Record of the Year
Don't Worry Be Happy
Bobby McFerrin

Album of the Year
Faith
George Michael

Song of the Year
Don't Worry Be Happy
Bobby McFerrin - songwriter

Best New Artist
Tracy Chapman 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
Don't Worry Be Happy
Bobby McFerrin 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman 

Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Brasil
Manhattan Transfer 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Close-up
David Sanborn

Best Rock Vocal Performance Male
Simply Irresistible
Robert Palmer 

Best Rock Vocal Performance Female
Tina Live in Europe
Tina Turner 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
Desire
U2 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Blues for Salvador
Carlos Santana 

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
Crest of a Knave
Jethro Tull 

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
Giving You the Best That I Got
Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough and
Randy Holland - songwriters

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
Terence Trent D'Arby 

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
Love Overboard
Gladys Knight and the Pips 

Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloist)
Light Years
Chick Corea 

Best Rap Performance
Parents Just Don't Understand
D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male
Brothers
Bobby McFerrin 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Female
Look What I Got!
Betty Carter 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance Duo or Group
Spread Love
Take 6 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist
on a Jazz Recording
Don't Try This at Home
Michael Brecker 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Group
Blues for Coltrane - A Tribute to John Coltrane
McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, David Murray,
Cecil McBee and Roy Haynes 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Big Band
Bud and Bird
Gil Evans and the Monday Night Orchestra 

Best Jazz Fusion Performance
Politics
Yellowjackets 

Best Country Song
Hold Me
K.T. Oslin - songwriter

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
Old 8 x 10
Randy Travis 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
Hold Me
K.T. Oslin 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Give a Little Love
Judds 

Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Crying
Roy Orbison and k.d. lang 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
(Orchestra, Group or Soloists)
Sugarfoot Rag
Asleep at the Wheel 

Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental)
Southern Flavor
Bill Monroe

Best Gospel Performance Male
Christmas
Larnelle Harris 

Best Gospel Performance Female
Lead Me On
Amy Grant 

Best Gospel Performance By a
Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall
Winans 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Male
Abundant Life
BeBe Winans 

Best Soul Gospel Performance Female
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
Aretha Franklin 

Best Soul Gospel Performance By a
Duo or Group Choir or Chorus
Take Six
Take 6 

Best Latin Pop Performance
Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos 

Best Tropical Latin Performance
Antecedente
Rubén Blades 

Best Mexican/American Performance
Canciones de Mi Padre
Linda Ronstadt 

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Hidden Charms
Willie Dixon

Best Contemporary Blues Recording
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Robert Cray Band

Best Traditional Folk Recording
Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to
Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Various artists

Best Contemporary Folk Recording
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman

Best Reggae Recording
Conscious Party
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

Best New Age Performance
Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
Shadowfax 

Best Polka Recording
Born to Polka
Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Memos From Paradise
Roger Kellaway - arranger

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
No One Is Alone
Jonathan Tunick - arranger

Best Instrumental Composition
The Theme From L.A. Law
Mike Post - composer

Best Musical Cast Show Album
Into the Woods
Stephen Sondheim - composer and lyricist

Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score
Written for a Motion Picture or Television
The Last Emperor
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su - composers

Best Song Written Specifically for a
Motion Picture or Television
Two Hearts (From the motion picture Buster)
Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier - songwriters

Best Contemporary Composition
Nixon in China
John Adams - composer

Best Classical Album
Verdi - Requiem and Operatic Choruses
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Best Orchestral Recording
Rorem - String Symphony, Sunday Morning, Eagles
Robert Shaw - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
String Symphony
Louis Lane - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Sunday Morning and Eagles

Best Chamber Music Performance (Instrumental or Vocal)
Bartók - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Brahms - Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn 
for Two Pianos
Murray Perahia and Sir Georg Solti - pianos
David Corkhill and Evelyn Glennie - percussion 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A,
Vladimir Horowitz - piano
Giulini - LaScala Opera Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Albéniz - Iberia
Navarra
Suite Espagnola - Alicia de Larrocha 

Best Opera Recording
Wagner - Lohengrin
Sir Georg Solti - Vienna State Opera Choir and 
Vienna Philharmonic
Solos: Domingo, Norman, Randova, Nimsgern, Sotin and 
Fischer-Dieskau

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

Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
Luciano Pavarotti in Concert
Luciano Pavarotti 

Best Comedy Recording
Good Morning Vietnam
Robin Williams

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson (July 27)
Rev. Jesse Jackson

Best Recording for Children
Pecos Bill
Robin Williams - narrator
Ry Cooder - music

Best Album Package
Tired of Runnin'
Bill Johnson - art director

Best Album Notes
Crossroads
Anthony DeCurtis - annotator

Best Historical Album
Crossroads
Eric Clapton

Best Performance Music Video
Where the Streets Have No Name
U2 

Best Concept Music Video
Fat
'Weird Al' Yankovic

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
Neil Dorfsman 

Classical Producer of the Year
Robert Woods

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