Grammy Awards and Nominations For Whitney Houston - 1986

Madonna - "Crazy for You"
Linda Ronstadt - Lush Life (Album)
Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love for You" ★
Pat Benatar - "We Belong"
Tina Turner - "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"

• Houston won her first Grammy, Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, an award handed to her by her delighted cousin, Dionne Warwick, and Julian Lennon.
• Before winning the award, performed "Saving All My Love for You."
• LaLa, the songwriter of "You Give Good Love," was nominated for Best R&B Song but lost to Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden for "Freeway of Love."
• The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) disallowed Whitney Houston from competing for Best New Artist in the balloting, because, prior to the release of 1985's Whitney Houston album, she had appeared as a duet guest vocalist on one song on Jermaine Jackson's album, and one on the Teddy Pendergrass' album, both in the preceding year (1984).