Awards

GRAMMY AWARDS

• 1991: Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Here and Now”
• 1992: Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Power of Love”
  Best R&B Song “Power of Love/Love Power”
• 1997: Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Your Secret Love”
• 2004: Song of the Year “Dance With My Father”
  Best R&B Album “Dance With My Father”
  Best R&B Vocal Performance by Duo or Group “The Closer I Get to You” (duet w/Beyonce)
  Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Dance With My Father”

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

• 1982: (2) Best New Artist, Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Never Too Much”
• 1983: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Forever, For Always, For Love”
• 1986: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “The Night I Fell In Love”
• 1987: (2) Best R&B Song, Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Give Me the Reason”
• 1989: (2) Best R&B Song, Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Any Love”
• 1990: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “She Won’t Talk to Me”
• 1992: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance by Duo or Group “Doctor’s Orders” w/Aretha Franklin
• 1993: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance by Duo or Group “The Best Things in Life Are Free” w/Janet Jackson
• 1994: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “How Deep Is Your Love”
• 1995: (4) Best Pop Vocal Performance-Male “Love The One You’re With”
  Best Pop Collaboration w/Vocals “Endless Love” w/Mariah Carey
  Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Always and Forever”
  Best R&B Album Songs
• 1997: (2) Best R&B Song “Your Secret Love”
  Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Your Secret Love”
• 1998: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “When You Call On Me/Baby That’s When I Come Runnin’”
• 1999: (2) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “I Know”
  Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance “I Know”
• 2003: (1) Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance “Any Day Now”
• 2004: (1) Best R&B Song “Dance With My Father”
• 2007: (1) Best R&B Vocal Performance-Male “Got You Home” (posthumous)

AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

• Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist, Winner (7): 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2003
• Favorite Soul/R&B Album, Winner (2): 1992 Power of Love
  2003 Dance With My Father

AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS

• 1986: (2) Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist
  Favorite Soul/R&B Album The Night I Fell In Love
• 1988: (1) Favorite Soul/R&B Album Give Me The Reason

NAACP IMAGE AWARDS

• Outstanding Male Artist, Winner (3): 1999, 2002, 2004
• Outstanding Album of the Year, Winner (1): 2004 Dance With My Father

ADDITIONAL HONORS

• 2008: #54 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
• 2010: Named one of NPR’s (National Public Radio) 50 Greatest Voices
• 2014: Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame