User:Razr Nation/sandbox/Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album

The Latin Grammy Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Album is an honor presented annually at the Latin Grammy Awards, a ceremony that recognizes excellence and creates a wider awareness of cultural diversity and contributions of Latin recording artists in the United States and internationally. The award is given to solo artists or duos for albums recorded in Spanish or Portuguese. Songwriters have to compose and perform at least 75 percent of the album to be eligible in this category. Albums recorded live are eligible only if they contain 51 percent of previously unreleased material. The albums enrolled in this field are also eligible in the categories Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Recording Package, Best Engineered Album and Producer of the Year.

The award was established at the 5th Latin Grammy Awards and was given to American performer Soraya for her eponymous fourth studio album. Most nominated albums were recorded in Spanish, but albums released by Chico Buarque, Djavan, Maria Gadú, Gilberto Gil, Ivan Lins, Caetano Veloso and Tom Zé, recorded in Portuguese, were also nominated. Veloso and Peruvian singer-songwriter Gian Marco Zignago are the most awarded performers in the category, with two awards received. Djavan, Jorge Drexler, León Gieco and Silvio Rodríguez are the most nominated performers without a win, with two unsuccessful nominations each. In 2011, a tie was declared with the award given to Zignago for Días Nuevos and to Cuban artist Amaury Gutiérrez for Sesiones Intimas.