Grammy nominees – artists
February 8, 2008
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards is Sunday night on CBS. Of the more than 100 Grammy categories, here are all pertaining to the artists nominated for their various performances in their respected genre.
New Artist
Feist
Ledisi
Paramore
Taylor Swift
Amy Winehouse
POP
Female Pop Vocal Performance
“Candyman” (Christina Aguilera)
1234″ (Feist)
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” (Fergie)
“Say It Right” (Nelly Furtado)
“Rehab” (Amy Winehouse)
Male Pop Vocal Performance
“Everything” (Michael Bublé)
“Belief” (John Mayer)
“Dance Tonight” (Paul McCartney)
“Amazing” (Seal)
“What Goes Around…Comes Around” (Justin Timberlake)
Pop Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
“(You Want To) Make A Memory” (Bon Jovi)
“Home” (Daughtry)
“Makes Me Wonder” (Maroon 5)
“Hey There Delilah” (Plain White T’s)
“Window In the Skies” (U2)
Pop Collaboration With Vocals
“Steppin’ Out” (Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera)
“Beautiful Liar” (Beyoncé and Shakira)
“Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss)
“The Sweet Escape” (Gwen Stefani and Akon)
“Give It to Me” (Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake)
Pop Instrumental Performance
“Off the Grid” (Beastie Boys)
“Paris Sunrise #7” (Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals)
“Over the Rainbow” (Dave Koz)
“One Week Last Summer” (Joni Mitchell)
“Simple Pleasures” (Spyro Gyra)
ROCK
Solo Rock Vocal Performance
“Timebomb” (Beck)
“Only Mama Knows” (Paul McCartney)
“Our Country” (John Mellencamp)
“Radio Nowhere” (Bruce Springsteen)
“Come On” (Lucinda Williams)
Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
“It’s Not Over” (Daughtry)
“Working Class Hero” (Green Day)
“If Everyone Cared” (Nickelback)
“Instant Karma” (U2)
“Icky Thump” (The White Stripes)
Hard Rock Performance
“Sweet Sacrifice” (Evanescence)
“The Pretender” (Foo Fighters)
“I Don’t Wanna Stop” (Ozzy Osbourne)
“Sick Sick Sick” (Queens of the Stone Age)
“The Pot” (Tool)
Metal Performance
“Nothing Left” (As I Lay Dying)
“Never Ending Hill” (King Diamond)
“Aesthetics of Hate” (Machine Head)
“Redemption” (Shadows Fall)
“Final Six” (Slayer)
Rock Instrumental Performance
“The Ecstasy of Gold” (Metallica)
“Malignant Narcissism” (Rush)
“Always With Me, Always With You” (Joe Satriani)
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (Bruce Springsteen)
“The Attitude Song” (Steve Vai)
R&B AND RAP
Female R&B Vocal Performance
“Just Fine” (Mary J. Blige)
“When I See You” (Fantasia)
“No One” (Alicia Keys)
“If I Have My Way” (Chrisette Michele)
“Hate On Me” (Jill Scott)
Male R&B Vocal Performance
“Woman” (Raheem DeVaughn)
“B.U.D.D.Y.” (Musiq Soulchild)
“Because of You” (Ne-Yo)
“Future Baby Mama” (Prince)
“Please Don’t Go” (Tank)
R&B Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals
“Same Girl” (R. Kelly featuring Usher)
“Disrespectful” (Chaka Khan featuring Mary J. Blige)
“Hate That I Love You” (Rihanna featuring Ne-Yo)
“Baby” (Angie Stone featuring Betty Wright)
“Bartender” (T-Pain featuring Akon)
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
“Walk a Mile In My Shoes” (Otis Clay)
“All Night Long” (Randy Crawford and Joe Sample)
“In My Songs” (Gerald Levert)
“I Apologize” (Ann Nesby)
“I Am Your Man” (Ryan Shaw)
Urban/Alternative Performance
“Make a Baby” (Vikter Duplaix)
“That’s the Way of the World” (Dwele)
“Daydreamin'” (Lupe Fiasco featuring Jill Scott)
“Fantasy” (Meshell Ndegeocello)
“Dream” (Alice Smith)
Rap Solo Performance
“The People” (Common)
“I Get Money” (50 Cent)
“Show Me What You Got” (Jay-Z)
“Big Things Poppin’ (Do It)” (T.I.)
“Stronger” (Kanye West)
Rap Performance By a Duo or Group
“Southside” (Common featuring Kanye West)
“Make It Rain” (Fat Joe featuring Lil Wayne)
“Party Like a Rockstar” (Shop Boyz)
“Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” (UGK featuring OutKast)
“Better Than I’ve Ever Been” (Kanye West, Nas and KRS-One)
Rap/Sung Collaboration
“I Wanna Love You” (Akon featuring Snoop Dogg)
“Kiss Kiss” (Chris Brown and T-Pain)
“Let It Go” (Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott and Lil’ Kim)
“Umbrella” (Rihanna featuring Jay-Z)
“Good Life” (Kanye West featuring T-Pain)
COUNTRY
Female Country Vocal Performance
“Simple Love” (Alison Krauss)
“Famous In a Small Town” (Miranda Lambert)
“Nothin’ Better To Do” (LeAnn Rimes)
“Before He Cheats” (Carrie Underwood)
“Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love” (Tisha Yearwood)
Male Country Vocal Performance
“Long Trip Alone” (Dierks Bentley)
“A Woman’s Love” (Alan Jackson)
“If You’re Reading This” (Tim McGraw)
“Give It Away” (George Strait)
“Stupid Boy” (Keith Urban)
Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal
“Proud of the House We Built” (Brooks & Dunn)
“How Long” (The Eagles)
“Moments” (Emerson Drive)
“Lucky Man” (Montgomery Gentry)
“Sweet Memories” (The Time Jumpers)
Country Collaboration With Vocals
“Days Aren’t Long Enough” (Steve Earle and Allison Moorer)
“Because of You” (Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson)
“I Need You” (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill)
“Lost Highway” (Willie Nelson and Ray Price)
“Oh Love” (Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood)
Country Instrumental Performance
“Little Monk” (Russ Barenberg)
“Mucky the Duck” (The Greencards)
“Throttleneck” (Brad Paisley)
“Rawhide!” (Andy Statman)
“Fidoodlin'” (The Time Jumpers)
GOSPEL
Gospel Performance
“East to West” (Casting Crowns)
“Blessed & Highly Favored” (The Clark Sisters)
“Never Gonna Break My Faith” (Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige (featuring The Harlem Boys Choir))
“With Long Life” (Israel and New Breed featuring T-Bone)
“He Set My Life to Music” (CeCe Winans)
JAZZ
Jazz Instrumental Solo
“Levees” (Terence Blanchard)
“Anagram” (Michael Brecker)
“Both Sides Now” (Herbie Hancock)
“Lullaby” (Hank Jones)
“1000 Kilometers” (Paul McCandless)
CLASSICAL
Classical Vocal Performance
“Gitano – Zarzuela Arias” (Rolando Villazó)
“The Age of the Diva” (Renée Fleming)
“Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs” (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson)
“Russian Album” (Anna Netrebko)
“Sea Pictures, Op. 37” (Sarah Connolly)
Classical Contemporary Composition
“Amargós: Northern Concerto” (Joan Albert Amargós)
“Chesky: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra” (David Chesky)
“Higdon: Zaka” (Jennifer Higdon)
“Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs” (Peter Lieberson)
“Made In America” (Joan Tower)
INSTRUMENTAL
Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra)
“Barber/Korngold/Walton: Violin Concertos” (James Ehnes, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
“Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4” (Lang Lang, Orchestre De Paris)
“Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos” (Sabine Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud, Berliner Philharmoniker)
“Rózsa: Violin Concerto, Op.24” (Anastasia Khitruk, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra)
“Tchaikovsky/Saint-Sa‰ns/Ginastera” (Sol Gabetta, Münchner Rundfunkorchester)
Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (Without Orchestra)
“Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3” (Garrick Ohlsson)
“Haydn: Piano Sonatas” (Marc-André Hamelin)
“Louisiana – A Pianist’s Journey” (Kenneth Boulton)
“Solo Piazzolla” (Manuel Barrueco)
“20th Century Piano Sonatas” (Allison Brewster Franzetti)
Small Ensemble Performance (With or Without Conductor)
“Bach: Brandenburg Concertos” (Swiss Baroque Soloists)
“Bridges – Eddie Daniels Plays the Music of Frank Proto” (Eddie Daniels; Ensemble Sans Frontiére)
“Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde” (The Smithsonian Chamber Palyers and Santa Fe Pro Musica)
“Music for Compline” (Stile Antico)
“Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto in D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives” (Yuri Bashmet)
Chamber Music Performance
“On the Threshold of Hope” (Artists of the Royal Concervatory Ensemble)
“Saint-Sa‰ns/Poulenc/Devienne/Milhaud” (Oleg Maisenberg and Sabine Meyer)
“Strange Imaginary Animals” (Eighth Blackbird)
“Tchaikovsky: Three String Quartets, Souvenir de Florence” (Ying Quartet)
“30 Songs of the Russian People” (Joseph Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming Chan)
Orchestral Performance
“Beethoven: Symphony No. 9” (Minnesota Orchestra)
“Shostakovich: The Golden Age” (Royal Scottish National Orchestra)
“Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps” (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
“Tower: Made In America” (Nashville Symphony)
“Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis, Serenade to Music” (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Choral Performance
“Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem” (Thomas Quasthoff and Dorothea R”schmann; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Berliner Philharmoniker)
“Cherubini: Missa Solemnis In E” (Ildar Abdrazakov, Herbert Lippert, Marianna Pizzalato and Ruth Ziesak; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
“Grechaninov: Passion Week” (Kansas City Chorale and Phoenix Bach Choir)
“Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 ‘Seven Gates of Jerusalem'”(Boris Carmeli, Ewa Marciniec, Aga Mikolaj, Wieslaw Ochman, Olga Pasichnyk and Romuald Tesarowicz; Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir; Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra)
“Sch”nberg: Gurrelieder” (Melanie Diener, Raif Lukas, Yvonne Naef, Andreas Schmidt, Gerhard Siegel and Robert Dean Smith; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks and MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig; SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg)
PRODUCER
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
Howard Benson
Joe Chiccarelli
Mike Elizondo
Mark Ronson
Timbaland
Producer of the Year, Classical
Blanton Alspaugh
John Faser
Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin
Judith Sherman
Robina G. Young
SPECIALIZED AWARDS
MusiCares Person of the Year
Aretha Franklin
Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Burt Barcharach
The Band
Cab Calloway
Doris Day
Itzhak Perlman
Max Roach
Earl Scruggs
Trustees Award Winners
Clarence Avant
Jac Holzman
Willie Mitchell
The Scopes
Technical Grammy Award Winners
Ampex Corporation
John Eargle