Award winners

• Record of the Year
  Grammy Award for Record of the Year
  The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually. It has been awarded since 1959.-History:The honorees through its history have been:*1959-1965: Artist only.*1966-1998: Artist and producer....
  
  
  • Linda Goldstein (producer) & Bobby McFerrin
    Bobby McFerrin
    Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
    
     for "Don't Worry, Be Happy
    Don't Worry, Be Happy
    "Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. On the UK Singles Chart, the song reached number 2 during its fifth week on the chart...
    
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• Album of the Year
  Grammy Award for Album of the Year
  The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...
  
  
  • George Michael
    George Michael
    George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
    
     (producer & artist) for Faith
    Faith (George Michael album)
    Faith is George Michael's first solo album, released in October 1987 via Columbia Records/Epic Records. The album has won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. To date, the album has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, and received diamond certification from...
    
    

• Song of the Year
  Grammy Award for Song of the Year
  The Song of the Year is one of the four most prestigious awards in the Grammy Awards ceremony, if not in all of the American music industry. It has been awarded since 1959 and unlike the Record of the Year award, which goes to the performer and production team of a single song, Song of the Year...
  
  
  • Bobby McFerrin
    Bobby McFerrin
    Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
    
     for "Don't Worry, Be Happy"

• Best New Artist
  Grammy Award for Best New Artist
  The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year. The award was not presented in 1967...
  
  
  • Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...
    
    

Blues

• Best Traditional Blues Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...
  
  
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
    
     for Hidden Charms
• Best Contemporary Blues Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...
  
  
  • The Robert Cray Band for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Children's

• Best Recording for Children
  Grammy Award for Best Album for Children
  The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children has been awarded since 1959. Prior to 1992, the award was known as Best Recording for Children and was therefore open to any audio recording, whether it was an album, a single song, a recording of a book, or the audio from a television show or movie...
  
  
  • Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder
    Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...
    
     (producer & composer), Mark Sottnick (producer) & Robin Williams
    Robin Williams
    Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
    
     for Pecos Bill

Classical

• Best Orchestral Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*From 1959 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Orchestra...
  
  
  • Robert Woods
    Robert Woods (producer)
    Robert Woods is a Grammy Award-winning classical music producer. Woods is a founder and former president of the independent record label Telarc International Corporation....
    
     (producer), Louis Lane
    Louis Lane
    Louis Lane is an American conductor.Louis Gardner Lane was born in Eagle Pass, Texas. He studied composition with Kent Kennan at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his bachelor’s in music degree in 1943, and with Bohuslav Martinů at the Tanglewood Music Center , and with Bernard...
    
    , Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (conductor)
    Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
    
     (conductors) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001...
    
     for Rorem
    Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...
    
    : String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles
• Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:...
  
  
  • Emerson Buckley
    Emerson Buckley
    Emerson Buckley An American Orchestral conductor born in New York City. Buckley graduated from Columbia University in 1934 and made his conducting debut that same year at age 20...
    
     (conductor), Luciano Pavarotti
    Luciano Pavarotti
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     & the Symphony Orchestra of Amelia Romangna for Luciano Pavarotti in Concert
• Best Opera Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
  The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962....
  
  
  • Christopher Raeburn
    Christopher Raeburn
    Christopher Raeburn was an English record producer of international renown.-Life and career:Raeburn was educated at Charterhouse School and Oxford...
    
     (producer), Georg Solti
    Georg Solti
    Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
    
     (conductor), Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...
    
    , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a retired German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder performers of the post-war period and "one of the supreme vocal artists of the 20th century"...
    
    , Siegmund Nimsgern
    Siegmund Nimsgern
    Siegmund Nimsgern is a German bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany.After leaving school in 1960 he studied singing and musical education at the Hochschule für Musik Saar with Sibylle Fuchs, Jakob Stämpfli and Paul Lohmann.He made his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in...
    
    , Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman
    Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...
    
    , Eva Randova, Hans Sotin
    Hans Sotin
    Hans Sotin is a German operatic bass.He was born in Dortmund and studied with Friedrich Wilhelm Hetzel and Dieter Jacob at the Dortmund Hochschule für Musik....
    
    , & the Vienna State Opera Orchestra for Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
    
    : Lohengrin
• Best Choral Performance (other than opera)
  Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance has been awarded since 1961. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*In 1961 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Choral ...
  
  
  • Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (conductor)
    Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
    
     (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001...
    
     for Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
    
    : Requiem & Operatic Choruses
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra)
  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
  The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or...
  
  
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini
    Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.-Biography:Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy, to a father born in Lombardy and a mother born in Naples; but he was raised in Bolzano, which at the time of his birth was part of Austria...
    
     (conductor), Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Horowitz
    Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
    
     & the La Scala Opera Orchestra for Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
    
    : Piano Concerto No. 23
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra)
  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
  The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or...
  
  
  • Alicia de Larrocha
    Alicia de Larrocha
    Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was a Spanish pianist from Catalonia. One of the great piano legends of the 20th century, Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", Time "one of the world's most outstanding pianists" and The Guardian "the leading Spanish pianist of her...
    
     for Albéniz
    Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
    
    : Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1959 to 1960 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music ...
  
  
  • David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie
    Evelyn Glennie
    Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...
    
    , Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia
    Murray Perahia KBE is an American concert pianist and conductor.-Early life:Murray Perahia was born in the Bronx borough of New York City to a family of Sephardi Jewish origin. According to the biography on his Mozart piano sonatas CD, his first language was Judaeo-Spanish or, Ladino. The family...
    
     & Georg Solti
    Georg Solti
    Sir Georg Solti, KBE, was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his...
    
     for Bartók
    Béla Bartók
    Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
    
    : Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion
• Best Contemporary Composition
  Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition
  The Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition was first awarded in 1961. This award was not presented from 1967 to 1984.The award has had several minor name changes:...
  
  
  • John Adams
    John Coolidge Adams
    John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker...
    
     (composer), Edo de Waart
    Edo de Waart
    Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra....
    
     (conductor) & the San Francisco Symphony
    San Francisco Symphony
    The San Francisco Symphony is an orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980, the orchestra has performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus are part of the organization...
    
     for Adams: Nixon in China
    Nixon in China (opera)
    Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams' first opera, it was inspired by the 1972 visit to China by US President Richard Nixon. The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with...
    
    
• Best Classical Album
  Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album was awarded from 1962 to 2011. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1962 to 1963, 1965 to 1972 and 1974 to 1976 the award was known as Album of the Year - Classical...
  
  
  • Robert Woods
    Robert Woods (producer)
    Robert Woods is a Grammy Award-winning classical music producer. Woods is a founder and former president of the independent record label Telarc International Corporation....
    
     (producer), Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (conductor)
    Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
    
     (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001...
    
     for Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
    
    : Requiem & Operatic Choruses

Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album was awarded from yearly 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:*From 1959 to 1967 it was Best Comedy Performance...
  
  
  • Robin Williams
    Robin Williams
    Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
    
     for Good Morning Vietnam

Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition
  The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition has been awarded since 1960. The award is presented to the composer of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...
  
  
  • Danny Elfman
    Danny Elfman
    Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
    
     (composer) for "The Batman
    Batman (1989 film)
    Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Michael Keaton in the title role, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance...
    
     Theme"
• Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
  Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
  The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media has been awarded since 1988 and is awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media...
  
  
  • Phil Collins
    Phil Collins
    Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
    
     and Lamont Dozier
    Lamont Dozier
    Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
    
     (songwriters) for "Two Hearts" performed by Phil Collins
• Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
  Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
  The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media has been awarded since 1960. Until 2001 the award was presented to the composer of the music alone. From 2001 to 2006, the producer and engineers shared in this award...
  
  
  • David Byrne
    David Byrne (musician)
    David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
    
    , Cong Su
    Cong Su
    Cong Su is a Chinese composer.He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then in Germany. He has lectured on music theory, music analysis, film music and ballet music at the Musikhochschule in Munich...
    
    , and Ryuichi Sakamoto
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
    After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
    
     (composers) for The Last Emperor
• Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement
  The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...
  
  
  • Roger Kellaway
    Roger Kellaway
    Roger Kellaway is an American composer, arranger, and pianist.Born in Waban, Massachusetts, he is an alumnus of the New England Conservatory...
    
     (arranger) for "Memos From Paradise" performed by Eddie Daniels
    Eddie Daniels
    Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....
    
    
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
  Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
  The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...
  
  
  • Jonathan Tunick
    Jonathan Tunick
    Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, one of twelve people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. He has also worked with all of the other eleven people. His principal instrument is the clarinet...
    
     (arranger) for "No One Is Alone" performed by Cleo Laine
    Cleo Laine
    Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE is a jazz singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and vocal range...
    
    

Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance was first awarded in 1965, to Dottie West. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female...
  
  
  • K.T. Oslin for "Hold Me"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance was awarded between 1965 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male...
  
  
  • Randy Travis
    Randy Travis
    Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...
    
     for Old 8x10
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  The Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded from 1970 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1970 the award was known as Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group...
  
  
  • The Judds
    The Judds
    The Judds were an American country music duo composed of Naomi Judd and her daughter, Wynonna Judd. Signed to RCA Records in 1983, the duo released six studio albums between then and 1991. One of the most successful acts in country music history, The Judds won five Grammy Awards for Best Country...
    
     for "Give a Little Love"
• Best Country Vocal Collaboration
  Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
  The Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to quality country music collaborations for artists who do not normally perform together...
  
  
  • k.d. lang
    K.D. Lang
    Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
    
     & Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison
    Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...
    
     for "Crying"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance (orchestra, group or soloist)
  Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 2011. Between 1986 and 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance ....
  
  
  • Asleep at the Wheel
    Asleep at the Wheel
    Asleep at the Wheel is a American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas. Altogether, they have won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty...
    
     for "Sugarfoot Rag"
• Best Country Song
  Grammy Award for Best Country Song
  The Grammy Award for Best Country Song has been awarded since 1965. The award is given to the writer of the song.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...
  
  
  • K.T. Oslin (songwriter) for "Hold Me"
• Best Bluegrass Recording (vocal or instrumental)
  Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the bluegrass music genre...
  
  
  • Bill Monroe
    Bill Monroe
    William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
    
     for Southern Flavor
    Southern Flavor
    Southern Flavor is an album by Bill Monroe, released through MCA Records in 1988. In 1989, the album won Monroe the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording , an award currently known as Best Bluegrass Album.-Track listing:...
    
    

Folk

• Best Traditional Folk Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.An award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was also presented...
  
  
  • Don DeVito
    Don DeVito
    Don DeVito was an American record producer, music business executive and guitarist. His career was spent at Columbia Records, where his production credits included Bob Dylan's albums Blood on the Tracks, Desire and Street-Legal.-Life:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and in his late teens began...
    
    , Harold Leventhal
    Harold Leventhal
    Harold Leventhal was an American music manager. He died in 2005 at the age of 86. His career began as a song plugger for Irving Berlin...
    
    , Joe McEwen & Ralph Rinzler
    Ralph Rinzler
    Ralph Rinzler was the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian....
    
     (producers) for Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly performed by various artists
• Best Contemporary Folk Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. In 2007, this category was renamed Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album...
  
  
  • Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...
    
     for Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman (album)
    Tracy Chapman is the self-titled debut album by singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released in 1988.-History:Tracy Chapman hit #1 on both the US & UK album charts. The album was critically acclaimed and helped to launch the 1990s female singer-songwriter movement, which included artists like Tori...
    
    

Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female
  The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female was awarded in from 1984 to 1990. From 1984 to 1989 it was titled the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Female....
  
  
  • Amy Grant
    Amy Grant
    Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
    
     for Lead Me On
• Best Gospel Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Male
  The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1984 to 1990. From 1984 to 1989 it was titled the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Male....
  
  
  • Larnelle Harris
    Larnelle Harris
    Larnelle Steward Harris is a gospel singer and songwriter. During his 30-plus years of ministry, Harris has recorded 18 albums, won five Grammy Awards and 18 Dove Awards, and has had several number one songs on the inspirational music charts.-Early life:A native of Danville, Kentucky, Harris...
    
     for Christmas
• Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus was awarded from 1984 to 1990. The award was originally titled Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group...
  
  
  • The Winans
    The Winans
    The Winans are an American Gospel music quartet from Detroit, Michigan consisting of brothers Marvin, Carvin, Michael and Ronald Winans.-Members:Please refer to the Winans family page for more detail on the individual members.-Origins:...
    
     for The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
  The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
  
  
  • Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
    
     for One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
  The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male was awarded from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 this award was combined with the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female as the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male or Female....
  
  
  • BeBe Winans
    BeBe Winans
    Benjamin "BeBe" Winans is a gospel and R&B singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists.-The PTL Club:...
    
     for "Abundant Life"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
  The Grammy Award for Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus was awarded from 1984 to 1990.Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.-1990s:*Grammy Awards of 1990...
  
  
  • Take 6
    Take 6
    Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
    
      for Take 6

Historical

• Best Historical Album
  Grammy Award for Best Historical Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979. During this time the award had several minor name changes:*In 1979 the award was known as Best Historical Repackage Album*In 1980 it was awarded as Best Historical Reissue...
  
  
  • Bill Levenson (producer) for Crossroads performed by Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton
    Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
    
    

Jazz

• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for quality jazz vocal performances...
  
  
  • Betty Carter
    Betty Carter
    Betty Carter was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style...
    
     for Look What I Got!
    Look What I Got!
    Look What I Got! is a 1988 album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter.At the 31st Grammy Awards, Carter's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.-Track listing:...
    
    
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to male recording artists for quality jazz vocal performances...
  
  
  • Bobby McFerrin
    Bobby McFerrin
    Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
    
     for Brothers
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group was presented from 1981 to 1990.Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.-1980s:*Grammy Awards of 1989...
  
  
  • Take 6
    Take 6
    Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
    
     for "Spread Love"
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist (On a Jazz Recording)
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo has been awarded since 1959. Before 1979 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances...
  
  
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
    
     for Don't Try This at Home
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that will start being presented in 2012.The Award was previously called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group from 1959 to 2011. The award will formally be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...
  
  
  • Roy Haynes
    Roy Haynes
    Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz...
    
    , Cecil McBee
    Cecil McBee
    Cecil McBee is an American post bop jazz bassist, described by the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz as "a full-toned bassist who creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts." Allmusic called him "One of post-bop's most advanced and versatile bassists".-Biography:McBee...
    
    , David Murray
    David Murray (jazz musician)
    David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
    
    , Pharoah Sanders
    Pharoah Sanders
    Pharoah Sanders is a Grammy Award–winning American jazz saxophonist.Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on...
    
     & McCoy Tyner
    McCoy Tyner
    McCoy Tyner is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.-Early life:...
    
     for Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
  Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental performances...
  
  
  • Gil Evans
    Gil Evans
    Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
    
     for Bud & Bird performed by Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra
• Best Jazz Fusion Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality jazz fusion performances...
  
  
  • Yellowjackets
    Yellowjackets
    Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz quartet.-History:The original group, called The Robben Ford Group, was formed in 1977, and consisted of Robben Ford, Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip and Ricky Lawson, all top-notch L.A. session musicians...
    
     for Politics

Latin

• Best Latin Pop Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album was awarded from 1984 to 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Latin Pop Performance*From 1992 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Latin Pop Album...
  
  
  • Roberto Carlos
    Roberto Carlos (singer)
    Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
    
     for Roberto Carlos
• Best Tropical Latin Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album has been awarded since 1984. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1984 to 1991 the award was known as Best Tropical Latin Performance...
  
  
  • Rubén Blades
    Rubén Blades
    Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
    
     for Antecedente
• Best Mexican-American Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album was an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the Mexican music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
  
  
  • Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
    
     for Canciones de Mi Padre

Musical show

• Best Musical Cast Show Album
  Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959. The award was given only to the album producer, and to the composer and lyricist who wrote at least 51% of the music which had not been recorded previously....
  
  
  • Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
    
     (composer & lyricist), Jay David Saks (producer), & various artists for Into the Woods

Music video

• Best Music Video, Short Form
  Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video
  The Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality short form music videos...
  
  
  • Jim Blashfield
    Jim Blashfield
    Jim Blashfield is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and The Mid-Torso of Inez, and his music videos for musicians Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, "Weird Al"...
    
    , Paul Diener, Frank DiLeo
    Frank DiLeo
    Frank Michael DiLeo was an American music industry executive and actor, known for his portrayal of gangster Tuddy Cicero in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. For five years in the late 1980s, and again in 2009, he was Michael Jackson's manager.-Career:Frank DiLeo graduated from Central Catholic High...
    
    , Jerry Kramer
    Jerry Kramer
    Gerald Louis "Jerry" Kramer is a former professional football player, author and sports commentator, best remembered for his 11-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive lineman...
    
    , (video producers), Jim Blashfield
    Jim Blashfield
    Jim Blashfield is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and The Mid-Torso of Inez, and his music videos for musicians Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, "Weird Al"...
    
     (video director) & Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson
    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
    
     for "Leave Me Alone"
• Best Music Video, Long Form
  Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
  The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video is an accolade presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally named the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality videos or musical programs...
  
  
  • Aris McGarry (video producer), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
    Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
    Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are a team of American music video directors, also husband and wife, that received critical acclaim for their feature film directorial debut, Little Miss Sunshine....
    
     (video producers & directors), Dominic Sena
    Dominic Sena
    -Life and career:Sena was born in Niles, Ohio. He is of Italian-American heritage. His family hails from the town of Bagnoli Irpino, Avellino, Italy. As one of the founders of Propaganda Films, Sena worked primarily in music videos early in his career. Sena directed several of Janet Jackson's...
    
     (video director), & Janet Jackson
    Janet Jackson
    Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
    
     for Rhythm Nation 1814

New Age

• Best New Age Performance
  Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
  The Grammy Award for Best New Age Album is presented to recording artists for quality albums in the New Age music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
  
  
  • Shadowfax
    Shadowfax (band)
    Shadowfax was a new age/electronic musical group, best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village. In 1988 they won the Grammy for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village...
    
     for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
    Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
    Folksongs for a Nuclear Village is the sixth studio album by New Age/Jazz group Shadowfax, their first for Capitol Records. It won a Grammy Award in 1988 for Best New Age Performance....
    
     (Band members: Charles Bisharat
    Charlie Bisharat
    Charlie Bisharat is a Grammy-winning violinistwho has extensively toured and/or recorded with numerous artists. He was a member of Shadowfax who won a Grammy in 1988 for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village...
    
    , Chuck Greenberg, David Lewis, Phil Maggini, Stuart Nevitt, G. E. Stinson
    G. E. Stinson
    Gregory E. Stinson, better known as G. E. Stinson , is an American guitarist and founding member of new age / electronic musical group Shadowfax. Inspired by blues masters such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, Stinson experimented with blues, jazz and other musical genres before co-founding...
    
    ).

Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
  Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
  The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer, except if the performer is also the art director....
  
  
  • Bill Johnson
    Bill Johnson
    Bill Johnson may refer to:Arts and Entertainment*Bill Johnson , American actor known for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2...
    
     (art director) for Tired of Runnin' performed by The O'Kanes
    The O'Kanes
    The O'Kanes was an American country music duo, composed of Jamie O'Hara and Kieran Kane. Active between 1986 and 1990, the duo recorded three albums for Columbia Records and charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving...
    
    
• Best Album Notes
  Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
  The Grammy Award for Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976, a separate award was presented for Best Album Notes - Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award recognizes albums with excellent liner notes...
  
  
  • Anthony DeCurtis
    Anthony DeCurtis
    Anthony DeCurtis is an American author and music critic, who has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Relix and other publications.-Career:...
    
     (notes writer) for Crossroads performed by Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton
    Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
    
    

Polka

• Best Polka Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Polka Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Polka Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality polka albums...
  
  
  • Jimmy Sturr
    Jimmy Sturr
    James W. "Jimmy" Sturr, Jr. is a polka musician, trumpeter/clarinetist/saxophonist and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 18 out of the 24 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka Album. Sturr's orchestra is on the Top Ten List of the All-Time Grammy Awards, and has acquired...
    
     for Born to Polka

Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
  
  
  • Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman
    Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.-Biography:Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland,...
    
     for "Fast Car"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was awarded between 1966 and 2011...
  
  
  • Bobby McFerrin
    Bobby McFerrin
    Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...
    
     for "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals was awarded between 1966 and 2011...
  
  
  • The Manhattan Transfer
    The Manhattan Transfer
    The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...
    
     for Brasil
    Brasil (Manhattan Transfer album)
    Brasil was The Manhattan Transfer's tenth album. It was released in 1987 on Atlantic recordsThis album was a new foray for the group into Brazilian music. During the recording sessions they worked with many songwriters, including Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, and Atlantic records Jazz...
    
    
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist)
  Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance was awarded between 1969 and 2011.*In 1969 it was awarded as Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental*From 1970 to 1971 it was awarded as Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance...
  
  
  • David Sanborn
    David Sanborn
    David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
    
     for Close-up

Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
  Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
  The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record - Non-Classical...
  
  
  • Tom Lord-Alge
    Tom Lord-Alge
    Tom Lord-Alge is a four-time Grammy Award–winning record producer and mixer. He is the youngest of Vivian Lord's five children, Mark Lord-Alge, Lisa Lord-Alge, Chris Lord-Alge, Jeff Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge...
    
     (engineer) for Roll With It performed by Steve Winwood
    Steve Winwood
    Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
    
    
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
  Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
  The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record ...
  
  
  • Jack Renner
    Jack Renner (recording engineer)
    Jack L. Renner is an American classically trained musician and recording engineer, best known as chairman, CEO and chief recording engineer of the Telarc International Corporation....
    
     (engineer), Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (conductor)
    Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship...
    
     (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
    The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Robert Spano has been its music director since 2001...
    
     for Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
    
    : Requiem & Operatic Choruses
• Producer of the Year, (Non-Classical)
  Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
  The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1975. The award had several minor name changes:*from 1975 to 1977, the award was known as Best Producer of the Year...
  
  
  • Neil Dorfsman
• Classical Producer of the Year
  Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical
  The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical is an honor presented to record producers for quality classical music productions at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
  
  
  • Robert Woods
    Robert Woods (producer)
    Robert Woods is a Grammy Award-winning classical music producer. Woods is a founder and former president of the independent record label Telarc International Corporation....
    
    

R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for quality R&B songs...
  
  
  • Anita Baker
    Anita Baker
    Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....
    
     for "Giving You the Best That I Got
    Giving You the Best That I Got (song)
    "Giving You the Best That I Got" is the title of a 1988 song by the American R&B / soul jazz singer Anita Baker. The song appears on Baker's album of the same name, which was released in the fall of that year...
    
    "
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance was awarded between 1968 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1968 it was awarded as Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male...
  
  
  • Terence Trent D'Arby
    Sananda Maitreya
    Sananda Francesco Maitreya , better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer-songwriter who came to fame with his album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in July 1987, which included the singles "Wishing Well" and "Sign Your Name"...
    
     for Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'arby
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
  The Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1970 and 2011. From 1967 to 1969 and in 1971 the award included instrumental performances...
  
  
  • Gladys Knight
    Gladys Knight
    Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...
    
     & The Pips for "Love Overboard"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
  Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 1990 and in 1993. The award had several minor name changes:*From 1970 to 1985 the award was known as Best R&B Instrumental Performance...
  
  
  • Chick Corea
    Chick Corea
    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
    
     for "Light Years"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
  Grammy Award for Best R&B Song
  The Grammy Award for Best R&B Song has been awarded since 1959. From 1969 to 2000 it was known as the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song, from 1962 to 1968 it was known as Best Rhythm & Blues Recording, and from 1959-1961 as Best Rhythm & Blues Performance...
  
  
  • Anita Baker, Randy Holland & Skip Scarborough
    Skip Scarborough
    Skip Scarborough was a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, best known for romantic ballads.-Biography:Born Clarence Alexander Scarborough in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he lived in Los Angeles most of his life....
    
      (songwriters) for "Giving You the Best That I Got" performed by Anita Baker

Rap

• Best Rap Performance
  Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance was an honor presented to recording artists at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 and the 32nd Grammy Awards in 1990 and again from 2012 for quality rap performances...
  
  
  • DJ Jazzy Jeff
    DJ Jazzy Jeff
    Jeffrey Allen Townes , also known as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz, is an American hip hop, R&B record producer, turntablist and actor. He is best known for his early career with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince...
    
     & the Fresh Prince
    Will Smith
    Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
    
     for "Parents Just Don't Understand
    Parents Just Don't Understand
    "Parents Just Don't Understand" is the second single from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's second studio album, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1989, one of only two songs to ever do so before the award was discontinued in 1991. It peaked at...
    
    "

Reggae

• Best Reggae Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the reggae music genre...
  
  
  • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
    Ziggy Marley
    David "Ziggy" Marley is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He is the oldest son of famed reggae musician Bob Marley...
    
     for Conscious Party

Rock

• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
  Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for works containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre...
  
  
  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
    
     for Tina Live in Europe
• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
  Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to male recording artists for works containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre...
  
  
  • Robert Palmer for "Simply Irresistible"
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
  The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal was awarded between 1980 and 2011.The award was discontinued after the 2011 award season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories...
  
  
  • U2
    U2
    U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
    
     for "Desire"
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
  Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
  The Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance was an honor presented to recording artists for quality instrumental rock performances at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
  
  
  • Carlos Santana
    Carlos Santana
    Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
    
     for Blues for Salvador
• Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
  Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
  The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental was an award presented at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 to honor quality hard rock/metal works...
  
  
  • Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)
    Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
    
     for Crest of a Knave

Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording
  Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
  The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word...
  
  
  • Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...
    
    for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson