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62nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards (2020 Grammys), held January 26, 2020 at Staples Center on CBS, honored recordings from October 2018 to August 2019; Billie Eilish swept Record, Song, and Album of the Year plus Best New Artist.

63rd Annual Grammy Awards

63rd Annual Grammy Awards, held March 14, 2021 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and hosted by Trevor Noah; Taylor Swift's Folklore won Album of the Year, Billie Eilish Record of the Year, and Beyoncé set the women's win record.

64th Annual Grammy Awards

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards (2022 Grammys) honored recordings from Sept 1, 2020 to Sept 30, 2021. Held April 3, 2022 in Las Vegas after an Omicron postponement; Jon Batiste won five awards including Album of the Year for We Are, and Silk Sonic took Record and Song of the Year.

65th Annual Grammy Awards

65th Annual Grammy Awards (2023 Grammys), held February 5, 2023 at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles: Recording Academy ceremony hosted by Trevor Noah where Harry Styles won Album of the Year and Beyoncé set a 32-win record.

66th Annual Grammy Awards

66th Annual Grammy Awards (February 4, 2024, Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, hosted by Trevor Noah). Album of the Year went to Taylor Swift's Midnights, her record fourth; Miley Cyrus won Record of the Year for Flowers, and Victoria Monét won Best New Artist.

67th Annual Grammy Awards

The 67th Annual Grammy Awards (2025 GRAMMYs), held February 2, 2025 at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, honored recordings from Sept 2023–Aug 2024; Beyoncé won Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter and Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" swept five categories.

68th Annual Grammy Awards

The 68th Annual Grammy Awards (2026 Grammys), held February 1, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, hosted by Trevor Noah, honored recordings from August 31, 2024 to August 30, 2025; Bad Bunny won Album of the Year and Kendrick Lamar became the most-awarded rapper.

69th Annual Grammy Awards

The 69th Annual Grammy Awards (2027 Grammys) honor recordings released Aug 31, 2025–Aug 28, 2026; ceremony Feb 7, 2027 at Crypto.com Arena, first on ABC since 1972, with five new categories and Ballot Plus voting.

Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam, the blind Malian husband-and-wife duo of Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, blended Malian blues, rock, and pop; their Manu Chao-produced 2004 album Dimanche à Bamako made them international stars.

Angel Blue

Angel Blue (Angel Joy Blue, born 1984, Los Angeles) is an American operatic soprano, two-time Grammy winner for Best Opera Recording (Porgy and Bess 2021; Fire Shut Up in My Bones 2023), Met Aida star, and 2022 Richard Tucker Award recipient.

Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982, Greenville, NC) is an American composer, violinist, vocalist, and producer; youngest Pulitzer Prize in Music winner (2013, Partita for 8 Voices), five-time Grammy winner, Tony nominee, and Kanye West and Nas collaborator.

Christopher Rouse (composer)

Christopher Rouse (1949–2019), American orchestral composer, Pulitzer Prize 1993 for Trombone Concerto, two Grammys (Concert de Gaudí 2002, Symphony No. 5 2021), taught at Eastman and Juilliard.

Conspirare

Conspirare (Latin: to breathe together) is a Grammy-winning professional choir and nonprofit founded in 1991 in Austin, Texas, by Craig Hella Johnson; also called A Company of Voices, it won the 2015 Best Choral Performance Grammy for The Sacred Spirit of Russia.

David Frost (producer)

David Frost, American classical recording producer and engineer, 25 Grammy Awards including seven Producer of the Year Classical; Met Opera Live in HD producer; distinct from broadcaster Sir David Frost.

David Lang (composer)

David Lang (born 1957, Los Angeles) is an American composer, co-founder of Bang on a Can, and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for the little match girl passion; also Oscar-nominated for Simple Song #3 from Youth and a Yale professor.

Deep Forest

Deep Forest: French electronic/world music project founded 1992 by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez; hit "Sweet Lullaby," Grammy-winning Boheme (1996), 10M+ albums, Mouquet solo since 2005.

Donald Nally

Donald Nally (born 1960) is an American conductor, founder and artistic director of the new-music chamber choir The Crossing, four-time Grammy winner for Best Choral Performance, former Northwestern Beattie Chair holder, and current Westminster Choir College visiting professor.

George Crumb

George Crumb (1929–2022), American avant-garde composer of Black Angels, Ancient Voices of Children, and Makrokosmos; Pulitzer Prize 1968, Grammy 2001, famed for hand-drawn scores and extended techniques.

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece contemporary big band founded in 2000 by Gordon Goodwin, blends swing, funk, and Latin idioms; won the 2015 Grammy for Life In The Bubble and continues under Vangie Gunn-Goodwin.

Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year, a Recording Academy General Field category, honors a full album and its credited artists, songwriters, producers, and engineers, distinct from the single-track Record of the Year.

Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album: Recording Academy honor in the Rock, Metal & Alternative Music Field for alternative albums; The Cure's Songs Of A Lost World won in 2026, with St. Vincent and Vampire Weekend among repeat winners.

Grammy Award for Best Americana Album

The Grammy Award for Best Americana Album is an annual Recording Academy honor for Americana albums, first awarded in 2010 to Levon Helm for Electric Dirt.

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals (also styled Instruments and Vocals), category 87: a Recording Academy arranger's award for arrangements mixing instruments and voices, renamed in 2014; 2026 winner "Big Fish" by Nate Smith Featuring säje.

Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella honors arrangers of instrumental or vocal a cappella recordings. Renamed from Best Instrumental Arrangement in June 2014; 2026 winner: The 8-Bit Big Band, "Super Mario Praise Break".

Grammy Award for Best Asian Pop Music Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Asian Pop Music Performance is a new Recording Academy category honoring vocal Asian pop performances, including K-pop, J-pop, and C-pop, first presented in 2027.

Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, a Recording Academy honor for vocal or instrumental bluegrass albums (fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, Dobro). First given 1989 to Bill Monroe; Billy Strings won 2026 for Highway Prayers.

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance honored classical chamber recordings from 1959 to 2011, then continued as the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance award.

Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance: Recording Academy honor for classical choral recordings by ensembles of 16 or more vocalists; awarded to conductor, chorus master, and ensemble; 2026 winner Ortiz: Yanga.

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album: a Recording Academy honor for classical albums, descended from Album Of The Year Classical (1962-1979); last awarded in 2011 to Muti's Verdi Requiem, then replaced by specific Classical Field categories.

Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo honors classical instrumental solo recordings, including concertos, and goes to the instrumental soloist and conductor; Yo-Yo Ma won in 2026.