43rd Grammy Awards
The 43rd Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 2001. Steely Dan was the biggest winner winning three awards including Album of the Year for Two Against Nature. U2 was also a big winner winning three awards as well; including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for Beautiful Day. Dr. Dre also won 3 awards including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical & Best Rap Album for Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem also managed to walk away with 3 awards out of his four nominations . Then Country pop star Faith Hill also took home 3 awards for Best Country Album for the album Breathe, Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song's title track and for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with Tim McGraw for "Let's Make Love".[1]
General
- Record of the Year
"Say My Name" - Destiny's Child
"I Try" - Macy Gray
"Music" - Madonna
"Beautiful Day" - U2
"Bye Bye Bye" - *NSYNC
- Album of the Year
Midnite Vultures - Beck
Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
Kid A - Radiohead
You're the One - Paul Simon
- Song of the Year
"Say My Name" - Destiny's Child
"Beautiful Day" - U2
"I Try" - Macy Gray
"Breathe" - Faith Hill
"I Hope You Dance" - Lee Ann Womack
- Best New Artist
Brad Paisley
Papa Roach
Shelby Lynne
Jill Scott
Sisqó
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
- Best Orchestral Performance
- Best Classical Vocal Performance
- Best Opera Recording
- Martin Sauer (producer), Jean Chatauret (engineer), Kent Nagano (conductor), Kim Begley, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Eva Jenis, Torsten Kerl & the Orchestre de l'Opera Nationale de Lyon for Busoni: Doktor Faust
- Best Choral Performance
- Karen Wilson (producer), Don Harder (engineer), Helmuth Rilling (conductor) & the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra & Chorus for Penderecki: Credo
- Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
- Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
- Tobias Lehmann (producer), Jens Schünemann (engineer) & Sharon Isbin for Dreams of a World (Works of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipo, Duarte, Etc.)
- Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without conductor)
- Best Chamber Music Performance
- Best Classical Contemporary Composition
- George Crumb (composer) & Thomas Conlin for Crumb: Star-Child
- Best Classical Album
- Best Classical Crossover Album
Composing and arranging
Country
Film/TV/media
Folk
Gospel
Historical
Jazz
Latin
Musical show
Music video
=Album performed by John Lennon
New Age
Packaging and notes
Polka
Pop
- Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
"What a Girl Wants" - Christina Aguilera
"I Try" - Macy Gray
"Music" - Madonna
"Save Me" - Aimee Mann
"Both Sides Now" - Joni Mitchell
"Oops!...I Did It Again" - Britney Spears
- Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
"You Sang to Me" - Marc Anthony
"Taking You Home" - Don Henley
"She Bangs" - Ricky Martin
"6, 8, 12" - Brian McKnight
"She Walks This Earth" - Sting
- Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
"Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" - Backstreet Boys
"Pinch Me" - Barenaked Ladies
"Cousin Dupree" - Steely Dan
"Breathless" - The Corrs
"Bye Bye Bye" - *NSYNC
- Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
"Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" - B.B. King & Dr. John
"Thank God I Found You" - Mariah Carey, 98 Degrees & Joe
"The Difficult Kind" - Sheryl Crow & Sarah McLachlan
"All the Way" - Celine Dion & Frank Sinatra
"Turn Your Lights Down Low" - Lauryn Hill & Bob Marley
- Best Pop Instrumental Performance
Brian Setzer for "Caravan" performed by the Brian Setzer Orchestra
- Best Dance Recording
Michael Mangini, Steve Greenberg (producers & mixers) & Baha Men for "Who Let the Dogs Out"
- Best Pop Vocal Album
Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett, Roger Nichols (engineers/mixers), Donald Fagen, Walter Becker (producers) & Steely Dan for Two Against Nature
- Best Pop Instrumental Album
Dan Gellert (engineer/mixer) & Joe Jackson (producer & artist) for Symphony No. 1
Production and engineering
R&B
Rap
Reggae
Rock
Spoken
Traditional pop
World
Special Merit Awards
Trivia
- The three awards Steely Dan won were their first ever career Grammy Wins.
- Eminem's controversial The Marshall Mathers LP which had several nominations including Album of the Year caused outrage. 200 protesters on behalf of GLAAD and other groups gathered outside the Staples Center to protest Eminem's album which they considered homophobic and sexist. He performed his hit "Stan" as a duet with openly gay musician Elton John at the ceremony in response to these allegations.
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