Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “Your Secret
Love,” Luther Vandross
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group
with Vocal: “Killing Me Softly with His Song,”
Fugees
Best R&B Song: “Exhale (Shoop Shoop),”
Babyface (songwriter), Whitney Houston
(artist)
Best R&B Album:Words, The Tony Rich Project
Best Rap Solo Performance: “Hey Lover,”
LL Cool J
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “Tha
Crossroads,” Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Best Rap Album:The Score, Fugees and Prakazrel
“Pras” Michel (producers), Fugees (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “Blue,”
LeAnn Rimes
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: “Worlds
Apart,” Vince Gill
Best Country Performance, Duo or Group with
Vocal: “My Maria,” Brooks and Dunn
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: “High
Lonesome Sound,” Vince Gill featuring Alison
Krauss and Union Station
Best Country Song: “Blue,” Bill Mack (songwriter),
LeAnn Rimes (artist)
Best Country Album:The Road to Ensenada, Lyle
Lovett and Billy Williams (producers), Lyle
Lovett (artist)
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance:High Life,
Wayne Shorter
Best Jazz Vocal Performance:New Moon Daughter,
Cassandra Wilson
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Solo: “Cabin
Fever,” Michael Brecker
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual
or Group:Tales from the Hudson, Michael
Brecker
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance:Live at
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Grover Mitchell
Best Music Video, Short Form:Free as a Bird,
Joe Pytka (director), Vincent Joliet (producer),
The Beatles (artist)
Best Music Video, Long Form:The Beatles
Anthology, Bob Smeaton and Geoff Wonfor
(directors), Chips Chipperfield and Neil
Aspinall (producers), The Beatles (artist)
1997
Album of the Year:Time out of Mind, Daniel Lanois
(producer), Bob Dylan (artist)
Record of the Year: “Sunny Came Home,” John
Leventhal (producer), Shawn Colvin (artist)
Song of the Year: “Sunny Came Home,” John
Leventhal and Shawn Colvin (songwriters),
Shawn Colvin (artist)
Best New Artist: Paula Cole
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female: “Building a
Mystery,” Sarah McLachlan
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male: “Candle in the
Wind 1997,” Elton John
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “Virtual Insanity,” Jamiroquai
Best Pop Album:Hourglass, James Taylor
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female: “Criminal,”
Fiona Apple
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male: “Cold Irons
Bound,” Bob Dylan
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “One Headlight,” The Wallflowers
Best Hard Rock Performance: “The End Is the
Beginning Is the End,” The Smashing
Pumpkins
Best Metal Performance: “Ænema,” Tool
Best Rock Song: “One Headlight,” Jakob Dylan
(songwriter), The Wallflowers (artist)
Best Rock Album:Blue Moon Swamp, John Fogerty
(producer and artist)
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: “On and
On,” Erykah Badu
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: “I Believe I
Can Fly,” R. Kelly
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal: “No Diggity,” BLACKstreet
Best R&B Song: “I Believe I Can Fly,” R. Kelly
(songwriter and artist)
Best R&B Album:Baduizm, Erykah Badu
Best Rap Solo Performance: “Men in Black,” Will
Smith*
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “I’ll Be
Missing You,” Sean “Puffy” Combs and Faith
Evans featuring 112
Best Rap Album:No Way Out, Puff Daddy (Sean
“Puffy” Combs) and the Family and Stevie J.
(producers), Puff Daddy (Sean “Puffy” Combs)
and the Family (artist)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female: “How
Do I Live,” Trisha YearwoodThe Nineties in America Music: Grammy Awards 1017