List of All the Grammy Awards Winners From India

Grammy Awards are the most prestigious music award show presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS, also known as The Recording Academy) in the United States. 

NARAS presented the Grammy Awards for the first time in Los Angeles in 1959. Here is a list of all Indian artists who have won Grammy Awards over the years.

1. West Meets East by Ravi Shankar - 

Nominated and won the Best Chamber Music Performance category in the year 1968. 

Facts: In June 1967, EMI's Angel Records brand released the album in America. For eighteen weeks in 1967 and through January of the following year, West Meets East ranked first on Billboard's list of the best-selling classical LPs. Moreover, it appeared on the mainstream national chart, which ultimately became the Billboard 200, peaking at position 161.

2. The Concert for Bangladesh by Ravi Shankar - 

Nominated and won the Album of the Year in the year 1973.

 

Facts: On January 8, 1972, the album appeared on the Billboard chart. It spent six weeks at No. 2 on the US chart. Three weeks after its release, it reached the top of the charts in the UK. For the country's famine aid, the fundraisers are estimated to have raised $250,000, or around $1.5 million in modern dollars. The concert was made available on DVD in 2005, and it continues to help raise money for what is now known as the George Harrison Fund For UNICEF, along with the album.

3. Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration by Zubin Mehta

Nominated and won Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With Orchestra) and Best Engineered Recording, Classical in the Year 1981.

Numerous world-class violinists gathered in December 1996 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the esteemed Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The soloists performed some of the best pieces written for multiple soloists

4. Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) by Zubin Mehta

Nominated and won the Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance in the year 1982.

The longest term as music director of the New York Philharmonic ever began when Zubin Mehta took over the position of Music director in 1978 and lasted for 13 years. He served as the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's chief conductor from 1985 until 2017.

5. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor & Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert by Zubin Mehta

Nominated and won the Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) & Best Classical Vocal Performance in the Year 1990

6. Planet Drum by T. H. Vinayakram and Zakir Hussain

Nominated and won the Best World Music Album in the year 1991.

Mickey Hart, a musician, and musicologist who was a member of the rock group the Grateful Dead released a global music album titled Planet Drum. The musicians on the Planet Drum album were from the following countries: India (Zakir Hussain and T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram), Brazil (Airto Moreira and his wife, vocalist Flora Purim), Nigeria (Sikiru Adepoju and Babatunde Olatunji), the United States (Hart), and Puerto Rico (Giovanni Hidalgo and Frank Colón). In 1991, the first year the category was awarded, Planet Drum received the Grammy for Best World Music Album. On the Billboard chart for the Top World Music Albums, it reached the top spot.

7. Planet Drum by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Nominated and won the Best World Music Album in the year 1992.

In 1993, Bhatt and American musician Ry Cooder collaborated on the album A Meeting by the River, which received a Grammy in the category of "Best World Music Album."

8. Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 by Ravi Shankar 

Nominated and won the Best World Music Album in the year 2002.

 

Ravi Shankar, an Indian musician, and composer recorded his live CD Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000, which was distributed by the record company Angel Records in 2001. The album features two ragas on each of its five tracks and was recorded at Carnegie Hall in October 2000 as part of a tour with Shankar's daughter Anoushka. The concert marked Shankar's eightieth birthday and took place sixty-two years after his debut appearance at Carnegie Hall; the album was his first live performance in almost twenty years.

9. Slumdog Millionaire by A. R. Rahman, H. Sridhar, P. A. Deepak

Nominated and won the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album in the year 2008.

 

10. Slumdog Millionaire by A. R. Rahman, Tanvi Shah, Gulzar

Nominated and won the Best Song Written for Visual Media in the year 2008.

Rahman won the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian accolade, for his achievement in being the first Indian composer to win at Grammys, taking home the award for both the original score and original song for "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009.

11. Global Drum Project by Zakir Hussain 

Nominated and won the Best Contemporary World Music Album in the year 2008.

12. The Living Room Sessions Pt. 1 by Ravi Shankar

Nominated and won the Best World Music Album in the year 2013.

 

13. Winds of Samsara by Ricky Kej

Nominated and won the Best New Age Album in the year 2015

At the 57th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Bengaluru-based musician Ricky Kej's album "Winds of Samsara," which he produced, took home the Best New Age Album trophy. Mahatma Gandhi is featured in a fusion track on the "Winds of Samsara" album by Indian and African musicians.

14. I Am Malala by Neela Vaswani

Nominated and won the Best Children's Album in the year 2015.

15. Divine Tides by Ricky Kej, along with Stewart Copeland

Nominated and won the Best New Age Album in the year 2022.

At the 2022 Grammy Awards, Kej and American musician and composer Stewart Copeland's 14th studio album Divine Tides shared the "Best New Age Album" award, giving him a second Grammy.

16. A Colorful World by Falu

Nominated and won the Best Children's Music Album in the year 2022.

A Colourful World, an album by Indian-American singer Falguni "Falu" Shah, won the Best Children's Album Grammy at the 2022 Grammy Awards. Shah was trained by the renowned sarangi and vocal master Ustad Sultan Khan in the Jaipur musical tradition and the Banaras style of Thumri.

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