List of Indian Grammy Award winners and nominees

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The following is a list of Grammy Awards winners and nominees from India.

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Ravi Shankar with Allarakha & Zakir Hussain & Partho Sarothy (cropped).jpg
Ravi Shankar (3rd from left) won 5 Grammy awards including Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Zakir Hussain (rightmost) has won 4
Zubin Mehta at NCPA.jpg
Zubin Mehta has been nominated 18 times, most for any Indian

Winners

NomineeWinsNominations
Ravi Shankar [1] 510
Zakir Hussain [2] 47
Ricky Kej [3] 34
A. R. Rahman [4] 22
P. A. Deepak [5] 22
Rakesh Chaurasia [6] 22
Falu 13
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt [7] 12
Chandrika Tandon [8] 12
Ganesh Rajagopalan [9] 13
Gulzar [10] 11
H. Sridhar [11] 10
Shankar Mahadevan [12] 13
Shakti [13] 11
Tanvi Shah [14] 11
V. Selvaganesh [15] 11
T. H. Vinayakram [16] 11

Nominees without ever winning

NomineeWinsNominations
Zubin Mehta [17] 018
Ali Akbar Khan [18] 05
Aashish Khan 01
Gaurav Shah 01
L. Shankar 01
Lakshmi Shankar 01

List

YearCategoryNominees(s)Nominated workResult
1967 Best Folk Recording Ravi Shankar [19] Sound Of The Sitar Nominated
1968 Best Chamber Music Performance Ravi Shankar West Meets East Won
1970 Album Of The Year, Classical Zubin Mehta [20] Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Album)Nominated
Best Classical Performance, Orchestra Zubin Mehta Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Album)Nominated
Best Opera Recording Zubin Mehta Verdi: Il Trovatore (Album)Nominated
1971 Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording (Including Traditional Blues) Ali Akbar Khan [21] Shree RagNominated
1972 Best Choral Performance, Classical Zubin Mehta Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces (Album)Nominated
1973 Album of the Year Ravi Shankar The Concert for Bangladesh Won
1974Best Opera Recording Zubin Mehta Puccini: Turandot (Album)Nominated
1977 Best Classical Orchestral Performance Zubin Mehta The Fourth Of July(Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations On America/ Copland: Appalachian Spring/ Bernstein: Overture To Candide/ Gershwin: American In Paris) (Album)Nominated
1979 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Zubin Mehta Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Album)Nominated
Best Classical Orchestral Performance Zubin Mehta Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring (Album)Nominated
Best Opera Recording Zubin Mehta Puccini: La Fanciulla Del West (Album)Nominated
1980Best Pop Instrumental Performance Zubin Mehta Manhattan - Music From The Woody Allen FilmNominated
1981 Best Classical Album Zubin Mehta Bartók: Concerto For Violin And OrchestraNominated
1982Best Classical Album Zubin Mehta Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration (Album)Nominated
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) Zubin Mehta Verdi: Requiem (Album)Nominated
1984Best Classical Album Zubin Mehta Vivaldi: Four Seasons And Concerto For 4 Violins, Op. 3, No. 10/ Bach: Double Concerto BWV 1043/ Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 (Album)Nominated
Best Ethnic Or Traditional Folk Recording Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan Raga Mishra PilooNominated
1991Best Classical Album Zubin Mehta Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert (Album)Nominated
1994 Best World Music Album Vishwa Mohan Bhatt [22] A Meeting by the River Won
1995Album Of The Year Zubin Mehta The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994 (Album)Nominated
Best Pop Album Zubin Mehta The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994 (Album)Nominated
1996 Best Traditional Folk Album Ali Akbar Khan Then and NowNominated
Best World Music Album L. Shankar, T. H. Vinayakram, [23] and Zakir Hussain [24] Raga Aberi Nominated
1997Best World Music Album Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Tabula Rasa Nominated
Ali Akbar Khan LegacyNominated
1998Best World Music Album Ali Akbar Khan Passing on the TraditionNominated
2002Best World Music Album Ravi Shankar Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000Won
2007 Best Traditional World Music Album Aashish Khan [25] and Zakir Hussain Golden Strings of the SarodeNominated
2008Best Opera Recording Zubin Mehta Verdi: La TraviataNominated
2009Best Traditional World Music Album Lakshmi Shankar [26] Dancing in the LightNominated
Best Contemporary World Music Album Zakir Hussain Global Drum Project Won
2010 Best Classical Crossover Album Zakir Hussain The Melody of RhythmNominated
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media A. R. Rahman, [27] P. A. Deepak, [28] and H. Sridhar [29] Slumdog Millionaire Won
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media Gulzar, [30] A. R. Rahman, and Tanvi Shah [31] Jai Ho (from Slumdog Millionaire)Won
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Ravi Shankar HonoraryWon
Best World Music Album Ravi Shankar The Living Room Sessions Pt. 1Won
2014Best World Music Album Ravi Shankar The Living Room Sessions Pt. 2Nominated
2015 Best New Age Album Ricky Kej [32] Winds of SamsaraWon
2019 Best Children's Music Album Falu Falu's BazaarNominated
2022Best New Age Album Ricky Kej and P. A. Deepak Divine TidesWon
Best Children's Music Album Falu A Colorful WorldWon
2023 Best Immersive Audio Album Ricky Kej Divine TidesWon
2024 Best Global Music Performance Falu, Gaurav Shah [33] Abundance in Millets Nominated
Best Global Music Performance Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia [34] PashtoWon
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia As We SpeakWon
Best Global Music Album Shakti [35] (Zakir Hussain, V. Selvaganesh, [36] Ganesh Rajagopalan, [37] and Shankar Mahadevan [38] ) This Moment Won
2025 Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album Chandrika Tandon TriveniWon
Ricky Kej Break of DawnNominated
2026 Best Global Music Album Siddhant Bhatia [39] Sounds Of Kumbha [40] Pending
Shakti Mind Explosion [50th Anniversary Tour Live] [41] Pending
Anoushka Shankar Chapter III: We Return To LightPending
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Charu Suri ShayanPending

See also

References

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