Grammy Award

Grammy
Grammy
Current: 64th Annual Grammy Awards
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First awarded	May 4, 1959; 64 years ago (as Gramophone Award)
Website	grammy.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	NBC (1959–1970); ABC (1971–1972); CBS (1973–present)

The Grammy Awards (first named the Gramophone Awards and often called just Grammys), are awards given yearly by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding work in the music and spoken recording industry. The Grammys have 128 categories with 16 genres. The Grammys are awarded once each year and are a major televised event. The award show does has it shares of criticism as being biased.

The name "Grammy" comes from the word "gramophone". A gramophone was an old machine that played music on records.^[1]

The British equivalent is the Brit Awards. The Canadian equivalent is the Juno Awards.

Georg Solti has won 31 Grammy Awards, more than any other person.^[2]

CategoriesEdit

General FieldEdit

Genre-specific categoriesEdit

PopEdit

Dance/ElectronicEdit

RockEdit

AlternativeEdit

R&BEdit

RapEdit

CountryEdit

JazzEdit

Gospel/Contemporary ChristianEdit

LatinEdit

American RootsEdit

ReggaeEdit

Best Reggae Album

Global MusicEdit

Children'sEdit

Best Children's Album

Spoken WordEdit

ArrangingEdit

Package, Notes & Historical FieldEdit

Engineered AlbumEdit

Production FieldEdit

RemixerEdit

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

SongwritingEdit

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

ClassicalEdit

Best Orchestral Performance
Best Opera Recording
Best Choral Performance
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Best Classical Vocal Solo (previously including albums and tracks)
Best Classical Compendium
Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Music Video/FilmEdit

ReferencesEdit

↑ "About this Collection | Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry | Digital Collections | Library of Congress".
↑ Tommasini, Anthony (23 February 2003). "MUSIC: THE GRAMMYS/CLASSICAL; Fewer Records, More Attention". The New York Times.

Other websitesEdit

Official site

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[1] "About this Collection | Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry | Digital Collections | Library of Congress".

[2] Tommasini, Anthony (23 February 2003). "MUSIC: THE GRAMMYS/CLASSICAL; Fewer Records, More Attention". The New York Times.

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Grammy
Current: 64th Annual Grammy Awards

Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the music industry
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First awarded	May 4, 1959; 64 years ago (1959-05-04) (as Gramophone Award)
Website	grammy.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	NBC (1959–1970) ABC (1971–1972) CBS (1973–present)