1988 Soul Train Music Awards
Appearance
Soul Train Music Awards | |
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Date | March 30, 1988 |
Location | Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California |
Country | United States |
Hosted by | Dionne Warwick |
First awarded | 1987 |
Most awards | Michael Jackson, LL Cool J and LeVert (2) |
Website | soultrain |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | WGN America |
The 1988 Soul Train Music Awards 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.[1][2][3]
Special Award
Heritage Award
Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold text.
Album of the Year – Male
Album of the Year – Female
Album of the Year – Group or Band
Best Single – Male
- Michael Jackson – "Bad"
- Prince – "U Got the Look"
- Luther Vandross – "So Amazing"
- Stevie Wonder – "Skeletons"
Best Single – Female
- Natalie Cole – "I Live for Your Love"
Best Single – Group or Band
Best Rap Single
- LL Cool J – "I Need Love"
- Dana Dane – "Cinderfella Dana Dane"
- The Fat Boys – "Wipeout"
- Kool Moe Dee – "How Ya Like Me Now"
Best Music Video
- Janet Jackson – "Control"
Best New Artist
Best Rap Album
Best Gospel Album – Solo
- Vanessa Bell Armstrong – Following Jesus
- Shirley Caesar – Her Very Best
- Aretha Franklin – One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
- Al Green – Soul Survivor
Best Gospel Album – Group or Choir
- The Winans – Decisions
- Reverend Milton Brunson and The Thompson Community Singers – If I Be Lifted
- Commissioned – Go Tell Somebody
- The Clark Sisters – Heart and Soul
Best Jazz Album – Solo
- Najee – Najee's Theme
Best Jazz Album – Group or Band
- Hiroshima – Go
Performers
- Alexander O'Neal
- Natalie Cole
- Kool Moe Dee
- The Whispers
- Smokey Robinson
- LL Cool J
- Hiroshima and George Duke
- Gladys Knight & the Pips Tribute:
- Dionne Warwick and Howard Hewett
- Patti LaBelle and the Edwin Hawkins Singers
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 29, 2002. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
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