2012 Grammy Awards - All The Winners
Feb. 12 2012, Published 4:15 a.m. ET
By Alexis Tereszcuk - RadarOnline.com Senior Reporter
UPDATE: Adele wins Album of the Year for 21!
UPDATE: Adele wins again! She takes home Record of the Year for Rolling in the Deep!
UPDATE: Jennifer Hudson gives an amazing performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You!"
UPDATE: Best New Artist award goes to Bon Iver
UPDATE: Best Country Album winner is Lady Antebellum for "Own the Night"
UPDATE: Song of the Year goes to Adele for "Rolling in the Deep"
UPDATE: Best R&B Album winner is Chris Brown for F.A.M.E.
UPDATE: The Foo Fighters win Best Rock Performance for "Walk!"
UPDATE: Kanye West and Jay-Z win Best Rap Performance for "Otis"
UPDATE: Adele wins Best Pop Solo Performance for "Someone Like You!"
UPDATE: Touching videos of Whitney Houston's Grammy wins - she looked gorgeous every time!
UPDATE: LL Cool J opened the show with a prayer for Whitney. "Heavenly Father, we thank you for sharing our sister Whitney with us. Today, our thoughts are with her mother, her daughter, and all of her loved ones, and although she's gone too soon, we remain truly blessed to have been blessed by her beautiful spirit."
UPDATE: Lots of Awards given out pre-show - Bon Iver won Best Alternative Music Album, Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance "White Limo," Best Rock Song "Walk," Best Rock Album "Wasting Light" winner Foo Fighters, Best Country Solo Performance winner Taylor Swift for "Mean."
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The shocking death of Whitney Houston is going to cast a great sadness over the star studded 2012 Grammy Awards, but the show will go on.
On the night that all of music's greatest talents gather to celebrate their accomplishments, Whitney will be lovingly honored by the friends and fans that loved her, and RadarOnline.com will have the live updates of the tributes, winners, big moments and everything else that happens at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards!
Jennifer Hudson is expected to be performing a tribute to Whitney, which will showcase her amazing vocal talents.
Adele is nominated for six Grammys and will be performing, Kanye West is up for seven, and Skillrex's nomination for Best New Artist makes this the category one to watch! Chris Brown will be performing tonight and Rihanna will be teaming up to perform with Chris Martin and Coldplay.
Check back with RadarOnline.com for the inside scoop from the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles where music royalty will celebrate the 2012 Grammy Awards.
See below for the complete list of winners:
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Album of the Year -- Adele for 21!
Record of the Year -- Adele for "Rolling in the Deep"
Best New Artist -- Bon Iver
Best Country Album -- Lady Antebellum for Own the Night
Song of the Year -- Adele for "Rolling in the Deep"
Best R&B Album -- Chris Brown for F.A.M.E.
Best Rock Performance -- The Foo Fighters for "Walk"
Best Rap Performance -- Kanye West and Jay-Z for "Otis"
Best Pop Solo Performance -- Adele for "Someone Like You"
Best Alternative Music Album -- Bon Iver for Bon Iver
Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance -- The Foo Fighters for "White Limo"
Best Rock Song -- The Foo Fighters for "Walk"
Best Rock Album -- The Foo Fighters for Wasting Light
Best Country Solo Performance -- Taylor Swift for "Mean"
Country Duo/Group Performance -- The Civil Wars for "Barton Hollow"
Folk Album -- The Civil Wars for Barton Hollow
Best Country Song -- Taylor Swift’s "Mean"
Best Dance Recording -- Skrillex’s "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"
Best Dance/Electronica Album -- Skrillex’s Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Best Recording Package -- Caroline Robert for Scenes from The Suburbs, for Arcade Fire
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance -- Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse for "Body and Soul"
Best Pop Instrumental Album -- Booker T. Jones for The Road from Memphis
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album -- Tony Bennett and various artists for Duets II
Best R&B Performance -- Corinne Bailey Rae for "Is This Love"
Best Traditional R&B Performance -- Cee Lo Green and Melanie Fiona for "Fool for You"
Best R&B Song -- Cee Lo Green and Co. for "Fool for You"
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration -- Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie’s "All of the Lights"
Best Rap Song -- Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie for "All of the Lights"
Best Rap Album -- Kanye West for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Best New Age Album -- Pet Metheny for What’s It All About
Best Improvised Jazz Solo -- Chick Corea for "500 Miles High"
Best Jazz Vocal Album -- Terri Lyne Carrington and various artists for The Mosaic Project
Best Jazz Instrumental -- Corea, Clarke and White for Forever
Best Large Jazz Ensemble -- Christian McBride Big Band's The Good Feeling
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Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance -- Le’Andria Johnson for "Jesus"
Best Gospel Song -- Kirk Franklin for "Hello Fear"
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song -- Laura Story for "Blessings"
Best Gospel Album -- Kirk Franklin for Hello Fear
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album -- Chris Tomlin for And If Our God Is For Us…
Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album -- Mana for Drama Y Luz
Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album -- Pepe Aguilar for Bicentenario
Best Bands or Norteno Album -- Los Tigres Del Norte for Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends
Best Tropical Latin Album -- Cachao for The Last Mambo
Best Americana Album -- Levon Helm for Ramble at the Ryman
Best Bluegrass Album -- Alison Krauss and Union Station for Paper Airplane
Best Blues Album -- Tedeschi Trucks Band for Revelator
Best Regional Roots Music Album -- Rebirth Brass Band for Rebirth of New Orleans
Best Reggae Album -- Stephen Marley for Revelatino Pt. 1: The Root of Life
Best World Music Album -- Tinariwen for Tassili
Best Children’s Album -- All About Bullies… Big & Small
Best Spoken World Album -- Betty White for If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t)
Best Comedy Album -- Louis C.K. for Hilarious
Best Musical Theatre Album -- The Book of Mormom
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media -- Boardwalk Empire: Vol. 1
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media -- Alexandre Desplat for The King’s Speech
Best Song Written for Visual Media -- I See the Light (from Tangled)
Best Instrumental Composition -- Bela Fleck and Howard Levy for "Life in Eleven"
Best Instrumental Arrangement -- Gordon Goodwin for "Rhapsody in Blue" for Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist -- Jorge Calandrelli for Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), for Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package -- Dave Bett and Michelle Holme for The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story
Best Album Notes -- Hear Me Howling: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s
Best Historical Album -- Band on the Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection – Deluxe Edition)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical -- Alison Krauss and Union Station for Paper Airplane
Best Producer of the Year, Non-Classical -- Paul Epworth
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical -- Cinema (Skrillex Remix)
Best Surround Sound Album -- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition)
Best Engineered Album, Classical -- Robert Aldridge for Elmer Gantry
Best Producer of the Year, Classical -- Judith Sherman
Best Orchestral Performance -- Brahms, Symphony No. 4 by Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
Best Opera Recording -- Adams: Doctor Atomic
Best Choral Performance -- Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King's Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)
Best Small Ensemble Performance -- Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide
Best Classical Instrumental Solo -- Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony
Best 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
Best Contemporary Classical Composition -- Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein for Elmer Gantry
Best Short Form Music Video -- Adele's "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Long Form Music Video -- Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
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