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[edit] Indians who have won the Grammy awards

[edit] A.R. Rahman

2008 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album A. R. Rahman, H. Sridhar, P. A. Deepak for Slumdog Millionaire

2008 Best Song Written for Visual Media A. R. Rahman, Tanvi Shah, Gulzar for Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire

[edit] Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

2025: Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album for Triveni

[edit] Falguni Shah

[US citizen]

2022 ‘Best Children’s Album’ for A Colorful World

[edit] Neela Vaswani

USA

2015 ‘Best Children’s Album’ for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

[edit] Pandit Ravi Shankar

1968 ‘Best Chamber Music Performance’ for West Meets East

1973 ‘Album of the Year’ for his contribution to the album The Concert for Bangladesh by "George Harrison & Friends"

2002 ‘Best World [Music] Album’ for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000.

2013 ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ (posthumous)

2013 ‘Best World Music Album’ for The Living Room Sessions Pt. 1

[edit] Rakesh Chaurasia

2024 Rakesh Chaurasia, nephew of legendary flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia, won two Grammys as part of the ensemble of American banjo player Bela Fleck and American bassist Edgar Meyer for

‘Pashto’ and

‘As We Speak’. (The Times of India 6 February 2024)

[edit] Ricky Kej

2015 Best New Age Album’ for Winds of Samsara with South Africa’s Wouter Kellerman .

2022 ‘Best New Age Album’ for Divine Tides, with Stewart Copeland, ex-of the Police (USA)

2023 Best Immersive Audio Album for Divine Tides with Stewart Copeland.

[edit] Shakti

2024 Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Hussain’s collaborators in the fusion group Shakti, won one Grammy each.

Shakti won the Grammy for best global music album for ‘This Moment’. The album features the four Indians as well as its founding member, British guitarist John McLaughlin. ‘This Moment’, which released to critical acclaim in June 2023, is the group’s first studio album in more than 45 years. (The Times of India 6 February 2024)

[edit] The Monks of Sherabling Monastery

2004

Tibetan Monks of Palpung Sherab Ling Monastery, near the Bir Tibetan settlement: Best Traditional World Music Album Award for Sacred Tibetan Chants: The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery

[edit] T. H. Vikku Vinayakram

1991 Best World Music Album T. H. Vinayakram and Zakir Hussain Planet Drum

[edit] Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

1993 ‘Best World Music Album’ for A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder (USA).

[edit] Zakir Hussain, musician

1991 ‘Best World Album’ for album Planet Drum with percussionist TH Vinayakram

2008 ‘Best Contemporary World Music Album’ for Global Drum Project.

2024 Zakir Hussain three Grammys,

• best global music performance for ‘Pashto’ ‘Pashto’ is one of the 12 songs in the fusion album ‘As We Speak’.

• best contemporary instrumental album for ‘As We Speak’.

• See Shakti on this page (The Times of India 6 February 2024)

[edit] Zubin Mehta

1981 ‘Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra)’ for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration.

1981 ‘Best Engineered Recording, Classical’ award for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration.

1982 ‘Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance’ for Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)

1990 ‘Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra)’ for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor

1990 ‘Best Classical Vocal Performance’ for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert

[edit] More than one artiste

[edit] 2024

BEST GLOBAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE: PASHTO

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia

BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: AS WE SPEAK

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia

[edit] Indians nominated for the Grammys

[edit] Ali Akbar Khan

1 997 Best World Music Album for Legacy

1998 Best World Music Album for Passing on the Tradition

[edit] Anoushka Shankar

2002 Best World Music Album for Live at Carnegie Hall

2005 Best Contemporary World Music Album for Rise

2012 Best World Music Album for Traveller

2014 Best World Music Album for Traces of You

2015 Best World Music Album for Home

2016 Best World Music Album for Land Of Gold

2021 Best World Music Album for Love Letters

[edit] Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

2010 Best Contemporary World Music Album for "Om Namo Narayanaya: Soul Call"

[edit] L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain and T. H. Vinayakram

1 996 Best World Music Album for Raga Aberi

[edit] Priya Darshini

2021 Best New Age Album for Periphery

[edit] Ravi Shankar

2014 Best World Music Album for The Living Room Sessions Pt. 2

[edit] T. H. Vinayakram and Zakir Hussain

1 991 Best World Music Album for Planet Drum

[edit] Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

1 997 Best World Music Album for Tabula Rasa

[edit] Zubin Mehtaa

1 969 Album Of The Year, Classical for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

1969 Best Classical Performance, Orchestra for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

1970 Best Opera Recording for Verdi: Il Trovatore

1971 Best Choral Performance, Classical for Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces

1973 Best Opera Recording for Puccini: Turandot

1976 Best Classical Orchestral Performance for The Fourth Of July(Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations On America/ Copland: Appalachian Spring/ Bernstein: Overture To Candide/ Gershwin: American In Paris)

1978 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

1978 Best Classical Orchestral Performance for Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring

1978 Best Opera Recording for Puccini: La Fanciulla Del West

1979 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Manhattan - Music From The Woody Allen Film

1980 Best Classical Album for Bartók: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

1981 Best Classical Album for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

1981 Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) for Verdi: Requiem

1983 Best Classical Album for Vivaldi: Four Seasons And Concerto For 4 Violins, Op. 3, No. 10/ Bach: Double Concerto BWV 1043/ Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364

1990 Best Classical Album for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert

1994 Album Of The Year for The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994

1994 Best Pop Album for The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994

2007 Best Opera Recording for Verdi: La Traviata

[edit] Indians who have been nominated for the Grammy awards: II

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Amjad Ali Khan 2010

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily 2024: ‘best global music performance’ category’: ‘Shadow Forces’ by Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily

Asha Bhosle 2005

Bickram Ghosh Has played on one Grammy- winning (’Full Circle’ with Ravi Shankar) and four Grammy- nominated albums.

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon 2011

Debashish Bhattacharya 2009

Falu 2024: ‘best global music performance’ category’: ‘Abundance In Millets’, a song by Falu and featuring PM Modi,

Lakshmi Shankar 2009

Louis Banks 2009

Nawang Khechog 1996

Ngawang Tashi Bapu 2006

Vijay Iyer 2011

[edit] Note

Indpaedia believes that this is a complete, exhaustive list of all Indians and people of Indian origin who have won or been nominated for a Grammy award.

Three of the winners/ nominees are from the Shankar family.

It would be a pleasure to include Norah Jones, but it is not certain if Miss Jones would want to be included.

[edit] See also

Cannes and Indian cinema

Grammy awards and Indian artistes

The Oscars and Indian cinema

The Oscars and Pakistani cinema