27th Annual Grammy Awards

Award winners

• Record of the Year
• *Tina Turner for What's Love Got To Do With It
• Album of the Year
• *Lionel Richie for Can't Slow Down
• Song of the Year
• *Terry Britten for What's Love Got To Do With It performed by Tina Turner
• Best New Artist
• *Cyndi Lauper

  Blues

• Best Traditional Blues Recording
• *Sugar Blue, John P. Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion

  Children's

• Best Recording for Children
• *Ron Haffkine & Shel Silverstein for Where the Sidewalk Ends

  Classical

• Best Classical Orchestral Recording
• *Jay David Saks, Leonard Slatkin & the St. Louis Symphony for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat
• Best Classical Vocal Performance
• *Pierre Boulez, Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam, the BBC Symphony Orchestra & the Ensemble InterContemporain for Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel
• Best Opera Recording
• *Michel Glotz, Lorin Maazel, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, the Choeur de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France & the Orchestre National de France for Bizet: Carmen
• Best Choral Performance
• *James Levine, Margaret Hillis & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Brahms: A German Requiem
• Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Raymond Leppard, Wynton Marsalis & the English Chamber Orchestra for Wynton Marsalis, Edita Gruberova: Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter
• Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists
• *Yo-Yo Ma for Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
• Best Chamber Music Performance
• *The Juilliard String Quartet for Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
• Best New Classical Composition
• *Samuel Barber & Christian Badea for Antony and Cleopatra
• Best Classical Album
• *John Strauss, Neville Marriner, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for Amadeus

  Comedy

• Best Comedy Recording
• *"Weird Al" Yankovic for "Eat It"

  Composing and arranging

• Best Instrumental Composition
• *Randy Newman for "The Natural"
• *John Williams for "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" the official music of the XXIII Olympiad
• Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or A Television Special
• *Lisa Coleman, John L. Nelson, Prince & Wendy Melvoin for Purple Rain performed by Prince
• Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
• *Quincy Jones & Jeremy Lobbock for "Grace " performed by Quincy Jones
• Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal
• *David Foster & Jeremy Lubbock for "Hard Habit To Break" performed by Chicago
• Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices
• *Anita Pointer, June Pointer & Ruth Pointer for "Automatic" performed by The Pointer Sisters

  Country

• Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
• *Emmylou Harris for "In My Dreams"
• Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• *Merle Haggard for "That's the Way Love Goes"
• Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *The Judds for "Mama He's Crazy"
• Best Country Instrumental Performance
• *Ricky Skaggs for "Wheel Hoss"
• Best Country Song
• *Steve Goodman for "City of New Orleans" performed by Willie Nelson

  Folk

• Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
• *Elizabeth Cotten for Elizabeth Cotten Live!

  Gospel

• Best Gospel Performance, Female
• *Amy Grant for "Angels"
• Best Gospel Performance, Male
• *Michael W. Smith for Michael W. Smith
• Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group
• *Debby Boone & Phil Driscoll for "Keep The Flame Burning"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female
• *Shirley Caesar for Sailin'
• Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male
• *Andrae Crouch for "Always Remember"
• Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group
• *Shirley Caesar & Al Green for "Sailin' on the Sea of Your Love"
• Best Inspirational Performance
• *Donna Summer for "Forgive Me"

  Historical

• Best Historical Album
• *J.R. Taylor for Big Band Jazz performed by Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Paul Whiteman & others

  Jazz

• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist
• *Wynton Marsalis for "Hot House Flowers"
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group
• *Art Blakey for New York Scene performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band
• *Count Basie for 88 Basie Street
• Best Jazz Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
• *Pat Metheny Group for First Circle
• Best Jazz Vocal Performance
• *Joe Williams for Nothin' but the Blues

  Latin

• Best Latin Pop Performance
• *Plácido Domingo for Always In My Heart
• Best Tropical Latin Performance
• *Eddie Palmieri for Palo Pa Rumba
• Best Mexican-American Performance
• *Sheena Easton & Luis Miguel for Me Gustas Tal Como Eres

  Musical show

• Best Cast Show Album
• *Stephen Sondheim, Thomas Z. Shepard & the original cast for Sunday in the Park with George

  Music video

• Best Video, Short Form
• *David Bowie for Jazzin' for Blue Jean
• Best Video Album
• *Michael Jackson for Making Michael Jackson's Thriller

  Packaging and notes

• Best Album Package
• *Janet Perr for She's So Unusual performed by Cyndi Lauper
• Best Album Notes
• *Gunther Schuller & Martin Williams for Big Band Jazz performed by Paul Whiteman, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman & others

  Pop

• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
• *Tina Turner for "What's Love Got to Do with It"
• Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
• *Phil Collins for "Against All Odds "
• Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *The Pointer Sisters for "Jump "
• Best Pop Instrumental Performance
• *Ray Parker, Jr. for "Ghostbusters "

  Production and engineering

• Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical
• *Humberto Gatica for Chicago 17 performed by Chicago
• Best Engineered Recording, Classical
• *Paul Goodman, Leonard Slatkin & the Saint Louis Symphony for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100
• Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
• *James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie
• *David Foster
• Producer of the Year, Classical
• *Steven Epstein

  R&B

• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
• *Chaka Khan for "I Feel for You"
• Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
• *Billy Ocean for "Caribbean Queen"
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *James Ingram & Michael McDonald for "Yah Mo B There"
• Best R&B Instrumental Performance
• *Herbie Hancock for "Sound System"
• Best Rhythm & Blues Song
• *Prince, songwriter for "I Feel for You" performed by Chaka Khan

  Reggae

• Best Reggae Recording
• *Black Uhuru for Anthem

  Rock

• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
• *Tina Turner for "Better Be Good to Me"
• Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
• *Bruce Springsteen for "Dancing in the Dark"
• Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
• *Prince and The Revolution for Purple Rain
• Best Rock Instrumental Performance
• *Yes for "Cinema"

  Spoken

• Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Recording
• *Ben Kingsley for The Words of Gandhi