Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1979 – September 30, 1980

Manhattans won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal with "Shining Star"

Winner

Nominees

Year	Winner	Title
2003	Stevie Wonder, Take 6	Love's In Need Of Love Today	All Nominees
2002	Destiny's Child	Survivor	All Nominees
2001	Destiny's Child	Say My Name	All Nominees
2000	TLC	No Scrubs	All Nominees
1999	Brandy, Monica	The Boy Is Mine	All Nominees
1998	Blackstreet	No Diggity	All Nominees
1997	Fugees	Killing Me Softly With His Song	All Nominees
1996	TLC	Creep	All Nominees
1995	Boyz II Men	I'll Make Love To You	All Nominees
1994	Sade	No Ordinary Love	All Nominees
1993	Boyz II Men	End Of The Road	All Nominees
1992	Boyz II Men	Cooleyhighharmony	All Nominees
1991	Ray Charles, Chaka Khan	I'll Be Good To You	All Nominees
1990	Soul II Soul, Caron Wheeler	Back To Life	All Nominees
1989	Gladys Knight	Love Overboard	All Nominees
1988	Aretha Franklin, George Michael	I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)	All Nominees
1987	Prince	Kiss	All Nominees
1986	Commodores	Nightshift	All Nominees
1985	James Ingram, Michael McDonald	Yah Mo B There	All Nominees
1984	Rufus, Chaka Khan	Ain't Nobody	All Nominees
1983	Dazz Band	Let It Whip	All Nominees
1983	Earth, Wind & Fire	Wanna Be With You	All Nominees
1982	Quincy Jones	The Dude	All Nominees
1981	Manhattans	Shining Star	All Nominees