Os vencedores do anual Dove Awards em Los Angeles em Fevereiro de 2009

Os prêmios oferecidos pela Gospel Music Association, aos artistas, produtores e compositores que se destacam no mercado da música cristã norte-americana, do ano de 2009.

Best Gospel Performance

• East To West": Casting Crowns; Track from: The Altar And The Door Live; Beach Street Records/Reunion Records
• "I Understand": Kim Burrell, Rance Allen, Bebe Winans, Mariah Carey & Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Tabernacle Church Choir; Track from: Randy Jackson's Music Club, Volume One ; Concord Records/Dream Merchant 21 Ent.

• "Get Up": Mary Mary; Track from: The Sound; Columbia
• "Shall We Gather At The River": Take 6; Track from: The Standard; Heads Up International
• "Waging War": CeCe Winans; Track from: Thy Kingdom Come ; PureSprings Gospel/EMI Gospel

Best Gospel Song (song/songwriter) CD

• "Cover Me": James L. Moss, songwriter (21:03 With Fred Hammond, Smokie Norful & J Moss); from Total Attention; Verity/Zomba Gospel; Publisher: Millenni-era Music
• "Get Up": Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell, Warryn Campbell & Eric Dawkins, songwriters (Mary Mary); from The Sound; Columbia; Publishers: Wet Ink Red Music/That's Plum Song/It's Tea Tyme/EMI April/E.D. Duz-It Music/Irving Music/Underdog Songs
• "Give Me Your Eyes": Brandon Heath & Jason Ingram, songwriter (Brandon Heath); from What If We; Reunion Records; Publishers: Sitka6 Music/Peertunes/Grange Hill Music/Windsor Way Music
• "Help Me Believe": Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin); from The Fight Of My Life; Fo Yo Soul Ent./Zomba Gospel ; Publishers: Universal Music-Z Songs/Kerrion Publishing
• "You Reign": Jim Bryson, Steven Curtis Chapman, Nathan Cochran, Barry Graul, Bart Millard, Mike Scheuchzer & Robby Shaffer, songwriters (MercyMe); from All That Is Within Me; INO Records; Publishers: Simpleville Music/Wet As A Fish Music, Sparrow Song/Peach Hill Songs

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album CD

• Reflections; Jason Champion; EMI Gospel/Brooks Entertainment
• The Fight Of My Life; Kirk Franklin; Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/ Zomba Gospel
• The Sound; Mary Mary; Columbia
• Donald Lawrence Introduces: The Murrills' Family Prayer ; Quiet Water/ Verity
• Stand Out; Tye Tribbett & G.A.; Columbia

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

• Down In New Orleans; The Blind Boys Of Alabama; Time Life
• CD I'll Say Yes ; The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir; Integrity Music
• Take It Back; Dorinda Clark-Cole; GospoCentric/Zomba
• Deitrick Haddon Presents... Together In Worship Voices Of Unity; Tyscot Records
• Bishop Charles E. Blake Presents... No Limit The West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir; EMI Gospel

Also, in the Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album, Toby Mac (for Alive and Transported) won over Flame, After Edmund, Sanctus Real and Superchick.

In the Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album, CeCe Winans (for Thy Kingdom Come) won over Steven Curtis Chapman, Brandon Heath, Leeland and Chris Tomlin.

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