Record of the Year
What's Love Got to Do With It
Tina Turner
Album of the Year
Can't Slow Down
Lionel Richie
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
Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
I Feel for You
Chaka Khan
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
Best Gospel Performance Female
Angels
Amy Grant
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
Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
Elizabeth Cotten Live!
Elizabeth Cotten
Best Reggae Recording
Anthem
Black Uhuru
Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Grace (Gymnastics Theme)
Quincy Jones and Jeremy Lubbock - arrangers
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Hard Habit to Break
David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock - arrangers
Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
Automatic
Pointer Sisters - arrangers
Best Instrumental Composition
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
Best Album of Original Score Written for a
Motion Picture or a Television Special
Purple Rain
Prince, John L. Nelson, Lisa and Wendy - songwriters
Best New Classical Composition
Antony and Cleopatra
Samuel Barber - composer
Best Classical Album
Amadeus (Original Soundrack)
Neville Marriner - the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Choristers of Westminster Abbey
Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100
Leonard Slatkin - Saint Louis Symphony
Best Chamber Music Performance
Beethoven - The Late String Quartets
Juilliard String Quartet
Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter
Wynton Marsalis and Edita Gruberova
Raymond Leppard - English Chamber Orchestra
Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Bach - The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Yo-Yo Ma
Best Opera Recording
Bizet - Carmen (Original Soundtrack)
Lorin Maazel - Orchestre National de France
Choeurs et Maitrise de Radio France
Solos: Johnson, Esham, Domingo and Raimondi
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)
Brahms - A German Requiem
James Levine - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis - Chicago Symphony Chorus
Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Ravel - Songs of Maurice Ravel
Jessye Norman, Jose Van Dam and Heather Harper
Pierre Boulez - the Members of Ensemble Intercontemporain
and BBC Symphony Orchestra
Best Comedy Recording
Eat It
'Weird Al' Yankovic
Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
The Words of Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
Best Recording for Children
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
Best Album Package
She's So Unusual
Janet Perr - art director
Best Album Notes
Big Band Jazz
Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams - songwriters
Best Historical Album
Big Band Jazz
Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy
Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and others
Best Video Short Form
David Bowie
David Bowie
Best Video Album
Making Michael Jackson's Thriller
Michael Jackson
Producers of the Year (Non-Classical)
David Foster
Lionel Richie and James Anthony Carmichael
Classical Producer of the Year
Steven Epstein
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