The Complete List of 2019 Grammy Award Winners
Embraced with musical genius and legends and appreciation for their soulful musical flavors and taste, the 61st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Originally known as TheGramophone Awards established in 1958, Grammy Awards is one of the biggest and traditional musical ceremonies. It is held once a year where musical artists and talents are honored for their creativity and dedication.
The 61st Grammy Awards took place on February 10, 2019. The show flooded with various musical artists in their stylish dresses and outfits. It was a fun event hosted by Alica Keys. The Grammy was memorable as various moments and memories were created.
The Complete List of 2019 Grammy Award Winners
Genre Pop (Grammy winners)
Best Song Written for Visual Media
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
Best Pop Solo Performance
“Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” — Lady Gaga
Best Pop Solo Performance & Best New Artist
Dua Lipa won two awards such as best new artist & best solo performer
Best Pop Vocal Album
“Sweetener” — Ariana Grande
Best Latin Pop Album
“Sincera” — Claudia Brant
Genre: Blues (Grammy winners)
Best Traditional Blues Album
“The Blues Is Alive and Well” — Buddy Guy
Best Contemporary Blues Album
“Please Don’t Be Dead” — Fantastic Negrito
Best Americana Album
“By the Way, I Forgive You” — Brandi Carlile
Best Bluegrass Album
“The Travelin’ Mccourys” — The Travelin’ Mccourys
Best Americana Album
“By the Way, I Forgive You” — Brandi Carlile
Best Bluegrass Album
“The Travelin’ Mccourys” — The Travelin’ Mccourys
Genre: Country Music (Grammy winners)
Best Country Solo Performance
“Butterflies” — Kacey Musgraves
Best Country Album
“Golden Hour” — Kacey Musgraves
Album of the Year
“Golden Hour” — Kacey Musgraves
Best Country Song
“Space Cowboy” — Luke Laird, Shane Mcanally, and Kacey Musgraves.
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Tequila” — Dan + Shay
Genre: Rap (Grammy winners)
Best Rap Album
“Invasion of Privacy” — Cardi B
Best Rap Song
“God’s Plan” — Drake, songwriters Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels, and Noah Shebib.
Best Rap Performance
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake.
“Bubblin” — Anderson Paak
Best Rap/Sung Performance
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
“Aztlán” — Zoé
Genre: Metal & Rock (Grammy winners)
Best Rock Performance
“When Bad Does Good” — Chris Cornel
Best Rock Song
“Mass education” — Jack Antonoff and Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
Best Rock Album
“From the Fires” — Greta Van Fleet
Best Alternative Music Album
“Colors” — Beck
Best Metal Performance
“Electric Messiah” — High on Fire
Genre: R&B Grammy (Grammy winners)
Best R&B Performance
“Best Part” — H.E.R. featuring Daniel Caesar
Best Urban Contemporary Album
“Everything Is Love” — The Carters
Best R&B Album
“H.E.R.” — H.E.R.
Best R&B Song
“Boo’d Up” — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai, and Dijon Mcfarlane, songwriters.
Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand” — Leon Bridges
“How Deep Is Your Love” — PJ Morton featuring Yebba
Best Contemporary Blues Album
“Please Don’t Be Dead” — Fantastic Negrito
Best Traditional Blues Album
“The Blues Is Alive and Well” — Buddy Guy
Genre: Jazz (Grammy winners)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo
“Don’t Fence Me In” — John Daversa, soloist. Track from: “American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom”
Best Jazz Vocal Album
“The Window” — Cécile Mclorin Salvant
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music of Freedom” — John Daversa Big Band featuring DACA Artists
Best Latin Jazz Album
“Back to the Sunset” — Dafnis Prieto Big Band
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
“Emanon” — The Wayne Shorter Quartet
Genre: Classical (Grammy winners)
Best Engineered Album, Classical
“Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — Shawn Murphy and Nick Squire, Sound engineers; Tim Martyn (mastering engineer)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Blanton Alspaugh, best classical producer of the year 2019.
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
“Kernis: Violin Concerto” — James Ehnes,Ludovic Morlot
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
“Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D’india & Landi” — Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo’s Fire.
Best Classical Compendium
Kenneth Fuchs- Piano Concerto ‘spiritualist’; 'Poems of Life'; 'Glacier';
'Rush' — Joann Falletta, conductor; producer, Tim Handley.
Genre: Contemporary (Grammy winners)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
“Kernis: Violin Concerto” — Aaron Jay Kernis, composer
Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“You Say” — Lauren Daigle; Songwriters Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram, and Paul Mabury.
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Look Up Child” — Lauren Daigle
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
“Steve Gadd Band” — Steve Gadd
Best Orchestral Performance
“Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — conductor, Andris Nelsons.
Best Opera Recording
“Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” — Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson, and producers, Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow.
Best Choral Performance
“McCloskey: Zealot Canticles” — conductor, Donald Nally.
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Anderson, Laurie: Landfall” — Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet
Genre: Folk and Reggae (Grammy winners)
Best Folk Album
“All Ashore” — Punch Brothers
Best Reggae Album
“44/876” — Sting and Shaggy
Genre: Dance/Electronic (Grammy winners)
Best Dance/Electronic Album
“Woman Worldwide” — Justice
Best Dance Recording
“Electricity” — Silk City and Dua Lipa featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson
Best Recordings, Albums, and Producers (Grammy winners)
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Pharrell Williams
Best Recording Package
“Masseduction” — Art director: Willo Perron
Best Dance Recording
“Electricity” — Silk City and Dua Lipa featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson
Best Remixed Recording
“Walking Away (Mura Masa remix)” — Alex Crossan (Sound Producer)
Best Albums of The Year 2019 (Grammy winners)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
“Colors” — Sound Engineers: Serban Ghenea, Julian Burg, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Lagatta, David “Elevator” Greenbaum, Cole M.G.N., Jesse Shatkin
Mastering Engineers: Tom Coyne, Darrell Thorp, Alex Pasco, and Cassidy TurbinChris Bellman, Randy Merrill and Emily Lazar.
Best Comedy Album
“Equanimity & the Bird Revelation” — Dave Chappelle
Best Musical Theater Album
“The Band’s Visit” — Soloists: Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk, Etai Benson, and producers: Ari’el Stachel, David Yazbek and Dean Sharenow. likewise, composer and lyricist DavidYazbek.
Best Album Notes
“Voices of Mississippi": Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris similarly album notes writerDavid Evans.
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package
“Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic” — Annie Stoll, and Al Yankovic, Art Directors: Meghan Foley.
Best Immersive Audio Album
“Eye in the Sky - 35th Anniversary Edition” — Surround mix engineer Alan Parsons, P.J. Olsson, Alan Parsons, and surround mastering engineers: Alan Parsons, Dave Donnelly;
Best Historical Album
“Voices of Mississippi"- Musician & Artists Documented by William Ferris.
Compilation producers: April Ledbetter, William Ferris, and Steven Lance Ledbetter.
Mastering engineer: Michael Graves.
Best Children’s Album
“All the Sounds” — Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books and Storytelling)
“Faith - A Journey for All” — Jimmy Carter
Best Regional Mexican Music Album
“Anniversary” — Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Best Music Film
“Quincy” — Quincy Jones;
Video directors: Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones; video producer Paula Dupré Pesmen.
Best Tropical Latin Album
“No ‘Ane’i” — Kalani Pe’a
“¡México Por Siempre!” — Luis Miguel
Best Roots Gospel Album
“Unexpected” — Jason Crabb
Best World Music Album
“Freedom” — Soweto Gospel Choir
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
“Black Panther” — Album Composer: Ludwig Göransson
Best Gospel Album
“Opium Moon” — Opium Moon
“Hiding Place” — Tori Kelly
Best Instrumental Composition
“Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil)”: Terence Blanchard
Best Arrangement, Instruments, and Vocals
“Spiderman Theme” — Arrangers: Mark Kibble, Randy Waldman, and Justin Wilson.
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“Stars and Stripes Forever”: John Daversa
Band Best Gospel Performance/Song
“Never Alone”: Songwriters-Tori Kelly featuring Kirk Franklin; Grammy Performances Kirk Franklin and Victoria Kelly.
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
“The Greatest Showman” — Hugh Jackman
Cast members: Benj Pasek, Alex Lacamoire, Justin Paul.
Compilation producers: Blanton Alspaugh, Greg Wells
Best American Roots Performance
“The Joke” — Brandi Carlile
Best American Roots Song
“The Joke” — Songwriters: Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth, Brandi Carlile and Tim Hanseroth.
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The 61st Grammy Award was lit as various new faces were introduced and honored. The artists received recognition for their contribution and dedication towards music. The event was a night to be remembered.