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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
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Album of the Year:
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie (Motown) |
Song of the Year:
What's Love Got to Do With It - Graham Lyle and Terry
Britten, songwriters |
Best New Artist:
Cyndi Lauper |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) - Phil Collins |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Ghostbusters” (instrumental version) - Ray Parker, Jr. |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Better Be Good to Me - Tina Turner |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Purple Rain—Music From the Motion Picture - Prince and
the Revolution |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
Cinema - Yes |
Best New Rhythm and Blues
Song:
I Feel for You - Prince, songwriter |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female:
I Feel for You - Chaka Khan
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Yah Mo B There - James Ingram and Michael McDonald |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
Sound-System - Herbie Hancock |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:
Nothin' but the Blues - Joe Williams |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist:
Hot House Flowers - Wynton Marsalis |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
New York Scene - Art Blakey |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band:
88 Basie Street, Count Basie and His Orchestra |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental:
First Circle - Pat Metheny Group |
Best Country Song:
City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman, songwriter |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
In My Dreams - Emmylou Harris |
Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Mama He's Crazy - Judds |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Wheel Hoss - Ricky Skaggs |
Best Gospel Performance,
Male:
Michael W. Smith - Michael W. Smith |
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Best Gospel Performance, Female:
Angels - Amy Grant
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Best Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group:
Keep the Flame Burning - Debby Boone and Phil Driscoll |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Male:
Always Remember - Andrae Crouch |
Best Soul Gospel Performance,
Female:
Sailin' - Shirley Caesar |
Best Soul Gospel Performance
By a Duo or Group:
Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love - Shirley Caeser and Al
Green |
Best Latin Pop Performance:
Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi Corazón) - Placido
Domingo |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
Palo Pa Rumba - Eddie Palmieri |
Best Mexican/American
Performance:
Me Gustas Tal Como Eres - Sheena Easton and Luis Miguel |
Best Inspirational Performance:
Forgive Me - Donna Summer |
Best Traditional Blues
Recording:
Blues Explosion - John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan and
Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor and the Blues
Machine, Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson and J.B. Hutto
and the New Hawks (Atlantic) |
Best Ethnic or Traditional
Folk Recording:
Elizabeth Cotten Live! - Elizabeth Cotten (Arhoolie) |
Best Reggae Recording:
Anthem - Black Uhuru (Island) |
Best Arrangement on an
Instrumental:
Grace” (Gymnastics Theme) - Quincy Jones and Jeremy Lubbock,
arrangers |
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Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s):
Hard Habit to Break - David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock,
arrangers
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Best Vocal Arrangement
for Two or More Voices
Automatic - Pointer Sisters, arrangers |
Best Instrumental Composition
(tie):
- The Natural - Randy Newman, Composer
- Olympic Fanfare and Theme - John Williams, Composer |
Best Cast Show Album:
Sunday in the Park With George - Stephen Sondheim, composer
and lyricist (RCA) |
Best Album of Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special:
Purple Rain - Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa and Wendy,
songwriters (Warner Brothers) |
Best New Classical Composition:
Antony and Cleopatra - Samuel Barber, Composer |
Best Classical Album:
Amadeus (Original Soundrack) - Neville Marriner conducting
the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Ambrosian Opera
Chorus; Choristers of Westminster Abbey (Fantasy) |
Best Classical Orchestral
Recording:
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100 - Leonard
Slatkin conducting Saint Louis Symphony (RCA) |
Best Chamber Music Performance:
Beethoven, The Late String Quartets - Juilliard String
Quartet |
Best Classical Performance,
Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli,
Fasch, Molter, Wynton Marsalis and Edita Gruberova; Raymond
Leppard conducting English Chamber Orchestra |
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Best Classical Performance, Instrumental
Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
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Best Opera
Recording:
Bizet, Carmen (Original Soundtrack) - Lorin Maazel conducting
Orchestre National de France; Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio
France; solos: Johnson, Esham, Domingo and Raimondi (Erato) |
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Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera):
Brahms, A German Requiem - James Levine conducting Chicago
Symphony Orchestra; Margaret Hillis, choral director,
Chicago Symphony Chorus
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Best Classical
Vocal Soloist Performance:
Ravel, Songs of Maurice Ravel - Jessye Norman, Jose Van
Dam and Heather Harper; Pierre Boulez conducting the Members
of Ensemble Intercontemporain and BBC Symphony Orchestra |
Best Comedy
Recording:
Eat It - “Weird Al” Yankovic (Rock and Roll) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
The Words of Gandhi - Ben Kingsley (Caedmon) |
Best Recording
for Children:
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein (Columbia) |
Best Album
Package
She's So Unusual - Janet Perr, art director (Portrait/CBS) |
Best Album
Notes:
Big Band Jazz - Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams,
songwriters (Smithsonian) |
Best Historical
Album:
Big Band Jazz, Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick
Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others
(Smithsonian) |
Best Video,
Short Form:
David Bowie - David Bowie |
Best Video
Album:
Making Michael Jackson's Thriller - Michael Jackson (Vestron
Music Video) |
Producers
of the Year (Non-Classical) (tie):
- David Foster
- Lionel Richie and James Anthony Carmichael |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Steven Epstein
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