![]() Eric Clapton Archive Photos | Record of the Year | “Tears in Heaven,” Eric Clapton |
Album of the Year | Unplugged, Eric Clapton (Reprise) |
Song of the Year | “Tears in Heaven,” Eric Clapton, songwriter |
Best New Artist | Arrested Development |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Tears in Heaven,” Eric Clapton |
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “Constant Craving,” k.d. lang |
Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Beauty and the Beast,” Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson |
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance | Perfectly Frank, Tony Bennett |
Best Pop Instrumental Performance | “Beauty and the Beast,” Richard Kaufman conducting Nurenberg Symphony Orchestra |
Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album | Unseen Power, Petra (Dayspring) |
Best Rock Song | “Layla,” Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, songwriters |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male | Unplugged, Eric Clapton |
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | “Ain't It Heavy,” Melissa Etheridge |
Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Achtung Baby, U2 |
Best Rock Instrumental Performance | “Little Wing,” Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble |
Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal | “Give It Away,” Red Hot Chili Peppers |
Best Metal Performance With Vocal | “Wish,” Nine Inch Nails |
Best Alternative Music Album | Bone Machine, Tom Waits (Island) |
Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “End of the Road,” L.A. Reid, Babyface and Daryl Simmons, songwriters |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | Heaven and Earth, Al Jarreau |
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | The Woman I Am, Chaka Khan |
Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “End of the Road,” Boys II Men |
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | Doo-Bop, Miles Davis |
Best Rap Solo Performance | “Baby Got Back,” Sir Mix-A-Lot |
Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group | “Tennessee,” Arrested Development |
Best Jazz Vocal Performance | “'Round Midnight,” Bobby McFerrin |
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Solo | “Lush Life,” Joe Henderson |
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group | I Heard You Twice the First Time, Branford Marsalis |
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance | The Turning Point, McCoy Tyner Big Band |
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental | Secret Story, Pat Metheny |
Best Country Song | “I Still Believe in You,” Vince Gill and John Barlow Jarvis, songwriters |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | I Still Believe in You, Vince Gill |
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “I Feel Lucky,” Mary Chapin Carpenter |
Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman, Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman |
Best Country Vocal Collaboration | “The Whiskey Ain't Workin',” Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart |
Best Country Instrumental Performance | Sneakin' Around, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed |
Best Bluegrass Album | Every Time You Say Goodbye, Alison Krauss and Union Station (Rounder) |
Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album | He's Working It Out for You, Shirley Caesar (Word) |
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album | Handel's Messiah—A Soulful Celebration, various artists (Reprise) |
Best Pop Gospel Album | The Great Adventure, Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow) |
Best Southern Gospel Album | Sometimes Miracles Hide, Bruce Carroll (Word) |
Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus | Edwin Hawkins Music and Arts Seminar Mass Choir—Recorded Live in Los Angeles, Music and Arts Seminar Mass Choir; Edwin Hawkins, choir director (Fixit) |
Best Latin Pop Album | Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte, Jon Secada (Capitol-EMI-Latin) |
Best Tropical Latin Album | Frenesi, Linda Ronstadt (Elektra Entertainment) |
Best Mexican/American Album | Mas Canciones, Linda Ronstadt (Elektra) |
Best Traditional Blues Album | Goin' Back to New Orleans, Dr. John (Warner Bros.) |
Best Contemporary Folk Album | Another Country, Chieftains (RCA Victor) |
Best Contemporary Blues Album | The Sky Is Crying, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (Epic) |
Best Traditional Folk Album | An Irish Evening Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, Chieftains (RCA Victor) |
Best Reggae Album | X-Tra Naked, Shabba Ranks (Epic) |
Best New Age Album | Shepherd Moons, Enya (Reprise) |
Best World Music Album | Brasileiro, Sergio Mendes (Elektra Entertainment) |
Best Polka Album | 35th Anniversary, Walter Ostanek (World Renowned Sounds) |
Best Arrangement on an Instrumental | “Strike Up the Band,” Rob McConnell, arranger |
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “Here's to Life,” Johnny Mandel, arranger |
Best Instrumental Composition | “Harlem Renaissance Suite,” Benny Carter, composer |
Best Musical Show Album | Guys and Dolls—The New Broadway Cast Recording, New Broadway cast (RCA Victor) |
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, composer |
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television | “Beauty and the Beast,” Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, songwriters |
Best Contemporary Composition | The Lovers, Samuel Barber, composer |
Best Classical Album | Mahler, Symphony No. 9, Leonard Bernstein conducting Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) |
Best Orchestral Performance | Mahler, Symphony No. 9, Leonard Bernstein conducting Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
Best Chamber Music Performance | Brahms, Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Prokofiev, Sinfonia Concertante; Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Lorin Maazel conducting Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra |
Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Horowitz—Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Clementi, Liszt, Scarlatti and Scriabin), Vladimir Horowitz, piano |
Best Opera Recording | Strauss, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Sir Georg Solti conducting Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Domingo, Varady, Van Dam, Behrens, Runkel and Jo (London) |
Best Performance of a Choral Work | Orff, Carmina Burana, Herbert Blomstedt conducting San Francisco Girls and Boys Chorus, SFS Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra |
Best Classical Vocal Performance | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, Charpentier, etc.), Kathleen Battle, soprano; Margo Garrett, accompanist |
Best Comedy Album | P.D.Q. Bach, Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion, Professor Peter Schickele (Telarc) |
Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album | What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Robert O'Keefe (Random House Audiobooks) |
Best Album for Children | Beauty and the Beast—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, various artists (Walt Disney) |
Best Album Package | Spellbound—Compact (Special Package), Melanie Nissen, art director (Capitol/Virgin) |
Best Album Notes | Queen of Soul—The Atlantic Recordings, Dave Marsh, Jerry Wexler, David Ritz, Thulani Davis, Ahmet Ertegun, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, annotators (Rhino) |
Best Historical Album | The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio, Nat King Cole Trio (Mosaic) |
Best Music Video, Short Form | “Digging in the Dirt,” Peter Gabriel |
Best Music Video, Long Form | “Diva,” Annie Lennox |
Producers of the Year (Non-Classical) (tie) | Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno |
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Classical Producer of the Year | Michael Fine |