Grammy Awards 1991
On February 20, 1991, the 33rd Grammy Awards took place. At the 1991 Grammy Awards, the US Music Prize was awarded in 77 categories from 25 fields. There were four other honorary Grammys for the life's work of artists.
Main categories
Single of the year (Record of the Year):
Album of the Year:
Song of the Year:
- "From A Distance" by Bette Midler (Author: Julie Gold)
Best New Artist:
pop
Best female vocal performance - Pop (Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female):
- " Vision of Love " by Mariah Carey
Best Male Vocal Performance - Pop (Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male):
- "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison (posthumously: † 1988)
Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop (Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):
- "All My Life" by Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt
Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :
- "Twin Peaks Theme" by Angelo Badalamenti
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Best Female Rock Vocal Performance - Rock :
- "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Rock (Best Male Rock Vocal Performance):
- " Bad Love " by Eric Clapton
Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Rock (Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):
- "Janie's Got A Gun" from Aerosmith
Best hard rock performance (Best Hard Rock Performance):
- Time's Up from Living Color
Best metal performance (Best Metal Performance):
- " Stone Cold Crazy " by Metallica
Best performance of a rock instrumentals ( Best Rock Instrumental Performance ):
- "D / FW" by the Vaughan Brothers
alternative
Best Alternative Album ( Best Alternative Music Album ):
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinéad O'Connor (Grammy not accepted)
Rhythm & Blues
Best female vocal performance - R&B (Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female):
- Compositions by Anita Baker
Best Male Vocal Performance - R&B (Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male):
- "Here And Now" by Luther Vandross
Best performance by a duo or group with vocals - R&B (Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):
- "I'll Be Good To You" by Ray Charles & Chaka Khan
Best R&B Song (Best R&B Song):
- "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer (Authors: Stanley Burrell, Rick James , Alonzo Miller )
rap
Best Solo Performance - Rap (Best Rap Solo Performance):
- "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer
Best Performance By A Duo Or Group - Rap (Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group):
- " Back on the Block " by Big Daddy Kane , Ice-T , Kool Moe Dee , Melle Mel , Quincy D. III & Quincy Jones
Country
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Country (Best Country Vocal Performance, Female):
- Where've You Been by Kathy Mattea
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Country (Best Country Vocal Performance, Male):
- When I Call Your Name by Vince Gill
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group (Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal):
- Pickin 'On Nashville by the Kentucky Headhunters
Best collaboration with vocals - Country (Best Country Vocal Collaboration):
- Poor Boy Blues by Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler
Best Performance by a Country Instrumentals (Best Country Instrumental Performance):
- So Soft, Your Goodbye by Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler
Best Country Song (Best Country Song):
- Where've You Been by Kathy Mattea (Authors: Don Henry, Jon Vesner)
Best Bluegrass Recording (Best Bluegrass Recording):
- I've Got That Old Feeling by Alison Krauss
New Age
Best New Age performance (Best New Age Performance):
- Mark Isham by Mark Isham
jazz
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female (Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female):
- All That Jazz by Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male (Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male):
- We Are In Love by Harry Connick junior
Best Jazz Instrumental performance, soloist (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist):
- The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note by Oscar Peterson
Best Jazz Instrumental performance, Group (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group):
- The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note by the Oscar Peterson Trio
Best Jazz Instrumental performance, Big Band (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band):
- Basie's Bag by Frank Foster
Best jazz fusion performance (Best Jazz Fusion Performance):
Gospel
Best Pop Gospel Album (Best Pop Gospel Album):
- Another Time ... Another Place by Sandi Patti
Best Contemporary / rock gospel album (Best Rock / Contemporary Gospel Album):
- Beyond Belief by Petra
Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album (Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album):
- Tramaine Hawkins Live by Tramaine Hawkins
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album (Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album):
- So Much 2 Say from Take 6
Best Southern Gospel Album (Best Southern Gospel Album):
- The Great Exchange by Bruce Carroll
Best Gospel Choir album (Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus)
- Having Church by the Southern California Community Choir , conducted by James Cleveland
Latin
Best Latin Pop Performance (Best Latin Pop Performance):
- ¿Por que te tengo que olvidar? by José Feliciano
Best Tropical Latin performance (Best Tropical Latin Performance):
- Lambada timbales by Tito Puente
Best Mexican-American performance (Best Mexican-American Performance)
- Soy de San Luis from Texas Tornadoes
blues
Best Traditional Blues Recording (Best Traditional Blues Recording):
- Live At San Quentin by BB King
Best Contemporary Blues Recording (Best Contemporary Blues Recording):
- Family Style by Jimmie Vaughan & Stevie Ray Vaughan
Folk
Best Traditional Folk Recording (Best Traditional Folk Recording):
- On Praying Ground by Doc Watson
Best Contemporary Folk Recording (Best Contemporary Folk Recording):
- Steady On by Shawn Colvin
reggae
Best Reggae Recording (Best Reggae Recording):
- Time Will Tell - A Tribute To Bob Marley by Bunny Wailer
polka
Best Polka Recording (Best Polka Recording):
- When It's Polka Time At Your House by Jimmy Sturr
For children
Best Recording for Children (Best Recording For Children):
- The Little Mermaid by various artists (music: Alan Menken , text: Howard Ashman )
language
Best spoken or non-music recording (Best Spoken Word Or Non-musical recording):
- Gracie - A Love Story by George Burns
Comedy
Best Comedy Recording (Best Comedy Recording):
- Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities by PDQ Bach
Musical show
Best musical show-Cast album (Best Musical Show Cast Album):
- Les Misérables - The Complete Symphonic Recording by the musical actors and Gary Morris (Producer: David Caddick)
Composition / arrangement
Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):
- Change Of Heart by Roy Haynes , Dave Holland & Pat Metheny (composer: Pat Metheny)
Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Arrangement On An Instrumental):
- Birdland by Quincy Jones (Arrangers: Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Ian Prince, Rod Temperton )
Best Instrumental Arrangement with vocal accompaniment (Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal (s)):
- The Places You Find Love by Siedah Garrett & Chaka Khan (Arrangers: Glen Ballard, Jerry Hey, Quincy Jones, Clif Magness)
Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television:
- Under the Sea by various artists (music: Alan Menken , text: Howard Ashman )
Best instrumental composition written for film or television (Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television):
- Glory by James Horner and the Boys Choir of Harlem (Composer: James Horner)
Packages and album text
Best Album Package (Best Album Package):
- Days Of Open Hand by Suzanne Vega (Artistic Direction: Jeffrey Gold, Len Peltier, Suzanne Vega)
Best Album Notes:
- Brownie - The Complete Emacy Recording by Clifford Brown (Author: Dan Morgenstern)
Historical recordings
Best Historical Album (Best Historical Album):
- Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (Producers: Lawrence Cohn, Stephen Lavere)
Production and technology
Best technical recording without classical music (Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical):
- Back on the Block by Quincy Jones (Technique: Bruce Swedien )
Best Technical classical recording (Best Engineered Recording, Classical):
- Sergei Rachmaninow: Vespers (The great evening and morning praise) by the Robert Shaw Festival Singers under the direction of Robert Shaw (technique: Jack Renner)
Producer of the Year (with no classic) (Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical):
Classical Producer of the Year (Classical Producer Of The Year):
Classical music
Best classical album (Best Classical Album):
- Ives: Symphony No. 2 ; Gong On the Hook and Ladder; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question of the New York Philharmonic , conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Best orchestral performance:
- Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 and 7 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein
Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):
- Wagner: Rheingold by Richard Wagner with Siegfried Jerusalem , Christa Ludwig , Kurt Moll , James Morris , Jan-Hendrik Rootering , Ekkehard Wlaschiha , Heinz Zednik and the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of James Levine
Best choral performance (without opera) (Best Choral Performance other than opera):
- Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Robert Shaw
Best solo instrument performances with orchestra (Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra):
- Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor; Glasunow: Violin Concerto in A minor by Itzhak Perlman and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta
Best solo instrument performance without orchestra (Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra):
- The Last Recording by Vladimir Horowitz
Best Chamber or other small ensemble performance (Best Chamber Music or Other Small Ensemble Performance):
- Brahms: The three violin sonatas by Daniel Barenboim and Itzhak Perlman
Best Classical Vocal Performance (Best Classical Vocal Performance):
- Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert by José Carreras , Plácido Domingo , Luciano Pavarotti and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale under the direction of Zubin Mehta
Best Classical Contemporary Composition (Best Classical Contemporary Composition):
- Arias & Barcarolles by Judy Kaye & William Sharp (composer: Leonard Bernstein)
Music video
Best Music Video Short (Best Short Form Music Video):
- " Opposites Attract " by Paula Abdul
Best Music Video Long (Best Long Form Music Video):
- Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - The Movie by MC Hammer