Music: Grammy Awards
This list includes winners of Grammy Awards in major categories. “Album of the Year” awards the artist who
performed the album, and “Record of the Year” awards the producer and artist, while “Song of the Year”
awards the songwriter. An asterisk (*) following a name or group indicates the presence of a full-length entry
inThe Nineties in America.
1990
Album of the Year:Back on the Block, Quincy Jones
Record of the Year: “Another Day in Paradise,”
Hugh Padgham and Phil Collins (producers),
Phil Collins (artist)
Song of the Year: “From a Distance,” Julie Gold
(songwriter), Bette Midler (artist)
Best New Artist: Mariah Carey
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Vision of
Love,” Mariah Carey
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Oh, Pretty
Woman,” Roy Orbison
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “All My Life,” Linda Ronstadt and Aaron
Neville
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Black
Velvet,” Alannah Myles
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Bad Love,”
Eric Clapton
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Janie’s Got a Gun,” Aerosmith
Best Hard Rock Performance:Time’s Up,Living
Colour
Best Metal Performance: “Stone Cold Crazy,”
Metallica*
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female:
Compositions, Anita Baker
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Here and
Now,” Luther Vandross
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “I’ll Be Good to You,” Ray Charles and
Chaka Khan
Best R&B Song: “U Can’t Touch This,” Alonzo
Miller, MC Hammer, and Rick James
(songwriters), MC Hammer (artist)
Best Rap Solo Performance: “U Can’t Touch This,”
MC Hammer
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “Back
on the Block,” Melle Mel, Ice T, Big Daddy
Kane, Kool Moe Dee, Quincy Jones, and
Quincy D. III
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female:
“Where’ve You Been,” Kathy Mattea
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “When I
Call Your Name,” Vince Gill
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group:Pickin’
on Nashville, The Kentucky Headhunters
Best Country Vocal Collaboration: “Poor Boy
Blues,” Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler
Best Country Song: “Where’ve You Been,” Don
Henry and Jon Vesner (songwriters), Kathy
Mattea (artist)
Best Jazz Fusion Performance: “Birdland,” Quincy
Jones
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:All That Jazz,
Ella Fitzgerald
Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male:We Are in Love,
Harry Connick, Jr.
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Solo:The
Legendar y Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note,
Oscar Peterson
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group:The
Legendar y Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note,
Oscar Peterson
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band:
“Basie’s Bag,” Frank Foster
Best Music Video, Short Form:Opposites Attract,
Candice Reckinger and Michael Patterson
(directors), Sharon Oreck (producer), Paula
Abdul (artist)
Best Music Video, Long Form:Please Hammer Don’t
Hurt ’Em: The Movie, Rupert Wainwright
(director), John Oetjen (producer), MC
Hammer (artist)1991
Album of the Year:Unforgettable, Andre Fischer,
David Foster, and Tommy LiPuma (producers).
Natalie Cole (artist)
Record of the Year: “Unforgettable,” David Foster
(producer), Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole
(artists)
Song of the Year: “Unforgettable,” Irving Gordon
(writer), Natalie Cole with Nat King Cole
(artists)