Grammy Awards
The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings. It is the approximate equivalent, in the music world, to the Oscars.
Like the Oscars, the Grammys, currently with a total of 105 categories within 30 fields of music (such as pop, gospel, and rap), are voted by peers - in this case voting members of the Recording Academy.
The awards are named for the trophy given for them, a small gilded stauette of a gramophone. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the more prominent Grammys are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony.
The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives"). Therefore, the main Grammys tend to go to either well-established acts or those which fall into the above categories. Hence, the Grammys are not taken particularly seriously by many musicians or music fans.
Awards include:
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
Comedy
Composing and arranging
Country
Film/TV/Media
Folk
Gospel
Historical
Jazz
Latin
Musical Show
Music Video
New Age
Packaging and Notes
Polka
Pop
Production and engineering
R&B
Rap
Reggae
Rock
Spoken
Trad Pop
World
Awards by year
Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for music released in the previous year.
Referenced By
1999 in Canada | 4 May | 4th May | America (band) | Blood, Sweat & Tears | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Blood Sweat & Tears | Charles Dutoit | Ella Fitzgerald | Emerson Quartet | Emerson String Quartet | Every Breath You Take | Garth Brooks | Grammy Awards of 1962 | Grammy Awards of 1985 | Grammy Awards of 1986 | Grammy Awards of 1989 | Grammy Awards of 1991 | Hardart | Historical anniversaries/May 4 | Janet Jackson | Jerry Leiber | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | Jerry Lieber | Joe Strummer | Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros | Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros | Kris Kristofferson | Lauren Hill | Lauryn Hill | Leiber and Stoller | Lieber and Stoller | Linda Eastman McCartney | Linda McCartney | Linda Perry | Macy Gray | May 4 | May 4th | Michael Hayes | Mickie Most | Mike Stoller | OutKast | Paul Goodman | Peter Schickele | Quincy Jones | Ramsey Lewis | Ramsey Lewis, Jr. | Rene Elizondo | Robert Kelly (singer) | Starland Vocal Band | Temple University | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | The Wu-Tang Clan | Tom Petty | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Weird Al | Weird Al Yankovic | Weird Al Yankovich | Wu-Tang | Wu-Tang Clan | Wu Tang Clan
|
