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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Beat It - Michael Jackson
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Album of the Year:
Thriller - Michael Jackson (Epic/CBS) |
Song of the Year:
Every Breath You Take - Sting, songwriter |
Best New Artist:
Culture Club |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Thriller - Michael Jackson |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Flashdance: What a Feeling - Irene Cara |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Every Breath You Take - Police |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Being With You - George Benson |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Beat It - Michael Jackson |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Love Is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Synchronicity - Police |
Best New Rhythm and Blues
Song:
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson, songwriter |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Ain't Nobody - Rufus and Chaka Khan |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
Rockit - Herbie Hancock |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
Top Drawer - Mel Tormé |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
The Best Is Yet to Come - Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Duo or Group:
Why Not! - Manhattan Transfer |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist
Think of One - Wynton Marsalis |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
At the Vanguard - Phil Woods Quartet |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
All in Good Time - Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
Travels - Pat Metheny Group |
Best New Country Song:
Stranger in My House - Mike Reid, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
I.O.U. - Lee Greenwood |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
A Little Good News - Anne Murray |
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Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
The Closer You Get - Alabama
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Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Fireball - New South (Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Tony
Rice, J.D. Crowe and Todd Phillips) |
Best Gospel Performance,
Male:
Walls of Glass - Russ Taff |
Best Gospel Performance,
Female:
Ageless Medley - Amy Grant |
Best Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group:
More Than Wonderful - Sandi Patti and Larnelle Harris |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Male:
I'll Rise Again - Al Green |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Female:
We Sing Praises - Sandra Crouch |
Best Soul Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group:
I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today - Bobby Jones with
Barbara Mandrell |
Best Latin Pop Performance:
Me Enamore - José Feliciano |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
On Broadway - Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble |
Best Inspirational Performance:
He's a Rebel - Donna Summer |
Best Traditional Blues
Recording:
Blues 'n Jazz - B.B. King (MCA) |
Best Mexican-American
Performance:
Anselma - Los Lobos |
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Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording:
I'm Here, Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana
Band (Alligator)
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Best Arrangement on an
Instrumental:
Summer Sketches '82 - Dave Grusin, arranger |
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Accompanying Vocal(s):
What's New - Nelson Riddle, arrange |
Best Vocal Arrangement
for Two or More Voices
Be Bop Medley - Arif Mardin and Chaka Khan, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition:
Love Theme From Flashdance - Giorgio Moroder, Composer |
Best Cast Show Album:
Cats (Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording), Andrew
Lloyd Webber, producer (Geffen/Warner Brothers) |
Best Album of Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
Flashdance, Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara,
Shandi Sinnamon, Ronald Magness, Douglas Cotler, Richard
Gilbert, Michael Boddicker, Jerry Hey, Phil Ramone, Michael
Sembello, Kim Carnes, Duane Hitchings, Craig Krampf and
Dennis Matkosky, songwriters (Casablanca/Polygram) |
Best Classical Album:
Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D Major, Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Recording:
Mahler, Symphony No. 9 in D Major, Sir Georg Solti conducting
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (London) |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Brahms, Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38
and Sonata in F Major, Op. 99, Mstislav Rostropovich and
Rudolf Serkin |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Haydn, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-Flat Major;
L. Mozart, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in D Major;
Hummel, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-Flat Major,
Wynton Marsalis; Raymond Leppard conducting National Philharmonic
Orchestra |
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Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra):
Beethoven, Sonata for Piano No. 12 in A-Flat Major,
Op. 26 and No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, Glenn
Gould
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Best Opera Recording (tie):
- Mozart, Le Nozzi de Figaro, Sir Georg Solti conducting
London Philharmonic; solos: Kanawa, Popp, Ramey, Allen,
Moll and von Stade (London)
- Verdi, La Traviata (Original Soundtrack), James Levine
conducting The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus;
solos: Stratas, Domingo and MacNeil (Elektra)
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Best Choral
Performance (Other Than Opera):
Haydn, The Creation, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago
Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director,
Chicago Symphony Chorus |
Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
Leontyne Price and Marilyn Horne in Concert at The Met,
Leontyne Price and Marilyn Horne; James Levine conducting
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
Best Comedy
Recording:
Eddie Murphy, Comedian, Eddie Murphy (The Entertainment
Co./Columbia) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
Copland, A Lincoln Portrait, William Warfield (Mercury/Philips) |
Best Recording
for Children:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Michael Jackson, narration
and vocals (MCA) |
Best Album
Package
Speaking in Tongues, Robert Rauschenberg, art director
(Sire/Warner Brothers) |
Best Album
Notes:
The “Interplay” Sessions, Orrin Keepnews, annotator (Milestone) |
Best Historical
Album:
The Greatest Recordings of Arturo Toscanini Symphonies
Vol. I, Arturo Toscanini (Franklin Mint) |
Best Video,
Short Form
Girls on Film/Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran |
Producers
of the Year (Non-Classical):
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson |
Classical
Producers of the Year:
Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz |
