Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards (originally the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, make up the rest). However, the Grammys, usually held in February, (last of what are considered the "big three" music awards shows, including the BMA and AMA shows) are considered the approximate equivalent to the Oscars, in the music world.

Grammy Records

Pat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 16 Grammys in total, including six consecutive awards for six consecutive albums. Metheny, as of the 2004 Grammy Awards, holds the record for most Grammy wins in different categories:

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Pat Metheny - Pat Metheny Group

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• Best Jazz Fusion Performance (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990)
• Best Instrumental Composition (1991)
• Best Contemporary Jazz Performance/Album (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003)
• Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (1998, 2000)
• Best Rock Instrumental Perfomance (1999)
• Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (2001)
• Best New Age Album (2004)

Session drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records which won Record of the Year:

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Hal Blaine - Record of the Year

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• 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"

Soul and R&B legend Aretha Franklin has won 11 awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, including 8 consecutive (and the first 8 ever awarded) awards in the category:

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Aretha Franklin - Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

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• 1968 - "Respect"
• 1969 - "Chain of Fools"
• 1970 - "Share Your Love With Me"
• 1971 - "Don't Play That Song"
• 1972 - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
• 1973 - Young, Gifted, and Black
• 1974 - "Master of Eyes"
• 1975 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing"
• 1982 - "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
• 1986 - "Freeway of Love"
• 1988 - Aretha

Conductor Sir Georg Solti holds the record for most Grammys won, having won a total of thirty-eight awards before his death in 1997.

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Conductor - Georg Solti

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Alison Krauss has the most Grammy's for a female. Aretha Franklin also has 17 awards to her name (if one counts her Lifetime Achievement Award)

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Alison Krauss - Aretha Franklin

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Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) and Norah Jones (Grammy Awards of 2003) are the only artists to receive the "Big Four" (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in a single ceremony.

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Christopher Cross - Grammy Awards of 1981 - Norah Jones - Grammy Awards of 2003 - Record of the Year - Album of the Year - Song of the Year - Best New Artist

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