54th Grammy Awards 2012: Full List of Winners & Event Facts
Adele wins 6 Grammys, including album, song and record of the year !
Adele was shaking as she won album of the year, almost in tears as she held the award.
She yelled at the end of her speech:
“Thank you so much!”
“Thank you so much!”
- With six Grammy awards, Adele has matched Beyonce for most Grammy wins in a night by a female act.
- Adele’s six Grammy Award wins Sunday night include album, record and song of the year.
- Beyonce set the record two years ago.
- Adele’s “21” was 2011’s best-selling album. It’s sold more than six million units in the United States.
Grammy Awards 2012 Full list of winners: Final
Here is a list of winners at the Sunday-night Grammy Awards broadcast gala, live on Global and CBS, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Pre-gala winners also listed below.
- Record of the year: Adele's Rolling the Deep
- Best pop solo performance: Adele's Someone Like You
- Best rap performance: Otis, by Kanye West and Jay-Z
- Best rock performance: Foo Fighters' Walk
- R&B album: Chris Brown's F.A.M.E.
- Song of the year: Adele's Rolling in the Deep
- Country album: Lady Antebellum's Own the Night
- Best new artist: Bon Iver
- Short-form music video: Adele’s Rolling in the Deep
- Long-form music video: Foo Fighters’ Back and Forth
- Hard rock/metal performance: Foo Fighters’ White Limo
- Rock song: Foo Fighters’ Walk
- Rock Album: Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light
- Recording package: Caroline Robert’s Scenes from The Suburbs, for Arcade Fire
- Rap performance: Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Otis
- Pop duo/group performance: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse’s Body and Soul
- Pop instrumental album: Booker T. Jones’ The Road from Memphis
- Dance recording: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
- Dance/electronica album: Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
- Traditional pop vocal album: Tony Bennett and various artists’ Duets II
- Alternative music album: Bon Iver’s Bon Iver
- R&B performance: Corinne Bailey Rae’s Is This Love
- Traditional R&B performance: Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona’s Fool for You
- R&B song: Cee Lo Green and Co.’s Fool for You
- Rap/sung collaboration: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie’s All of the Lights
- Rap song: All of the Lights
- Rap album: Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Country solo performance: Taylor Swift’s Mean
- Country song: Taylor Swift’s Mean
- Country duo/group performance: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow
- Folk album: The Civil Wars’ Barton Hollow
- New age album: Pet Metheny’s What’s It All About
- Improvised jazz solo: Chick Corea’s 500 Miles High
- Jazz vocal album: Terri Lyne Carrington and various artists’ The Mosaic Project
- Jazz instrumental: Corea, Clarke and White’s Forever
- Large jazz ensemble: Christian McBride Big Band’s The Good Feeling
- Gospel/contemporary Christian music performance: Le’Andria Johnson’s Jesus
- Gospel song: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear
- Contemporary Christian music song: Laura Story’s Blessings
- Gospel album: Kirk Franklin’s Hello Fear
- Contemporary Christian music album: Chris Tomlin’s And If Our God Is For Us…
- Latin pop, rock or urban album: Mana’s Drama Y Luz
- Regional Mexican or Tejano album: Pepe Aguilar’s Bicentenario
- Bands or Norteno album: Los Tigres Del Norte’s Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends
- Tropical Latin album: Cachao’s The Last Mambo
- Americana album: Levon Helm’s Ramble at the Ryman
- Bluegrass album: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane
- Blues album: Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Revelator
- Regional roots music album: Rebirth Brass Band’s Rebirth of New Orleans
- Reggae album: Stephen Marley’s Revelatino Pt. 1: The Root of Life
- World music album: Tinariwen’s Tassili
- Children’s album: All About Bullies… Big & Small
- Spoken world album (includes poetry, audio books and story telling): Betty White’s If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)
- Comedy album: Louis C.K.’s Hilarious
- Musical theatre album: The Book of Mormom
- Compilation soundtrack for visual media: Boardwalk Empire: Vol. 1
- Score soundtrack for visual media: Alexandre Desplat’s The King’s Speech
- Song written for visual media: I See the Light (from Tangled)
- Instrumental composition: Bela Fleck and Howard Levy’s Life in Eleven
- Instrumental arrangement: Gordon Goodwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
- Instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist: Jorge Calandrelli’s Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), for Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah
- Boxed or special limited edition package: Dave Bett and Michelle Holme’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
- Album notes: Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
- Historical album: Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)
- Engineered album, non-classical: Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Paper Airplane
- Producer of the year, non-classical: Paul Epworth
- Remixed recording, non-classical: Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
- Surround sound album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
- Engineered album, classical: Aldridge: Elmer Gantry
- Producer of the year, classical: Judith Sherman
- Orchestral performance: Brahms, Symphony No. 4 by Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
- Opera recording: Adams: Doctor Atomic
- Choral performance: Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
- Small-ensemble performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
- Classical instrumental solo: Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony
- Classical vocal solo: Joyce DiDonato with Kazushi Ono and Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon with Choeur de l’Opera National de Lyon for Diva Divo
- Contemporary classical composition: Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Elmer Gantry
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off the Grammys on Sunday night with a rousing song
- Host LL Cool J took the stage and offered a prayer for Houston, her fans and her family.
- Organizers then played a video of Houston performing her hit "I Will Always Love You" from a previous Grammy show. Later in the evening, actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her role in movie musical "Dreamgirls," will perform a medley of songs in tribute to Houston who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room on the eve of the Grammys. The cause of her death has not been determined.
- Grammy organizers give out awards in more than 75 categories and several early winners mentioned Houston in acceptance speeches.
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