1988 Soul Train Music Awards

The 1988 Soul Train Music Awards^[1] were held on March 30, 1988 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The show was broadcast live in select cities and aired later in other areas. Dionne Warwick hosted.^[2][3]

Special Award

Heritage Award

• Gladys Knight and the Pips

Nominees and Winners

Winners are in bold with an asterisk (*).

Best New Artist

• Terence Trent D'Arby
• Exposé
• Miki Howard*
• Shanice Wilson

Best Music Video

• "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" - Whitney Houston
• "Control" - Janet Jackson*
• "The Way You Make Me Feel" - Michael Jackson
• "Looking for a New Love" - Jody Watley

Best Single - Male

• "Bad" - Michael Jackson*
• "U Got The Look" - Prince
• "Amazing" - Luther Vandross
• "Skeletons" - Stevie Wonder

Album of the Year, Male

• Bad - Michael Jackson*
• Hearsay - Alexander O'Neal
• Sign o' the Times - Prince
• Characters - Stevie Wonder

Album of the Year - Group or Band

• Touch the World - Earth, Wind, and Fire
• All Our Love - Gladys Knight and the Pips
• The Big Throwdown - LeVert*
• Just Gets Better With Time - The Whispers

Best Single, Female

• "I Live For Your Love" - Natalie Cole*
• "Pleasure Principle" - Janet Jackson
• "Looking For a New Love" - Jody Watley
• "Angel" - Angela Winbush

Album of the Year, Female

• Everlasting - Natalie Cole
• Whitney - Whitney Houston*
• Sharp - Angela Winbush
• Jody Watley - Jody Watley

Best Single, Group or Band

• "Always" - Atlantic Starr
• "System of Survival" - Earth, Wind, and Fire
• "Casanova" - LeVert*
• "Rock Steady" - The Whispers

Best Rap Album

• Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
• Living Large - Heavy D. & the Boyz
• Bigger and Deffer - LL Cool J*
• Open Sesame - Whodini

Best Rap Single

• "Cinderfella Dana Dane" - Dana Dane
• "I Need Love" - LL Cool J*
• "How Ya Like Me Now" - Kool Moe Dee
• "Wipeout" - The Fat Boys

Best Gospel Album, Group or Choir

• If I Be Lifted - Reverend Milton Brunson and The Thompson Community Singers
• Go Tell Somebody - Commissioned
• Heart and Soul - The Clark Sisters
• Decisions - The Winans*

Best Gospel Album, Solo

• Following Jesus - Vanessa Bell Armstrong*
• Her Very Best - Shirley Caesar
• One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism - Aretha Franklin
• Soul Survivor, Al Green

Best Jazz Album, Solo

• Jonathan Butler - Jonathan Butler
• The Other Side of Round Midnight - Dexter Gordon
• Najee's Theme - Najee*
• A Change of Heart - David Sanborn

Best Jazz Album, Group or Band

• Collaboration - George Benson & Earl Klugh
• Go - Hiroshima *
• Life Flight - Freddie Hubbard
• Still Life (Talking) - Pat Metheney Group

Performers

• Alexander O’Neal
• Natalie Cole
• Kool Moe Dee
• The Whispers
• Smokey Robinson
• LL Cool J
• Hiroshima & George Duke
• Gladys Knight & The Pips Tribute: Chaka Khan, Stephanie Mills, Angela Winbush, & Ronald Isley
• Dionne Warwick & Howard Hewett
• Patti LaBelle & the Edwin Hawkins Singers
• Gladys Knight & The Pips

References

External links

• Soul Train Music Awards 1988|Winners & Nominees