Best World Music Album

41st Annual Grammy Awards • 1999

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1997 and Aug 30, 1998

Gilberto Gil won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album with "Quanta Live"

Winner

Nominees

Year	Winner	Work
2011	Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate	Ali And Toumani	All Nominees
2010	Mamadou Diabate	Douga Mansa	All Nominees
2009	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu	All Nominees
2008	Soweto Gospel Choir	African Spirit	All Nominees
2007	Soweto Gospel Choir	Blessed	All Nominees
2006	Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate	In The Heart Of The Moon	All Nominees
2005	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Raise Your Spirit Higher	All Nominees
2004	Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery	Sacred Tibetan Chant	All Nominees
2003	Rubén Blades	Mundo	All Nominees
2002	Ravi Shankar	Full Circle - Carnegie Hall 2000	All Nominees
2001	João Gilberto	João Voz E Violão	All Nominees
2000	Caetano Veloso	Livro	All Nominees
1999	Gilberto Gil	Quanta Live	All Nominees
1998	Milton Nascimento	Nascimento	All Nominees
1997	The Chieftains	Santiago	All Nominees
1996	Deep Forest	Boheme	All Nominees
1995	Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder	Talking Timbuktu	All Nominees
1994	Ry Cooder, V.M. Bhatt	A Meeting By The River	All Nominees
1993	Sergio Mendes	Brasileiro	All Nominees
1992	Mickey Hart	Planet Drum	All Nominees