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AWARD WINNERS:

Record Of The Year

--- Terry Britten (producer) & Tina Turner for " What's Love Got To Do With It? "

Album Of The Year

--- James Anthony Carmichael (producer) & Lionel Richie (producer & artist) for ''Can't Slow Down''

Song Of The Year

--- Terry Britten & Graham Lyle (songwriters) for " What's Love Got To Do With It? " performed by Tina Turner

Best New Artist

--- Cyndi Lauper

Blues

Best Traditional Blues Recording

--- Sugar Blue , John P. Hammond , J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks , Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson , Koko Taylor & The Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for ''Blues Explosion''

Children's

Best Recording For Children

--- Ron Haffkine (producer) & Shel Silverstein for ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''

Classical

Best Classical Orchestral Recording

--- Jay David Saks (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for '' Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5 in B Flat''

Best Classical Vocal Performance

--- Pierre Boulez (conductor), Heather Harper , Jessye Norman & Jose Van Dam , the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble Intercontemporain for '' Ravel : Songs of Maurice Ravel''

Best Opera Recording

--- Michel Glotz (producer), Lorin Maazel (conductor), the Choeurs Et Maitrise De Radio France & the Orchestre National De France for '' Bizet : Carmen (Original Soundtrack)''

Best Choral Performance (other Than Opera)

--- James Levine (conductor), Margaret Hillis (choir director) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for '' Brahms : A German Requiem''

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (with Orchestra)

---, Purcell , Torelli , Fasch , Molter ''

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (without Orchestra)

--- Yo-Yo Ma for '' Bach : The Unaccompanied Cello Suites''

Best Chamber Music Performance

---The Juilliard String Quartet for '' Beethoven : The Late String Quartets''

Best New Classical Composition

--- Samuel Barber (composer) & Christian Badea (conductor) for ''Antony and Cleopatra''

Best Classical Album

--- John Strauss (producer), Neville Marriner (conductor), the Ambrosian Opera Chorus , Choristers Of Westminster Abbey & the Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields for ''Amadeus (Original Soundtrack)''

Comedy

Best Comedy Recording

--- "Weird Al" Yankovic for " Eat It "

Composing and arranging

Best Instrumental Composition

--- Randy Newman (composer) for "The Natural"

--- John Williams (composer) for " Olympic Fanfare And Theme " the official music of the XXIII Olympiad

Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special

--- Lisa Coleman , John L. Nelson , Prince & Wendy Melvoin (composers) for ''Purple Rain'' performed by Prince & the Revolution

Best Arrangement On An Instrumental

--- Jeremy Lubbock & Quincy Jones (arrangers) for "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)" performed by Quincy Jones

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

--- David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock (arrangers) for "Hard Habit to Break" performed by Chicago

Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices

--- The Pointer Sisters (arrangers) for "Automatic"

Country

Best Country Vocal Performance, Female

--- Emmylou Harris for "In My Dreams"

Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

--- Merle Haggard for "That's the Way Love Goes"

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

--- The Judds for "Mama He's Crazy"

Best Country Instrumental Performance

--- Ricky Skaggs for "Wheel Hoss"

Best Country Song

--- Steve Goodman (songwriter) for "City of New Orleans" performed by Willie Nelson

Folk

Best Ethnic Or Traditional Folk Recording

--- Elizabeth Cotton for ''Elizabeth Cotten Live!''

Gospel

Best Gospel Performance, Female

--- Amy Grant for "Angels"

Best Gospel Performance, Male

--- Michael W. Smith for ''Michael W. Smith''

Best Gospel Performance By A Duo Or Group

--- Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll for "Keep The Flame Burning"

Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female

--- Shirley Caesar for ''Sailin' ''

Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male

--- Andrae Crouch for "Always Remember"

Best Soul Gospel Performance By A Duo Or Group

--- Shirley Caesar & Al Green for "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love"

Best Inspirational Performance

--- Donna Summer for "Forgive Me"

Historical

Best Historical Album

--- J.R. Taylor (producer) for ''Big Band Jazz'' performed by Count Basie , Tommy Dorsey , Benny Goodman , Fletcher Henderson , Chick Webb , Paul Whiteman & others

Jazz

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist

--- Wynton Marsalis for ''Hot House Flowers''

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group

--- Art Blakey for "New York Scene" performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band

--- Count Basie for ''88 Basie Street''

Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal Or Instrumental

--- Pat Metheny Group for ''First Circle''

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

--- Joe Williams for ''Nothin' But the Blues''

Latin

Best Latin Pop Performance

--- Plácido Domingo for ''Always in My Heart (Siempre en Mi Corazon)''

Best Tropical Latin Performance

--- Eddie Palmieri for ''Palo Pa Rumba''

Best Mexican-American Performance

--- Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel for "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres"

Musical Show

Best Cast Show Album

--- Stephen Sondheim (composer & lyricist), Thomas Z. Shepard (producer) & the original cast for ''Sunday In the Park With George''

Music video

Best Video, Short Form

--- David Bowie for "David Bowie"

Best Video Album

--- Michael Jackson for ''Making Michael Jackson's Thriller''

Packaging and Notes

Best Album Package

--- Janet Perr (art director) for ''She's So Unusual'' performed by Cyndi Lauper

Best Album Notes

--- Gunther Schuller & Martin Williams (notes writers) for ''Big Band Jazz'' performed by Paul Whiteman , Fletcher Henderson , Chick Webb , Tommy Dorsey , Count Basie , Benny Goodman & others

Pop

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female

--- Tina Turner for " What's Love Got To Do With It? "

Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male

--- Phil Collins for "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

---The Pointer Sisters for "Jump (For My Love)"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

--- Ray Parker Jr. for "Ghostbusters (Instrumental)"

Production and engineering

Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical

--- Humberto Gatica (engineer) for ''17'' performed by Chicago

Best Engineered Recording, Classical

--- Paul Goodman (engineer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the Saint Louis Symphony for '' Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100''

Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)

--- James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie

--- David Foster

Classical Producer Of The Year

--- Steven Epstein

R&B

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female

--- Chaka Khan for "I Feel for You"

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male

--- Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

--- James Ingram & Michael McDonald for "Yah Mo B There"

Best R&B Instrumental Performance

--- Herbie Hancock for ''Sound System''

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

--- Prince (songwriter) for "I Feel For You" performed by Chaka Khan

Reggae

Best Reggae Recording

--- Black Uhuru for ''Anthem''

Rock

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female

--- Tina Turner for "Better Be Good to Me"

Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male

--- Bruce Springsteen for " Dancing In The Dark "

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal

--- Prince & The Revolution for ''Purple Rain - Music From the Motion Picture''

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

--- Yes for "Cinema"

Spoken

Best Spoken Word Or Non-musical Recording

--- Ben Kingsley for ''The Words of Gandhi''

EXTERNAL LINKS

27th Grammy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

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