2005 Grammy Award Winners
- Winners Announced: February 13, 2005
- Held at: Staples Center, Los Angeles
- Host: Queen Latifah
- Eligibility Year: October 1, 2003 – September 30, 2004
Trivia and Notable Moments
- The Album of the Year went to Genius Loves Company, a posthumous release by Ray Charles, featuring duets with various artists like Norah Jones and Elton John.
- Ray Charles also posthumously won Record of the Year for Here We Go Again, a duet with Norah Jones. This was a poignant moment, celebrating the legendary artist.
- Usher’s hit Yeah! featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, making Usher one of the big winners of the night with multiple awards.
- Daughters by John Mayer won Song of the Year, with Mayer also taking home Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song.
- Green Day’s American Idiot won Best Rock Album, and the title track also earned the band a win for Record of the Year. The album was a political statement and a departure from the band’s earlier sound.
- Alicia Keys won Best R&B Album for The Diary of Alicia Keys, adding another Grammy to her growing list of accolades.
- Kanye West, nominated for 10 awards, took home three, including Best Rap Album for The College Dropout. His track Jesus Walks also won Best Rap Song.
- Maroon 5 snagged the Best New Artist award, beating out the likes of Kanye West and Gretchen Wilson.
- Los Lonely Boys by Los Lonely Boys won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, while A Song for You by The Temptations secured the award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.
- A Boot and a Shoe by Sam Phillips won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, showcasing the behind-the-scenes technical talent in the music industry.
Record of the Year:
Here We Go Again – Ray Charles and Norah Jones
Album of the Year:
Genius Loves Company – Ray Charles and Various Artists
Song of the Year:
Daughters – John Mayer (John Mayer)
Female Pop Vocal Performance:
Sunrise – Norah Jones
Male Pop Vocal Performance:
Daughters – John Mayer
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Heaven – Los Lonely Boys
Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
Here We Go Again – Ray Charles and Norah Jones
Pop Instrumental Performance:
11th Commandment – Ben Harper
Pop Instrumental Album:
Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar – Various Artists
Pop Vocal Album:
Genius Loves Company – Ray Charles and Various Artists
Dance Recording:
Toxic – Britney Spears
Electronic/Dance Album:
Kish Kash – Basement Jaxx
Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Stardust: The Great American Songbook Volume III – Rod Stewart
Solo Rock Vocal Performance:
Code of Silence – Bruce Springsteen
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal:
Vertigo – U2
Hard Rock Performance:
Slither – Velvet Revolver
Metal Performance:
Whiplash – Motorhead
Rock Instrumental Performance:
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow – Brian Wilson
Rock Song:
Vertigo – Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen (U2)
Rock Album:
American Idiot – Green Day
Alternative Music Album:
A Ghost Is Born – Wilco
Female R&B Vocal Performance:
If I Ain’t Got You – Alicia Keys
Male R&B Vocal Performance:
Call My Name – Prince
R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
My Boo – Usher and Alicia Keys
Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
Musicology – Prince
Urban/Alternative Performance:
Cross My Mind – Jill Scott
R&B Song:
You Don’t Know My Name – Alicia Keys, Harold Lilly and Kanye West (Alicia Keys)
R&B Album:
The Diary of Alicia Keys – Alicia Keys
Contemporary R&B Album:
Confessions – Usher
Rap Solo Performance:
99 Problems – Jay-Z
Rap Performance by a Duo or Group:
Let’s Get It Started – The Black Eyed Peas
Rap/Sung Collaboration:
Yeah! – Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris
Rap Song:
Jesus Walks – C. Smith and Kanye West (Kanye West)
Rap Album:
The College Dropout – Kanye West
Female Country Vocal Performance:
Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson
Male Country Vocal Performance:
Live Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw
Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal:
Top of the World – Dixie Chicks
Country Collaboration With Vocals:
Portland Oregon – Loretta Lynn and Jack White
Country Instrumental Performance:
Earl’s Breakdown – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band featuring Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Vassar Clements and Jerry Douglas
Country Song:
Live Like You Were Dying – Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman (Tim McGraw):
Country Album:
Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn
Bluegrass Album:
Brand New Strings – Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
New Age Album:
Returning – Will Ackerman
Contemporary Jazz Album:
Unspeakable – Bill Frisell
Jazz Vocal Album:
R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) – Nancy Wilson
Jazz Instrumental Solo:
Speak Like a Child – Herbie Hancock
Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group:
Illuminations – McCoy Tyner with Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash
Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
Concert in the Garden – Maria Schneider Orchestra
Latin Jazz Album:
Land of the Sun – Charlie Haden
Gospel Performance:
Heaven Help Us All – Ray Charles and Gladys Knight
Rock Gospel Album:
Wire – Third Day
Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album:
All Things New – Steven Curtis Chapman
Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album:
Worship and Faith – Randy Travis
Traditional Soul Gospel Album:
There Will Be a Light – Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama
Contemporary Soul Gospel Album:
Nothing Without You – Smokie Norful
Gospel Choir or Chorus Album:
Live… This is Your House – The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Latin Pop Album:
Amar Sin Mentiras – Marc Anthony
Latin Rock/Alternative Album:
Street Signs – Ozomatli
Traditional Tropical Latin Album:
– !Ahora Si! – Israel Lopez “Cachao”
Salsa/Merengue Album:
Across 110th Street – Spanish Harlem Orchestra featuring Ruben Blades
Mexican/Mexican-American Album:
Intimamente – Intocable
Tejano Album:
Polkas, Gritos y Acordeones – David Lee Garza, Joel Guzman and Sunny Sauceda
Traditional Blues Album:
Blues to the Bone – Etta James
Contemporary Blues Album:
Keep It Simple – Keb’ Mo’
Traditional Folk Album:
Beautiful Dreamer – The Songs of Stephen Foster – Various Artists
Contemporary Folk Album:
The Revolution Starts Now – Steve Earle
Native American Music Album:
Cedar Dream Songs – Bill Miller
Hawaiian Music Album:
Slack Key Guitar Volume 2 – Various Artists
Reggae Album:
True Love – Toots and The Maytals
Traditional World Music Album:
Raise Your Spirit Higher – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Contemporary World Music Album:
Egypt – Youssou N’Dour
Polka Album:
Let’s Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album – Brave Combo
Musical Album for Children:
cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins – Various Artists
Spoken Word Album for Children:
The Train They Call The City of New Orleans – Tom Chapin
Spoken Word Album:
My Life – Bill Clinton
Comedy Album:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America: A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart and The Cast of the Daily Show
Musical Show Album:
Wicked
Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
Garden State – Various Artists
Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore, composer
Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
Into the West – Annie Lennox, Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, songwriters, track from “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
Instrumental Composition:
Past Present and Future – Slide Hampton, composer (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra), from “The Way – Music of Slide Hampton”
Instrumental Arrangement:
Past Present and Future – Slide Hampton, arranger (The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra), from “The Way – Music of Slide Hampton”
Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
Over the Rainbow – Victor Vanacore, arranger (Ray Charles & Johnny Mathis), from “Genius Loves Company”
Recording Package:):
A Ghost is Born – Peter Buchanan-Smith and Dan Nadel, art directors (Wilco)
Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package:
Once in a Lifetime – Stefan Sagmeister, art director (Talking Heads)
Album Notes:
The Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra and Woodchoppers (1945-1947) – Loren Schoenberg, album notes writer (Woody Herman and His Orchestra)
Historical Album:
Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues, 1945-1970 – Daniel Cooper and Michael Gray, compilation producers
Engineered Album – Non-Classical:
Genius Loves Company – Robert Fernandez, John Harris, Terry Howard, Pete Karam, Joel Moss, Al Schmitt and Ed Thacker, engineers
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:
John Shanks
Remixed Recording, Non-Classical:
It’s My Life (Jacques Lu Cont’s Thin White Duke Mix) – Jacques Lu Cont, remixer (No Doubt)
Surround Sound Album:
Genius Loves Company – Robert Hadley and Doug Sax, surround mastering
Engineered Album – Classical:
Higdon: City Scape Concerto for Orchestra – Jack Renner, engineer (Robert Spano)
Producer of the Year, Classical:
David Frost
Classical Album:
Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls – Lorin Maazel, conductor
John Adams and Lawrence Rock, producers
Best Orchestral Performance (Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra):
Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls – Lorin Maazel, conductor (Brooklyn Youth Chorus & New York Choral Artists New York Philharmonic, Nonesuch Records)
Opera Recording:
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro – Rene Jacobs, conductor Patrizia Ciofi, Veronique Gens, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager and Lorenzo Regazzo Martin Sauer, producer (Various Artists Concerto K. Joln)
Choral Performance:
Berlioz: Requiem – Robert Spano, conductor
Norman Mackenzie, choir director (Frank Lopardo, tenor Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra):
Previn: Violin Concerto ‘Anne-Sophie’/Bernstein: Serenade – Andre Previn, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
(Boston Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra)
Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra):
Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, etc) – David Russell, guitar
Chamber Music Performance:
Prokofiev (ArrPletnev): Cinderella – Suite for Two Pianos/Ravel: Ma Mere L’Oye – Martha Argerich, piano and Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor):
Carlos Chavez – Complete Chamber Music, Vol2 – Jeff von der Schmidt, conductor Southwest Chamber Music
Classical Vocal Performance:
Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc) – Susan Graham, mezzo soprano
Classical Contemporary Composition:
Adams: on the Transmigration of Souls – John Adams (Lorin Maazel Brooklyn Youth Chorus and New York Choral Artists New York Philharmonic)
Classical Crossover Album:
LAGQ’s Guitar Heroes – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Short Form Music Video:
Vertigo – U2
Long Form Music Video:
Concert for George – Various Artists
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