Record of the Year
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston

Album of the Year
The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack Album
Whitney Houston

Song of the Year
A Whole New World (Theme From Aladdin)
Alan Menken and Tim Rice - songwriters

Best New Artist
Toni Braxton 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Male
If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
Sting 

Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston 

Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
A Whole New World (Theme From Aladdin)
Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle 

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
Steppin' Out
Tony Bennett 

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Barcelona Mona
Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis 

Best Rock Gospel Album
Free at Last
DC Talk

Best Rock Song
Runaway Train
David Pirner - songwriter

Best Rock Vocal Performance Solo
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Meat Loaf 

Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Livin' on the Edge
Aerosmith 

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Sofa
Zappa's Universe Rock Group Featuring Steve Vai

Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal
Plush
Stone Temple Pilots 

Best Metal Performance With Vocal
I Don't Want to Change the World
Ozzy Osbourne 

Best Alternative Music Album
Zooropa
U2

Best Rhythm and Blues Song
That's the Way Love Goes
Janet Jackson, James Harris III and
Terry Lewis - songwriters

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Male
A Song for You
Ray Charles 

Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance Female
Another Sad Love Song
Toni Braxton 

Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a
Duo or Group With Vocal
No Ordinary Love
Sade 

Best Rap Solo Performance
Let Me Ride
Dr. Dre 

Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Digable Planets 

Best Jazz Vocal Performance
Take a Look
Natalie Cole 

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
Miles Ahead
Joe Henderson 

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Individual or Group
So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)
Joe Henderson 

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (Instrumental)
The Road to You
Pat Metheny Group 

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
Miles and Quincy Live at Montreux
Miles Davis and Quincy Jones 

Best Country Song
Passionate Kisses
Lucinda Williams - songwriter

Best Country Vocal Performance Male
Ain't That Lonely Yet
Dwight Yoakam 

Best Country Vocal Performance Female
Passionate Kisses
Mary Chapin Carpenter 

Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
Hard Workin' Man
Brooks and Dunn 

Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Does He Love You
Reba McEntire and Linda Davis 

Best Country Instrumental Performance
Red Wing
Asleep at the Wheel featuring Eldon Shamblin, Johnny
Gimble, Chet Atkins, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart and
Reuben 'Lucky Orleans' Gosfield 

Best Bluegrass Album
Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go
Nashville Bluegrass Band

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
Stand Still
Shirley Caesar

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
All Out
Winans

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
The Live Adventure
Steven Curtis Chapman

Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or
Bluegrass Gospel Album
Good News
Kathy Mattea

Best Gospel Album By a Choir or Chorus
Live...We Come Rejoicing
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Carol Cymbala - choir director

Best Latin Pop Album
Aries
Luis Miguel

Best Tropical Latin Album
Mi Tierra
Gloria Estefan

Best Mexican/American Album
Live
Selena

Best Traditional Blues Album
Blues Summit
B.B. King

Best Contemporary Blues Album
Feels Like Rain
Buddy Guy

Best Traditional Folk Album
The Celtic Harp
Chieftains

Best Contemporary Folk Album
Other Voices/Other Rooms
Nanci Griffith

Best Reggae Album
Bad Boys
Inner Circle

Best New Age Album
Spanish Angel
Paul Winter Consort

Best World Music Album
A Meeting by the River
Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt

Best Polka Album
Accordionally Yours
Walter Ostanek and His Band

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Mood Indigo
Dave Grusin - arranger

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
When I Fall in Love
Jeremy Lubbock and David Foster - arrangers 

Best Instrumental Composition
Forever in Love
Kenny G - composer

Best Musical Show Album
The Who's Tommy - Original Cast Recording
Original cast

Best Instrumental Composition Written for a
Motion Picture or for Television
Aladdin
Alan Menken - composer

Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
A Whole New World (Theme From Aladdin)
Alan Menken and Tim Rice - songwriters

Best Contemporary Composition
Violin Concerto
Elliott Carter - composer 

Best Classical Album
Bartók - The Wooden Prince and Cantata Profana
Pierre Boulez - Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
John Aler - tenor
John Tomlinson - baritone

Best Chamber Music Performance
Ives - String Quartets nos. 1 and 2
Barber String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)
Emerson String Quartet 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(With Orchestra)
Berg - Violin Concerto
Rihm - Time Chant
Anne-Sophie Mutter - violinist
James Levine - Chicago Symphony Orchestra 

Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist(s)
(Without Orchestra)
Barber - The Complete Solo Piano Music
John Browning - pianist 

Best Orchestral Performance
Bartók - The Wooden Prince
Pierre Boulez - Chicago Symphony 

Best Opera Recording
Handel - Semele
John Nelson - English Chamber Orchestra and
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Solos: Battle, Horne, Ramey, Aler, McNair, Chance,
Mackie and Doss

Best Performance of a Choral Work
Bartók - Cantata Profana
Pierre Boulez - Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Margaret Hillis - choral director 

Best Classical Vocal Performance
The Art of Arleen Auger
(Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)
Arleen Auger - soprano
Joel Revzen - accompanist 

Best Spoken Comedy Album
Jammin' in New York
George Carlin

Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou

Best Musical Album for Children
Aladdin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various artists 

Best Spoken Word Album for Children
Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
Audrey Hepburn

Best Recording Package
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959
David Lau - art director

Best Album Notes
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959
Buck Clayton, Phil Schaap and Joel E. Siegel - annotators

Best Historical Album
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945–1959
Billie Holiday

Best Music Video Short Form
Steam
Peter Gabriel 

Best Music Video Long Form
Ten Summoner's Tales
Sting

Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
David Foster 

Classical Producer of the Year
Judith Sherman

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