The Grammy Awards 2012 held on Sunday started off with performance from Bruce Springsteen. Then the mood of the award function changed with the event host LL Cool J appearing in black and paiying tribute to singer Whitney Houston, who passed away on Saturday.
The night belonged to British singer Adele, who swept all the six nominations, including song of the year for her smash hit "Rolling in the Deep". The Foo Fighters captured five of the six categories they were nominated in.
Here is the winners list of the Grammy Awards 2012:
1. Record Of The Year
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
2. Album Of The Year
21 - Adele
3. Song Of The Year
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
4. Best New Artist
Bon Iver
5. Best Pop Solo Performance
Someone Like You - Adele
6. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Body And Soul - Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
7. Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Road From Memphis - Booker T. Jones
8. Best Pop Vocal Album
21 - Adele
9. Best Dance Recording
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites - Skrillex
10. Best Dance/Electronica Album
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites - Skrillex
11. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Duets II - Tony Bennett & Various Artists
12. Best Rock Performance
Walk - Foo Fighters
13. Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
White Limo - Foo Fighters
14. Best Rock Song
Walk - Foo Fighters
15. Best Rock Album
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
16. Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver
17. Best R&B Performance
Is This Love - Corinne Bailey Rae
18. Best Traditional R&B Performance
Fool For You - Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona
19. Best R&B Song
Fool For You - Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim, Jack Splash
20. Best R&B Album
F.A.M.E. - Chris Brown
21. Best Rap Performance
Otis - Jay-Z & Kanye West
22. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
All Of The Lights - Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie
23. Best Rap Song
All Of The Lights - Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West
24. Best Rap Album
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
25. Best Country Solo Performance
Mean - Taylor Swift
26. Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
27. Best Country Song
Mean - Taylor Swift
28. Best Country Album
Own The Night - Lady Antebellum
29. Best New Age Album
What's It All About - Pat Metheny
30. Best Improvised Jazz Solo
500 Miles High - Chick Corea, soloist
31. Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Mosaic Project - Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists
32. Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Forever - Corea, Clarke & White
33. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
The Good Feeling - Christian McBride Big Band
34. Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance
Jesus - Le'Andria Johnson
35. Best Gospel Song
Hello Fear - Kirk Franklin
36. Best Contemporary Christian Music Song
Blessings - Laura Story
37. Best Gospel Album
Hello Fear - Kirk Franklin
38. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
And If Our God Is For Us - Chris Tomlin
39. Best Latin Pop, Rock, Or Urban Album
Drama Y Luz - Maná
40. Best Regional Mexican Or Tejano Album
Bicentenario - Pepe Aguilar
41. Best Banda Or Norteño Album
Los Tigres Del Norte And Friends - Los Tigres Del Norte
42. Best Tropical Latin Album
The Last Mambo - Cachao
43. Best Americana Album
Ramble At The Ryman - Levon Helm
44. Best Bluegrass Album
Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss & Union Station
45. Best Blues Album
Revelator - Tedeschi Trucks Band
46. Best Folk Album
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars
47. Best Regional Roots Music Album
Rebirth Of New Orleans - Rebirth Brass Band
48. Best Reggae Album
Revelation Pt 1: The Root Of Life - Stephen Marley
49. Best World Music Album
Tassili - Tinariwen
50. Best Children's Album
All About Bullies... Big And Small - Various Artists
51. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling)
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) - Betty White
52. Best Comedy Album
Hilarious - Louis C.K.
53. Best Musical Theater Album
The Book Of Mormon - Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells
54. Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media
Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1 - Various Artists
55. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media
The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat, composer
56. Best Song Written For Visual Media
I See The Light (From Tangled) - Alan Menken & Glenn Slater
57. Best Instrumental Composition
Life In Eleven - Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers
58. Best Instrumental Arrangement
Rhapsody In Blue - Gordon Goodwin
59. Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Jorge Calandrelli, arranger
60. Best Recording Package
Scenes From The Suburbs - Caroline Robert
61. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story - Dave Bett & Michelle Holme
62. Best Album Notes
Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond As Recorded By The San Francisco Bay By Chris Strachwitz In The 1960s
63. Best Historical Album
Band On The Run (Paul McCartney Archive Collection - Deluxe Edition) - Paul McCartney
64. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Paper Airplane - Neal Cappellino & Mike Shipley
65. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Paul Epworth
Call It What You Want (Foster The People) (T)
I Would Do Anything For You (Foster The People) (T)
I'll Be Waiting (Adele) (T)
Life On The Nickel (Foster The People) (T)
No One's Gonna Love You (Cee-Lo Green) (S)
Rolling In The Deep (Adele) (T)
66. Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Cinema (Skrillex Remix) - Sonny Moore
67. Best Surround Sound Album
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition) - Elliot Scheiner
68. Best Engineered Album, Classical
Aldridge: Elmer Gantry - Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton
69. Producer Of The Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Adams: Son Of Chamber Symphony; String Quartet (John Adams, St. Lawrence String Quartet & International Contemporary Ensemble)
Capricho Latino (Rachel Barton Pine)
85th Birthday Celebration (Claude Frank)
Insects & Paper Airplanes - Chamber Music Of Lawrence Dillon (Daedalus Quartet & Benjamin Hochman)
Midnight Frolic - The Broadway Theater Music Of Louis A. Hirsch (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)
Notable Women - Trios By Today's Female Composers (Lincoln Trio)
The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1 - String Quartets By Dmitri Shostakovich & His Contemporaries (Pacifica Quartet)
Speak! (Anthony De Mare)
State Of The Art - The American Brass Quintet At 50 (The American Brass Quintet)
Steve Reich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns (Kronos Quartet, Steve Reich Musicians & So Percussion)
Winging It - Piano Music Of John Corigliano (Ursula Oppens)
70. Best Orchestral Performance
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Gustavo Dudamel
71. Best Opera Recording
Adams: Doctor Atomic - Alan Gilbert
72. Best Choral Performance
Light & Gold - Eric Whitacre
73. Best Small Ensemble Performance
Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide - Rinde Eckert & Steven Mackey; Eighth Blackbird
74. Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Schwantner: Concerto For Percussion & Orchestra - Giancarlo Guerrero
75. Best Classical Vocal Solo
Diva Divo - Joyce
76. Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry - Robert Aldridge & Herschel Garfein
77. Best Short Form Music Video
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
78. Best Long Form Music Video
Foo Fighters: Back And Forth - Foo Fighters
