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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
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Album of the Year:
Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt (Capitol) |
Song of the Year:
Wind Beneath My Wings - Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar,
songwriters |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You - Michael Bolton |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Healing Chant - Neville Brothers |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
The End of the Innocence - Don Henley |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt |
Best Rock Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Traveling Wilburys Volume One - Traveling Wilburys |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop With Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas
- Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas |
Best Hard Rock Performance:
Cult of Personality - Living Colour |
Best Metal Performance:
One - Metallica |
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Best Rhythm and Blues Song:
If You Don't Know Me by Now - Kenny Gamble and Leon
Huff, songwriters
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Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Giving You the Best That I Got - Anita Baker |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Back to Life - Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Instrumental Performance:
African Dance - Soul II Soul |
Best Rap Performance:
Bust a Move - Young MC |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
When Harry Met Sally - Harry Connick, Jr. |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
Blues on Broadway - Ruth Brown |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Duo or Group:
Makin' Whoopee - Dr. John and Rickie Lee Jones |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist on a Jazz Recording:
Aura - Miles Davis (Columbia/CBS) |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
Chick Corea Akoustic Band - Chick Corea Akoustic Band |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Big Band
Aura - Miles Davis |
Best Jazz Fusion Performance:
Letter From Home - Pat Metheny Group |
Best Country Song:
After All This Time - Rodney Crowell, songwriter |
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Best Country Vocal Performance, Male:
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band - Lyle Lovett
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Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Absolute Torch and Twang - k.d. lang |
Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two - Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band |
Best Country Vocal Collaboration:
There's a Tear in My Beer - Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank
Williams, Sr. |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
Amazing Grace - Randy Scruggs |
Best Bluegrass Recording:
The Valley Road - Bruce Hornsby and the Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band (Universal) |
Best Gospel Vocal Performance,
Male:
Meantime - BeBe Winans |
Best Gospel Vocal Performance,
Female:
Don't Cry - CeCe Winans |
Best Gospel Vocal Performance
By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
The Savior Is Waiting - Take 6 |
Best Soul Gospel Vocal
Performance, Male: or Female
As Long as We're Together - Al Green |
Best Soul Gospel Vocal
Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Let Brotherly Love Continue - Daniel Winans and Choir |
Best Latin Pop Performance:
Cielito Lindo - José Feliciano |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
Ritmo en el Corazon - Celia Cruz and Ray Barretto |
Best Mexican/American
Performance:
La Pistola y el Corazon - Los Lobos |
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Best Traditional Blues Recording:
I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt (Chameleon
Music Group)
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Best Contemporary Blues
Recording:
In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (Epic) |
Best Traditional Folk
Recording:
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Vol. II - Bulgarian
State Female Vocal Choir (Elektra/Nonesuch) |
Best Contemporary Folk
Recording:
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (Epic) |
Best Reggae Recording:
One Bright Day - Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (Virgin) |
Best New Age Performance:
Passion (Music from The Last Temptation of Christ) - Peter
Gabriel |
Best Polka Recording:
All in My Love for You - Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra
(Starr) |
Best Arrangement on an
Instrumental:
Suite From The Milagro Beanfield War - Dave Grusin, arranger |
Best Instrumental Arrangement
Accompanying Vocal(s):
My Funny Valentine - Dave Grusin, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition:
The Batman Theme - Danny Elfman, Composer |
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Best Musical Cast Show Album:
Jerome Robbins' Broadway - Jason Alexander, Debbie Shapiro
and Robert La Fasse (RCA Victor)
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Best Album
of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for
a Motion Picture or Television:
The Fabulous Baker Boys - Dave Grusin, composer (GRP) |
Best Song
Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
Let the River Run (From the motion picture Working Girl)
- Carly Simon, composer (Arista) |
Best Contemporary
Composition:
Different Trains - Steve Reich, Composer |
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Best Classical Album:
Bartók, 6 String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet
(Deutsche Grammophon)
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Best Orchestral
Performance:
Mahler, Symphony No. 3 in D Minor - Leonard Bernstein
and the New York Philharmonic |
Best Chamber
Music Performance:
Bartók, 6 String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Barber, Cello Concerto, Op. 22; Britten, Symphony for
Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 - Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; David
Zinman conducting Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
Bach, English Suites, BMV 806-11 - Andras Schiff, pianist |
Best Opera
Recording:
Wagner, Die Walkuere - James Levine conducting Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra; solos: Lakes, Moll, Morris, Norman, Behrens
and Ludwig (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Choral
Performance (Other Than Opera):
Britten, War Requiem - Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Atlanta Boys Choir |
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Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menott,
Harbison and Stravinsky) - Dawn Upshaw, soprano; David
Zinman conducting Orchestra of St. Luke's
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Best Comedy
Recording:
P.D.Q. Bach, 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults
- Professor Peter Schickele (Telarc) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
It's Always Something - Gilda Radner (Simon and Schuster
Audio) |
Best Recording
for Children:
The Rock-a-Bye Collection Vol. I - Tanya Goodman (Jaba) |
Best Album
Package
Sound + Vision - Roger Gorman, art director (Rykodisc) |
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Best Album Notes:
Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve - Phil Schaap,
annotator (Verve)
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Best Historical
Album:
Chuck Berry—The Chess Box - Chuck Berry (Chess/MCA) |
Best Music
Video, Short Form:
Leave Me Alone - Michael Jackson |
Best Music
Video, Long Form:
Rhythm Nation 1814 - Janet Jackson |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Peter Asher |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Robert Woods
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