Date 20 February 1991 Host Garry Shandling | Network CBS Other ceremonies 1990, 1992 | |
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Location Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York |
The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Quincy Jones was the night's big winner winning a total of six awards including Album of the Year.
Contents
Award winners
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
Comedy
Composing and arranging
Country
Folk
Gospel
Historical
Jazz
Latin
Musical show
Music video
New Age
Packaging and notes
Polka
Pop
Production and engineering
R&B
Rap
Reggae
Rock
Spoken
MusiCares Person of the Year
Reception
In a contemporary review, Variety described the telecast was "one of the most unmemorable in memory" and that "This year's telecast was doomed from the moment Sinead O'Connor, the artist behind the year's most compelling record, announced that she would boycott the show because the awards celebrate commercialism." The review critiqued the performers stating that Garth Brooks stage set up resembled a "Noel Coward play", Billy Idol changed a lyric of "Cradle of Love" to state "This song is so cheesy" and that MC Hammer appeared to be wrapped in aluminium foil.
The review spoke positively about performance of En Vogue and Take 6 and the a cappella performance by Tracy Chapman.