Texas Grammy Winners

Lists Texas-born or based Grammy® Award recipients and year of album release.

See also the Texas Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc. and Grammy Past Winners to search by artist, genre, category, year, or title.

Yolanda Adams
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album for A Solo, Duo Or Group Vocal Performance for Mountain High...Valley Low (1999)
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album for The Experience (2001)
Best Gospel Song for Be Blessed (2005)
Best Gospel Performance for Victory (2006)

Asleep at the Wheel
Best Country Instrumental for One O'Clock Jump (1978)
Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) for String of Pars (1987)
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Sugarfoot Rag (1988)
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Red Wing (1993)
Best Country Duo or Group Performance for Blues For Dixie with Lyle Lovett (1995)
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Bob's Breakdowns (1999)
Best Recording Package for Ride With Bob (1999)
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Cherokee Maiden (2000)

Gene Austin
Hall of Fame Award for My Blue Heaven (1978)

Gene Autry
Hall of Fame Award for Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (recorded 1949; inducted 1985)

Ramón Ayala y Sus Bravos Del Norte
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album for En Vivo...El Hombre Y Su Musica (2001)

Erykah Badu
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for On & On (1998)
Best R&B Album for Baduizm (1998)
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for You Got Me (1999)
Best R&B Song for Love of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) (2003)

Chente Barrera y Taconazo
Best Tejano Album for Sigue El Taconazo (2006)

Tex Beneke
Hall of Fame Award with Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke & the Modernaires for Chattanooga Choo Choo (1996)

Marc Benno
Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special for Beverly Hills Cop (with 13 composers, 1985)

Beyoncé
Best Contemporary R&B Album for B'Day (2006)
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (duet with Stevie Wonder) for So Amazing (2005)

Clint Black
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for Same Old Train (1998)

Terry Bozzio
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas (1989)

George Bragg
Best Classical Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) for Ives: Music For Chorus (1966)
Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) for The Glory Of Gabrieli (1969)

Brave Combo
Best Polka Album for Polkasonic (1999)
Best Polka Album for Let's Kiss: 25th Anniversary Album (2004)

Brooks & Dunn (Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Hard Workin' Man (1993)
Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for My Maria (1996)

Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Best Traditional Blues Recording for Alright Again (1982)

T-Bone Burnett
Album of The Year for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001)
Best Traditional Folk Album for Down From The Mountain (2001)
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001)
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical for Down From The Mountain (2001)

Vikki Carr
Best Mexican/American Performance for Simplemente Mujer (1985)
Best Latin Pop Album for Cosas Del Amor (1991)
Best Mexican/American Performance for Recuerdo A Javier Solis (1995)

Bruce Carroll
Best Southern Gospel Album for The Great Exchange (1990)
Best Southern Gospel Album for Sometimes Miracles Hide (1992)

Chamillionaire
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Ridin' (2006)

Madukwu Chinwah (with 5 other songwriters)
R&B Song of the Year for Love of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) performed by Erykah Badu and Common (2002)

Kelly Clarkson
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Since U Been Gone (2005)
Best Pop Vocal Album for Breakaway (2005)

Cynthia Clawson
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational for The Lord's Prayer (1980)

Van Cliburn
Best Classical Performance Instrumental for Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Opus 23 (1958)
Best Classical Performance for Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 (1959)

Arnett Cleophus Cobb
Best Traditional Blues Performance for Blues 'n' Jazz with B. B. King (1984)

Ornette Coleman
Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)

Albert Collins
Best Blues Recording for Showdown! (1986)

Shawn Colvin
Best Contemporary Folk Recording for Steady On (1990)
Record Of The Year for Sunny Came Home (1998)
Song Of The Year for Sunny Came Home (1998)

Johnny Clyde Copeland
Best Traditional Blues Recording for Showdown! with Albert Collins and Robert Cray (1986)

Christopher Cross
Album of the Year for Christopher Cross (1980)
Record of the Year for Sailing (1980)
Song of the Year for Sailing (1980)
Best New Artist (1980)
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist for Sailing (1980)

Rodney Crowell
Best Country Song for After All This Time (1989)

Linda Davis
Best Country Vocal Collaboration with Reba McEntire for Does He Love You? (1993)

Jimmy Dean
Best Country and Western Recording for Big Bad John (1961)

Destiny's Child
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Say My Name (2000)
Best R&B Song Say My Name (2000)
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Survivor (2001)

Dixie Chicks
Best Country Performance by Duo or Group With Vocal for There's Your Trouble (1998)
Best Country Album for Wide Open Spaces (1998)
Album Of The Year for Fly (1999)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Ready To Run (1999)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Long Time Gone (2003)
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Lil' Jack Slade (2003)
Best Country Album for Home (2003)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Top Of The World (2004)
Record of the Year for Not Ready to Make Nice (2006)
Album of the Year for Taking the Long Way (2006)
Song of the Year for Not Ready to Make Nice (2006)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Not Ready to Make Nice (2006)
Best Country Album for Taking the Long Way (2006)

Steve Earle
Best Contemporary Folk Album for The Revolution Starts...Now (2004)
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album for Washington Square Serenade (2007)

Herb Ellis
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live At The Blue Note (1990)

Joe Ely
Best Mexican-American Musical Performance with Los Super Seven for Los Super Seven (1998)

Emilio and the Rio Band
Best Tejano Album for Acuérdate (2003)

Kirk Franklin
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album for for The Nu Nation Project (1998)
Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus for God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation (1997)
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album for Whatcha Lookin' 4 (1997)
Best Gospel Song for Imagine Me (2006)
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for Hero (2006)

Denny Freeman
Best Contemporary Blues Album with Taj Mahal for Shoutin' in Key (2000)

William Orville R. C. "Lefty" Frizzell
Hall of Fame Award for If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time (1999)

David Lee Garza
Best Tejano Album for Polkas, Gritas y Acordeones with Joel Guzman & Sunny Sauceda (2004)

Larry Gatlin
Best Country Song for Broken Lady (1976)

Mickey Gilley and his "Urban Cowboy" Band
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown (1980)

Johnny Gimble
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Redwing with Asleep at the Wheel featuring Eldon Shamblin and Johnny Gimble (1993)
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Hightower with Asleep at the Wheel featuring Bela Fleck and Johnny Gimble (1995)

God's Property
Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus for God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation (1998)

Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz
Best Tejano Album for Si Me Faltas Tu (2003)

Nanci Griffith
Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)

Grupo Solido
Best Tejano Album for Nadie Como Tu (2001)

Joel Guzman
Best Tejano Album for Polkas, Gritas y Acordeones with David Lee Garza & Sunny Sauceda (2004)

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie
Hall of Fame Award for Dust Bowl Ballads (recorded 1940; inducted 1998)
Hall of Fame Award for This Land is Your Land (recorded 1947; inducted 1989)

Roy Hargrove
Best Latin Jazz Performance for Habana (1998)
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for My Ship with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker (2003)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Directions in Music with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker (2003)

Don Henley
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male for The Boys Of Summer (1985)
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male for The End Of The Innocence (1989)

Charles Hardin "Buddy Holly" Holley
Lifetime Achievement Grammy (1997)

Jennifer Holliday
Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (1982)
Best Inspirational Performance for Come Sunday track from Say You Love Me (1985)

David Holt
Best Traditional Folk Album for Legacy with Doc Watson

Johnny Horton
Best Country & Western Performance for The Battle of New Orleans (1959)

Houston Grand Opera
Best Opera Recording for Porgy and Bess (1977)

Baldemar "Freddy Fender" Huerta
Best Latin Pop Album for La Musica De Baldemar Huerta (2001)
Best Mexican-American Musical Performance with Los Super Seven (1998)
Best Mexican-American Performance with The Texas Tornados for Soy De San Luis (1990)

Intocable
Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album for Intimamente (2004)

Israel & New Breed
Best Traditional Gospel Album for Alive in South Africa (2006)
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for A Deeper Level (2007)

T. D. Jakes
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album for A Wing and a Prayer (2004)

Waylon Arnold Jennings
Best Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group for Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys with Willie Nelson (1978)
Best Country Performance By A Duo or Group for MacArthur Park (1969)

Will Jennings
Best Song Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television with co-songwriter James Horner for for My Heart Will Go On performed by Celin Deon (1998)
Song Of The Year with co-songwriter James Horner for My Heart Will Go On performed by Celin Deon (1998)
Song Of The Year with co-songwriter Eric Clapton for Tears In Heaven performed by Eric Clapton (1992)

Flaco Jimenez
Best Mexican-American Performance for Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio (1986)
Best Mexican-American Performance for Soy De San Luis with The Texas Tornados (1990)
Best Mexican-American Performance for Flaco Jimenez (1996)
Best Mexican-American Musical Performance with Los Super Seven for Los Super Seven (1998)
Tejano Musical Performance for Said and Done (1999)

Eric Johnson
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Cliffs of Dover (1991)

George Jones
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for He Stopped Loving Her Today (1980)
Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Choices (1999)

Norah Jones
Record of the Year for Don't Know Why (2003)
Song of the Year for Don't Know Why (2003)
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Don't Know Why (2003)
Album of the Year for Come Away With Me (2003)
Best Pop Vocal Album for Come Away With Me (2003)
Best New Artist (2003)
Record of the Year for Here We Go Again with Ray Charles (2004)
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Sunrise (2004)

Sandy Knox
Best Country Vocal Collaboration with co-songwriter Billy Strich for Does He Love You performed by Reba McEntire and Linda Davis (1993)

Kris Kristofferson
Best Country Song for Help Me Make It Through The Night (1971)
Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo or Group for From The Bottle to the Bottom (1973)
Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for Lover Please (1975)

La Mafia
Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance for Un Million de Rosas (1996)
Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance for En Tus Manos (1997)

Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter
Hall of Fame Award for Negro Sinful Songs (recorded 1939; inducted 1998)

The Legends (Carlos Guzman, Freddie Martínez, Sr., Sunny Ozuna, Augustin Ramirez)
Best Tejano Album for Que Es Musica Tejana? (2000)

Light Crust Doughboys
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album for We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music: The James Blackwood Tribute Album with the Jordanaires and Larry Ford (2003)

Little Joe y La Familia
Best Mexican-American Album for 16 de Septiembre (1991)
Best Tejano Album for Chicanismo (2005)
Best Tejano Album for Before The Next Teardrop Falls (2007)

Los Lonely Boys
Best Pop Peformance By a Duo Or Group With Vocal for Heaven (2004)

Los Palominos
Best Tejano Performance for Por Eso Te Amo (1999)

Los Super Seven
(includes Texans Joe Ely, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Ruben Ramos and Rick Trevino)
Mexican American Musical Performance for Los Super Seven (1998)

Los Tigres del Norte (Eduardo Hernandez, Hernan Hernandez, Jorge Hernandez, Luis Hernandez, Oscar Lara Angulo)
Best Mexican-American Performance for Gracias! America Sin Fronteras (1987)
Best Norteño Album for Historias Que Contar (2006)
Best Norteño Album for Detalles Y Emociones (2007)

Lyle Lovett
Best Country Vocal Performance for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (1992)
Best Pop Vocal Collaboration with Al Green for Funny How Time Slips Away from Rhythm, Country and Blues LP (1993)
Best Country Duo or Group Performance for Blues For Dixie with Asleep at the Wheel (1995)
Best Country Album for The Road To Ensenada (1997)

Bill Mack
Best Country Song for Blue (1997)

Barbara Mandrell
Best Inspirational Performance for He Set My Life To Music (1982)
Best Soul Gospel Performance By A Duo or a Group for I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today with Bobby Jones (1983)

Mary Virginia Martin
Hall of Fame Award with Ezio Pinza and the cast of South Pacific for South Pacific (1987)

Johnny Mathis
Hall of Fame Award for Chances Are (recorded 1957; inducted 1998)

Delbert McClinton
Best Contemporary Blues Album for Cost of Living (2005)
Best Contemporary Blues Album for Nothing Personal (2001)
Best Rock Performance with a Duo or Group with Vocal for Good Man, Good Woman with Bonnie Raitt (1992)

Meat Loaf
Best Rock Vocal Performance for I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (1993)

Roger Dean Miller
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male for Dang Me (1964)
Best Country and Western Song for Dang Me, Composer (1964)
Best New Country and Western Artist (1964)
Best Country and Western Single for Dang Me (1964)
Best Country and Western Album for Dang Me/Chug-a-lug (1964)
Best Contemporary (R&R) Single for King Of the Road (1965)
Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance Male for King of the Road (1965)
Best Country and Western Single for King of the Road (1965)
Best Country and Western Album for The Return of Roger Miller (1965)
Best Country and Western Vocal Performance, Male for King of the Road (1965)
Best Country and Western Song for King of the Road (1965)

Gary Morris
Best Musical Cast Show Album for Les Miserables - The Complete Symphonic Recording (1990)

Emilio Navaira
Best Tejano Album for Acuérdate (2003)

Willie Nelson
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (1975)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Georgia on my Mind (1978)
Best Country Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group for Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys with Waylon Jennings (1978)
Best Country Song for On The Road Again (1980)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Always On My Mind (1982)
Grammy Legend Award (1990)
Lifetime Achievement Award (1999)
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for Mendocino County Line with Lee Ann Womack (2003)
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for Lost Highway with Ray Price (2007)

Michael Nesmith
Video Of The Year for Elephant Parts (1981)

Roy Kelton Orbison
Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for That Lovin' Feelin' Again (1980)
Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording for Interviews Of The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions (1986)
Best Country Vocal Collaboration for Cryin' with k.d. lang (1988)
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male for Oh Pretty Woman from A Black & White Night Live (1990)

Curtis "King Curtis" Ousley
Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance for Games People Play (1969)

Buck Owens
Hall of Fame Award for I've Got a Tiger by the Tail (recorded 1965; inducted 1999)

Calvin Owens
Best Jazz Album with B.B. King for Jazz In' Blues (1984)

Sunny Ozuna
Best Tejano Album with the Legends for Que Es Musica Tejana? (2001)

Chris Perez Band
Best Latin Rock/Alternative Performance for Resurrection (1999)

Al Perkins and the Hipower Band
Best Bluegrass Album (1991)
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers At The Ryman (1992)
Producer on Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album (1997)

Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins
Best Traditional Blues Album (Vocal or Instrumental) for Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas with Henry James Townsend, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David "Honeyboy" Edwards (2007)

Ray Price
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for For the Good Times (1970)

Charley Pride
Best Sacred Performance for Did You Think To Pray (1971)
Best Gospel Performance (Other Than Soul Gospel) for Let Me Live (1971)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs (1972)
Best Country Vocal Performance for Behind Closed Doors (1973)

A.B. Quintanilla y Los Kumbia All Starz
Latin Grammy Award - Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Duo Or Group for 4 (2004)

Selena Quintanilla Perez
Best Mexican-American Album for Live (1994)

Ruben Ramos
Best Mexican-American Musical Performance with Los Super Seven for Los Super Seven (1998)

Jon Randall
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group for Emmylou Harris & Nash Ramblers At The Ryman (1992)

Revenant Records
Best Boxed Set or Special Limited Edition Package for Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton (2003)
Best Album Notes for Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton (2003)
Best Historical Album for Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton (2003)

Jeannie C. Riley
Best Country Vocal Performance, Female for Harper Valley PTA (1968)

LeAnn Rimes
Best New Artist (1997)
Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Blue (1997)

James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers
Grammy Hall of Fame Award for Blue Yodel (T for Texas) (written 1928; inducted 1985)

Don Rollins
Best Country Song for It's Five O'clock Somewhere (2003)

Kenny Rogers
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Lucille (1977)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for The Gambler (1979)
Best Country Vocal Performance, Duet for Make No Mistake, She's Mine with Ronnie Milsap (1987)

Kelly Rowland
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Dilemma with Nelly (2003)

Douglas Wayne Sahm
Best Mexican-American Performance with The Texas Tornados for Soy De San Luis (1990)

Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs
Best Album Notes for Sam, Hard & Heavy (1971)

Poncho Sanchez
Best Latin Jazz Performance for Latin Soul (1999)

Sunny Sauceda
Best Tejano Album for Polkas, Gritas y Acordeones with David Lee Garza & Joel Guzman (2004)

Boz Scaggs
Best Rhythm and Blues Song for Lowdown (1976)

Stephen Stills
Best New Artist for Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

Texas Tornados
Best Mexican-American Performance for Soy De San Luis with Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers and Doug Sahm (1990)

Richard Theisen
Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special for Beverly Hills Cop (with 13 composers, 1985)

B.J. Thomas
Best Inspirational Performance for Home Where I Belong (1977)
Best Inspirational Performance for Happy Man (1978)
Best Inspirational Performance for You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me A Prayer) (1979)
Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational for The Lord's Prayer (1980)
Best Inspirational Performance for Amazing Grace (1981)

Rick Treviño
Best Mexican-American Musical Performance with Los Super Seven for Los Super Seven (1998)

Usher
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for U Don't Have to Call (2003)

Jimmie Vaughan
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for DFW with Stevie Ray Vaughan (1990)
Best Contemporary Blues Recording for Family Style (1991)
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for SRV Shuffle (1997)
Best Traditional Blues Album for Do You Get The Blues? (2001)

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Best Traditional Blues Recording for Blues Explosion with John Hammond, Sugar Blue, KoKo Taylor, Luther Johnson, and J.B. Hutto (1984)
Best Contemporary Blues Recording for In Step (1989)
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for DFW with Jimmie Vaughan (1990)
Best Contemporary Blues Recording for Family Style with Jimmie Vaughan (1990)
Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Little Wing with Double Trouble (1992)
Best Contemporary Blues Album for The Sky Is Crying with Double Trouble (1992)

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker
Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording for Good Feelin' (1970)
Grammy Hall of Fame Award for Stormy Monday (recorded 1948; inducted 1991)

Lucinda Williams
Best Country Song for Passionate Kisses cut by Mary Chapin Carpenter (1993)
Contemporary Folk Album for Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (1998)
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Get Right With God (2001)

Mason Williams
Best Contemporary Pop Instrumental Performance for Classical Gas (1968)
Best Instrumental Theme for Classical Gas (1968)

Michelle Williams (with Destiney's Child)
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Say My Name (2000)
Best R&B Song Say My Name (2000)
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Survivor (2001)

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Hall of Fame Award for New San Antonio Rose (1998)
Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)

Lee Ann Womack
Best Country Song for I Hope You Dance (2000)
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for Mendocino County Line with Willie Nelson (2003)