2008 Grammy Awards

Awards
- 2008 Music Awards
-- Grammy Awards

--- 2008 Grammy Awards

Details & Performances

  • Host: Info Missing
  • Venue: Staples Center
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Date: February 10, 2008

Awards

Album of the Year

Best Album Notes

  • Bruce Nemerov - John Work, III: Recording Black Culture
  • Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni - Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s
  • Loren Schoen - Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions
  • David Sager - Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
  • Ricky Jay - Ricky Jay Plays Poker

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Banda Album

  • El Chapo - Te Va a Gustar
  • El Potro De Sinaloa - Los Mejores Corridos
  • Valentin Elizalde - Lobo Domesticado
  • K-PAZ De La Sierra - Conquistando Corazones
  • Lupillo Rivera - Entre Copas y Botellas

Best Bluegrass Album

  • Jim Lauderdale - The Bluegrass Diaries
  • Cherryholmes - Cherryholmes II: Black and White
  • J. D. Crowe and The New South - Lefty's Old Guitar
  • The Seldom Scene - Scenechronized
  • Tony Trischka - Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular

Best Boxed/Special Limited Edition

  • Masaki Koike - What It Is!: Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977)
  • Matt Taylor, Ellen Wakayama & Gerard Way - The Black Parade
  • Alex Kirzhner - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
  • Stan Chow - Icky Thump
  • Matt Taylor & Valo - Venus Doom

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Eighth Blackbird - Strange Imaginary Animals
  • Artists Of The Royal Conservatory Ensemble - On the Threshold of Hope
  • Oleg Maisenberg & Sabine Meyer - Saint-Saens/Poulenc/Devienne/Milhaud
  • Ying Quartet - Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets, Souvenir De Florence
  • Joseph Banowetz & Alton Chung Ming Chan - 30 Songs of the Russian People

Best Children's Music Album

  • The Muppets - A Green and Red Christmas
  • Buck Howdy with BB - Chickens
  • Sweet Honey in the Rock - Experience...10
  • Bill Harley - I Wanna Play
  • Peter Himmelman - My Green Kite
  • Various Artists - The Velveteen Rabbit

Best Children's Spoken Word Album

  • Jim Dale - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Milbre Burch - Making the Heart Whole Again: Stories for a Wounded World
  • Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci - The One and Only Shrek
  • Toni Morrison - Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
  • Diane Ferlatte - Wickety Whack: Brer Rabbit Is Back

Best Choral Performance

  • Thomas Quasthoff & Dorothea Roschmann - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak - Cherubini: Missa Solemnis in E
  • Charles Bruffy - Grechaninov: Passion Week
  • Antoni Wit - Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates Of Jerusalem'
  • Michael Gielen - Schonberg: Gurrelieder

Best Classical Album

  • Nashville Symphony - Tower: Made In America
  • Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzolato & Ruth Ziesak; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Cherubini: Missa Solemnis in E
  • Various Artists - Passion Week Lyrics
  • Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre - Homage: The Age of the Diva
  • James Levine; Boston Symphony Orchestra - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Joan Tower - Made in America
  • Joan Albert Amargos - Amargos: Northern Concerto
  • David Chesky - Chesky: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
  • Jennifer Higdon - Higdon: Zaka
  • Peter Lieberson - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs

Best Classical Crossover Album

  • Turtle Island String Quartet - A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
  • Thomas Quasthoff - The Jazz Album: Watch What Happens
  • Craig Jessop & Mack Wilberg - Spirit of the Season
  • Quartet San Francisco - Whirled Chamber Music
  • Brian Setzer (The Brian Setzer Orchestra) - Wolfgang's Big Night Out

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
  • Rolando Villazon - Gitano: Zarzuela Arias
  • Renee Fleming - Homage: The Age of the Diva
  • Anna Netrebko - Russian Album
  • Sarah Connolly - Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Best Comedy Album

  • Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future
  • George Lopez - America's Mexican
  • Lisa Lampanelli - Dirty Girl
  • Steven Wright - I Still Have a Pony
  • Harry Shearer - Songs Pointed & Pointless

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album

  • George Martin & Giles Martin (The Beatles) - Love
  • Various Artists - Across The Universe
  • Various Artists - Dreamgirls
  • Various Artists - Hairspray Lyrics
  • Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

  • Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters
  • Will Bernard - Party Hats
  • Brian Bromberg - Downright Upright
  • Eldar - Re-imagination
  • Jeff Lorber - He Had a Hat

Best Contemporary R&B Album

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album

  • Fred Hammond - Free to Worship
  • Coko - Grateful
  • J. Moss - V2
  • Trin-i-tee 5:7 - T57
  • Marvin Winans - Alone But Not Alone

Best Contemporary World Music Album

Best Country Album

Best Country Collaboration w/ Vocals

  • Willie Nelson & Ray Price - Lost Highway
  • Steve Earle & Allison Moorer - Days Aren't Long Enough
  • Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson - Because of You
  • Tim McGraw & Faith Hill - I Need You
  • Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood - Oh Love

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Best Country Song

Best Dance Recording

Best Electronic/Dance Album

Best Engineered Album, Classical

  • Various Artists - Passion Week Lyrics
  • Jerry Junkin & Dallas Wind Symphony - Garden of Dreams
  • Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud & Simon Rattle - Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos
  • Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg & Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Spirit of the Season
  • Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic - Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration

Best Engineered Album, Non Classical

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Best Gospel Performance

  • The Clark Sisters - Blessed & Highly Favored
  • Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige (Featuring The Harlem Boys Choir) - Never Gonna Break My Faith
  • Casting Crowns - East To West Lyrics
  • Israel And New Breed Featuring T-Bone - With Long Life
  • CeCe Winans - He Set My Life to Music

Best Gospel Song

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Hawaiian Music Album

  • Various Artists - Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
  • Keola Beamer - Ka Hikina O Ka Hau
  • Tia Carrere - Hawaiiana
  • Cyril Pahinui - He'eia
  • Raiatea Helm - Hawaiian Blossom

Best Historical Album

  • Nora Guthrie & Jorge Arevalo Mateus - The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949
  • David Giovannoni, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin - Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings From the 1890s
  • Stuart Batsford, Mick Houghton & Phil Smee - Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973 (Deluxe Edition)
  • Alec Palao - Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
  • Christopher King & Henry "Hank" Sapoznik - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938

Best Instrumental Arrangement

  • Vince Mendoza - In a Silent Way
  • Harry Connick, Jr. - Ash Wednesday
  • Steve Wiest - Besame Mucho
  • Frank Macchia - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  • Gordon Goodwin - Yo Tannenbaum (From Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas)

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

  • John Clayton - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
  • Jorge Calandrelli - Cry Me a River
  • Jay Ashby, Darmon Meader & Kim Nazarian - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
  • Michael Abene - Overture/Gershwin Medley
  • Pete McGuinness - Smile

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Maria Schneider - Cerulean Skies
  • Harry Connick, Jr. - Ash Wednesday
  • Mark Walker - Deep Six
  • Philip Glass - I Knew Her
  • Bela Fleck - Spectacle

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)

  • Garrick Ohlsson - Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
  • Marc-Andre Hamelin - Haydn
  • Kenneth Boulton - Louisiana: A Pianist's Journey
  • Manuel Barrueco - Solo Piazzolla
  • Allison Brewster Franzetti - 20th Century Piano Sonatas

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)

  • Bramwell Tovey - Barber/Korngold/Walton: Violin Concertos
  • Christoph Eschenbach - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4
  • Simon Rattle - Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concert
  • Dmitry Yablonsky - Rozsa: Violin Concerto, Op. 24
  • Ari Rasila - Tchaikovsky/Saint-Saens/Ginastera

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group

  • Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage Lyrics
  • The Bill Charlap Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard
  • Joe Lovano and Hank Jones - Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
  • John Patitucci - Line by Line
  • Joshua Redman - Back East

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Performance

Best Jazz Vocal Album

  • Patti Austin - Avant Gershwin
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater - Red Earth: A Malian Journey
  • Freddy Cole - Music Maestro Please
  • Kurt Elling - Nightmoves
  • Tierney Sutton - On the Other Side

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

  • Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
  • The Bob Florence Limited Edition - Eternal Licks & Grooves
  • The Bill Holman Band - Hommage
  • Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue
  • Charles Tolliver Big Band - With Love

Best Latin Jazz Album

  • Paquito Rivera Quintet - Funk Tango
  • Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion - The Magician
  • Steve Khan - Borrowed Time
  • Hector Martignon - Refugee
  • Bobby Sanabria Big Band - Big Band Urban Folktales

Best Latin Pop Album

  • Alejandro Sanz - El Tren de los Momentos
  • Miguel Bose - Papito Lyrics
  • Jorge Drexler - 12 Segundos de Oscuridad
  • Luis Miguel - Navidades
  • Jennifer Pena - Dicen Que el Tiempo

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

  • Black Guayaba - No Hay Espacio
  • Jarabe De Palo - Adelantando
  • Panda - Amantes Sunt Amentes
  • Los Rabanes - Kamikaze
  • Zoe - Memo Rex Commander y el Corazon Atomico de la Via Lactea

Best Latin Urban Album

Best Long Form Music Video

  • Madonna - The Confessions Tour
  • Dierks Bentley - Live and Loud at the Fillmore
  • R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22
  • Kenny Wayne Shepherd and various artists - 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads
  • Various artists - Liberacion: Songs of the Cuban Underground

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album

  • Pepe Aguilar - 100% Mexicano
  • Cristian Castro - El Indomable
  • Vicente Fernandez - Para Siempre
  • Paquita la del Barrio - Puro Dolor
  • Sones De Mexico Ensemble - Esta Tierra Es Tuya (This Land Is Your Land)

Best Musical Show Album

  • Original Broadway Cast - Spring Awakening
  • Various Artists - A Chorus Line
  • Raul Esparza & Others - Company
  • Original Broadway Cast - Grey Gardens
  • Vittorio Grigolo, Hayley Westenra, Connie Fisher & Others - West Side Story

Best Native American Music Album

  • Johnny Whitehorse - Totemic Flute Chants
  • Walter Ahhaitty & Friends - Oklahoma Style
  • Black Lodge - Watch This Dancer!
  • Davis Mitchell - The Ballad of Old Times
  • R. Carlos Nakai, Cliff Sarde, William Eaton & Randy Wood - Reconnections

Best New Age Album

  • Paul Winter Consort - Crestone
  • Peter Kater - Faces of the Sun
  • Ottmar Liebert - One Guitar
  • Eric Tingstad - Southwest
  • Kitaro - Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 3

Best New Artist

Best Norteno Album

  • Los Tigres Del Norte - Detalles y Emociones
  • Conjunto Primavera - El Amor Que Nunca Fue
  • Intocable - Crossroads
  • Los Rieleros Del Norte - Ven y Dime
  • Pesado - Gracias por Tu Amor

Best Opera Recording

  • Sarah Coppen, Diana Montague & Sarah Tynan; New London Children's Choir - Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel
  • Orquesta Y Coro De La Comunidad De Madrid - Albeniz: Pepita Jimenez
  • The Royal Opera Chorus; The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Donizetti: Dom Sebastien, Roi De Portugal
  • Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra - Lully: Thesee
  • Choir Of The Bavarian State Opera; Bavarian State Orchestra - Verdi: La Traviata

Best Orchestra Performance

  • Nashville Symphony - Tower: Made in America
  • Minnesota Orchestra - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Shostakovich: The Golden Age
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic - Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Serenade to Music

Best Polka Album

  • Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra - Come Share the Wine
  • Brave Combo - Polka's Revenge
  • John Gora & Gorale - Bulletproof Polkas
  • Bubba Hernandez & Alex Meixner - Polka Freak Out
  • Walter Ostanek and His Band & Brian Sklar and the Western Senators - Dueling Polkas

Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

  • Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
  • Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera - Steppin' Out
  • Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar
  • Gwen Stefani & Akon - The Sweet Escape
  • Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It to Me

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Performance by a Duo/Group w/ Vocals

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album

Best R&B Album

Best R&B Performance By a Duo/Group W/ Vocals

  • Chaka Khan featuring Mary J. Blige - Disrespectful
  • R. Kelly featuring Usher - Same Girl
  • Rihanna featuring Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You
  • Angie Stone featuring Betty Wright - Baby
  • T-Pain featuring Akon - Bartender

Best R&B Song

Best Rap Album