This production was recorded on DVD, and subsequently won the 2009 Grammy Awards for " Best Classical Album " and " Best Opera Recording.

Grant received her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Gospel Performance, as well as two GMA Dove Awards for Gospel Artist of the Year and Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year.

" Baby Baby " received Grammy nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Record and Song of the Year ( although it failed to win in any of those categories ).

He has been honored with a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, a J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, a TED Prize ( named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design ), and many other awards and honors.

Category: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album

Ironically, " Nightshift " won The Commodores their first Grammy for Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals in 1985.

In 2010, " Producer's Medley " won the Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

In 1978, Parton won a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her Here You Come Again album.

Trio won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

A second and more contemporary collaboration with Harris and Ronstadt, Trio II ( 1999 ), was released and its cover of Neil Young's " After the Gold Rush " won a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".

Another young bassist of note is Esperanza Spalding ( born 1984 ) who, at 27 years of age, already won a Grammy for Best New Artist.

The album won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007, Enya's fourth.

* Grammy Awards of 1993, Best New Age Album for Shepherd Moons

* Grammy Awards of 1997, Best New Age Album for The Memory of Trees

* Grammy Awards of 2002, Best New Age Album for A Day Without Rain

* Grammy Awards of 2007, Best New Age Album for Amarantine

The popularity of " contemporary folk " recordings caused the appearance of the category " Folk " in the Grammy Awards of 1959: in 1970 the term was dropped in favor of " Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording ( including Traditional Blues )", while 1987 brought a distinction between " Best Traditional Folk Recording " and " Best Contemporary Folk Recording ".

* Robert McFerrin ( March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006 ) opera singer who was the first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of the Grammy Award-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin

Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

In 1991 he received a Grammy Award with the Chieftains for An Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.

The EMI recording of Massenet's Manon with Gheorghiu in the title role won the 2001 Gramophone Award for " Best Opera Recording ", was nominated for " Best Opera Recording " in the 2002 Grammy Awards.

Graduates include world famous conductor John Nelson, Grammy Award winning American soprano Sylvia McNair, and Wendy White of the Metropolitan Opera.

* She won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 1984, for Mozart's " Le nozze di Figaro ".

See Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.

The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961.

* 2003 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser

Golijov received two Grammys in the Grammy Awards of 2007 — the Best Opera Recording for Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for the same opera.

* 2011 – Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

* In 1988 won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for " Wagner: Lohengrin ".

* In 1989 won Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for " Wagner: Die Walkuere ".

* In 1998 won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for " Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle ".

2006 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording:

* Conlon's rendition of Kurt Weill's Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny won a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

Nominees for the 25th Grammy Awards included Elton John for Visions: Elton John, Olivia Newton-John for Olivia Physical, the rock band The Tubes for The Tubes Video, a recording of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffman by the Royal Opera conducted by Georges Prêtre with Plácido Domingo, and the interactive disc for children Fun and Games by various artists ( produced by Margaret Murphy ).

This production was recorded live at The Barns at Wolf Trap for Wolf Trap Recordings and was nominated in 2010 for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

* James Morris — Wagnerian baritone, Grammy winner and Metropolitan Opera star.

The recording of the Los Angeles Opera production of Kurt Weill's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, featuring McDonald and Patti LuPone, won two Grammy Awards, for Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album in February 2009.

Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

The song was awarded the only Grammy Award ever for Best Disco Recording in 1980.

In 2006 the album track " Guilt Is a Useless Emotion " was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Dance Recording.

The album's lead single " Dancing on My Own " was released a few weeks prior to the album's release ; it became a hit single worldwide and brought her a Grammy Award nomination for the category of Best Dance Recording in 2011.

Additionally, Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

It won the Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from Motion Picture or Television.

The New York City resolution also requests excluding from Grammy Award consideration every song whose lyrics contain the word nigger, however Ron Roecker, vice president of communication for the Recording Academy doubts that it will have any effect on actual nominations.

In 2009, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which hosts / produces the Grammy Awards, announced that it was eliminating the polka category.

A Grammy Award ( originally called Gramophone Award ) – or Grammy – is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry.

On April 6, 2011, The Recording Academy announced a drastic overhaul of many Grammy Award categories for 2012.

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

In 1976 Burton received a Grammy in the category of Best Recording for Children for his narration of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The Story Teller won a Grammy in 1962 for Best Spoken Word Recording.

Ethel Waters's recording of the song in 1933 was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress honored the song by adding it to the National Recording Registry in 2004.

The album was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Comedy Recording of the year.

Lauper it received one nomination awards at the 1999 Grammy Awards: Best Dance Recording for " Disco Inferno ", being the first time that it indicates the award in nine years.

She posthumously won a Grammy for " Best Spoken Word Or Non-Musical Recording " in 1990.

On December 13, 2009, the Recording Academy announced that Darin would receive a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Grammy Awards ceremony.

He recorded four albums in his resonant bass speaking voice, one of which, Gallant Men, unexpectedly made it to # 16 on the U. S. Billboard charts and won a Grammy Award for Best Documentary Recording in 1968.

She would earn a Grammy award that year for Best Comedy Recording.