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The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award
The Grammys began in May 1959 and honoured women from the start, so no single first woman can be named. Here is how the awards and their categories developed.
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Womens Firsts in Music
Women and the Grammy Awards: the documented history of the ceremony, its categories and the women honoured.
The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
A careful look at women in country music in the 1960s and how the Grammy country vocal categories for women were created, renamed and later merged.
The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
How the Grammy category for women's pop vocals changed names and form, and what women pop singers and the charts looked like around the 1967 awards season.
The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
Rock was not a Grammy vocal category in 1967. This article explains when such awards arrived and tells the story of women rock singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.
The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance
The broad female vocal award of the early Grammys, why the 1959 ceremony is the starting point, and how it later split into genre categories.
The First Woman to Win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist
The Best New Artist Grammy, created in the early years of the awards, its mixed record of winners and its controversies, with the 1960s acts around 1967.
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