1987 Soul Train Music Awards

The 1987 Soul Train Music Awards aired live on March 23, 1987 (and was later syndicated in other areas), honoring the best in R&B, soul, rap, jazz, and gospel music from the previous year. The show was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California and was hosted by Luther Vandross and Dionne Warwick.

Heritage Award for Career Achievement

• Stevie Wonder

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold text with an asterisk (*).

Best New Artist

• Gregory Abbott*
• Club Nouveau
• The Jets
• Shirley Murdock

Best Music Video

• Sweet Love - Anita Baker
• Word Up - Cameo
• Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
• What Have You Done For Me Lately - Janet Jackson*

Album of the Year - Group or Band

• As the Band Turns - Atlantic Starr
• Word Up - Cameo*
• Forever - Kool & the Gang
• Raising Hell - Run D.M.C.

Album of the Year - Female

• Rapture - Anita Baker
• Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
• Control - Janet Jackson*
• Winner in You - Patti LaBelle

Album of the Year - Male

• Rock Me Tonight - Freddie Jackson
• Love Zone - Billy Ocean
• Give Me the Reason - Luther Vandross*
• In Square Circle - Stevie Wonder

Best Single, Female

• "Sweet Love" - Anita Baker*
• "The Greatest Love of All" - Whitney Houston
• "What Have You Done For Me Lately" - Janet Jackson
• "Do Me Baby" - Meli'sa Morgan

Best Single, Male

• "Shake You Down" - Gregory Abbott*
• "Tasty Love" - Freddie Jackson
• "Kiss" - Prince
• "Give Me The Reason" - Luther Vandross

Best Single by Group or Band

• "Secret Lovers" - Atlantic Starr
• "Word Up" - Cameo*
• "Rumors" - Timex Social Cub
• "That's What Friends Are For" - Dionne Warrick and Friends

Best Gospel Album by a Solo Artist

• Celebration - Shirley Caesar
• Autograph - Andrae Crouch
• He is the Light - Al Green
• The Search Is Over - Tramaine

Best Gospel Album by a Group or Choir

• Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir
• The Color Purple Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Various Artists
• Blessed - The Williams Brothers
• Let My People Go - The Winans*

Best Jazz Album by a Solo Artist

• Tutu - Miles Davis
• Love Will Follow - George Howard*
• Dual Tones - Kenny G.
• Promise - Sade

Best Jazz Album by a Group or Band

• Breakout - Spyro Gyra
• Another Place - Hiroshima
• Double Vision - Bob James and David Sanborn*
• Shades - The Yellowjackets

Best Rap Single

• "Peewee's Dance" - Joeski Love
• "Walk This Way" - Run D.M.C.*
• "Rumors" - Timex Social Club
• "One Love" - Whodini

Best Rap Album

• Fat Boys Are Back - Fat Boys
• Radio - LL Cool J
• Raising Hell - Run D.M.C*
• Back in Black - Whodini

Performers

• Cameo - "Word Up!"
• LL Cool J -
• Al Jarreau
• Run DMC
• Whitney Houston - "You Give Good Love"
• George Benson
• Luther Vandross - "So Amazing"
• Bob James
• Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross - Medley: "My Cherie Amour"/"All Is Fair In Love"/"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"/"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
• Stevie Wonder - "I Can Only Be Me"
• David Sanborn
• Cissy Houston, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Andrae Crouch, Sandra Crouch, Shirley Caesar, Tramaine Hawkins, Edwin Hawkins, The Williams Brothers & The Winans - "Mary Don't You Weep"
• Carlos Vega
• George Duke
• Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick & Stevie Wonder - "That's What Friends Are For"

External links

• Soul Train Music Awards 1987|Winners & Nominees