Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The 32nd Grammy Awards were held in 1990. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Record of the Year Arif Mardin (producer) & Bette Midler for "Wind Beneath My Wings" Album of the Year Don Was (producer) & Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time Song of the Year Jeff Silbar & Larry Henley (songwriters) for "Wind Beneath My Wings" performed by Bette Midler Best New Artist Milli Vanilli (revoked) Blues Best Traditional Blues Recording Bonnie Raitt & John Lee Hooker for "I'm in the Mood" Best Contemporary Blues Recording Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble In Step Children's Best Recording for Children J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (producers) & Tanya Goodman for The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 1 Classical Best Orchestral Performance Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the New York Philharmonic for Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance David Zinman (conductor), Dawn Upshaw & the Orchestra of St. Luke's for ''Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky Best Opera Recording Cord Garben (producer), James Levine (conductor), Hildegard Behrens, Gary Lakes, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Moll, James Morris, Jessye Norman & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkuere Best Choral Performance (other than opera) Robert Shaw (conductor) & the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Britten: War Requiem Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (with orchestra) David Zinman (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Barber: Cello Concerto, Op. 22/Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra) Andras Schiff for Bach: English Suites Best Chamber Music Performance The Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets Best Contemporary Composition Steve Reich (composer) & the Kronos Quartet for Reich: Different Trains Best Classical Album Wolf Erichson (producer) & the Emerson String Quartet for Bartók: 6 String Quartets Comedy Best Comedy Recording Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture & Other Musical Assaults Composing and arranging Best Instrumental Composition Danny Elfman (composer) for "The Batman Theme" performed by the Sinfonia of London Orchestra Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television Carly Simon (songwriter) for "Let the River Run" Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Dave Grusin (composer) for The Fabulous Baker Boys Best Arrangement on an Instrumental Dave Grusin (arranger) for "Suite From The Milagro Beanfield War" Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals Dave Grusin (arranger) for "My Funny Valentine" performed by Michelle Pfeiffer Country Best Country Vocal Performance, Female k.d. lang for Absolute Torch and Twang Best Country Vocal Performance, Male Lyle Lovett for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two Best Country Vocal Collaboration Hank Williams Jr & Hank Williams Sr for "There's a Tear in My Beer" Best Country Instrumental Performance Randy Scruggs for "Amazing Grace" Best Country Song Rodney Crowell (songwriter) for "After All This Time" Best Bluegrass Recording Bruce Hornsby & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for "The Valley Road" Folk Best Traditional Folk Recording Marcel Cellier (producer) for Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Vol. II performed by the Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir Best Contemporary Folk Recording Indigo Girls for Indigo Girls Gospel Best Gospel Performance, Female CeCe Winans for "Don't Cry" Best Gospel Performance, Male BeBe Winans for "Meantime" Best Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus Take 6 for "The Savior Is Waiting" Best Soul Gospel Performance Al Green for "As Long as We're Together" Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus Daniel Winans for "Let Brotherly Love Continue" Historical Best Historical Album Andy McKaie (producer) for Chuck Berry - The Chess Box Jazz Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Ruth Brown for Blues on Broadway Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male Harry Connick Jr for When Harry Met Sally Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group Dr. John & Rickie Lee Jones for "Makin' Whoopee" Best Jazz Fusion Performance Pat Metheny Group for Letter From Home Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Miles Davis for Aura Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group Chick Corea Akoustic Band for Chick Corea Akoustic Band Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Big Band Miles Davis for Aura Latin Best Latin Pop Performance Jose Feliciano for "Cielito Lindo" Best Tropical Latin Performance Celia Cruz & Ray Barretto for "Ritmo en el Corazon" Best Mexican-American Performance Los Lobos for La Pistola y el Corazon Musical Show Best Musical Cast Show Album Jay David Saks (producer) & the original cast with Jason Alexander & Debbie Shapiro for Jerome Robbins' Broadway Music Video Best Music Video, Short Form Jim Blashfield (video director) Frank DiLeo, Jerry Kramer, Jim Blashfield, Paul Diener (video producers) & Michael Jackson for "Leave Me Alone" Best Music Video, Long Form Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris ((video directors & producers), Dominic Sena (video director), Aris McGarry (video producer) & Janet Jackson for Rhythm Nation 1814 New Age Best New Age Album Peter Gabriel for Passion - Music For the Last Temptation of Christ Packaging and Notes Best Album Package Roger Gorman (art director) for Sound + Vision performed by David Bowie Best Album Notes Phil Schaap (notes writer) for Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Polka Best Polka Album Jimmy Sturr for ''All in My Love for You" Pop Best Vocal Performance, Female Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time Best Vocal Performance, Male Michael Bolton for "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt for "Don't Know Much" Best Pop Instrumental Performance The Neville Brothers for "Healing Chant" Production and engineering Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical George Massenburg (engineer) for Cry Like a Rainstorm - Howl Like the Wind performed by Linda Ronstadt Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Peter Asher Best Classical Engineered Recording Jack Renner (engineer), Robert Shaw (conductor), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & the Atlanta Boy Choir for Britten: War Requiem Classical Producer of The Year Robert Woods R&B Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Anita Baker for Giving You the Best That I Got Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Bobby Brown for "Every Little Step" Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Caron Wheeler & Soul II Soul for "Back to Life" Best R&B Instrumental Performance Soul II Soul for "African Dance" Best R&B Song Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (songwriters) for "If You Don't Know Me By Now" performed by Simply Red Rap Best Rap Performance Young MC for "Bust a Move" Reggae Best Reggae Recording Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers for One Bright Day Rock Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male Don Henley for The End of the Innocence Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Traveling Wilburys for Traveling Wilburys Volume One Best Hard Rock Performance Living Colour for Cult of Personality Best Metal Performance Metallica for One Best Rock Instrumental Performance Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas for Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio & Tony Hymas Spoken Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album Gilda Radner for It's Always Something Other Grammy Award Years 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 This article is from Wikipedia. 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