Record of the Year
Tears in Heaven
Eric Clapton 

Album of the Year
Unplugged
Eric Clapton

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 - Nurenberg Symphony Orchestra

Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
Unseen Power
Petra

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

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

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

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
He's Working It Out for You
Shirley Caesar

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Handel's Messiah - A Soulful Celebration
Various artists

Best Pop Gospel Album
The Great Adventure
Steven Curtis Chapman

Best Southern Gospel Album
Sometimes Miracles Hide
Bruce Carroll

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

Best Latin Pop Album
Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte
Jon Secada

Best Tropical Latin Album
Frenesi
Linda Ronstadt

Best Mexican/American Album
Mas Canciones
Linda Ronstadt

Best Traditional Blues Album
Goin' Back to New Orleans
Dr. John

Best Contemporary Folk Album
Another Country
Chieftains

Best Contemporary Blues Album
The Sky Is Crying
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Best Traditional Folk Album
An Irish Evening Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Chieftains

Best Reggae Album
X-Tra Naked
Shabba Ranks

Best New Age Album
Shepherd Moons
Enya

Best World Music Album
Brasileiro
Sergio Mendes

Best Polka Album
35th Anniversary
Walter Ostanek

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

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 - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Orchestral Performance
Mahler - Symphony No. 9
Leonard Bernstein - 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 - 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 - Vienna Philharmonic
Solos: Domingo, Varady, Van Dam, Behrens, Runkel and Jo

Best Performance of a Choral Work
Orff - Carmina Burana
Herbert Blomstedt - 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

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Robert O'Keefe

Best Album for Children
Beauty and the Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various artists

Best Album Package
Spellbound - Compact (Special Package)
Melanie Nissen - art director

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

Best Historical Album
The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio
Nat King Cole Trio

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)
Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno 
L.A. Reid and Babyface 

Classical Producer of the Year
Michael Fine

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