Grammy Awards 1996

On February 28, 1996, the 38th Grammy Awards took place. The big winner was Alanis Morissette, nominated for the first time with four Grammys; Big loser, six-time nominee Mariah Carey : In the end, she got nothing.

The 1996 Grammy Awards were presented in 88 categories from 26 fields, and there were also four honorary Grammys for life's work.

Main categories

Single of the year (Record of the Year):

• "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal

Album of the Year:

• Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

Song of the Year:

• "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal (Author: Sealhenry Samuel)

Best New Artist:

• Hootie & The Blowfish

Work behind the mixer

Producer of the Year (Producer Of The Year):

• Baby face

Classical Producer of the Year (Classical Producer Of The Year):

• Steven Epstein

Best mix of an album without classical music (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical):

• Wildflowers by Tom Petty

Best mix of a classical recording (Best Classical Engineered Recording):

• Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; "Kossuth" - Symphonic Poem by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt

pop

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Pop :

• "No More 'I Love You's" by Annie Lennox

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Pop :

• "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal

Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop (Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "Let Her Cry" from Hootie & The Blowfish

Best collaboration with vocals - Pop (Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals):

• "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" by Van Morrison and the Chieftains

Best Pop Instrumental Performance - Pop :

• "Mariachi Suite" from Los Lobos

Best Pop Album (Best Pop Album):

• Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell

Traditional pop

Best Vocal Album - Traditional Pop (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album):

• Duets II by Frank Sinatra

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Best Female Rock Vocal Performance - Rock :

• " You Oughta Know " by Alanis Morissette

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Rock (Best Male Rock Vocal Performance):

• "You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty

Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Rock (Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "Run-Around" by the Blues Travelers

Best hard rock performance (Best Hard Rock Performance):

• "Spin The Black Circle" by Pearl Jam

Best metal performance (Best Metal Performance):

• "Happiness In Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails

Best performance of a rock instrumentals ( Best Rock Instrumental Performance ):

• "Jessica" from the Allman Brothers Band

Best Rock Song (Best Rock Song):

• " You Oughta Know " by Alanis Morissette (Authors: Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard )

Best rock album (Best Rock Album):

• Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

alternative

Best Alternative Album ( Best Alternative Music Album ):

• MTV Unplugged In New York by Nirvana

Rhythm & Blues

Best Female Vocal Performance - R&B (Best Female R&B Vocal Performance):

• "I Apologize" by Anita Baker

Best Male Vocal Performance - R&B (Best Male R&B Vocal Performance):

• "For Your Love" by Stevie Wonder

Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Pop (Best R & B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "Creep" from TLC

Best R&B Song (Best R&B Song):

• "For Your Love" by Stevie Wonder (Author: Stevie Wonder)

Best R&B Album (Best R&B Album):

• CrazySexyCool from TLC

rap

Best Solo Performance - Rap (Best Rap Solo Performance):

• " Gangsta's Paradise " by Coolio

Best Performance By A Duo Or Group - Rap (Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group):

• "I'll Be There For You / You're All I Need To Get By" by Mary J. Blige & Method Man

Best Rap Album (Best Rap Album):

• Poverty's Paradise from Naughty by Nature

Country

Best Female Country Vocal Performance - Country :

• "Baby, Now That I've Found You" by Alison Krauss

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - Country (Best Male Country Vocal Performance):

• "Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill

Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group (Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals):

• "Here Comes The Rain" by the Mavericks

Best collaboration with vocals - Country (Best Country Collaboration With Vocals):

• "Somewhere In The Vicinity Of The Heart" by Alison Krauss & Shenandoah

Best Performance by a Country Instrumentals (Best Country Instrumental Performance):

• "Hightower" by Asleep At The Wheel , Béla Fleck & Johnny Gimble

Best Country Song (Best Country Song):

• "Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill

Best Country Album (Best Country Album):

• The Woman In Me by Shania Twain

Best Bluegrass Album (Best Bluegrass Album):

• Unleashed by the Nashville Bluegrass Band

New Age

Best New Age Album (Best New Age Album):

• Forest by George Winston

jazz

Best contemporary jazz performance (Best Contemporary Jazz Performance):

• "We Live Here" by the Pat Metheny Group

Best Jazz Vocal Performance (Best Jazz Vocal Performance):

• An Evenening With Lena Horne by Lena Horne

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (Best Jazz Instrumental Solo):

• "Impressions" by Michael Brecker

Best Jazz Instrumental performance, single artist or group (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group):

• "Infinity" by the McCoy Tyner Trio & Michael Brecker

Best Performance by a jazz big ensembles (Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance):

• " All Blues " by Tom Scott with the GRP All-Star Big Band

Best Latin jazz performance (Best Latin Jazz Performance):

• Antonio Brasileiro by Antônio Carlos Jobim

Gospel

Best rock gospel album (Best Rock Gospel Album):

• Lesson Of Love by Ashley Cleveland

Best Contemporary / Pop Gospel Album (Best Pop / Contemporary Gospel Album):

• I'll Lead You Home by Michael W. Smith

Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album (Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album):

• Amazing Grace - A County Salute To Gospel by various performers

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album (Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album):

• Shirley Caesar Live - He Will Come by Shirley Caesar

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album (Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album):

• Alone In His Presence by CeCe Winans

Best Gospel Choir album (Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus)

• Praise Him - Live! from the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir conducted by Carol Cymbala

Latin

Best Latin Pop Performance (Best Latin Pop Performance):

• "Amor" by Jon Secada

Best Tropical Latin performance (Best Tropical Latin Performance):

• "Abriendo puertas" by Gloria Estefan

Best Performance by Mexican-American or Tejano Music (Best Mexican-American / Tejano Music Performance)

• "Flaco Jimenez" by Flaco Jiménez

blues

Best Traditional Blues Album (Best Traditional Blues Album):

• Chill Out by John Lee Hooker

Best Contemporary Blues Album (Best Contemporary Blues Album):

• Slippin 'In from Buddy Guy

Folk

Best Traditional Folk Album (Best Traditional Folk Album):

• South Coast by Ramblin 'Jack Elliott

Best Contemporary Folk Album (Best Contemporary Folk Album):

• Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris

reggae

Best Reggae Album (Best Reggae Album):

• Boombastic from Shaggy

World music

Best World Music Album (Best World Music Album):

• Bohème from Deep Forest

polka

Best Polka Album (Best Polka Album):

• I Love To Polka by Jimmy Sturr

For children

Best Musical Album for Children (Best Musical Album For Children):

• Sleepy Time Lullabys by Barbara Bailey Hutchison

Best Spoken Album for Children (Best Spoken Word Album For Children):

• Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf with Patrick Stewart

language

Best Spoken or non-music album (Best Spoken Word Or Non-musical Album):

• Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Best Spoken Comedy Album (Best Spoken Comedy Album):

• Crank Calls from Jonathan Winters

Musical show

Best Musical Show Album (Best Musical Show Album):

• Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs Of Leiber & Stoller by the original Broadway cast (producers: Arif Mardin , Jerry Leiber , Mike Stoller )

Composition / arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (Best Instrumental Composition):

• A View From The Side by the Bill Holman Band (composer: Bill Holman )

Best Instrumental Arrangement (Best Instrumental Arrangement):

• Lament by JJ Johnson & The Robert Farnon Orchestra (Arranger: Robert Farnon )

Best Instrumental Arrangement with vocal accompaniment (Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal (s)):

• I Get A Kick Out Of You by Mel Tormé with Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass (Arranger: Rob McConnell)

Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or For Television :

• Colors of the Wind (from the movie Pocahontas ) by Judy Kuhn & Vanessa Williams (authors: Alan Menken , Stephen Schwartz )

Best instrumental composition written for film or television (Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television) :

• Crimson Tide by Hans Zimmer

Packages and album text

Best Recording Package (Best Recording Package):

• Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell

Best Recording Package as a box (Best Recording Package - Boxed):

• Civilization Phaze III by Frank Zappa

Best Album Notes:

• The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972–1975 (Author: Rob Bowman)

Historical recordings

Best Historical Album (Best Historical Album):

• The Heifetz Collection by Jascha Heifetz and various interpreters

Classical music

Best classical album (Best Classical Album):

• Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux des Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Pierre Boulez

Best orchestral performance:

• Debussy: La Mer by the Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Pierre Boulez

Best Opera Recording (Best Opera Recording):

• Berlioz: Les Troyens by Gary Lakes, Franxoise Pollet, Gino Quilico, Deborah Voigt & L'Orchestra Symphonie Montreal & Chorus conducted by Charles Dutoit

Best choral performance (Best Choral Performance):

• Brahms: A German Requiem by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt

Best solo instrument performances with orchestra (Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance with Orchestra):

• The American Album - Works Of Bernstein, Barber, Foss by Itzhak Perlman and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Seiji Ozawa

Best solo instrument performance without orchestra (Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance without Orchestra):

• Schubert: Piano Sonatas (D 960 in B flat major · D 664 in A major) by Radu Lupu

Best chamber music performance (Best Chamber Music Performance):

• Brahms / Beethoven / Mozart: Clarinet trios by Emanuel Ax , Yo-Yo Ma & Richard Stoltzman

Best Classical Vocal Performance (Best Classical Vocal Performance):

• The Echoing Air - The Music Of Henry Purcell by Sylvia McNair and the Academy of Ancient Music under the direction of Christopher Hogwood

Best Classical Contemporary Composition (Best Classical Contemporary Composition):

• Concert à quatre by Olivier Messiaen

Music video

Best Music Video Short (Best Short Form Music Video):

• "Scream" by Janet Jackson & Michael Jackson

Best Music Video Long (Best Long Form Music Video):

• Secret World Live by Peter Gabriel

Special Merit Awards

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

• Dave Brubeck
• Marvin Gaye
• Georg Solti
• Stevie Wonder

Trustees Award

• George Martin
• Jerry Wexler