Record of the Year
We Are the World
USA for Africa 

Album of the Year
No Jacket Required
Phil Collins

Song of the Year
We Are the World
Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie - songwriters

Best New Artist
Sade 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
No Jacket Required
Phil Collins 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
Saving All My Love for You
Whitney Houston 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
We Are the World
USA for Africa 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Miami Vice Theme
Jan Hammer 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Male
The Boys of Summer
Don Henley 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Female
One of the Living
Tina Turner 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Money for Nothing
Dire Straits 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Escape
Jeff Beck 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Freeway of Love
Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen - songwriters

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
In Square Circle
Stevie Wonder 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
Freeway of Love
Aretha Franklin 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a 
Duo or Group With Vocal
Nightshift
Commodores 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
Musician
Ernie Watts 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male
Another Night in Tunisia
Jon Hendricks and Bobby McFerrin 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Female
Cleo at Carnegie (The 10th Anniversary Concert)
Cleo Laine 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Duo or Group
Vocalese
Manhattan Transfer 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
Black Codes From the Underground
Wynton Marsalis 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Group
Black Codes From the Underground
Wynton Marsalis Group 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Big Band
The Cotton Club - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Barry and Bob Wilber 

Best Jazz Fusion Performance Vocal or Instrumental
Straight to the Heart
David Sanborn 

Best Country Song
Highwayman
Jimmy L. Webb - songwriter 

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)
Ronnie Milsap 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
Rosanne Cash 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Why Not Me
Judds 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Cosmic Square Dance
Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler 

Best Gospel Performance Male
How Excellent Is Thy Name
Larnelle Harris 

Best Gospel Performance Female
Unguarded
Amy Grant 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Male
Bring Back the Days of Yea and Nay
Marvin Winans 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Female
Martin
Shirley Caesar 

Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group
Tomorrow
Winans 

Best Latin Pop Performance
Ec Facil Amar
Lani Hall 

Best Tropical Latin Performance
Mambo Diablo - Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble 
Solito - Eddie Palmieri 

Best Mexican/American Performance
Simplemente Mujer
Vikki Carr 

Best Inspirational Performance
Come Sunday
Jennifer Holliday 

Best Traditional Blues Recording
My Guitar Sings the Blues
B.B. King

Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
My Toot Toot
Rockin' Sidney

Best Reggae Recording
Cliff Hanger
Jimmy Cliff

Best Polka Recording
70 Years of Hits
Frank Yankovic

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Early a.m. Attitude
Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour - arrangers 

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Lush Life
Nelson Riddle - arranger 

Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
Another Night in Tunisia
Cheryl Bentyne and Bobby McFerrin - arrangers 

Best Instrumental Composition
Miami Vice Theme
Jan Hammer - composer 

Best Cast Show Album
West Side Story
Stephen Sondheim - lyricist
Leonard Bernstein - composer

Best Album of Original Score Written for a
Motion Picture or Television Special
Beverly Hills Cop
Sharon Robinson, Jon Gilutin, Bunny Hull, Hawk, Howard 
Hewett, Micki Free, Sue Sheridan, Howie Rice, Keith 
Forsey, Harold Faltermeyer, Allee Willis, Dan Sembello,
Marc Benno and Richard Theisen - composers and songwriters

Best Contemporary Composition
Requiem
Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer

Best Classical Album
Berlioz - Requiem
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Solo: Aler

Best New Classical Artist
Chicago Pro Musica 

Best Classical Orchestral Recording
Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 

Best Chamber Music Performance
Brahms - Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F Major
Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Elgar - Cello Concerto, Op. 85; Walton
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma
André Previn - London Symphony Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit,
Pavane Pour Une Infant Defunte,
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Vladimir Ashkenazy 

Best Opera Recording
Schoenberg - Moses und Aron
Sir Georg Solti - Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Solos: Mazura and Langridge

Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)
Berlioz - Requiem
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Berlioz - Requiem
John Aler
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Best Comedy Recording
Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording)
Whoopi Goldberg

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Original Broadway cast

Best Recording for Children
Follow That Bird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jim Henson's Muppets and the Sesame Street cast

Best Album Package
Lush Life
Kosh and Ron Larson - art directors

Best Album Notes
Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club - 1963
Peter Guralnick - annotator

Best Historical Album
RCA/MET - 100 Singers - 100 Years
Melba, Schumann-Heink, Caruso, Price, Verrett, Domingo 
and 94 others

Best Music Video Short Form
We Are the World, the Video Event
USA for Africa 

Best Music Video Long Form
Huey Lewis and the News: The Heart of Rock 'n Roll
Huey Lewis and the News 

Producers of the Year (Non-Classical)
Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham 

Classical Producer of the Year
Robert Woods

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