Grammy Awards 2019 - List of Awardees & History

A Grammy Awards 2019 is an award given to recognize and honor excellence in the field of recording arts or the music industry. This award is given by The Recording Academy. The Grammy Awards are the music equivalent to the Oscars. The 61st annual Grammy Awards were held on 10th February 2019, Sunday. Read this article to know all about the Grammy Awards.

History of the Grammy Awards

 The Grammy Awards are presented annually in the United States by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) which is more commonly known as The Recording Academy.  The very first Grammy Awards were presented by NARAS on 4th May 1959 in Los Angeles. 28 prizes were given in the first Grammy Awards.  The Grammy Awards were introduced as a part of the Hollywood Walk of Fame Project. These awards were established to give recognition to those artists who were worthy but might not have received a Walk of Fame star on the Hollywood Boulevard.  The 2nd Annual Grammy Awards which were held on 29th November 1959 were the first Grammys to be televised and the 13th Grammy Awards were the first to be broadcasted live.

The Grammy Awards 2019 Winner's List

Category Artist Title

Record of The Year Childish Gambino This is America

Album of the Year Kasey Musgraves Golden Hour

Donald Glover and Ludwig Song of the Year Goransson, songwriters (Childish This is America Gambino)

Best New Artist Dua Lipa -

1 | P a g e

Joanne (Where Do Best Pop Solo Lady Gaga You Think You’re Performance Goin’?)

Best Pop Duo/Group Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Shallow Performance

Sweetener Best Pop Vocal Album Ariana Grande

Best Rock Chris Cornell When Bad Does Good Performance

Jack Antonoff and Annie Clark, Best Rock Song Masseduction songwriters (St. Vincent)

Best Rock Album Greta Van Fleet From the Fires

Best Alternative Music Beck Colors Album

Best R&B H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar Best Part Performance

Best Urban The Carters Everything Is Love Contemporary Album

Best R&B Album H.E.R. H.E.R.

 Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock,  King’s Dead Best Rap Performance Future and James Blake  Bubblin  Anderson .Paak

Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Best Rap Song God’s Plan Samuels and Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)

2 | P a g e

Best Rap Album Cardi B Invasion of Privacy

Best Country Solo Kacey Musgraves Butterflies Performance

Best Country Album Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour

Best Jazz The Wayne Shorter Quartet Emanon Instrumental Album

Best Latin Pop Album Claudia Brant Sincera

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Zoé Aztlán Album

Best Americana By the Way, I Forgive Brandi Carlile Album You

Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Best Song Written for Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, Shallow Visual Media songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)

Producer of the Year, Pharrell Williams - Non-Classical

Best Music Video Childish Gambino This Is America

Equanimity & the Best Comedy Album Dave Chappelle Bird Revelation

Etai Benson, Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk and Ari’el Stachel, principal Best Musical Theater soloists; Dean Sharenow and David The Band’s Visit Album Yazbek, producers; David Yazbek, composer and lyricist

3 | P a g e

Best Instrumental Blut Und Boden Terence Blanchard Composition (Blood and Soil)

Best Arrangement, Stars and Stripes Instrumental or A John Daversa Forever Cappella

Best Arrangement, Mark Kibble, Randy Waldman and Instruments and Spiderman Theme Justin Wilson, arrangers Vocals

Best Recording Willo Perron, art director Masseduction Package

Best Boxed or Special Squeeze Box: The Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll and Al Limited Edition Complete Works of Yankovic, art directors Package ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

Best Rap/Sung Childish Gambino This Is America Collaboration

Best Album Notes David Evans, album notes writer

William Ferris, April Ledbetter and Voices of Mississippi: Best Historical Album Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation Artists and Musicians producers; Michael Graves, mastering Documented by engineer William Ferris

Julian Burg, Serban Ghenea, David “Elevator” Greenbaum, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Best Engineered Lagatta, Cole M.G.N., Alex Pasco, Album, Non-Classical Colors Jesse Shatkin, Darrell Thorp and Cassidy Turbin, engineers; Chris Bellman, Tom Coyne, Emily Lazar and Randy Merrill, mastering engineers

4 | P a g e

Best Remixed Walking Away (Mura Alex Crossan, remixer Recording Masa remix)

Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, P.J. Olsson and Alan Best Immersive Audio Eye in the Sky - 35th Parsons, surround mastering Album Anniversary Edition engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer

Best Contemporary Steve Gadd Steve Gadd Band Instrumental Album

Tori Kelly featuring Kirk Franklin; Band Best Gospel Kirk Franklin and Victoria Kelly, Never Alone Performance/Song songwriters

Best Contemporary Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle, Jason Christian Music You Say Ingram and Paul Mabury, songwriters Performance/Song

Best Gospel Album Tori Kelly Hiding Place

Best Contemporary Christian Music Lauren Daigle Look Up Child Album

Best Roots Gospel Jason Crabb Unexpected Album

Best World Music Soweto Gospel Choir Freedom Album

Hugh Jackman (and Various Artists); Best Compilation Alex Lacamoire, Benj Pasek, Justin The Greatest Soundtrack for Visual Paul and Greg Wells, compilation Showman Media producers

5 | P a g e

Best Score Soundtrack Ludwig Göransson, composer Black Panther for Visual Media

Best New Age Album Opium Moon Opium Moon

Best American Roots Brandi Carlile The Joke Performance

Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Best American Roots Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth, The Joke Song songwriters

The Travelin’ Best Bluegrass Album The Travelin’ Mccourys Mccourys

Best Traditional Blues The Blues Is Alive Buddy Guy Album and Well

Best Contemporary Fantastic Negrito Please Don’t Be Dead Blues Album

Best Folk Album Punch Brothers All Ashore

Best Children’s Album Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats All the Sounds

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Faith - A Journey for Jimmy Carter Poetry, Audio Books All and Storytelling)

Best Regional Mexican Music Album Luis Miguel ¡México Por Siempre! (Including Tejano)

Best Tropical Latin Spanish Harlem Orchestra Anniversary Album

Best Regional Roots Kalani Pe’a No ‘Ane’i

6 | P a g e

Music Album

Quincy Jones; Alan Hicks and Best Music Film Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula Quincy Dupré Pesmen, video producer

Best Country Dan + Shay Duo/Group Tequila Performance Luke Laird, Shane Mcanally and Best Country Song Space Cowboy Kacey Musgraves, songwriters

Best Traditional Pop Willie Nelson My Way Vocal Album

Shawn Murphy and Nick Squire, Shostakovich: Best Engineered engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering Symphonies Nos. 4 & Album, Classical engineer 11

Producer of the Year, Blanton Alspaugh - Classical

Shostakovich: Best Orchestral Andris Nelsons, conductor Symphonies Nos. 4 & Performance 11

Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Bates: The Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Best Opera Recording (R)evolution of Steve Parks, Garrett Sorenson and Wei Wu; Jobs Elizabeth Ostrow, producer

Best Choral Mcloskey: Zealot Donald Nally, conductor Performance Canticles

Best Chamber Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Anderson, Laurie: Music/Small Landfall Ensemble

7 | P a g e

Performance

Best Classical James Ehnes; Ludovic Morlot, Kernis: Violin Instrumental Solo conductor Concerto

Songs of Orpheus - Best Classical Solo Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, Monteverdi, Caccini, Vocal Album conductor; Apollo’s Fire, ensembles D’india & Landi

Fuchs: Piano Best Classical Joann Falletta, conductor; Tim Concerto ‘spiritualist’; Compendium Handley, producer Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush

Best Contemporary Kernis: Violin Aaron Jay Kernis, composer Classical Composition Concerto

Silk City and Dua Lipa featuring Diplo Best Dance Recording Electricity and Mark Ronson

Best Dance/Electronic Justice Woman Worldwide Album

Best Reggae Album Sting and Shaggy 44/876

John Daversa, soloist. Track from: Best Improvised Jazz “American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Don’t Fence Me In Solo Music of Freedom”

Best Jazz Vocal Album Cécile Mclorin Salvant The Window

American Dreamers: Best Large Jazz John Daversa Big Band featuring Voices of Hope, Ensemble Album DACA Artists Music of Freedom

Best Latin Jazz Album Dafnis Prieto Big Band Back to the Sunset

 Bet Ain’t Best Traditional R&B  Leon Bridges Worth the 8 | P a g e

Performance  PJ Morton featuring Yebba Hand  How Deep Is Your Love

Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Best R&B Song Mai, and Dijon Mcfarlane, Boo’d Up songwriters

Best Metal High on Fire Electric Messiah Performance

Best Rap/Sung Childish Gambino This Is America Performance

The 61st Grammy Awards

 The 61st Grammy Awards was held on 10th February 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.  It was hosted by singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.  Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves bagged 4 awards each which are the highest number of awards and Kendrick Lamar was nominated for 8 awards which are the highest number of nominations.  Dolly Parton was honored as the MusiCares Person of the year on 8th February 2019 two days prior to the Grammy Awards.

Interesting Facts about the Grammy Awards

1. The very first Grammy Awards to be televised was the 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971. 2. The red carpet of the Grammy Awards is 500 feet long and 80 feet wide. 3. There were 899 nominees for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards and the Recording Academy received 20,000 submissions in this year. 4. The Grammy is made of a special metal called Grammium and weighs 6 pounds. 5. Only two people have ever crafted the Grammy - Bob Graves from 1958-1984 and John Billings from 1985 – present.

We hope you found this article on Grammy Awards 2019 helpful. Check out more such articles. 9 | P a g e

Functions of GDP, NDP, Impact of Currency Fluctuations on Indian

NNP & BOP Rupee Exchange Rate

Non Banking Financial

Money Market vs. Commodity Market

Company

Practice is very necessary to give your best in everything you attempt. So start practicing immediately!

Free Practice Questions

10 | P a g e