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Grammy Award Winners: |
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Record of the Year:
Another Day in Paradise - Phil Collins
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Album of the Year:
Back on the Block, Quincy Jones (Qwest/Warner Brothers) |
Song of the Year:
From a Distance - Julie Gold, songwriter |
Best New Artist:
Mariah Carey |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Male:
Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison |
Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female:
Vision of Love - Mariah Carey |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
All My Life - Linda Ronstadt with Aaron Neville |
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance:
Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti |
Best Rock/Contemporary
Gospel Album:
Beyond Belief - Petra (Dayspring/Word) |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Male:
Bad Love - Eric Clapton |
Best Rock Vocal Performance,
Female:
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles |
Best Pop Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith |
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance:
D/FW - Vaughan Brothers |
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Best Hard Rock Performance:
Time's Up - Living Colour
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Best Metal Performance:
Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica |
Best Alternative Music
Performance:
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinead O'Connor |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Song:
U Can't Touch This - Rick James, Alonzo Miller and M.C.
Hammer, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Male:
Here and Now - Luther Vandross |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Vocal Performance, Female:
Compositions - Anita Baker |
Best Rhythm and Blues
Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
I'll Be Good to You - Ray Charles and Chaka Khan |
Best Rap Solo Performance:
U Can't Touch This - M.C. Hammer |
Best Rap Performance
By a Duo or Group:
Back on the Block - Ice T, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool Moe Dee, Quincy D. III and Quincy Jones |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Male:
We Are in Love - Harry Connick, Jr. |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance,
Female:
All That Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Soloist:
The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
- Oscar Peterson |
Best Jazz Instrumental
Performance, Group:
The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
- Oscar Peterson Trio |
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Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
Basie's Bag - George Benson featuring the Count Basie
Orchestra
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Best Jazz Fusion Performance:
Birdland - Quincy Jones |
Best Country Song:
Where've You Been - Jon Vezner and Don Henry, songwriters |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male:
When I Call Your Name - Vince Gill |
Best Country Vocal Performance,
Female:
Where've You Been - Kathy Mattea |
Best Country Performance
By a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Pickin' on Nashville - Kentucky Headhunters |
Best Country Vocal Collaboration:
Poor Boy Blues - Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler |
Best Country Instrumental
Performance:
So Soft, Your Goodbye - Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler |
Best Bluegrass Recording:
I've Got That Old Feeling - Alison Krauss (Rounder) |
Best Traditional Soul
Gospel Album:
Tramaine Hawkins Live - Tramaine Hawkins (Sparrow Corp.) |
Best Contemporary Soul
Gospel Album:
So Much 2 Say - Take 6 (Reprise/Warner/Alliance) |
Best Pop Gospel Album:
Another Time . . .Another Place - Sandi Patti (A&M/Word) |
Best Southern Gospel
Album:
The Great Exchange - Bruce Carroll (Word) |
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Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus
Having Church - Rev. James Cleveland (Savoy)
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Best Latin Pop Performance:
Por Que Te Tengo Que Olvidar? - José Feliciano |
Best Tropical Latin Performance:
Lambada Timbales - Tito Puento |
Best Mexican/American
Performance:
Soy de San Luis - Texas Tornados |
Best Traditional Blues
Recording:
Live at San Quentin - B.B. King (MCA) |
Best Contemporary Blues
Recording:
Family Style - Vaughan Brothers (Epic Associated) |
Best Traditional Folk
Recording:
On Praying Ground - Doc Watson (Sugar Hill) |
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Best Contemporary Folk Recording:
Steady On - Shawn Colvin (Columbia/CBS)
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Best Reggae
Recording:
Time Will Tell—A Tribute to Bob Marley - Bunny Wailer
(Shanachie) |
Best New Age
Performance:
Mark Isham - Mark Isham |
Best Polka
Recording:
When It's Polka Time at Your House - Jimmy Sturr and His
Orchestra (Starr) |
Best Arrangement
on an Instrumental:
Birdland - Quincy Jones, Ian Prince, Rod Temperton and
Jerry Hey, arrangers |
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Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s):
The Places You Find Love - Jerry Hey, Glen Ballard,
Clif Magness and Quincy Jones, arrangers
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Best Instrumental
Composition:
Change of Heart - Pat Metheny, Composer |
Best Musical
Cast Show Album:
Les Misèrables - The Complete Symphonic Recording
(Relativity) |
Best Instrumental
Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
Glory, James Horner - composer (Virgin) |
Best Song
Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
Under the Sea (From The Little Mermaid) - Alan Menken
and Howard Ashman, composers |
Best Contemporary
Composition:
Arias and Barcarolles - Leonard Bernstein, Composer |
Best Classical
Album:
Ives, Symphony No. 2 and Three Short Works, Leonard Bernstein
conducting New York Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Chamber
Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance:
Brahms, The Three Violin Sonatas - Itzhak Perlman, violinist;
Daniel Barenboim, pianist |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra):
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1; Glazunov, Violin
Concerto - Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Zubin Mehta conducting
Israel Philharmonic |
Best Classical
Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra):
The Last Recording (Chopin, Haydn, Liszt and Wagner) -
Vladimir Horowitz |
Best Opera
Recording:
Wagner, Das Rheingold - James Levine conducting The Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra; solos: Morris, Ludwig, Jerusalem, Wlaschiha,
Moll, Zednik and Rootering (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Choral
Performance (Other Than Opera):
Walton, Belshazzar's Feast; Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
- Missa Brevis, Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus |
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Best Classical Vocal Performance:
Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti in Concert - José
Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, tenors;
Zubin Mehta conducting Orchestra del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino and Orchestra del teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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Best Comedy
Recording:
P.D.Q. Bach, Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities,
Professor Peter Shickele (Telarc) |
Best Spoken
Word or Non-Musical Recording:
Gracie: A Love Story, George Burns (Simon and Schuster
Audio) |
Best Recording
for Children:
The Little Mermaid—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, composers (Disneyland
Records) |
Best Album
Package
Days of Open Hand (Special Edition Hologram Digapack)
- Len Peltier, Jeffrey Gold and Suzanne Vega, art directors
(A&M) |
Best Album
Notes:
Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown
- Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Emarcy) |
Best Historical
Album:
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson
(Columbia/CBS) |
Best Music
Video, Short Form:
Opposites Attract - Paula Abdul |
Best Music
Video, Long Form:
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em the Movie - M.C. Hammer |
Producer of
the Year (Non-Classical):
Quincy Jones |
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Classical Producer of the Year:
Adam Stern
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