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Procedure

Performances

• U2
  U2
  
  U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  : "Get on Your Boots
  Get on Your Boots
  
  "Get on Your Boots" is the lead single from U2's 2009 album, No Line on the Horizon. The song was made available digitally on 23 January 2009....
  "
• Al Green
  Al Green
  
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  , Justin Timberlake
  Justin Timberlake
  
  Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
  , Keith Urban
  Keith Urban
  
  Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian Grammy Award- and ARIA Award-winning country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States....
  , & Boyz II Men
  Boyz II Men
  
  Boyz II Men is an Grammy Award-winning American Contemporary R&B/soul music singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with the members being Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during the...
  : "Let's Stay Together
  Let's Stay Together (song)
  
  "Let's Stay Together" is a song by Al Green on his 1972 album Let's Stay Together . It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks....
  "
• Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  : "Lost!
  Lost!
  
  "Lost!" is a song written and recorded by English alternative rock band Coldplay. The band co-produced it with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends....
  " (with Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
  ) & "Viva La Vida"
• Carrie Underwood
  Carrie Underwood
  
  Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the American Idol of American Idol, and has become a Music recording sales certification#List of international sales certification thresholds recording artist and a multiple Grammy Award winner....
  : "Last Name
  Last Name
  
  "Last Name" is a song composed by country pop singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride....
  "
• Kid Rock
  Kid Rock
  
  Robert James Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is a rapper turned singer/songwriter with five Grammy nominations. He was born in Romeo, Michigan on January 17, 1971....
  : "Amen
  Amen (Kid Rock song)
  
  "Amen" is the second single from American singer Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus. Kid Rock says that this is the greatest song he has ever written....
  "/"All Summer Long
  All Summer Long (Kid Rock song)
  
  "All Summer Long" is the title of a song recorded by Kid Rock. It was released in 2008 as the third single from his ninth studio album Rock N Roll Jesus....
  "/"Rock N Roll Jesus
  Rock N Roll Jesus (song)
  
  "Rock N Roll Jesus" is the fifth single from Kid Rock's album Rock N Roll Jesus. Released in September of 2008 it is a typical bravado song by Kid Rock....
  "
• Taylor Swift
  Taylor Swift
  
  Taylor Alison Swift is an United States country-pop music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw ", which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts....
   & Miley Cyrus
  Miley Cyrus
  
  Miley Ray Cyrus is a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice Award nominated United States singer, and Actor. Cyrus is better known for starring as Miley Stewart in the television series Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel....
  : "Fifteen"
• Jennifer Hudson
  Jennifer Hudson
  
  Jennifer Kate Hudson is an United States pop music and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a Grammy Award and more than twenty other prizes....
  : "You Pulled Me Through"
• Jonas Brothers
  Jonas Brothers
  
  The Jonas Brothers are an American pop-rock boy band. The band gained their popularity from the Disney Channel children's television network. Hailing from Wyckoff, New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas....
   & Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  : "Burnin' Up
  Burnin' Up
  
  "Burnin' Up" is the first single of United States pop rock band the Jonas Brothers to be released from their third studio album, A Little Bit Longer, and was officially released via Radio Disney on June 19, 2008 as well as other radio stations, and on iTunes on June 20, 2008....
  "/"Superstition
  Superstition (song)
  
  "Superstition" is a popular song written, produced, arranged, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records in 1972, when Wonder was twenty-two years old....
  "
• Katy Perry
  Katy Perry
  
  Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson , known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Born in California to pastor parents, she grew up listening to gospel music and singing in church....
  : "I Kissed a Girl"
• Estelle & Kanye West
  Kanye West
  
  Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  : "American Boy
  American Boy
  
  "American Boy" is the Grammy Award winning second single from the album Shine by England hip hop music singer Estelle and features United States rapper Kanye West....
  "
• Kenny Chesney
  Kenny Chesney
  
  Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney is an American country music artist. Since 1993, Chesney has recorded thirteen albums, eleven of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
  : "Better as a Memory
  Better as a Memory
  
  "Better as a Memory" is a single by United States country music singer Kenny Chesney. It is the fourth and final single released from his 2007 CD Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, and was co-written by Scooter Carusoe, who also wrote "Anything but Mine", a number-one single from Chesney's 2004 album When the Sun Goes Down ....
  "
• M.I.A.
  M.I.A. (artist)
  
  Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a Great Britain songwriter, record producer, Singing and artist....
  , T.I.
  T.I.
  
  Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., , better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is a Grammy-award winning American rapping, songwriter, executive producer#Music, actor, and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
  , Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
  , Lil Wayne
  Lil Wayne
  
  Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an United States Rapping. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
  , & Kanye West
  Kanye West
  
  Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  : "Paper Planes"/"Swagga Like Us
  Swagga Like Us
  
  "Swagga Like Us" is a Grammy Award-winning song by rappers T.I. and Jay-Z, released as the first single from Jay-Z's eleventh studio album The Blueprint? and the second single from T.I.'s sixth studio album, Paper Trail....
  "
• Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   with Dave Grohl
  Dave Grohl
  
  David Eric Grohl is an American Rock musician, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C., area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream ....
  : "I Saw Her Standing There
  I Saw Her Standing There
  
  "I Saw Her Standing There" is a song written by Lennon/McCartney and is the opening track on the The Beatles' debut album Please Please Me, released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone on 22 March 1963....
  "
• Sugarland: "Stay
  Stay (Sugarland song)
  
  "Stay" is a Grammy-winning song recorded by American country music duo Sugarland. Released in September 2007, it is the fourth and final single from their 2006 album Enjoy the Ride ....
  "
• Adele
  Adele (singer)
  
  Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele , is an English rhythm and blues and soul music singer and songwriter. Adele has described her musical style as "heartbroken soul." She is the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice, which was given to artists who, at the time, had yet to release an album....
   with Jennifer Nettles
  Jennifer Nettles
  
  Jennifer Nettles is an American Grammy-winning country music artist. She is known primarily for her role as lead vocalist of the duo Sugarland alongside Kristian Bush....
  : "Chasing Pavements
  Chasing Pavements
  
  "Chasing Pavements" is the second single from soul music singer Adele . Adele performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on December 7, 2007....
  "
• Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
   with University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band: "15 Step"
• T.I.
  T.I.
  
  Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., , better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is a Grammy-award winning American rapping, songwriter, executive producer#Music, actor, and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
   & Justin Timberlake
  Justin Timberlake
  
  Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
  : "Dead and Gone
  Dead and Gone
  
  "Dead and Gone" is a song by American rapper T.I., featuring singer Justin Timberlake. It was released as the fourth official single off T.I.'s sixth album, Paper Trail....
  "
• Duke Fakir, Jamie Foxx
  Jamie Foxx
  
  Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian and singing. Foxx received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 14, 2007....
  , Ne-Yo
  Ne-Yo
  
  Shaffer Chimere Smith , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop music and contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and occasional rapping....
  , and Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an USA R&B and soul music singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with Motown Records, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy....
  : Four Tops medley
• Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  : ”Sweet Caroline
  Sweet Caroline
  
  "Sweet Caroline" is a pop song written and performed by Neil Diamond and officially released on September 16, 1969, as a single . There are three distinct mixes of this song....
  "
• John Mayer, B.B. King, Buddy Guy
  Buddy Guy
  
  George "Buddy" Guy is a five-time Grammy Award-winning United States blues and rock music guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other guitarists, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues....
  , and Keith Urban
  Keith Urban
  
  Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian Grammy Award- and ARIA Award-winning country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States....
  : "Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley (song)
  
  "Bo Diddley" is a rhythm and blues song first recorded and sung by Bo Diddley at the Universal Records in Chicago and released on the Chess Records subsidiary, Checker Records in 1955....
  "
• Lil Wayne
  Lil Wayne
  
  Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an United States Rapping. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
   & Robin Thicke
  Robin Thicke
  
  Robin Charles Thicke is an United States Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and occasional actor....
  : "Tie My Hands"
• Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
   & Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  
  Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
  : "Rich Woman" & "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)"

Blink-182 - 2009 Reformation

Awards

General field

Record of the Year

• "Chasing Pavements
  Chasing Pavements
  
  "Chasing Pavements" is the second single from soul music singer Adele . Adele performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on December 7, 2007....
  " – Adele
  Adele (singer)
  
  Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele , is an English rhythm and blues and soul music singer and songwriter. Adele has described her musical style as "heartbroken soul." She is the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice, which was given to artists who, at the time, had yet to release an album....
  
• Eg White
  Eg White
  
  Francis Anthony 'Eg' White is a United Kingdom musician, songwriter and Record producer....
  , producer; Tom Elmhirst
  Tom Elmhirst
  
  Tom Elmhirst is a specialist Music production and Audio engineering from London, UK. He began his career at Sarm West Studios in the early 90s at a time when Digital audio was already becoming mainstream....
   & Steve Price
  Steve Price
  
  Steve Price is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League ....
  , engineers/mixers
• "Viva la Vida" – Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  
• Markus Dravs, Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
   & Rik Simpson, producers; Michael Brauer
  Michael Brauer
  
  Michael Brauer is a New York-based mixer whose credits encompass a wide range of genres, and include The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, John Mayer, Ash , My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds, Dream Theater, The New Radicals, Change , Fountains of Wayne, David Poe, Wilco and Ron Sexsmith....
   & Rik Simpson, engineers/mixers
• "Bleeding Love
  Bleeding Love
  
  "Bleeding Love" is a pop music ballad written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder produced for British singer Leona Lewis's debut album, Spirit ....
  " – Leona Lewis
  Leona Lewis
  
  Leona Louise Lewis is a UK Pop/R&B artist who was born 3 April 1985 in London. She was the first female winner of the UK reality TV series The X Factor ....
  
• Ryan Tedder
  Ryan Tedder
  
  Ryan Benjamin Tedder is an United States singer and Grammy nominated songwriter and record producer. He has written and produced for various artists and has been reported to be a sought after songwriter in the industry, as well as being the frontman for the band OneRepublic....
   & Jesse McCartney
  Jesse McCartney
  
  Jesse Abraham Arthur McCartney is an American singer-songwriter and actor. McCartney rose to fame in the early 2000s as member of the boy band Dream Street....
  , producer; Craig Durrance, Phil Tan
  Phil Tan
  
  Phil Tan is an Atlanta, GA-based music/audio engineer.He is a 2-time GRAMMY Award recipient, as mixing engineer for Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" and Ludacris' "Release Therapy" ....
   & Ryan Tedder, engineers/mixers
• "Paper Planes
  Paper Planes (song)
  
  "Paper Planes" is an alternative hip hop alternative dance song written and produced by M.I.A. , Diplo and Switch for M.I.A.'s second studio album Kala ....
  " – M.I.A.
  M.I.A. (artist)
  
  Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a Great Britain songwriter, record producer, Singing and artist....
  
• Diplo, producer; Switch
  Switch (DJ)
  
  Switch is a UK-based DJ, songwriter, audio engineering and record producer.A leading figure of the fidget house genre, Switch runs his own music label "Dubsided." He further produces with fellow DJ/Producer Sinden , and they both run the label Counterfeet, established in 2006....
  , engineer/mixer
• "Please Read the Letter
  Please Read the Letter
  
  "Please Read the Letter" is a song originally recorded by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page for the 1998 album Walking into Clarksdale. It was released as the second single off the album....
  " – Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
   and Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  
  Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
  
• T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer

Song of the Year

• "American Boy
  American Boy
  
  "American Boy" is the Grammy Award winning second single from the album Shine by England hip hop music singer Estelle and features United States rapper Kanye West....
  " – Estelle featuring Kanye West
  Kanye West
  
  Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008....
  
• Estelle, Keith Harris
  Keith Harris
  
  Keith Harris is an England ventriloquism who is known for his television show , audio recordings, and club appearances with his puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey....
  , John Legend
  John Legend
  
  John Stephens better known by his stage name John Legend, is an United States Neo soul singer, songwriter, and pianist.His debut studio album, the multimusic recording sales certification-selling Get Lifted, was released in late 2004, and features collaborations with rapper and record producer Kanye West as well as Snoop Dogg....
  , Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, Kweli Washington, Kanye West & will.i.am
  Will.i.am
  
  William Adams , better known by his stage name will.i.am is a Jamaican American who has won an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. Will.I.Am is a hip hop musician, rapper, dancer, songwriter, animation voice and founding member and frontman of Black Eyed Peas....
  , songwriters
• "Chasing Pavements
  Chasing Pavements
  
  "Chasing Pavements" is the second single from soul music singer Adele . Adele performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on December 7, 2007....
  " – Adele
  Adele (singer)
  
  Adele Laurie Blue Adkins , known professionally as Adele , is an English rhythm and blues and soul music singer and songwriter. Adele has described her musical style as "heartbroken soul." She is the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice, which was given to artists who, at the time, had yet to release an album....
  
• Adele & Eg White
  Eg White
  
  Francis Anthony 'Eg' White is a United Kingdom musician, songwriter and Record producer....
  , songwriters
• "I'm Yours
  I'm Yours (Jason Mraz song)
  
  "'I'm Yours'" is the first single released by Jason Mraz from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit EP as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album Mr....
  " – Jason Mraz
  Jason Mraz
  
  Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Mraz's stylistic influences include reggae, pop music, rock music, folk music, jazz, and hip hop....
  
• Jason Mraz, songwriter
• "Love Song
  Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)
  
  "Love Song" is the Grammy Award nominated-first single released from Sara Bareilles's 2007 album Little Voice . It was written in response to her record label Epic requesting that she write a "marketable love song."...
  " - Sara Bareilles
  Sara Bareilles
  
  Sara Beth Bareilles is an United States singer-songwriter and pianist.She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song ", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart....
  
• Sara Bareilles, songwriter
• "Viva la Vida" – Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  
• Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin, songwriters

Album of the Year

• Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
  Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
  
  Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was released on 11 June 2008 in Japan, 12 June 2008 in the United Kingdom, and 17 June 2008 in North America....
   - Coldplay
  Coldplay
  
  Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
  
• Tha Carter III
  Tha Carter III
  
  Tha Carter III is the Grammy Award winning sixth studio album by American Rapping Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008 on Cash Money Records. The first three singles released from the album, , have all achieved top ten success on the Billboard Hot 100, a very rare feat for a rap album....
   - Lil Wayne
  Lil Wayne
  
  Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an United States Rapping. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
  
• Year of the Gentleman
  Year of the Gentleman
  
  Year of the Gentleman is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Ne-Yo, released on September 16, 2008 by Def Jam Recordings. The album was met with generally favorable reviews from critics, as well as a considerable amount of commercial success and sales....
   - Ne-Yo
  Ne-Yo
  
  Shaffer Chimere Smith , better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop music and contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, and occasional rapping....
  
• Raising Sand
  Raising Sand
  
  Raising Sand is a collaboration album by rock music singer Robert Plant and bluegrass music-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records....
  - Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
   & Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  
  Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
  
• In Rainbows
  In Rainbows
  
  In Rainbows is the seventh album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007....
  - Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  

• Sax for Stax – Gerald Albright
  Gerald Albright
  
  Gerald Albright is an United States jazz music saxophonist.Albright has sold over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S. alone. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar, keyboards, flutes, drum programming, and background vocals....
  
• Greatest Hits Rerecorded Volume One – Larry Carlton
  Larry Carlton
  
  Larry Carlton is an United States jazz fusion, Pop music, and rock music guitarist and a singer, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands....
  
• Jingle All the Way – Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  
  B?la Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass music, jazz fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop." The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials....
  
• The Spice of Life
  The Spice of Life
  
  The Spice of Life is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, with Jeff Berlin on bass and Bill Bruford on drums. It was originally released in 1987, under the PolyGram label....
   – Earl Klugh
  Earl Klugh
  
  Earl Klugh is an United States smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. Klugh currently resides in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia....
  
• A Night Before Christmas – Spyro Gyra
  Spyro Gyra
  
  Spyro Gyra is an United States jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the scene....
  

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Detours
  Detours
  
  Detours is the sixth studio album by United States singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. The album marks Crow reuniting with Bill Bottrell, who produced Crow's debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club and briefly worked with Crow on her 1996 in music Sheryl Crow ....
   – Sheryl Crow
  Sheryl Crow
  
  Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
  
• Rockferry
  Rockferry
  
  Rockferry is the Grammy and Brit Awards Award winning, debut album by Wales singer Duffy , first released on 3 March 2008 by Mercury Records in collaboration with Universal Records in the US and with Polydor Records in the UK....
  – Duffy
  Duffy (singer)
  
  Duffy is a Welsh people, Soul Music, singer-songwriter. Her debut album Rockferry was released in March 2008 and entered the UK Album Chart at number one....
  
• Long Road Out of Eden – Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• Spirit
  Spirit (Leona Lewis album)
  
  Spirit is the debut album by United Kingdom singer, Leona Lewis, released by Syco Music in November 2007 in the British Isles and worldwide during early 2008....
  – Leona Lewis
  Leona Lewis
  
  Leona Louise Lewis is a UK Pop/R&B artist who was born 3 April 1985 in London. She was the first female winner of the UK reality TV series The X Factor ....
  
• Covers
  Covers (James Taylor album)
  
  Covers is the first cover version album by singer-songwriter James Taylor, released on September 30, 2008....
  – James Taylor
  James Taylor
  
  James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  

• New York City – Brazilian Girls
  Brazilian Girls
  
  Brazilian Girls is a band from New York City known for their eclectic blend of electronic dance music with musical styles as diverse as tango music, chanson, house and Lounge music....
  
• Alive 2007
  Alive 2007
  
  Alive 2007 is a live album by Daft Punk, first released on November 19, 2007. It is the second album recorded live by the duo, following Alive 1997....
   – Daft Punk
  Daft Punk
  
  Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . After Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house music movement in France, other artists such as Air , Cassius , and Dimitri from Paris began to receive a similar amount of attention....
  
• Bring Ya to the Brink
  Bring Ya to the Brink
  
  Bring Ya to the Brink is United States pop icon Cyndi Lauper's seventh studio album and was released on May 27, 2008 in the United States. The song "Set Your Heart" was released as a promo-only single in Japan in early 2008 and "Same Ol' Story" was the first official single released worldwide on May 6, 2008....
   – Cyndi Lauper
  Cyndi Lauper
  
  Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
  
• X
  X (Kylie Minogue album)
  
  X is a 2007 album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It is her tenth studio album release, her first release since 2004's greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie, and her first studio album since 2003's Body Language....
   – Kylie Minogue
  Kylie Minogue
  
  Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
  
• Last Night
  Last Night (Moby album)
  
  Last Night is Moby's eighth studio album and was released on 29 March 2008 in Australia, 1 April 2008 in the USA, and 12 May 2008 in the United Kingdom ....
   – Moby
  Moby
  
  Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby is an American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician.He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums....
  
• Robyn
  Robyn (album)
  
  Robyn is the Grammy-nominated fourth album by Sweden Pop music singer Robyn. It was released by Konichiwa Records on April 27 2005 in Sweden....
   – Robyn
  Robyn
  
  Robin Miriam Carlsson, better known by her stage name Robyn is a Grammy-nominated Swedish pop music singer-songwriter and is widely known in her homeland....
  

Traditional Pop field

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• Still Unforgettable
  Still Unforgettable
  
  Still Unforgettable is a Grammy Award-winning studio album by singer-songwriter and performer Natalie Cole.This Album Chosen as Best Pop Traditional Album in Grammy 51st....
  – Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  
  Natalie Maria Cole is an influential United States singer-songwriter and performer who has won ten Grammy Awards. She achieved success in her early career as an R&B star, but smoothly changed her repertoire toward a more jazz orientated musical style in the early 1990s....
  
• The Sinatra Project – Michael Feinstein
  Michael Feinstein
  
  Michael Feinstein is an United States singer, a pianist, music Revivalist artist, and an interpreter of, and anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. The Library of Congress elected him to the National Sound Recording Advisory Board, an organization dedicated to safeguarding America?s musical...
  
• Noël
  Noël (Josh Groban album)
  
  No?l is a Christmas album by singer Josh Groban. It was released on October 9, 2007, and on December 13, 2007, the RIAA certified it RIAA certification, recognising five million shipments in America....
  – Josh Groban
  Josh Groban
  
  Joshua Winslow Groban is a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue musical theater in the future....
  
• In the Swing of Christmas
  In the Swing of Christmas
  
  In the Swing of Christmas is Barry Manilow's third Christmas-themed album....
  – Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
  Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
  
  Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records in December 2007....
  – Rufus Wainwright
  Rufus Wainwright
  
  Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
  

• Modern Guilt
  Modern Guilt
  
  Modern Guilt is the eighth studio album by United States musician Beck. It was released on July 8, 2008. The album fulfills Beck's recording contract with Interscope Records....
   – Beck
  Beck
  
  Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
  
• Narrow Stairs
  Narrow Stairs
  
  Narrow Stairs is the sixth studio album by alternative rock music ensemble Death Cab for Cutie. It was released on May 12, 2008 in the United Kingdom and released on May 13, 2008 in the United States....
   – Death Cab for Cutie
  Death Cab for Cutie
  
  Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
  
• The Odd Couple
  The Odd Couple (album)
  
  The Odd Couple is the Grammy-nominated second studio album by Gnarls Barkley, released digitally on March 18 and in stores March 25, 2008. Due to an early leak of the album over the internet in early March 2008, the duo decided to push up the release from April 8....
   – Gnarls Barkley
  Gnarls Barkley
  
  Gnarls Barkley is a Grammy award winning United States musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and record producer Danger Mouse from New York, and rapper/lead singer Cee-Lo Green , from Atlanta....
  
• Evil Urges
  Evil Urges
  
  Evil Urges is the fifth studio album by My Morning Jacket. It was released by ATO Records on June 10, 2008. Writing began in Colorado, while recording was done in Manhattan....
   – My Morning Jacket
  My Morning Jacket
  
  My Morning Jacket is a Grammy-nominated United States rock music band.The band comprises Jim James , "Two Tone Tommy" Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster ....
  
• In Rainbows
  In Rainbows
  
  In Rainbows is the seventh album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007....
  – Radiohead
  Radiohead
  
  Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
  

• Love & Life
  Love and Life (Eric Benét album)
  
  Love & Life is the fourth studio album from American R&B singer Eric Ben?t. It was released on September 9, 2008.The album received two 2009 Grammy Award nominations, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "You're the Only One" and Best R&B Album....
  – Eric Benét
  Eric Benét
  
  Eric Ben?t Jordan is a Grammy-nominated RIAA certification United States R&B and Neo-soul singer. His duet with Tamia, "Spend My Life With You", was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2000....
  
• Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
  Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
  
  Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA is a Grammy nominated album by Boyz II Men that was released on November 13, 2007 by Decca Records. The only confirmed producers are American Idols Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell....
  – Boyz II Men
  Boyz II Men
  
  Boyz II Men is an Grammy Award-winning American Contemporary R&B/soul music singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with the members being Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during the...
  
• Lay It Down
  Lay It Down (Al Green album)
  
  Lay It Down is an album by Soul music singer Al Green, released May 27, 2008 on Blue Note Records. The album was produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the The Roots and James Poyser....
  – Al Green
  Al Green
  
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  
• Jennifer Hudson
  Jennifer Hudson (album)
  
  Jennifer Hudson is the Eponym debut album by the American singing and actor Jennifer Hudson. First released by Arista Records on September 27, 2008 in Australia, Hudson worked with a range of different producers and songwriters on the album, including Missy Elliott, Brian Kennedy , Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Tank , Robin Thicke, Timbaland, and The Un...
  – Jennifer Hudson
  Jennifer Hudson
  
  Jennifer Kate Hudson is an United States pop music and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as a Grammy Award and more than twenty other prizes....
  
• The Way I See It
  The Way I See It (album)
  
  The Way I See It is the fourth studio album by United States musician and vocalist Raphael Saadiq, released internationally on September 16, 2008....
  – Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq
  
  Raphael Saadiq is an United States singer, songwriter and record producer associated with the soul music movement.Saadiq has been playing music since the age of six....
  

• American Gangster
  American Gangster (album)
  
  American Gangster is the tenth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z. It was released on November 6, 2007 in the United States via the record labels Island Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella....
   – Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
  
  Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
  
• Tha Carter III
  Tha Carter III
  
  Tha Carter III is the Grammy Award winning sixth studio album by American Rapping Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008 on Cash Money Records. The first three singles released from the album, , have all achieved top ten success on the Billboard Hot 100, a very rare feat for a rap album....
  – Lil Wayne
  Lil Wayne
  
  Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an United States Rapping. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager....
  
• Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
  Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
  
  Lupe Fiasco's The Cool, commonly referred to as simply The Cool, is the critically acclaimed second studio album by Chicago hip hop music artist Lupe Fiasco, released on December 18, 2007 in the United States....
  - Lupe Fiasco
  Lupe Fiasco
  
  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is a Grammy-winning American hip-hop artist. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor....
  
• Untitled Nas album - Nas
  Nas
  
  Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
  
• Paper Trail
  Paper Trail
  
  Paper Trail is a Grammy-nominated album from hip hop artist T.I., released on September 30, 2008 . T.I. began to write songs for the album as he awaited trial for federal weapons and possession charges....
  – T.I.
  T.I.
  
  Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., , better known by his stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is a Grammy-award winning American rapping, songwriter, executive producer#Music, actor, and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....
  

• That Lonesome Song
  That Lonesome Song
  
  That Lonesome Song is the third studio album recorded by United States country music singer Jamey Johnson. Initially released to digital retailers in 2007 without the promotion of a record label, the album was released on August 5, 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records....
  – Jamey Johnson
  Jamey Johnson
  
  Jamey Johnson is an American country music artist. Signed to BNA Records in 2005, Johnson made his debut with his single "The Dollar", the title track to his 2006 album The Dollar....
  
• Sleepless Nights
  Sleepless Nights (Patty Loveless album)
  
  Sleepless Nights is the fifteenth album by American country music artist Patty Loveless. The album was released on September 9, 2008 . Her first album for the Sagauaro Road Records label, it is also her first studio album since Dreamin' My Dreams in 2005....
  – Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless
  
  Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
  
• Troubadour
  Troubadour (George Strait album)
  
  Troubadour is the title of a studio album by United States country music singer George Strait. It was released on April 1, 2008 on MCA Nashville Records....
   – George Strait
  George Strait
  
  George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
  
• Around the Bend
  Around the Bend (album)
  
  Around the Bend is the title of an album released in 2008 by American country music artist Randy Travis. The album is Travis' first mainstream country music album since 1999's A Man Ain't Made of Stone, all his other albums in the 2000s were composed of Christian country music....
   – Randy Travis
  Randy Travis
  
  Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
  
• Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love
  Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love
  
  Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love is the Grammy Nominated tenth studio album by country music singer Trisha Yearwood. It is also her first release for the Big Machine Records label after nine albums on MCA Nashville....
   – Trisha Yearwood
  Trisha Yearwood
  
  Patricia Lynn Yearwood, known professionally as Trisha Yearwood is an American country music artist, best known for her series of major hits throughout the 1990s decade and into the new millennium....
  

• Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe – Cherryholmes
• Del McCoury Band — Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Del McCoury Band
  Del McCoury Band
  
  The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass music band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up, adding McCoury's sons, Ronnie McCoury and Robbie McCoury on mandolin and banjo, respect...
  
• The Ultimate Collection / Live At The Ryman – Earl Scruggs
  Earl Scruggs
  
  Earl Eugene Scruggs is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music....
   with Family & Friends
• Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947 – Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
• Wheels – Dan Tyminski
  Dan Tyminski
  
  Daniel "Dan" Tyminski is a Bluegrass music composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and has released a solo album entitled Carry Me Across the Mountain on the Doobie Shea Records label....
  

• Meditations – William Ackerman
  William Ackerman
  
  William Ackerman is a Grammy winning guitarist and composer of acoustic instrument-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential new age music record label Windham Hill Records....
  
• Pathfinder – Will Clipman
• Peace Time – Jack DeJohnette
  Jack DeJohnette
  
  Jack DeJohnette is an United States jazz drummer, Piano, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. Besides the drums, he studied the piano, which he plays on several recordings....
  
• Ambrosia – Peter Kater
  Peter Kater
  
  Peter Kater is a multi-platinum selling American pianist nominated for 5 Grammy awards. He was honored with the Environmental Leadership Award by the United Nations in 1995 for his commitment and dedication to the environment and humanitarian causes....
  
• The Scent of Light – Ottmar Liebert
  Ottmar Liebert
  
  Ottmar Liebert is a German-born composer and guitarist, born to a Chinese-German father and a Hungarian mother. As a child, he spent most of his time traveling Europe and Asia with his family....
   & Luna Negra

• Randy in Brazil – Randy Brecker
  Randy Brecker
  
  Randal "Randy" Brecker is an United States trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock , and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Horace Silver, Frank Zappa, Parliament-Fun...
  
• Floating Point – John McLaughlin
  John McLaughlin (musician)
  
  John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an England jazz fusion guitarist and composer. He played with Tony Williams's group The Tony Williams Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his landmark electric jazz-fusion albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. His 1970s electric band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, perfo...
  
• Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball Adderley – Various Artists
• Miles From India – Various Artists
• Lifecycle – Yellowjackets
  Yellowjackets
  
  The Yellowjackets are an United States jazz fusion quartet....
   featuring Mike Stern
  Mike Stern
  
  Mike Stern is an American jazz guitarist. A major player on the scene since his breakthrough days with Miles Davis' comeback band, circa 1981, Stern's sideman credits include work with such jazz icons as saxophonists Stan Getz and Joe Henderson, bassist Jaco Pastorius, guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Martino, trumpeters Tom Harrell, Arturo Sand...
  

• Imagina: Songs Of Brasil – Karrin Allyson
  Karrin Allyson
  
  Karrin Allyson is a three-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer. She has been described by the New York Times as a "singer with a feline touch and impeccable intonation."...
  
• Breakfast On The Morning Tram – Stacey Kent
  Stacey Kent
  
  Stacey Kent is a Grammy nominated Anglo-American jazz singer....
  
• If Less Is More...Nothing Is Everything – Kate McGarry
• Loverly
  Loverly
  
  Loverly is an album by United States Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released in 2008....
   – Cassandra Wilson
  Cassandra Wilson
  
  Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She has won two Grammy Awards....
  
• Distances – Norma Winstone
  Norma Winstone
  
  Norma Ann Winstone Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her vocalese improvisations....
  

• The New Crystal Silence – Chick Corea
  Chick Corea
  
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
   & Gary Burton
  Gary Burton
  
  Gary Burton is an United States jazz vibraphone.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets....
  
• History, Mystery – Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
  
• Brad Mehldau Trio: Live – Brad Mehldau
  Brad Mehldau
  
  Brad Mehldau is an United States jazz pianist. Possessing a unique style, he is considered by many to be one of the most influential pianists on modern and contemporary jazz, and his style has affected most contemporary pianists of the past two decades....
   Trio
• Day Trip – Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  
  Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
   With Christian McBride
  Christian McBride
  
  Christian McBride is an United States jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors....
   & Antonio Sanchez
  Antonio Sanchez (jazz)
  
  Antonio Sanchez is a drummer....
  
• Standards – Alan Pasqua
  Alan Pasqua
  
  Alan Pasqua is a jazz pianist and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music....
  , Dave Carpenter
  Dave Carpenter
  
  Dave Carpenter was an United States bass player.After studying music at Ohio State University, he launched his professional by moving to New York. It was here that he first toured and recorded with artists such as Buddy Rich, Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson....
   & Peter Erskine
  Peter Erskine
  
  Peter Erskine is an American Jazz drumming and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many top jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan....
  

• Appearing Nightly – Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band
• Act Your Age
  Act Your Age
  
  Act Your Age is the second album by the Rock music band Home Grown, released in 1998 by Outpost Recordings. It was the band's only album for a major label....
  – Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
  Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
  
  Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is a Grammy-nominated 18-piece Jazz ensemble based in California and led by Gordon Goodwin....
  
• Symphonica
  Symphonica
  
  Symphonica is the 11th studio album by the Japan Zeuhl band Ruins ....
  – Joe Lovano
  Joe Lovano
  
  Joseph Salvatore Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls....
   With WDR Big Band & Rundfunk Orchestra
• Blauklang – Vince Mendoza
  Vince Mendoza
  
  Vince Mendoza is a music arranger and composer.Mendoza was born in Connecticut and studied trumpet as a child, influenced by classical music, soul and jazz....
  
• Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard – The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

• Afro Bop Alliance – Caribbean Jazz Project
  Caribbean Jazz Project
  
  Caribbean Jazz Project is a Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban jazz group including Dave Samuels, Paquito D'Rivera and Andy Narell. They might be best known for their 2002 album The Gathering. They have recorded six albums so far, five for the Concord Jazz label and one for Inak Records....
  
• The Latin Side Of Wayne Shorter – Conrad Herwig
  Conrad Herwig
  
  Conrad Herwig is a jazz trombonist from New York City in the United States. Mr. Herwig has recorded 19 albums as a leader. His newest release, "The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter" featuring Eddie Palmieri, was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance....
   & The Latin Side Band
• Song For Chico – Arturo O'Farrill
  Arturo O'Farrill
  
  Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill was a musician who led an Afro-Latin jazz big band, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra in New York City, which influenced Cal Tjader....
   & The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
• Nouveau Latino – Nestor Torres
  Nestor Torres
  
  Nestor Torres is a Latin Grammy award winning preeminent flautist in the Latin jazz genre....
  
• Marooned/Aislado – Papo Vázquez The Mighty Pirates

• Hello
  Hello (After Edmund album)
  
  Hello is the first non-independent music studio album from United States Christian rock band After Edmund. It was released on February 26, 2008 through Slanted Records....
  – After Edmund
  After Edmund
  
  After Edmund is a Christian rock band from LaGrange, Georgia. They have been nominated for a Grammy Award and a Dove Award....
  
• Our World: Redeemed
  Our World: Redeemed
  
  Our World: Redeemed is the fourth solo album from United States Christian rapper FLAME, released on March 4, 2008. The album jumped 41 chart positions in one week to hit the #1 position in its second week on the CMTA R&B/Hip Hop Chart....
  – FLAME
  Flame
  
  A flame is the visible part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic reaction taking place in a thin zone. If a fire is hot enough to ionize the gaseous components, it can become a Plasma ....
  
• We Need Each Other
  We Need Each Other
  
  We Need Each Other is the fourth album released by Christian rock band Sanctus Real. It was released in the United States on February 12, 2008 through Sparrow Records....
  – Sanctus Real
  Sanctus Real
  
  Sanctus Real is a Grammy Award-nominated and GMA Dove Award-winning United States Christian rock band from Toledo, Ohio. The group is composed of Matt Hammit , Chris Rohman , Dan Gartley , Pete Prevost , and Mark Graalman ....
  
• Rock What You Got
  Rock What You Got
  
  Rock What You Got is the fifth album released by the band Superchick. It was released on June 24, 2008. The band has described the album as more progressive, in-your-face sound and has dubbed it ?rock-o-tronic.? In May 2008, Inpop sent out three individual radio singles: "Hold" went to Christian Hard Rock stations; "Crawl" to Adult Con...
  – Superchick
  Superchick
  
  Superchick, originally known as Superchic[k], is an United States Contemporary Christian music band. Their music incorporates various styles such as Punk rock, Rock and roll, hip hop music, and Rhythm and blues....
  
• Alive and Transported
  Alive and Transported
  
  Alive and Transported is a Grammy-winning live album by Christian hip hop artist tobyMac. It was released on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. It is currently sold as a CD/DVD combo ....
   – tobyMac

• This Moment
  This Moment (album)
  
  This Moment is the most recent studio album from Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman. It was released on October 23, 2007 through Sparrow Records....
   – Steven Curtis Chapman
  Steven Curtis Chapman
  
  Steven Curtis Chapman is a Contemporary Christian musician.After starting his career in the late 80s as a songwriter, Chapman has turned into one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to this date....
  
• What If We
  What If We
  
  What If We is the second studio album by contemporary Christian musician Brandon Heath. It was released on August 19, 2008 through Provident Label Group....
   – Brandon Heath
  Brandon Heath
  
  Brandon Heath is a contemporary Christian musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released two studio albums: Don't Get Comfortable and What If We ....
  
• Opposite Way
  Opposite Way
  
  Opposite Way is the second studio album from the Christian rock band Leeland, released on February 26, 2008. The album reached #1 on the iTunes Store Christian Albums chart in its debut week....
   – Leeland
  Leeland
  
  Leeland is an United States Christian rock band from United States. The band was formed in 2004, although lead singer Leeland Mooring had been writing songs beforehand....
  
• Hello Love
  Hello Love (Chris Tomlin album)
  
  Hello Love is the fifth studio album by Chris Tomlin, released on September 2, 2008. It debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200 with 52,000 units, his best sales and charting week to date....
   – Chris Tomlin
  Chris Tomlin
  
  Christopher Dwayne Tomlin is a GMA Dove Award winning Christian worship leader and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, Texas, United States. He is a former staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords....
  
• Thy Kingdom Come
  Thy Kingdom Come
  
  Thy Kingdom Come is the eighth solo album from Grammy Award-winning gospel music singer CeCe Winans. It was released on April 1, 2008 and debuted at number 57 on the Billboard 200 chart....
  – CeCe Winans
  CeCe Winans
  
  Priscilla Winans Love and known professionally as CeCe Winans, is an United States Gospel music singer and winner of numerous Grammy Awards and Stellar Awards....
  

• Room for More – Booth Brothers
• Lovin' Life – Gaither Vocal Band
• Steps to Heaven – Charlie Louvin
• Hymned Again – Bart Millard
• Ephesians One – Karen Peck & New River

• Down in New Orleans – The Blind Boys of Alabama
  The Blind Boys of Alabama
  
  The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel music group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind....
  
• I'll Say Yes – The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
• Take It Back – Dorinda Clark Cole
  Dorinda Clark Cole
  
  Dorinda Clark-Cole is a two-time Grammy Award winning United States Evangelism and gospel music singer. She is best known as a member of The Clark Sisters and as a daughter of pioneering choral director Mattie Moss Clark....
  
• Deitrick Haddon Presents . . . Together In Worship – Voices Of Unity
• Bishop Charles E. Blake Presents... No Limit – The West Angeles COGIC Mass Choir

• Reflections – Jason Champion
• The Fight of My Life – Kirk Franklin
  Kirk Franklin
  
  Kirk Dwayne Franklin is an American Gospel music singer and author and is most notably known as the leader of urban contemporary gospel choirs such as the Family, God's Property and 1NC ....
  
• The Sound
  The Sound (Mary Mary album)
  
  The Sound is the fifth studio album by contemporary R&B/gospel music duo Mary Mary. It was released on October 21, 2008 in the United States....
   – Mary Mary
  Mary Mary
  
  This article is about the musical duo. For other uses, see Mary Mary .Mary Mary is a two-time Grammy award winning United States gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell ....
  
• Donald Lawrence Introduces: Family Prayer – The Murrills
• Stand Out – Tye Tribbett & G.A.

• Cara B – Jorge Drexler
  Jorge Drexler
  
  Jorge Drexler is an Academy Award-winning Uruguayan musician.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award....
  
• Palabras del Silencio
  Palabras del Silencio
  
  Palabras Del Silencio is the seventh album, and six in Spanish language by Puerto Rico artist Luis Fonsi. The album was released on August 26, 2008....
   – Luis Fonsi
  Luis Fonsi
  
  Luis Alfonso Rodr?guez L?pez-Cepero, more commonly known as Luis Fonsi, is a Puerto Rican people singer, composer and soap opera actor....
  
• La Vida... Es un Ratico
  La Vida... Es un Ratico
  
  La Vida... Es Un Ratico is the Latin Grammy and Grammy award winning fourth studio album by Colombian people singer-songwriter Juanes, which was released on October 23, 2007....
  – Juanes
  Juanes
  
  Juan Esteban Aristiz?bal V?squez best known as Juanes is a Colombian rock music musician. During the 1980s and 1990s, Juanes was a member of Heavy metal music band Ekhymosis but disbanded the group in 1998 to pursue a solo career....
  
• Cómplices
  Cómplices
  
  C?mplices is a studio album released by Mexico pop singer Luis Miguel. The album was released worldwide on May 6, 2008. It is one of the most highly anticipated projects by the artist....
  – Luis Miguel
  Luis Miguel
  
  Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri , known as Luis Miguel, is a Puerto Rican people-born, Mexican-raised, pop music singer. He is best known for his smooth, crooner vocals and romantic ballads....
  
• Tarde O Temprano – Tommy Torres
  Tommy Torres
  
  Tommy Torres is a Latin Grammy Awards winning producer, singer and songwriter from Puerto Rico. Named as the #1 Hot Latin Tracks producer of 2007 by Billboard Magazine, Torres has written and produced songs for many artists such as Ricardo Arjona, Ednita Nazario, Jaci Velazquez , and Ricky Martin....
  

• Sonidos Gold – Grupo Fantasma
  Grupo Fantasma (U.S.A.)
  
  For other uses of "Grupo Fantasma", see Grupo Fantasma .Grupo Fantasma is an 11 piece latin funk orchestra from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2000 from the merger of two Austin acts, The Blue Noise Band and The Blimp, the band emerged with a sold out show at the former Empanada Parlour on 6th Street in Austin....
  
• 45
  45 (Jaguares album)
  
  [45] is a Grammy winning album recorded by Mexican alternative rock band Jaguares.The album was created by Sa?l Hern?ndez and Alfonso Andr? in collaboration with Howard Willing....
   – Jaguares
  Jaguares (rock band)
  
  Jaguares is a Grammy winning mexican alternative rock band formed by former Caifanes lead singer Sa?l Hern?ndez, after that band's break-up in 1995, because of personal differences....
  
• La Verdad – Locos por Juana
• Tijuana Sound Machine – Nortec Collective
  Nortec Collective
  
  Nortec Collective is a musical ensemble from northern Mexico. Their musical genre includes electronica in the nortec style.Nortec Collective's second album, "Tijuana Sessions, Vol....
  
• Mediocre
  Mediocre (album)
  
  Mediocre is the debut album of Mexican singing and actor Ximena Sari?ana, released in the United States on . Mediocre reached #10 on Billboard 's Latin Pop Albums, and spawned the hit single "Vidas Paralelas", which reached #9 on the M?xico Top 100....
   – Ximena Sariñana
  Ximena Sariñana
  
  Ximena Sari?ana Rivera is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Awards nominated Mexico singer-songwriter and actor. Sari?ana's musical career was launched in 2008 with the release of her first studio album Mediocre , an adult contemporary pop-rock/vocal jazz album that has been critically acclaimed and nominated for various awards, including...
  

• La Novela
  La Novela
  
  La Novela is an album by Akwid, released in March 2008. Special guests include Voces del Rancho, Fidel Rueda, Raul Hernandez, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Rocio Saldoval "La Peligrosa", El Flaco Elizalde, Palomo, Jenni Rivera, Kuky, and Chino XL....
   – Akwid
  Akwid
  
  Akwid is an United States hip hop group combining Hip hop music-style vocals with regional Mexican music. An earlier incarnation of the group was known as Juvenile Style ....
  
• La Sinfonia – La Sinfonía
• The Royalty/La Realeza
  The Royalty
  
  The Royalty/La Realeza is the second studio album following the success of Masterpiece by R.K.M & Ken-Y. After a two and a half year wait their album was released on September 9, 2008....
   – R.K.M. & Ken-Y
• En lo Claro
  En Lo Claro
  
  En lo Claro is the third studio album by Puerto Rico reggaeton performer Voltio, released on November 20 2007 by Sony BMG. It received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Latin Urban Album at the Grammy Awards of 2009....
   – Voltio
  Voltio
  
  Julio Voltio is one of the reggaeton genre's best-known artists.His nickname came to be as the result of an accident. Before joining Karel, he worked as an electrician....
  
• Los Extraterrestres
  Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres
  
  Wisin vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestres is the sixth studio album by Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel, released on November 6, 2007 by Machete Music....
  – Wisin y Yandel

• Cuba: Un Viaje Musical — A Musical Journey – Albita, Rey Ruiz
  Rey Ruiz
  
  Rey Ruiz is a well known Salsa music singer from Cuba. Ruiz reached international fame across Latin America, Europe and among Hispanic music fans in the United States....
   & Donato Poveda
• Renacer – DLG
• Señor Bachata – José Feliciano
  José Feliciano
  
  Jos? Montserrate Feliciano Garc?a is a Puerto Rico singer and virtuoso guitarist, known for many international hits. He was born permanently blind due to congenital glaucoma....
  
• Frutero Moderno – Gonzalo Grau y La Clave Secreta
• Back On The Streets... Taste Of Spanish Harlem Vol. 2 – New Swing Sextet

• Amor, Dolor y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera – Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
• Desde México: Cumbia Cusinela' – Huichol Musical
• Vámonos Pa'l Río
  Vámonos Pa'l Río
  
  V?monos Pa'l R?o is the title of a studio album released by norte?o music band Los Pikadientes de Caborca. This album became their first number-one set on the Billboard Top Latin Albums....
  – Los Pikadientes de Caborca
  Los Pikadientes de Caborca
  
  Los Pikadientes de Caborca are a Mexico musical group whose debut single, "La Cumbia del R?o," charted on theHot Latin Tracks in 2008.Los Pikadientes de Caborca began as a YouTube sensation, with many users posting viral videos of themselves dancing to the hit....
  
• Canciones de Amor – Mariachi Divas
• A Puro Dolor – Nadia
  Nadia López
  
  Nadia Yvonne L?pez Ayuso , is a Grammy Award nominated Mexican singer and reality television star....
  

• Music Lessons – Chente Barrera y Taconazo
• Friends & Legends – Joe Posada
• Viva La Revolucion – Ruben Ramos & The Mexican Revolution
• All That Jazz... – Tortilla Factory
• Heir To The Throne – Albert Zamora

• Tu Inspiracion – Alacranes Musical
  Alacranes Musical
  
  Alacranes Musical is a Mexico band produced by the The Urbina brothers that plays duranguense music. The band has released several albums since its formation in November 1996, and in 2007 was nominated for a Latin Grammyfor their album, "Ahora Y Siempre"....
  
• Que Bonito... ¡Es Lo Bonito! – Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga
  Banda el Recodo
  
  Banda Sinaloense el Recodo de Don Cruz Liz?rraga, often referred to as Banda el Recodo or simply La Banda Sinaloense is one of the best-known Mexico banda groups....
  
• Vive Y Dejame Vivir – Cuisillos
• Tiro de Gracia – Lupillo Rivera
  Lupillo Rivera
  
  Guadalupe Rivera As a youngster, Lupillo, his sister Jenny Rivera and the rest of the Rivera family moved to Long Beach, California, where Lupillo graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1990....
  
• No Es De Madera – Joan Sebastian
  Joan Sebastian
  
  Joan Sebastian, born in Juliantla, Guerrero is a popular three-time Grammy Award and five-time Latin Grammy Award winning-Mexico singer and songwriter....
  

• Peace, Love & BBQ – Marcia Ball
  Marcia Ball
  
  Marcia Ball is an United States blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, Louisiana....
  
• A Fire – Solomon Burke
  Solomon Burke
  
  Solomon Burke is an United States Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter. During the half-century that he has performed, he has drawn from his roots: Gospel , soul music, and blues , as well as developing his own style in a time when Rhythm and blues, and rock were still in their infancy....
  
• City That Care Forgot – Dr. John
  Dr. John
  
  Dr. John is the stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. , a pianist, singer, and songwriter, whose music spans, and often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll....
   And The Lower 911
• Maestro – Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (musician)
  
  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings....
  
• Simply Grand – Irma Thomas
  Irma Thomas
  
  Irma Thomas is a Grammy Award winning soul music and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans."...
  

• Day After Tomorrow
  Day After Tomorrow (album)
  
  Day After Tomorrow is an album from American singer and musician Joan Baez. The album features songs written by such composers as Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, Patty Griffin, Thea Gilmore and Steve Earle....
   – Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  
• I, Flathead
  I, Flathead
  
  I, Flathead:The Songs of Kash Buk and the Klowns is a concept album by Ry Cooder. It is the third in his "California trilogy" that began with Ch?vez Ravine and was followed by My Name Is Buddy ....
   – Ry Cooder
  Ry Cooder
  
  Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer.He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American American folk music, and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries....
  
• Sex & Gasoline – Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music.Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby....
  
• All I Intended to Be
  All I Intended to Be
  
  All I Intended To Be is the 21st major label studio album from Emmylou Harris and her third release on Nonesuch Records. It was released in the United States on June 10 2008....
   – Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  
  Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
  
• Raising Sand
  Raising Sand
  
  Raising Sand is a collaboration album by rock music singer Robert Plant and bluegrass music-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records....
  by Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  
  Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
   & Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  
  Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
  

• 'Ikena – Tia Carrere
  Tia Carrere
  
  Tia Carrere is an United States actor, model , and Grammy Award winning singer, perhaps most widely known for her role as Cassandra in the feature films Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2 and as Sydney Fox in the TV series Relic Hunter....
   & Daniel Ho
  Daniel Ho
  
  Daniel Ho is a musician , song writer and Grammy award-winning producer currently specializing in Music of Hawaii....
  
• Aumakua – Amy Hanaiali'i
• Force of Nature – Led Kaapana & Mike Kaawa
• Hawaiian Slack Key Kings Masters Series Vol. II – Various Artists (Chris Lau & Milton Lau, producers)
• The Spirit of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar – Various Artists (Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Dennis Kamakahi, Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers)

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album

Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album was first awarded in 2007.Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year....

• Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – BeauSoleil
  Beausoleil
  
  BeauSoleil is a musical group specializing in Cajun music. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, the group members are brothers Michael Doucet and David Doucet , Jimmy Breaux , Billy Ware , Tommy Alesi , and Mitchell Reed ....
   & Michael Doucet
  Michael Doucet
  
  Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts....
  
• From Now On – Michael Doucet
  Michael Doucet
  
  Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts....
  
• Homage Au Passé – Pine Leaf Boys
  Pine Leaf Boys
  
  The Pine Leaf Boys are a two-time Grammy Award-nominated Cajun and Louisiana Creole people band from South Louisiana. Members include Wilson Savoy , Courtney Granger , Drew Simon , Jon Bertrand , and Thomas David ....
  
• Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys
• Cedric Watson – Cedric Watson

• Jah Is Real
  Jah Is Real
  
  Jah Is Real is an album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear. It won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album....
   – Burning Spear
  Burning Spear
  
  Winston Rodney, Order of Distinction , also known as Burning Spear, is a Grammy Award winning Jamaican roots reggae reggae singer and musician....
  
• Let's Get Physical
  Let's Get Physical
  
  'Let's Get Physical' is the debut album of Elephant Man on Bad Boy Records, released in 2008.The first single is called "Five-O" and features Wyclef Jean....
   – Elephant Man
• Vibes
  Vibes
  
  Vibes is a comedy film released in 1988 in film starring pop icon and singing Cyndi Lauper, actor Jeff Goldblum, actor Julian Sands and legendary actor Peter Falk....
   – Heavy D
• Repentance
  Repentance (2008 album)
  
  Repentance is the the title of the fifty-fourth studio album by Jamaican musician, sonic innovator, and master record producer Lee "Scratch" Perry....
   – Lee Perry
• Intoxication
  Intoxication (album)
  
  Intoxication is the eighth studio album released by Shaggy in 2007. Shaggy has already released a video for the song called "Church Heathen", the first single from the album in the United Kingdom....
   – Shaggy
  Shaggy (musician)
  
  Orville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer who takes his nickname from Scooby-Doo's Norville "Shaggy" Rogers?a nickname given to him by his friends during his teenage years because his name bore a similarity to the Scooby Doo character....
  
• Amazing – Sly & Robbie

World Music field

Best Traditional World Music Album

• Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey – Debashish Bhattacharya
  Debashish Bhattacharya
  
  Debashish Bhattacharya is an India musician, renowned for his compositions on slide guitar. His technical prowess with the slide allows him to play complex passages at blistering speeds....
  
• The Mandé Variations
  The Mandé Variations
  
  The Mand? Variations is a studio album by Toumani Diabat?....
   – Toumani Diabaté
  Toumani Diabaté
  
  Kutta Toumani Diabat? is a Malian Kora player who has gained international acclaim for his music. He is a versatile performer, being equally at home with the traditional music of Mali as well as with cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles....
  
• Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
  Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
  
  Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu is a 2008 release by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was released on January 22, 2008....
  – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube . They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won #Awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards....
  
• Dancing in the Light – Lakshmi Shankar
  Lakshmi Shankar
  
  Lakshmi Shankar is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Patiala Gharana, known for her performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajans....
  

• Shake Away – Lila Downs
  Lila Downs
  
  Lila Downs is a Mexico singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya peoples and Nahuatl cultures....
  
• Banda Larga Cordel – Gilberto Gil
  Gilberto Gil
  
  Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil , is a Grammy-winner Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment....
  
• Global Drum Project – Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  
  Mickey Hart is a percussion instrument and musicology. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock music band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995....
  , Zakir Hussain
  Zakir Hussain (musician)
  
  Ustad Zakir Hussain , born 9 March 1951, is a famous Grammy Award winning Indian tabla player. He is widely considered as the world's best tabla player....
  , Sikiru Adepoju
  Sikiru Adepoju
  
  Sikiru Adepoju is a percussionist and recording artist from Nigeria, primarily in the genres of traditional African music and world music. He plays a variety of instruments and styles....
   & Giovanni Hidalgo
  Giovanni Hidalgo
  
  Giovanni Hidalgo "Ma?enguito" is an educator and Percussion instrument associated with Latin jazz....
  
• Rokku Mi Rokka (Give and Take) – Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour
  
  Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the...
  
• Live at the Nelson Mandela Theater – Soweto Gospel Choir
  Soweto Gospel Choir
  
  Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel music group.The group was formed in Soweto, South Africa by David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer, two choir directors....
  

Polka field

Best Polka Album

• El Maestro del Acordeón y Sus Polkas – Paulino Bernal
  Paulino Bernal
  
  Paulino Bernal is an accordion player and Christian Evangelism. He was a member of the Mex-Tex group Conjunto Bernal.In 1972, Paulino became a born again Christian, and founded Bernal Christian Records in order to evangelize his Christian beliefs....
  
• Speechless – LynnMarie & Charlie Kelley As The Boxhounds
• Back to Back Hall of Fame Polkas – Walter Ostanek
  Walter Ostanek
  
  Ladislav Walter Ostanek, Order of Canada , is a well known accordionist from St. Catharines, Ontario where his family settled as a boy.Young Walter received his first accordion as a gift in 1944....
   & His Band, Jerry Darlak & The Touch And Bob Kravos & His Band
• Hungry for More – Polka Family Band
• Let the Whole World Sing – Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

• Beethoven's Wig 4: Dance Along Symphonies – Beethoven's Wig
  Beethoven's Wig
  
  Beethoven's Wig is a performing group and a series of musical CDs, which set lyrics to the greatest masterpieces of classical music. Created by Richard Perlmutter, who is also the lyricist, lead singer and producer of the albums....
  
• Big Round World
  Big Round World
  
  Big Round World is the fifteenth album released by Trout Fishing in America . It was released in September 2008 on the Trout Records label as a Compact Disc....
  – Trout Fishing in America
  Trout Fishing in America
  
  Trout Fishing in America is a novella written by Richard Brautigan and published in 1967. It is technically Brautigan's first novel; he wrote it in 1961 before A Confederate General From Big Sur which was published first....
  
• Here Come the 123s
  Here Come the 123s
  
  Here Come the 123s is the Grammy-award winning thirteenth studio album by They Might Be Giants. It is the sequel to the group's 2005 album Here Come the ABCs....
   – They Might Be Giants
  They Might Be Giants
  
  They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
  
• Here Comes Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could – Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
• The Shoe Bird – Gerard Schwarz
  Gerard Schwarz
  
  Gerard Schwarz is an USA conducting. He has been music director of the Seattle Seattle Symphony Orchestra since 1985 and is music advisor and principal conductor of the Eastern Music Festival....
   Conducting the Seattle Symphony

Best Spoken Word Album for Children

• Around the Campfire – Buck Howdy With BB
• The Big One-Oh – Dean Pitchford
  Dean Pitchford
  
  Dean Pitchford is a songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, six Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards....
  
• Brown Bear and Friends – Gwyneth Paltrow
  Gwyneth Paltrow
  
  Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
  
• The Cricket in Times Square – Tony Shalhoub
  Tony Shalhoub
  
  Anthony Marcus ?Tony? Shalhoub is a three-time Emmy Award, two-time Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Awards winning United States actor, best known as star of the detective-drama Monk ....
  
• Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live – Bill Harley
  Bill Harley
  
  Bill Harley is a children's entertainer and storyteller who has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music" by Entertainment Weekly....
  

• An Inconvenient Truth
  An Inconvenient Truth
  
  An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 in film documentary film about global warming directed by Davis Guggenheim, presented by former Vice President of the United States Al Gore....
   – Beau Bridges
  Beau Bridges
  
  Lloyd Vernet ?Beau? Bridges III is a U.S. three-time Emmy Award-winning actor....
  , Cynthia Nixon
  Cynthia Nixon
  
  Cynthia Ellen Nixon is a Tony Award-, two-time Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning United States actor, known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular Home Box Office series Sex and the City ....
   & Blair Underwood
  Blair Underwood
  
  'Blair Underwood' is an United States television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A....
  
• Born Standing Up
  Born Standing Up
  
  Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life is a memoir by comedian, actor and playwright Steve Martin. It examines Martin's childhood, his first jobs at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and his stand-up comedy career, which lasted until 1981 when Martin retired from stand-up to pursue his new film career full-time....
   – Steve Martin
  Steve Martin
  
  Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
  
• I Am America (And So Can You!)
  I Am America (And So Can You!)
  
  I Am America is a 2007 satirical bestseller book by United States comedian Stephen Colbert and the writers of The Colbert Report. It was released on October 9, 2007, with the audiobook edition released several days earlier....
   – Stephen Colbert
  Stephen Colbert
  
  Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an United States comedian, Satire, actor and writer, known for his ironic style , and for his deadpan comedic delivery....
   (& Various Artists)
• Life Beyond Measure – Sidney Poitier
  Sidney Poitier
  
  Sir Sidney Poitier, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Grammy award-winning Bahamas-United States actor, film director, author, and diplomat....
  
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  
  When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by bestselling American humorist David Sedaris. It was released on June 3, 2008....
   – David Sedaris
  David Sedaris
  
  David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated United States humorist, writer, comedian, detective, bestselling author, and radio contributor.Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries"....
  

Comedy field

Best Comedy Album

• Anticipation
  Anticipation (Lewis Black album)
  
  Anticipation is the sixth album by comedian Lewis Black. It was released on August 5, 2008 on Comedy Central Records. The album consists of stand-up material he has used on his tours over a three-year period, and was recorded on September 21, 2007 in Wausau, Wisconsin....
   – Lewis Black
  Lewis Black
  
  Lewis Niles Black is a Grammy Award-winning United States stand-up comedy, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena....
  
• Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords (album)
  
  Flight of the Conchords is the debut full-length studio recorded album by New Zealand folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords, released April 21, 2008 by Sub Pop....
   – Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  
  Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars....
  
• For Your Consideration
  For Your Consideration (album)
  
  For Your Consideration is a 2008 comedy album recorded by United States stand-up comedian Kathy Griffin. The album was recorded at the the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts in Tracy, California on February 17, 2008....
   – Kathy Griffin
  Kathy Griffin
  
  'Kathleen "Kathy" Griffin' is an Emmy Award-winning, Grammy-nominated United Statesn stand-up comedian, actress and media personality. A self-proclaimed "A-list#Ulmer Scale celebrity", Griffin first gained recognition for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, and is now the star of the Bravo reality show Kathy Griffin: M...
  
• It's Bad for Ya
  It's Bad for Ya
  
  It's Bad for Ya is the 14th and final HBO stand-up comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was televised live on March 1, 2008 on HBO....
  – George Carlin
  George Carlin
  
  George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedy. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....
  
• Songs of the Bushmen – Harry Shearer
  Harry Shearer
  
  Harry Julius Shearer is an United Statesn actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host and record label owner. Shearer, a voice actor on The Simpsons , provides the voices of Mr....
  

• Gypsy
  Gypsy: A Musical Fable
  
  Gypsy is a 1959 musical theatre with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy....
  – 2008 Broadway Cast with Patti LuPone
  Patti LuPone
  
  Patti LuPone is an United States singer and actress, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning performance as Eva Per?n in the 1979 musical Evita ....
   & Others
• Robert Sher, producer (Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  , composer; Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  , lyricist)
• In the Heights
  In the Heights
  
  In the Heights is a musical theatre with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegr?a Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan....
   – Original Broadway Cast with Lin-Manuel Miranda
  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda is an United States actor, as well as a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist. He is most famous for writing and starring in the Broadway theatre musical theater In the Heights , which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2008....
   & Others
• Kurt Deutsch
  Kurt Deutsch
  
  Kurt Deutsch is an actor, director, and record producer....
  , Alex Lacamoire
  Alex Lacamoire
  
  Alex Lacamoire is a American music director and orchestrator, who has worked on many shows both on and Off-Broadway Broadway_theatre.Lacamoire was born in Los Angeles, California, and began to play piano at age three....
  , Andrés Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda
  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda is an United States actor, as well as a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist. He is most famous for writing and starring in the Broadway theatre musical theater In the Heights , which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2008....
  , Joel Moss & Bill Sherman, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda
  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  
  Lin-Manuel Miranda is an United States actor, as well as a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist. He is most famous for writing and starring in the Broadway theatre musical theater In the Heights , which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2008....
  , composer/lyricist
• The Little Mermaid
  Disney's The Little Mermaid (2008 album)
  
  Disney's The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2008 musical The Little Mermaid . The show is an adaptation of the 1989 The Little Mermaid ....
   – Original Broadway Cast with Sierra Boggess
  Sierra Boggess
  
  Sierra Boggess is an American theater actress. She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, with her two sisters, Summer and Allegra. The three of them were members of the Colorado Children's Chorale....
  , Tituss Burgess & Others
• Bruce Botnick
  Bruce Botnick
  
  Bruce Botnick is a noted American record engineer and record producer, best known for his work with The Doors, and with Love . He engineered Love's first two albums, and co-produced their third album, Forever Changes, with the band's singer-songwriter, Arthur Lee ....
  , Michael Kosarin, Alan Menken
  Alan Menken
  
  Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
   & Chris Montan, producers; Alan Menken
  Alan Menken
  
  Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
  , composer; Glenn Slater
  Glenn Slater
  
  Glenn Slater is a Tony Award-nominated lyricist who collabrates with Alan Menken and other musical theatre composers.Slater was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey....
  , lyricist (Howard Ashman
  Howard Ashman
  
  Howard Ashman was an United States playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974....
  , lyricist)
• South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  
  South Pacific is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....
   – New Broadway Cast with Kelli O'Hara
  Kelli O'Hara
  
  Kelli O'Hara is an United States Actor, singing, and songwriter.O'Hara has been nominated for three Tony Awards, one for her performance as Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza , one for her performance as Babe Williams in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Pajama Game, where she starred alongside Harry Connick, Jr...
  , Paulo Szot
  Paulo Szot
  
  Paulo Szot is a Tony Award-winning Brazilian opera baritone singer and actor. In 2008, he made his Broadway theatre debut as Emile De Becque in a revival of South Pacific ....
   & Others
• David Caddick, David Lai & Ted Sperling, producers (Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  , composer; Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
  , lyricist)
• Young Frankenstein
  Young Frankenstein (musical)
  
  Young Frankenstein, officially known as The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, is a musical theatre with a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan and music and lyrics by Brooks....
   – Original Broadway Cast with Roger Bart
  Roger Bart
  
  Roger Bart is an United States actor....
  , Megan Mullally
  Megan Mullally
  
  Megan Mullally is an American actress, talk show host and singer.After working in theatre in Chicago, Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1981, and appeared in small or supporting roles in film and television productions....
  , Sutton Foster
  Sutton Foster
  
  Sutton Foster is an Tony Award-winning United States actor, singer, and dancer. She is the sister of actor Hunter Foster....
   & Others
• Doug Besterman, producer; Mel Brooks
  Mel Brooks
  
  Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  , composer/lyricist

Soundtrack field

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

• American Gangster
• August Rush
• Juno
  Juno (soundtrack)
  
  Music from the Motion Picture Juno, released on January 8, 2008, is the Grammy Award winning soundtrack that accompanies the Academy Award 2007 in film Juno ....
  
• Mamma Mia!
  Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack
  
  Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack Featuring the Songs of ABBA is the soundtrack album for the 2008 Universal Pictures musical film Mamma Mia! , based on the Mamma Mia!....
  
• Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

• The Dark Knight
  The Dark Knight (soundtrack)
  
  The Dark Knight is the Grammy award winning soundtrack album to Christopher Nolan's 2008 in film The Dark Knight , the sequel to Nolan's 2005 in film Batman Begins....
  
• James Newton Howard
  James Newton Howard
  
  James Newton Howard is an eight time Academy Award-nominated American film score composer, orchestrator and music producer....
   & Hans Zimmer
  Hans Zimmer
  
  Hans Florian Zimmer is a Germany composer and Record producer. He is best known for his Academy Award, Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning film scores....
  , composers
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (soundtrack)
  
  The Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull soundtrack was released on May 20, 2008 as a soundtrack album to the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....
  
• John Williams
  John Williams
  
  John Towner Williams is an United States composer, conducting and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars music, Superman music, Born on the Fourth of July , Harry Potter music and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature fil...
  , composer
• Iron Man
  Iron Man (soundtrack)
  
  Iron Man Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack of the film Iron Man . It was released on May 6, 2008. It is composed by Ramin Djawadi....
  
• Ramin Djawadi
  Ramin Djawadi
  
  Ramin Djawadi is an Iranian - German composer of orchestral music for film and television. His father was an immigrant from Iran.Djawadi has been widely credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer on movies such as Batman Begins and Pirates of the Caribbean....
  , composer
• There Will Be Blood
  There Will Be Blood (album)
  
  There Will Be Blood is the soundtrack to the 2007 film There Will Be Blood and features an original orchestral score by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood....
  
• Jonny Greenwood
  Jonny Greenwood
  
  Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood is a BAFTA and Grammy-nominated musician and composer-in-residence for the BBC, best known as a member of England alternative rock Band Radiohead....
  , composer
• WALL-E
  WALL-E (soundtrack)
  
  WALL-E is the soundtrack to the WALL-E, mainly composed by Thomas Newman and released on June 24, 2008. Orchestration is credited to Carl Johnson , JAC Redford, Thomas Pasatieri, and Gary K....
  
• Thomas Newman
  Thomas Newman
  
  Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American 10 time Academy Award-nominated film score composer....
  , composer

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

Historical field

Best Historical Album

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical