The Targa Tenco ("Tenco Plaque") is a prize awarded annually by the Club Tenco. Founded in 1984, it has a large jury of 200 journalists and critics awarding the best works of the year.[1][2] It is considered the most prestigious award in Italian music.[1][2]
The winners of Targa Tenco awards are:[3]
Best Work in Dialect
Initially awarded to the best dialect song, since 1996 it goes to the best album mostly performed in dialect.
Cantore, Lalla (1990). "Club Tenco". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore. pp. 404-6.
Sources for the award winners :
- From 1984 to 1990: Cantore, Lalla (1990). "Club Tenco". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore. pp. 404-6.
- For 1991: Monticone, Bruno (27 October 1991). "Il "matto" Trenet ritorna divo". La Stampa. p. 45. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 1992: Monticone, Bruno (16 April 1993). "Guccini gran mattatore per Tenco". La Stampa. p. 45. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- From 1993 to 2004: Santoro, Marco; Solaroli, Marco (2007). "Authors and Rappers: Italian Hip Hop and the Shifting Boundaries of "Canzone d'Autore" (Appendix)". Popular Music. 26 (3): 483–484. ISSN 0261-1430. JSTOR 4500337 – via JSTOR.
- For 2005: Redazione (29 September 2005). "Poker vincente al Premio Tenco". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2006: "Musica: Targhe Tenco, vince Capossela". Teatro.it (in Italian). 4 October 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2007: "Annunciati i vincitori delle Targhe Tenco". Rockol (in Italian). 1 October 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2008: Donzella, Claudio (31 October 2008). "Club Tenco tra vecchio e nuovo". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2009: "Premio Tenco, ecco tutti i vincitori". Il giornale della musica (in Italian). 19 October 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2010: "Carmen Consoli trionfa al Tenco". La Stampa (in Italian). 29 September 2010. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2011: "Musica: al Ligabue acustico il Premio Tenco 2011". Libero (in Italian). 23 October 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2012: "Targhe Tenco 2012: vincono Afterhours, Zibba e Baccini". Radio Italia. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2013: "La 'Targa Tenco' al 'Sinfonico Honolulu'". La Nazione (in Italian). 3 October 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2014: "David Crosby vince il Premio Tenco". la Repubblica (in Italian). 14 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2015: "Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi vince il Tenco come miglior album: ecco tutti i vincitori". Fanpage.it (in Italian). 29 September 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2016: "Targhe Tenco: James Senese con "O Sanghe" e Peppe Voltarelli con Otello Profazio premiati all'Ariston". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 20 September 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2017: "A Claudio Lolli il Premio Tenco 2017". Il manifesto (in Italian). 20 June 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2018: Calvini, Angela (29 September 2018). "Musica. Il Premio Tenco 2018 dedicato ai migranti. Star Zucchero, Adamo ed Elisa". Avvenire (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2019: "Targhe Tenco: vincono Daniele Silvestri e Vinicio Capossela". la Repubblica (in Italian). 1 July 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2020: "Premio Tenco 2020 a Sting, Vasco Rossi e Vincenzo Mollica. Un cast unico per lo speciale su Rai3 di lunedì sera". Il Mattino (in Italian). 27 December 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2021: Buonfanti, C. (13 July 2021). "Targhe Tenco 2021, i vincitori. Trionfa Madame". Radio Kiss Kiss (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2022: "Marracash e Elisa vincono le Targhe Tenco 2022". Wired Italia (in Italian). 13 July 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- For 2023: "Targhe Tenco 2023, annunciati i vincitori". Billboard (in Italian). 2023-07-06. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- For 2024: Manca, Mario (9 July 2024). "Targhe Tenco 2024: l'edizione di Paolo Benvegnù, ma anche di Diodato". Vanity Fair Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 21 July 2024.