Who Won Pop Female Vocal Performance Grammys?
From Ella Fitzgerald in 1959 to Lady Gaga ("Bad Romance") in 2011 the Grammy Awards awarded the Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Female Grammy. Starting in 2012 the award was combined with the male pop vocal performance and became Best Pop Solo performance. Multiple winners of the Pop Female Grammy Award have included Christina Aguilera, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Bonnie Raitt, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and Ella Fitzgerald.
| 2011 Lady Gaga ("Bad Romance") | |
| Other Nominees: Sara Bareilles (King Of Anything); Beyonce (Halo Live); Norah Jones (Chasing Pirates); Katy Perry (Teenage Dream) | |
| 2010 Beyonce ("Halo") | |
| Other Nominees: Adele (Hometown Glory); Katy Perry (Hot N Cold); Pink (Sober); Taylor Swift (You Belong With Me) | |
| 2009 Adele ("Chasing Pavements") | |
| Other Nominees: Sara Barelleis (Love Song); Duffy (Mercy); Leona Lewis (Bleeding Love); Katy Perry (I Kissed A Girl); Pink (So What) | |
| 2008 Amy Winehouse ("Rehab") | |
| Other Nominees: Christina Aguilera (Candyman); Feist (1234); Fergie (Big Girls Don't Cry); Nelly Furtado (Say It Right) | |
| 2007 Christina Aguilera ("Ain't No Other Man") | |
| Other Nominees: Natasha Bedingfield (Unwritten); Shery Crow (You Can Close Your Eyes); Pink (Stupid Girls); KT Tunstall (Black Horse and the Cherry Tree) | |
| 2006 Kelly Clarkson ("Since U Been Gone") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (It's Like That); Sheryl Crow (Good Is Good); Bonnie Raitt (I Will Not Be Broken); Gwen Stefani (Hollaback Girl) | |
| 2005 Norah Jones ("Sunrise") | |
| Other Nominees: Bjork (Oceania); Sheryl Crow (The First Cut Is the Deepest); Gwen Stefani (What You Waiting For?); Joss Stone (You Had Me) | |
| 2004 Christina Aguilera ("Beautiful") | |
| Other Nominees: Kelly Clarkson (Miss Independent); Dido (White Flag); Avril Lavigne (I'm With You); Sarah McLachlan (Fallen) | |
| 2003 Norah Jones ("Don't Know Why") | |
| Other Nominees: Sheryl Crow (Soak Up the Sun); Avril Lavigne (Complicated); Pink (Get the Party Started); Britney Spears (Overprotected) | |
| 2002 Nelly Furtado ("I'm Like A Bird") | |
| Other Nominees: Faith Hill (There You'll Be); Janet Jackson (Someone To Call My Lover); Sade (By Your Side); Lucinda Williams (Essence) | |
| 2001 Macy Gray ("I Try") | |
| Other Nominees: Christina Aguilera (What A Girl Wants); Madonna (Music); Aimee Mann (Save Me); Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now); Britney Spears (Oops! I Did It Again) | |
| 2000 Sarah McLachlan ("I Will Remember You") | |
| Other Nominees: Christina Aguilera (Genie In A Bottle); Madonna (Beautiful Stranger); Alanis Morissette (Thank U); Britney Spears (Baby One More Time) | |
| 1999 Celine Dion ("My Heart Will Go On") | |
| Other Nominees: Sheryl Crow (My Favorite Mistake); Lauryn Hill (Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You); Natalie Imbruglia (Torn); Sarah McLachlan (Adia) | |
| 1998 Sarah McLachlan ("Building A Mystery") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (Butterfly); Paula Cole (Where Have All the Cowboys Gone); Shawn Colvin (Sunny Came Home); Jewel (Foolish Games) | |
| 1997 Toni Braxton ("Un-Break My Heart") | |
| Other Nominees: Shawn Colvin (Get Out Of This House); Celine Dion (Because You Loved Me); Gloria Estefan (Reach); Jewel (Who Will Save Your Soul) | |
| 1996 Annie Lennox ("No More I Love You's") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (Fantasy); Dionne Farris (I Know); Joan Osborne (One Of Us); Bonnie Raitt (You Got It); Vanessa Williams (Colors of the Wind) | |
| 1995 Sheryl Crow ("All I Wanna Do") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (Hero); Celine Dion (The Power of Love); Bonnie Raitt (Longing In Their Hearts); Barbra Streisand (Ordinary Miracles) | |
| 1994 Whitney Houston ("I Will Always Love You") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (Dreamlover); Shawn Colvin (I Don't Know Why); kd lang (Miss Chatelaine); Tina Turner (I Don't Wanna Fight) | |
| 1993 k d lang ("Constant Craving") | |
| Other Nominees: Mariah Carey (MTV Unplugged); Celine Dion (Celine Dion); Annie Lennox (Diva); Vanessa Williams (Save the Best For Last) | |
| 1992 Bonnie Raitt ("Something To Talk About") | |
| Other Nominees: Oleta Adams (Get Here); Mariah Carey (Emotions); Amy Grant (Baby Baby); Whitney Houston (All the Man That I Need) | |
| 1991 Mariah Carey ("Vision Of Love") | |
| Other Nominees: Bette Midler (From A Distance); Sinead O'Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U); Lisa Stansfield (All Around the World); Whitney Houston (I'm Your Baby Tonight) | |
| 1990 Bonnie Raitt ("Nick Of Time") | |
| Other Nominees: Paula Abdul (Straight Up); Gloria Estefan (Don't Wanna Lose You); Bette Midler (Wind Beneath My Wings); Linda Ronstadt (Cry Like A Rainstorm Howl Like the Wind) | |
| 1989 Tracy Chapman ("Fast Car") | |
| Other Nominees: Taylor Dayne (Tell It To My Heart); Joni Mitchell (Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm); Brenda Russell (Get Here); Whitney Houston (One Moment In Time) | |
| 1988 Whitney Houston ("I Wanna Dance With Somebody") | |
| Other Nominees: Belinda Carlisle (Heaven Is A Place On Earth); Carly Simon (Coming Around Again); Barbra Streisand (One Voice); Suzanne Vega (Luka) | |
| 1987 Barbra Streisand ("The Broadway Album") | |
| Other Nominees: Cyndi Lauper (True Colors); Madonna (Papa Don't Preach); Tina Turner (Typical Male); Dionne Warwick (Dionne and Friends) | |
| 1986 Whitney Houston ("Saving All My Love For You") | |
| Other Nominees: Pat Benatar (We Belong); Madonna (Crazy For You); Linda Ronstadt (Lush Life); Tina Turner (We Don't Need Another Hero) | |
| 1985 Tina Turner ("What's Love Got To Do With It") | |
| Other Nominees: Sheila E (The Glamorous Life); Sheena Easton (Strut); Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Want To Have Fun); Deniece Williams (Let's Hear It For the Boy) | |
| 1984 Irene Cara ("Flashdance?What A Feeling") | |
| Other Nominees: Sheena Easton (Telefone); Linda Ronstadt (What's New); Donna Summer (She Works Hard For the Money); Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse Of the Heart) | |
| 1983 Melissa Manchester ("You Should Hear How She Talks About You") | |
| Other Nominees: Laura Branigan (Gloria); Juice Newton (Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me); Olivia Newton-John (Heart Attack); Linda Ronstadt (Get Closer) | |
| 1982 Lena Horne ("Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music") | |
| Other Nominees: Kim Carnes (Bette Davis Eyes); Sheena Easton (For Your Eyes Only); Juice Newton (Angel Of the Morning); Olivia Newton-John (Physical) | |
| 1981 Bette Midler ("The Rose") | |
| Other Nominees: Irene Cara (Fame); Olivia Newton-John (Magic); Barbra Streisand (Woman In Love); Donna Summer (On the Radio) | |
| 1980 Dionne Warwick ("I'll Never Love This Way Again") | |
| Other Nominees: Gloria Gaynor (I Will Survive); Rickie Lee Jones (Chuck E's In Love); Melissa Manchester (Don't Cry Out Loud); Donna Summer (Bad Girls) | |
| 1979 Anne Murray ("You Needed Me") | |
| 1978 Barbra Streisand ("Love Theme from A Star Is Born") | |
| 1977 Linda Ronstadt ("Hasten Down the Wind") | |
| 1976 Janis Ian ("At Seventeen") | |
| 1975 Olivia Newton-John ("I Honestly Love You") | |
| 1974 Roberta Flack ("Killing Me Softly With His Song") | |
| 1973 Helen Reddy ("I Am Woman") | |
| 1972 Carole King ("Tapestry") | |
| 1971 Dionne Warwick ("I'll Never Fall In Love Again") | |
| 1970 Peggy Lee ("Is That All There Is") | |
| 1969 Dionne Warwick ("Do You Know the Way To San Jose") | |
| 1968 Bobbie Gentry ("Ode To Billie Joe") | |
| 1967 Eydie Gorme ("If He Walked Into My Life") | |
| 1966 Barbra Streisand ("My Name Is Barbra") | |
| 1965 Barbra Streisand ("People") | |
| 1964 Barbra Streisand ("The Barbra Streisand Album") | |
| 1963 Ella Fitzgerald ("Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle") | |
| 1962 Judy Garland ("Judy at Carnegie Hall") | |
| 1961 Ella Fitzgerald ("Mack the Knife") | |
| 1959 Ella Fitzgerald ("But Not For Me") | |
| 1959 Ella Fitzgerald ("Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book") | |