The Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is an honor presented annually at the

Latin Grammy Award The Latin Grammy Awards are an award by The Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Latin Grammy honors works recorded in Spanish or Portuguese from anywhere around the world that has been r ...

s, 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 goes to solo artists, duos, or groups for releasing vocal or instrumental albums containing at least 51% of new recordings. The award was first presented to Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa for the album ''Misa Criolla'' at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2000. She also happens to be the most nominated and awarded performer in this category with five accolades. Her album '' Cantora 1'' became the first folk album to be nominated for Album of the Year in

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but lost to Calle 13's ''

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''. In 2011 she became the first artist to receive this award posthumously for the album ''Deja La Vida Volar''. On the other hand, Peruvian singer

Eva Ayllón Eva María Angélica Ayllón Urbina (born February 7, 1956) better known by her stage name Eva Ayllón, is a female composer and singer, one of Peru's foremost Afro-Peruvian musicians, and one of the country's most enduring living legends. She he ...

holds the record for most nominations without a win with ten.Grammy Latino 2019: Tony Succar, Gian Marco y Eva Ayllón entre los peruanos nominados
/ref> Musicians originating from Argentina and Colombia have received this award more times than any other nationality winning on four and two occasions respectively.