Award ceremony
The 36th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 1, 1994. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Whitney Houston was the Big Winner winning 3 awards including Record of the Year and Album of the Year[1] while opening the show with "I Will Always Love You".
Audrey Hepburn's win made her the fifth person to become an EGOT, and the first person to complete the status posthumously.
Paul Simon was the first performer of the evening.
Performers
Presenters
Award winners
- Record of the Year
- "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston
- Album of the Year
- The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston
- Houston, Babyface, BeBe Winans, David Cole, David Foster, L.A. Reid, Narada Michael Walden, Robert Clivilles, Clive Davis, producer
- R.E.M & Scott Litt (producers) for Automatic for the People
- Walter Becker (producer) & Donald Fagen (artist) for Kamakiriad
- Billy Joel & Danny Kortchmar, Joe Nicolo (producers) for River of Dreams
- Sting and Hugh Padgham (producers) for Ten Summoner's Tales
Pop
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Comedy
- From 1994 through 2003, see "Best Spoken Comedy Album" under the "Spoken" field, below.
Classical
- Best Orchestral Performance
- Best Classical Vocal Performance
- Best Opera Recording
- Steven Paul (producer), John Nelson (conductor), John Aler, Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance, Mark S. Doss, Marilyn Horne, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Samuel Ramey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus & the English Chamber Orchestra for Handel: Semele
- Best Performance of a Choral Work
- Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (with orchestra)
- Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist (without orchestra)
- Best Chamber Music Performance
- Best Contemporary Composition
- Best Classical Album
Composing and arranging
Country
Folk
Gospel
Historical
Jazz
Latin
Musical show
Music video
New Age
Packaging and notes
Polka
Production and engineering
Rap
Reggae
Rock
Spoken
Traditional pop
World
Special merit awards
Grammy Legend Award
MusiCares Person of the Year
References
- ^ "Houston, Sting rule at Grammys". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 2 March 1994. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Cariaga, Daniel (March 2, 1994). "The 36th Annual Grammy Awards : Classical : Dual Awards for Chicago Symphony". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ "Watch: That time the Grammys cut off Frank Sinatra ... and Billy Joel made them pay". New Jersey 101.5.
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