Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

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The Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award presented to male recording artists for works (songs or albums) containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre. Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, the award was first presented to Bob Dylan in 1980. Beginning with the 1995 ceremony, the name of the award was changed to Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. However, in 1988, 1992, 1994, and since 2005, this category was combined with the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and presented in a genderless category known as Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo. The solo category was later renamed to Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance beginning in 2005. This fusion has been criticized, especially when females are not nominated under the solo category.<ref name="Females">Template:Cite news</ref> The Academy has cited a lack of eligible recordings in the female rock category as the reason for the mergers.<ref name="Grammy1988">Template:Cite news</ref> While the award has not been presented since the category merge in 2005, an official confirmation of its retirement has not been announced.

Lenny Kravitz holds the record for the most wins in this category, with a total of four consecutive wins from 1999 to 2002. Bruce Springsteen has been presented the award three times, and two-time winners include Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Don Henley, and Robert Palmer. Since its inception, American artists have been presented with the award more than any other nationality, though it has been presented to musicians from the United Kingdom four times, from Australia once, and from South Africa once.

RecipientsEdit

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Two-time award winner Bob Dylan

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1984 award winner, Michael Jackson

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Three-time award winner Bruce Springsteen

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Four-time award winner Lenny Kravitz

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Dave Matthews, the most recent award recipient, performing with the Dave Matthews Band

Year^{{{#if:[I]\|[I]\|[1]}}}	Performing artist	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1980	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1981	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet/>
1982	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1982>Template:Cite news</ref>
1983	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1983>Template:Cite news</ref>
1984	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet/>
1985	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1985>Template:Cite news</ref>
1986	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1986>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref name=DeAtley>Template:Cite news</ref>
1987	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1987>Template:Cite news</ref>
1988^{{{#if:[II]\|[II]\|[2]}}}<ref name=Grammy1988/>
1989	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet/>
1990	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1990>Template:Cite news</ref>
1991	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1991>Template:Cite news</ref>
1992^{{{#if:[II]\|[II]\|[3]}}}<ref name=Grammy1992>Template:Cite news</ref>
1993	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1993>Template:Cite news</ref>
1994^{{{#if:[II]\|[II]\|[4]}}}<ref name=Grammy1994>Template:Cite news</ref>
1995	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet/>
1996	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1996>Template:Cite news</ref>
1997	Beck	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1997>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref>
1998	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1998>Template:Cite news</ref>
1999	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy1999>Template:Cite news</ref>
2000	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy2000>Template:Cite news</ref>
2001	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=RockontheNet/>
2002	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy2002>Template:Cite news</ref>
2003	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy2003>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link Template:Cbignore</ref>
2004	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name=Grammy2004>Template:Cite news</ref>

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