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57th Grammy Awards ceremony filled with beauty, music, emotions and fun. Right from Sam Smith, everybody felt great for the Grammy. And, from India, Ricky Kej and Neela Vaswani bagged Grammys in 'Best New Age Album' and 'Best Children's Album' categories respectively.
However sitarist and daughter of the late sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Anoushka, who was nominated for her album Traces of You in the ‘Best World Music Album’ category lost out to Angelique Kidjo’s album Eve.
Here is the complete list of winners:
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
Sam Smith
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Morning Phase
Beck
SONG OF THE YEAR
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith)
BEST NEW ARTIST
Sam Smith
BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
Happy (Live)
Pharrell Williams
BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Say Something
A Great Big World With Christina Aguilera
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
Cheek To Cheek
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
In The Lonely Hour
Sam Smith
BEST DANCE RECORDING
Rather Be
Clean Bandit Featuring Jess Glynne
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM
Syro
Aphex Twin
BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Bass & Mandolin
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer
BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
Lazaretto
Jack White
BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
The Last In Line
Tenacious D
BEST ROCK SONG
Ain't It Fun
Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters (Paramore)
BEST ROCK ALBUM
Morning Phase
Beck
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
St. Vincent
St. Vincent
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
Drunk In Love
Beyonce Featuring Jay Z
BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE
Jesus Children
Robert Glasper Experiment Featuring Lalah Hathaway & Malcolm-Jamal Warner
BEST R&B SONG
Drunk In Love
Shawn Carter, Rasool Diaz, Noel Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyonce Knowles, Timothy Mosely, Andre Eric Proctor & Brian Soko, songwriters (Beyonce Featuring Jay Z)
BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
Girl
Pharrell Williams
BEST R&B ALBUM
Love, Marriage & Divorce
Toni Braxton & Babyface
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
I
Kendrick Lamar
BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
The Monster
Eminem Featuring Rihanna
BEST RAP SONG
I
K. Duckworth & C. Smith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
BEST RAP ALBUM
The Marshall Mathers LP2
Eminem
BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
Something In The Water
Carrie Underwood
BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Gentle On My Mind
The Band Perry
Track from: Glen Campbell, I'll Be Me Soundtrack EP
BEST COUNTRY SONG
I'm Not Gonna Miss You
Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond, songwriters (Glen Campbell)
Track from: Glen Campbell, I'll Be Me Soundtrack
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Platinum
Miranda Lambert
BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
Winds Of Samsara
Ricky Kej & Wouter Kellerman
BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO
Fingerprints
Chick Corea, soloist
BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
Beautiful Life
Dianne Reeves
BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Trilogy
Chick Corea Trio
BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
Life In The Bubble
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM
The Offense Of The Drum
Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE/SONG
No Greater Love
Smokie Norful
BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE/SONG
Messengers
Lecrae Featuring For King & Country
BEST GOSPEL ALBUM
Help
Erica Campbell
BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM
Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong.
For King & Country
BEST ROOTS GOSPEL ALBUM
Shine For All The People
Mike Farris
BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
Tangos
Ruben Blades
BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
Multiviral
BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM (INCLUDING TEJANO)
Mano A Mano - Tangos A La Manera De Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernandez
BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM
Mas + Corazon Profundo
Carlos Vives
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE
A Feather's Not A Bird
Rosanne Cash
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG
A Feather's Not A Bird
Rosanne Cash
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
The River & The Thread
Rosanne Cash
BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
The Earls Of Leicester
The Earls Of Leicester
BEST BLUES ALBUM
Step Back
Johnny Winter
BEST FOLK ALBUM
Remedy
Old Crow Medicine Show
BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM
The Legacy
Jo-El Sonnier
BEST REGGAE ALBUM
Fly Rasta
Ziggy Marley
BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM
Eve
Angelique Kidjo
BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)
Neela Vaswani
BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO BOOKS & STORYTELLING)
Diary Of A Mad Diva
Joan Rivers
BEST COMEDY ALBUM
Mandatory Fun
"Weird Al" Yankovic
BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)
BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Frozen
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Tom MacDougall & Chris Montan, compilation producers
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat, composer
BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Let It Go
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Idina Menzel)
Track from: Frozen
BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
The Book Thief
John Williams, composer (John Williams)
Track from: The Book Thief Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPPELLA
Daft Punk
Ben Bram, Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola, arrangers (Pentatonix)
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS
New York Tendaberry
Billy Childs, arranger (Billy Childs Featuring Renee Fleming & Yo-Yo Ma)
Track from: Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
Lightning Bolt
Jeff Ament, Don Pendleton, Joe Spix & Jerome Turner, art directors (Pearl Jam)
BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27)
Susan Archie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White, art directors (Various Artists)
BEST ALBUM NOTES
Offering: Live At Temple University
Ashley Kahn, album notes writer (John Coltrane)
BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Hank Williams)
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL
Morning Phase
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Beck)
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Max Martin
BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL
All Of Me (Tiesto's Birthday Treatment Remix)
Tijs Michiel Verwest, remixer (John Legend)
BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM
Beyonce
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyonce Knowles, surround producer (Beyonce)
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending
Michael Bishop, engineer; Michael Bishop, mastering engineer (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
Judith Sherman
BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
Adams, John: City Noir
David Robertson, conductor (St. Louis Symphony)
BEST OPERA RECORDING
Charpentier: La Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble)
BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
The Sacred Spirit Of Russia
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Conspirare)
BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores
Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe
BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
Play
Jason Vieaux
BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
Douce France
Anne Sofie Von Otter; Bengt Forsberg, accompanist (Carl Bagge, Margareta Bengston, Mats Bergstrom, Per Ekdahl, Bengan Janson, Olle Linder & Antoine Tamestit)
BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
Partch: Plectra & Percussion Dances
Partch; John Schneider, producer
BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Adams, John Luther: Become Ocean
John Luther Adams, composer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Happy
Pharrell Williams
BEST MUSIC FILM
20 Feet From Stardom
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill
Grammy Awards are given for the outstanding achievement in the music industry.
-Kannamsai
