Grammy Award records

The Grammy Awards holds several records held by various award winners.

Awards

Most Grammys in a lifetime

The record for the most Grammy Awards in a lifetime is held by Sir Georg Solti, a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for twenty-two years. He personally won 31 Grammys [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2DD163DF930A15751C0A9659C8B63 "Music: The Grammys/Classical; Fewer Records, More Attention"] , by Anthony Tommasini, "New York Times", February 23, 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-07.] and is listed for 38 Grammys (6 went to the engineer and 1 to a soloist); he was nominated an additional 74 times before his death in 1997.

Most Grammy Awards for consecutive albums

Pat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 17 Grammy Awards in total, including seven consecutive awards for seven consecutive albums. [ [http://www.ejazznews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=123 Jazz Legends Pat Metheny Group Improvise on Austin City Limits :: eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net :: Jazz News Daily ] ] Metheny held the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories as of the 2005 Grammy Awards:
* Best Jazz Fusion Performance (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990)
* Best Instrumental Composition (1991)
* Best Contemporary Jazz Performance/Album (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005)
* Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (1998, 2000)
* Best Rock Instrumental Performance (1999)
* Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (2001)

Most consecutive performances on albums that won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year

Session drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records which won Record of the Year:
* 1966 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey"
* 1967 Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
* 1968 5th Dimension - "Up, Up and Away"
* 1969 Simon & Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson"
* 1970 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
* 1971 Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Most Grammy Awards as a male solo artist

Stevie Wonder has won more Grammy Awards than any other artist in popular music with a total of 22.Fact|date=June 2008 This does not include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, which he has also received.

Most Grammy Awards as a female solo artist

Alison Krauss, as a solo artist, collaborator, producer and with Union Station has won 21 Grammy Awards, the most ever by a female singer. [http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/02/09/grammy-060209.html "U2 dominates Grammy night"] , CBC News, February 9, 2006. Retrieved 2008-01-07.]

Most wins of the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Aretha Franklin has won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Grammy a record 11 times, 8 of them consecutively.

Youngest winner

LeAnn Rimes is the youngest person to win a Grammy, at 14 years old. [http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/gogreen/30799/ "Grammy Award-Winner, LeAnn Rimes, 'Goes Green'"] , November 15, 2007, All press release, PRNewswire. Retrieved 2008-01-07.] She was also the first country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy. [http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9702/27/grammy.wrap/index.html "Grammy winners run the gamut"] , by Mark Scheerer, February 27, 1997, CNN. Retrieved 2008-01-07.]

ingle ceremony

Most Grammys won by a record producer in one night

The most Grammys won by a record producer in one night is five. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Rick Rubin won Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Country Album for the Dixie Chicks. He was awarded best Rock Album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and he also won Producer of the Year, Non Classical.

Most Grammys won by a male solo artist in one night

The most Grammys won by a male solo artist in one night is eight, which has been accomplished by Michael Jackson in 1984 and Carlos Santana in 2000. [http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/23/grammy.awards.02/ "Santana ties record for most Grammys"] , February 23, 2000, CNN. Retrieved 2008-01-07.]

Most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one night

The most Grammys won by a female solo artist in one night is five, which has been accomplished by five different artists: Lauryn Hill in 1999, , Alicia Keys in 2002, Norah Jones in 2003, Beyoncé in 2004, and Amy Winehouse in 2008. [ [http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/23/anglophenia.jsp?bc_id=899 "Yes, America, Amy Winehouse Is a Star"] , February 11 2008, "BBC America". Retrieved 2008-01-03.]

Artists to have won the "Big Four" Grammy Awards at a single ceremony

Christopher Cross (1981) is the only artist to receive the "Big Four." He won the Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist Grammys in a single ceremony. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1567466_20010832_20010920,00.html "A Virtual College of Grammy Knowledge"] , by Wook Kim, "Entertainment Weekly", 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-07.]

It is often incorrectly reported that Norah Jones won the "Big Four" in 2003 (45th Grammy Awards). She was named Best New Artist, her album "Come Away with Me" was Album of the Year, and "Don't Know Why", from the aforementioned album, was Record of the Year and Song of the Year. However, Jones did not win Song of the Year honors because "Don't Know Why" was written by Jesse Harris. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_Grammy_Awards] .]

Nominations

*Quincy Jones holds the record for the most Grammy nominations with 79. [http://arts.endow.gov/national/jazz/jazz08/jones.html "2008 NEA Jazz Master: Quincy Jones"] , National Endowment for the Arts, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-07.]
*Brian McKnight holds the record for most Grammy nominations without winning, with sixteen.
*Billy Gilman is the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010226/ai_n13899989 "Entertainment Briefs: Country Kids on Tour"] , "Chicago Sun-Times", February 26, 2001. Retrieved 2008-01-07.] In 2001 he was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, losing out to Johnny Cash. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,100419,00.html "Club Culture"] , by Sandra P. Angulo, February 23, 2001, "Entertainment Weekly". Retrieved 2008-01-07.] Gilman was 12 years, 273 days old when he earned the nomination.
* Béla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well as composition and arranging.

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