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33rd Annual Grammy Awards

The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Quincy Jones was the night's biggest winner winning a total of six awards including Album of the Year.[2][3]

33rd Annual Grammy Awards

February 20, 1991

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Quincy Jones

CBS

& Gloria Estefan – Best Pop Vocal Performance Male

Sting

& Bobby Brown – Best Rap Solo Performance

Young MC

& Michael Bolton – Best R&B Vocal Performance Male

Regina Belle

& Take 6 – Best New Artist

En Vogue

– Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to John Lennon. Yoko Ono accepts the award on his behalf.

Richard Gere

& Don Henley – Album of the Year

Bonnie Raitt

& Natalie Cole – Song of the Year

James Ingram

– Best Country Vocal Performance Male

The Judds

& Vince Gill – Best Country Performance by Duo or Group

Randy Travis

& Lisa Stansfield – Best Rock Vocal Performance Male

The Kentucky Headhunters

& Edward James Olmos – Best Tropical Latin Performance

Maria Conchita Alonso

& Tommy Tune – Best Musical Cast Show Album

Bernadette Peters

& Debbie Gibson – Best Pop Vocal Performance Female

Vanilla Ice

– Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Bob Dylan

Jack Nicholson

& Quincy Jones – Best Jazz Vocal Performance Male

Stanley Jordan

& The B-52s – Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group

Cyndi Lauper

– Presents the President of the Recording Academy

Quincy Jones

& Johnny Gill – Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group

Graham Nash

& Jon Bon Jovi – Record of the Year

Diana Ross

"" – Phil Collins

Another Day in Paradise

Rhett Lawrence

Arif Mardin

Nellee Hooper

was given a lifetime award presented by Jack Nicholson and sang "Masters of War" on the night of the first US invasion of Iraq.

Bob Dylan

was granted a posthumous lifetime achievement award, one year after his partner, Paul McCartney.

John Lennon

The Chairman's Merit Award to for the Anthology of American Folk Music

Harry Everett Smith

Reception[edit]

In a contemporary review, Variety described the telecast was "one of the most unmemorable in memory" and that "This year's telecast was doomed from the moment Sinead O'Connor, the artist behind the year's most compelling record, announced that she would boycott the show because the awards celebrate commercialism."[4] The review critiqued the performers stating that Garth Brooks stage set up resembled a "Noël Coward play", Billy Idol changed a lyric of "Cradle of Love" to state "This song is so cheesy" and that MC Hammer appeared to be wrapped in aluminium foil.[4]


The review spoke positively about performance of En Vogue and Take 6 and the a cappella performance by Tracy Chapman.[4]