| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) --
Here is a list of early winners from the 51st annual
Grammy Awards, which were presented on Sunday at
Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
"Chasing Pavements," Adele Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals: "Viva La Vida," Coldplay Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
"I Dreamed There Was No War," Eagles Best Pop Instrumental Album:
"Jingle All The Way," Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Best Pop Vocal Album: "Rockferry," Duffy Best Dance Recording:
"Harder Better Faster Stronger," Daft Punk Best Electronic/Dance Album:
"Alive 2007," Daft Punk Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
"Still Unforgettable," Natalie Cole Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance:
"Gravity," John Mayer Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals: "Sex On Fire," Kings Of Leon Best Hard Rock Performance:
"Wax Simulacra," The Mars Volta Best Metal Performance:
"My Apocalypse," Metallica Best Rock Instrumental Performance:
"Peaches En Regalia," ZappaPlays Zappa Best Rock Song: "Girls In Their Summer Clothes,"
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen) Best Alternative Music Album:
"In Rainbows," Radiohead Best Female R&B Vocal Performance:
"Superwoman," Alicia Keys Best Male R&B Vocal Performance:
"Miss Independent," Ne-Yo Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With
Vocals: "Stay With Me (By The Sea)," Al Green
Featuring John Legend Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
"You've Got The Love I Need," Al Green Featuring
Anthony Hamilton Best Urban/Alternative Performance:
"Be OK," Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am Best R&B Song: "Miss Independent," M.S. Eriksen,
T.E. Hermansen& S. Smith, songwriters (Ne-Yo) Best Contemporary R&B Album:
"Growing Pains," Mary J. Blige Best Rap Solo Performance: "A Milli," Lil Wayne Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group:
"Swagga Like Us," Jay-Z & T.I. Featuring Kanye West
& Lil Wayne Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
"American Boy," Estelle Featuring Kanye West Best Rap Song: "Lollipop," D. Carter, S. Garrett,
D. Harrison, J. Scheffer & R. Zamor, songwriters
(Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major) Best Female Country Vocal Performance:
"Last Name," Carrie Underwood Best Male Country Vocal Performance:
"Letter To Me," Brad Paisley Best Country Collaboration With Vocals:
"Killing The Blues," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Best Country Instrumental Performance:
"Cluster Pluck," Brad Paisley, James Burton,
Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason,
Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner Best Country Album: "Troubadour," George Strait Best Bluegrass Album: "Honoring The Fathers
Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947, " Ricky
Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Best New Age Album:
"Peace Time," Jack DeJohnette Best Contemporary Jazz Album:
"Randy In Brasil," Randy Brecker Best Jazz Vocal Album:
"Loverly," Cassandra Wilson Best Jazz Instrumental Solo:
"Be-Bop," Terence Blanchard, soloist;"Waltz For
Debby," Gary Burton & Chick Corea, soloists Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
"Monday Night Live At The Village Vanguard,"
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Best Latin Jazz Album: "Song For Chico,"
Arturo O'Farrill & TheAfro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Best Gospel Performance: "Get Up," Mary Mary Best Gospel Song: "Help Me Believe,"
Kirk Franklin, songwriter (Kirk Franklin) Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album:
"Alive And Transported," TobyMac Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album:
"Thy Kingdom Come," CeCe Winans Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel
Album: "Lovin' Life," Gaither Vocal Band Best Traditional Gospel Album:
"Down In New Orleans," The BlindBoys Of Alabama Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album:
"The Fight Of My Life," Kirk Franklin Best Latin Pop Album:
"La Vida...Es Un Ratico," Juanes Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album:
"45," Jaguares Best Latin Urban Album:
"Los Extraterrestres," Wisin y Yandel Best Tropical Latin Album:
"Senor Bachata," Jose Feliciano Best Regional Mexican Album:
"Amor, Dolor Y Lagrimas: Musica Ranchera,"
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano;
"Canciones De Amor," Mariachi Divas Best Tejano Album: "Viva La Revolucion,"
Ruben Ramos & The Mexican Revolution Best Norteno Album:
"Raices," Los Tigres Del Norte Best Banda Album:
"No Es De Madera," Joan Sebastian Best Traditional Blues Album:
"One Kind Favor," B.B. King Best Contemporary Blues Album:
"City That Care Forgot," Dr. John And The Lower 911 Best Traditional Folk Album:
"At 89," Pete Seeger Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album:
"Raising Sand," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Best Native American Music Album:
"Come To Me Great Mystery - Native American
Healing Songs," (Various Artists) Best Hawaiian Music Album:
"Ikena," Tia Carrere & Daniel Ho Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album:
"Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival," BeauSoleil & Michael Doucet Best Reggae Album: "Jah Is Real," Burning Spear Best Traditional World Music Album:
"Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu," Ladysmith Black
Mambazo. Best Contemporary World Music Album:
"Global Drum Project," Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain,
Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo Best Polka Album: "Let The Whole World Sing,"
Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra Best Musical Album For Children:
"Here Come The 123s," They Might Be Giants Best Spoken Word Album For Children:
"Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live," Bill Harley Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry,
Audio Books & Story Telling): "An Inconvenient
Truth (Al Gore)," Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon &
Blair Underwood Best Comedy Album:
"It's Bad For Ya," George Carlin Best Musical Show Album: "In The Heights,"
Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andres Levin,
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss & Bill Sherman,
producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer/lyricist
(Original Broadway Cast With Lin-Manuel Miranda
And Others) Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For
Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: "Juno," (Various Artists) Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion
Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media:
"The Dark Knight," James Newton Howard & Hans
Zimmer, composers Best Song Written For Motion Picture,
Television Or Other Visual Media: "Down To Earth"
(From "Wall-E"), Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman,
songwriters (Peter Gabriel) Best Instrumental Composition:
"The Adventures Of Mutt" (From "Indiana Jones And
The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull"), John Williams,
composer (John Williams) Best Instrumental Arrangement:
"Define Dancing" (From "Wall-E"),Peter Gabriel &
Thomas Newman, arrangers (Thomas Newman) Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying
Vocalist(s): "Here's That Rainy Day,"
Nan Schwartz, arranger (Natalie Cole) Best Recording Package: "Death Magnetic,"
Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffatt & David Turner,
art directors (Metallica) Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition
Package: "In Rainbows," Stanley Donwood, Mel
Maxwell & Christian Munro, art directors (Radiohead) Best Album Notes:
"Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition,"
Francis Davis, album notes writer (Miles Davis) Best Historical Album: "Art Of Field Recording
Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music
Documented By Art Rosenbaum," Steven Lance
Ledbetter & Art Rosenbaum, compilation producers;
Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:
"Consolers Of The Lonely," Joe Chiccarelli, Vance
Powell & Jack White III, engineers (The Raconteurs) Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical:
"Electric Feel (Justice Remix)," Justice, remixers
(MGMT) Best Surround Sound Album:
"Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On
Bald Mountain; Prelude To Khovanshchina," Best Engineered Album, Classical:
"Traditions And Transformations: Sounds Of Silk Road Chicago," Producer Of The Year, Classical: David Frost Best Classical Album:
"Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny,"
James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey,
Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler,
producer (Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven
Humes, Mel Ulrich & Robert Worle; Los Angeles
Opera Chorus; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra) Best Orchestral Performance: "Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 4," Bernard Haitink Best Opera Recording:
"Weill: Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny,"
James Conlon, conductor; Anthony Dean Griffey,
Patti LuPone & Audra McDonald; Fred Vogler, producer
(Donnie Ray Albert, John Easterlin, Steven Humes, Mel
Ulrich & Robert Worle; Los Angeles Opera Orchestra;
Los Angeles Opera Chorus) Best Choral Performance: "Symphony Of Psalms,"
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; Simon Halsey, chorus
master (Berliner Philharmoniker; Rundfunkchor Berlin) Best Instrumental soloist(s) Performance (with
Orchestra): "Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos,"
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Hilary Hahn (Swedish
Radio Symphony Orchestra) Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without
Orchestra): "Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And
Lutoslawski," Gloria Cheng Best Chamber Music Performance: "Carter, Elliott:
String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5," Pacifica Quartet Best Small Ensemble Performance:
"Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary," Charles
Bruffy, conductor; Phoenix Chorale Best Classical Vocal Performance:
"Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of
Bob Dylan," Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra) Best Classical Contemporary Composition:
"Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan,"
John Corigliano (JoAnn Falletta) Best Classical Crossover Album:
"Simple Gifts," The King's Singers Best Short Form Music Video:
"Pork And Beans," Weezer Best Long Form Music Video:
"Runnin' Down A Dream," Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers. |