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Indians who have won the Grammy awards

A.R. Rahman

2008 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album A. R. Rahman, H. Sridhar, P. A. Deepak for Slumdog Millionaire

2008 Best Song Written for Visual Media A. R. Rahman, Tanvi Shah, Gulzar for Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire

Falguni Shah

[US citizen]

2022 ‘Best Children’s Album’ for A Colorful World

Neela Vaswani

USA

2015 ‘Best Children’s Album’ for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai)

Pandit Ravi Shankar

1968 ‘Best Chamber Music Performance’ for West Meets East

1973 ‘Album of the Year’ for his contribution to the album The Concert for Bangladesh by "George Harrison & Friends"

2002 ‘Best World [Music] Album’ for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000.

2013 ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ (posthumous)

2013 ‘Best World Music Album’ for The Living Room Sessions Pt. 1

Ricky Kej

2015 Best New Age Album’ for Winds of Samsara with South Africa’s Wouter Kellerman .

2022 ‘Best New Age Album’ for Divine Tides, with Stewart Copeland, ex-of the Police (USA)

2023 Best Immersive Audio Album for Divine Tides with Stewart Copeland.

The Monks of Sherabling Monastery

2004

Tibetan Monks of Palpung Sherab Ling Monastery, near the Bir Tibetan settlement: Best Traditional World Music Album Award for Sacred Tibetan Chants: The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery

T. H. Vikku Vinayakram

1991 Best World Music Album T. H. Vinayakram and Zakir Hussain Planet Drum

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

1993 ‘Best World Music Album’ for A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder (USA).

Zakir Hussain, musician

1991 ‘Best World Album’ for album Planet Drum with percussionist TH Vinayakram

2008 ‘Best Contemporary World Music Album’ for Global Drum Project.

Zubin Mehta

1981 ‘Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra)’ for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration.

1981 ‘Best Engineered Recording, Classical’ award for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration.

1982 ‘Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance’ for Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)

1990 ‘Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra)’ for Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 In A Minor/Glazunov: Violin Concerto In A Minor

1990 ‘Best Classical Vocal Performance’ for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert

Indians nominated for the Grammys

Ali Akbar Khan

1 997 Best World Music Album for Legacy

1998 Best World Music Album for Passing on the Tradition

Anoushka Shankar

2002 Best World Music Album for Live at Carnegie Hall

2005 Best Contemporary World Music Album for Rise

2012 Best World Music Album for Traveller

2014 Best World Music Album for Traces of You

2015 Best World Music Album for Home

2016 Best World Music Album for Land Of Gold

2021 Best World Music Album for Love Letters

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon

2010 Best Contemporary World Music Album for "Om Namo Narayanaya: Soul Call"

L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain and T. H. Vinayakram

1 996 Best World Music Album for Raga Aberi

Priya Darshini

2021 Best New Age Album for Periphery

Ravi Shankar

2014 Best World Music Album for The Living Room Sessions Pt. 2

T. H. Vinayakram and Zakir Hussain

1 991 Best World Music Album for Planet Drum

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

1 997 Best World Music Album for Tabula Rasa

Zubin Mehtaa

1 969 Album Of The Year, Classical for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

1969 Best Classical Performance, Orchestra for Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

1970 Best Opera Recording for Verdi: Il Trovatore

1971 Best Choral Performance, Classical for Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces

1973 Best Opera Recording for Puccini: Turandot

1976 Best Classical Orchestral Performance for The Fourth Of July(Ives: Symphony No. 2, Variations On America/ Copland: Appalachian Spring/ Bernstein: Overture To Candide/ Gershwin: American In Paris)

1978 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

1978 Best Classical Orchestral Performance for Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring

1978 Best Opera Recording for Puccini: La Fanciulla Del West

1979 Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Manhattan - Music From The Woody Allen Film

1980 Best Classical Album for Bartók: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

1981 Best Classical Album for Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

1981 Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) for Verdi: Requiem

1983 Best Classical Album for Vivaldi: Four Seasons And Concerto For 4 Violins, Op. 3, No. 10/ Bach: Double Concerto BWV 1043/ Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364

1990 Best Classical Album for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert

1994 Album Of The Year for The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994

1994 Best Pop Album for The 3 Tenors In Concert 1994

2007 Best Opera Recording for Verdi: La Traviata

Indians who have been nominated for the Grammy awards: II

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Amjad Ali Khan 2010

Asha Bhosle 2005

Bickram Ghosh Has played on one Grammy- winning (’Full Circle’ with Ravi Shankar) and four Grammy- nominated albums.

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon 2011

Debashish Bhattacharya 2009

Lakshmi Shankar 2009

Louis Banks 2009

Nawang Khechog 1996

Ngawang Tashi Bapu 2006

Vijay Iyer 2011

Note

Indpaedia believes that this is a complete, exhaustive list of all Indians and people of Indian origin who have won or been nominated for a Grammy award.

Three of the winners/ nominees are from the Shankar family.

It would be a pleasure to include Norah Jones, but it is not certain if Miss Jones would want to be included.