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The 35th Annual Grammy Awards were held in 1993 and recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. The host was Garry Shandling. Eric Clapton was the night's big winner, winning six awards out of nine nominations including Album, Records and Song of the Year. The live broadcast was viewed by over 30 million households in the United States alone.
Record of the Year
Russ Titelman (producer) & Eric Clapton for "Tears in Heaven"
Album of the Year
Russ Titelman (producer) & Eric Clapton for Unplugged
Song of the Year
Eric Clapton & Will Jennings (songwriters) for "Tears in Heaven"
Best New Artist
Arrested Development
Best Alternative Music Album
Tom Waits for Bone Machine
Best Traditional Blues Album
Dr. John for Goin' Back to New Orleans
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for The Sky Is Crying
Best Album for Children
Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) for Beauty and the Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack performed by various artists
Best Orchestral Recording
Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Best Classical Vocal Performance
Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett for Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.)
Best Opera Recording
Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding (producers), Georg Solti (conductor), Hildegard Behrens, José van Dam, Plácido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Julia Varady & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Best Performance of a Choral Work
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Vance George (choir director), the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Boys Choir & the San Francisco Symphony Girls Choir for Orff: Carmina Burana
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Solo With Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma & the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante - Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Solo Without Orchestra
Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi)
Best Chamber Music Performance
Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma for Brahms: Sonatas for Cello & Piano
Best Contemporary Composition
Samuel Barber (composer), Andrew Schnenck (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Barber: The Lovers
Best Classical Album
Horst Dittberner (producer), Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Best Comedy Album
Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
Composing and arranging
Best Instrumental Composition
Benny Carter (composer) for Harlem Renaissance Suite
Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken (songwriters) for Beauty and the Beast performed by Peabo Bryson & Céline Dion
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television
Alan Menken (composer) for Beauty and the Beast performed by various artists
Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
Rob McConnell (arranger) for Strike Up the Band performed by Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
Johnny Mandel (arranger) for Here's to Life performed by Shirley Horn
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
Mary Chapin Carpenter for I Feel Lucky
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
Vince Gill for I Still Believe in You
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers for Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman
Best Country Vocal Collaboration
Marty Stuart & Travis Tritt for The Whiskey Ain't Workin
Best Country Instrumental Performance
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed for Sneakin' Around
Best Country Song
Vince Gill and John Barlow Jarvis (songwriters) for I Still Believe in You, performed by Vince Gill
Best Bluegrass Album
Alison Krauss & Union Station for Every Time You Say Goodbye
Best Traditional Folk Album
The Chieftains for An Irish Evening - Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast
Best Contemporary Folk Album
The Chieftains for Another Country
Best Pop Gospel Album
Steven Curtis Chapman for The Great Adventure
Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album
Petra for Unseen Power
Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
Shirley Caesar for He's Working It Out For You
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Mervyn E. Warren (producer) for Handel's Messiah - A Soulful Celebration performed by various artists
Best Southern Gospel Album
Bruce Carroll for Sometimes Miracles Hide
Best Gospel Album by a Choir or Chorus
Edwin Hawkins (choir director) for Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar Mass Choir - Recorded Live in Los Angeles performed by the Music & Arts Seminar Mass Choir
Best Historical Album
Michael Cuscuna (producer) for The Complete Capitol Recordings of The Nat "King" Cole Trio
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo
Joe Henderson for Lush Life
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group
Branford Marsalis for I Heard You Twice the First Time
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
McCoy Tyner for The Turning Point
Best Jazz Vocal Performance
Bobby McFerrin for Round Midnight
Best Contemporary Jazz Performance (Instrumental)
Pat Metheny for Secret Story
Best Latin Pop Album
Jon Secada for Otro Dia Mas Sin Verte
Best Tropical Latin Album
Linda Ronstadt for Frenesi
Best Mexican-American Album
Linda Ronstadt for Mas Canciones
Best Musical Show Album
Jay David Saks (producer) & the New Broadway cast for Guys and Dolls - The New Broadway Cast Recording
Best Music Video, Short Form
John Downer (video director & producer) & Peter Gabriel for Digging in the Dirt
Best Music Video, Long Form
Rob Small (video producer), Sophie Muller (video director) & Annie Lennox for Diva
Best New Age Album
Enya for Shepherd Moons
Packaging and notes
Best Album Package
Melanie Nissen (art director) for Spellbound - Compact performed by Paula Abdul
Best Album Notes
Ahmet Ertegün, Arif Mardin, Dave Marsh, David Ritz, Jerry Wexler, Thulani Davis & Tom Dowd (notes writers) for Queen of Soul - The Atlantic Recordings performed by Aretha Franklin
Best Polka Album
Walter Ostanek for 35th Anniversary performed by Walter Ostanek & His Band
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female
"Constant Craving"-k.d. lang
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male
"Tears in Heaven"-Eric Clapton
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson for "Beauty and the Beast"
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Richard S. Kaufman (conductor) for "Beauty and the Beast"
Production and engineering
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Bruce Swedien & Teddy Riley (engineers) for Dangerous performed by Michael Jackson
Best Classical Engineered Recording
James Lock, John Pellowe, Jonathan Stokes & Philip Siney (engineers), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Vienna Philharmonic for R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Producer of the Year (Non-Classical)
Babyface & L.A. Reid
Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois
Classical Producer of the Year
Michael Fine
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
Chaka Khan for The Woman I Am
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
Al Jarreau for Heaven and Earth
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
Boyz II Men for 'End of the Road'
Best R&B Instrumental Performance
Miles Davis for Doo-Bop
Best Rhythm & Blues Song
Babyface, L.A. Reid & Daryl Simmons (songwriters) for 'End of the Road' performed by Boyz II Men
Best Rap Solo Performance
Sir Mix-a-Lot for Baby Got Back
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
Arrested Development for Tennessee
Best Reggae Album
Shabba Ranks for X-tra Naked
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
Melissa Etheridge for "Ain't It Heavy"
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
Eric Clapton for Unplugged
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
U2 for Achtung Baby
Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for "Little Wing"
Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal
Red Hot Chili Peppers for "Give It Away"
Best Metal Performance
Nine Inch Nails for "Wish"
Best Rock Song
Eric Clapton & Jim Gordon (songwriters) for "Layla" performed by Eric Clapton
Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album
Earvin "Magic" Johnson & Robert O'Keefe for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
"Perfectly Frank"-Tony Bennett
Best World Music Album
Sérgio Mendes for Brasileiro
Natalie Cole
Eric Clapton's 6 Grammy wins followed the death of his son Conor, who fell out the window in his New York City apartment. Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven" was about the incident. The song won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.
Michael Jackson received the Grammy Legend Award from his sister Janet. A small segment of the show was "How to Become a Legend" narrated by Janet Jackson showing how her brother became a legend.
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