knife"
  • Album: Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin
• Grammy Awards of 1960

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook

[edit] 1950s

• Grammy Awards of 1959
  • Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook