Mumford and Sons tastes Grammy success
Los Angeles, Feb 11 : English folk rock band Mumford and Sons shined at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards as it clinched the Album of the Year prize for their album "Babel" here on the star-studded Sunday night.
Indie rock band Fun won the Song of the Year award for the song 'We Are Young'.
Indian musician and sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar, who passed away last year, was awarded with double Grammy Awards.
He was awarded the Best World Music Album Grammy for - 'The Living Room Sessions Part 1'.
The legendary sitar exponent was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.
His daughter Anoushka Shankar accepted the Grammy on his behalf.
List of winners is as follows:
Best Alternative Music Album: Gotye- Making Mirrors
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Gotye featuring Kimbra- Somebody That I Used To Know
Best Rock Album: The Black Keys- El Camino
Best Rock Song: Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton and Patrick Carney - Lonely Boy
Best World Music Album: Pandit Ravi Shankar - The Living Room Sessions, Part 1
Best Country Song: Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins and Carrie Underwood- Blown Away
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Pontoon - Little Big Town
Best Rap Song: Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis and Kanye West - N****s In Paris
Best Rap Performance: Shawn Carter and Kanye West - N****s In Paris
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Best R and B Album: Robert Glasper- Black Radio
Best Dance/Electronica Album: Skrillex - Bangarang
Best Dance Recording: Skrillex featuring Sirah - Bangarang
Best Regional Roots Album: Wayne Toups, Steve Riley and Wilson Savoy - The Band Courtbouillon
Best Folk Album: Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions
Best Blues Album: Dr John - Locked Down
Best Americana Album: Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Midnight In Paris
Best Latin Jazz Album: The Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band - iRitmo!
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Esperanza Spaulding - Radio Music Society
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Gary Buron and Chick Corea - Hot House
Best New Age Album: Oakram - Echoes of Love
Best Comedy Album: Jimmy Fallon - Blow Your Pants Off
Best Spoken Word Album: Janis Ian - Society's Child: My Autobiography
Best Children's Album: The Okee Dokee Brothers - Can You Canoe
Best Reggae Album: Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Stephen Hartke - Meanwhile - Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays
Best Classical Compendium: Antoni Wit - Penderecki: Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; Partita; The Awakening Of Jacob; Anaklasis
Best Classical Vocal Performance: Renee Fleming - Poemes
Best Producer of the Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh
Best Orchestral Performance: Michael Tilson Thomas - Adams Harmonielehre and Short Ride In A Fast Machine
Best Opera Recording: James Levine and Fabio Luisi - Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Tom Caufield and John Newton - Life and Breath
Best Tropical Latin Album: Marlow Rosado Y La Riquena - Retro
Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album: Lila Downs - Pecados Y Milagros
Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: Quetzal - Imaginaries
Best Latin Pop Album, Rock or Urban Album: Juanes - MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: TobyMac - Eye on It
Best Gospel Album: Lecrae - Gravity
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Matt Redman (Writers: Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman) - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord), and Israel and New Breed (Writers: Israel Houghton and Micah Massey) - Your Presence is Heaven
Best Gospel Song: Mary Mary (Writer: Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell and Warryn Campbell) - Go Get It
Best Gospel Contemporary Christian Musical Performance: Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Best Surround Sound Album: Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer Modern Cool; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Michael Friedman, surround producer (Patricia Barber)
Best Remixed Recording, Non Classical: Promises (Skrillex and Nero Remix) Skrillex, remixer (Nero)
Best Engineered Album, Non Classical: Richard King, engineer, Richard King, mastering engineer (Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile) - The Goat Rodeo Sessions
Best Historical Album: Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Brian Wilson and Dennis Wolfe, compilation producers -The Smile Sessions (Deluxe Box Set); Mark Linett, mastering engineer The Beach Boys
Best Album Notes: Billy Vera, album notes writer (Ray Charles)- Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Fritz Klaetke, art director (Woody Guthrie)- Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
Best Recording Package: Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, art directors (Bjork) - Biophilia
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist: Thara Memory and Esperanza Spalding, arrangers (Esperanza Spalding) - City of Roses
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Gil Evans, arranger (Gil Evans Project) - How About You
Best Instrumental Composition: Chick Corea, composer (Chick Corea and Gary Burton) - Mozart Goes Dancing
Best Long Form Music Video: Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show Big Easy Express
Best Short Form Music Video: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love
Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele - Set Fire to the Rain
Best Country Solo Performance: Carrie Underwood - Blown Away
Song of the Year: fun. and Janelle Monae - We Are Young
Best Urban Contemporary Album: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Best Rock Performance: The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Dan Auerbach
Best Pop Vocal Album: Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean and The Dream - No Church in the Wild
Best Country Album: Zac Brown Band - Uncaged
Best New Artist: Fun.
Record of the Year: Gotye and Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
Album of the Year: Mumford and Sons - Babel
Lifetime Achievement Award: Pandit Ravi Shankar