1976 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “This Masquerade,” George Benson |
| Album of the Year | Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder (Tamla/Motown) |
| Song of the Year | “I Write the Songs,” Bruce Johnston, songwriter |
| Best New Artist of the Year | Starland Vocal Band |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | Hasten Down the Wind, Linda Ronstadt |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “If You Leave Me Now,” Chicago |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance | Breezin', George Benson |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Lowdown,” Boz Scaggs and David Paich, songwriters |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | “I Wish,” Stevie Wonder |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Sophisticated Lady” (She's a Different Lady), Natalie Cole |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus | “You Don't Have to Be a Star” (to Be in My Show), Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance | “Theme From Good King Bad,” George Benson |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance | Fitzgerald and Pass Again, Ella Fitzgerald |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Soloist | Basie and Zoot, Count Basie |
| Best Jazz Performance By a Big Band | The Ellington Suites, Duke Ellington |
| Best Country Song | “Broken Lady,” Larry Gatlin, songwriter |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | (I'm a) “Stand By My Woman Man,” Ronnie Milsap |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | Elite Hotel, Emmylou Harris |
| Best Country Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group | “The End Is Not in Sight” (The Cowboy Tune), Amazing Rhythm Aces |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance | Chester and Lester, Chet Atkins and Les Paul |
| Best Gospel Performance | “Where the Soul Never Dies,” Oak Ridge Boys |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance | How I Got Over, Mahalia Jackson |
| Best Latin Recording | Unfinished Masterpiece, Eddie Palmieri (Coco) |
| Best Inspirational Performance | The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, Gary S. Paxton |
| Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording | Mark Twang, John Hartford (Flying Fish) |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement | “Leprechaun's Dream,” Chick Corea, arranger |
| Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists | “If You Leave Me Now,” Jimmy Haskell and James William Guercio, arrangers |
| Best Arrangement for Voices | “Afternoon Delight,” Starland Vocal Band, arrangers |
| Best Instrumental Composition | Bellavia, Chuck Mangione, composer |
| Best Cast Show Album | Bubbling Brown Sugar, various composers (H&L) |
| Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | Car Wash, Norman Whitfield, composer (MCA) |
| Album of the Year, Classical | Beethoven, Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic (RCA) |
| Best Classical Orchestral Performance | Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Sir Georg Solti conducting Chicago Symphony |
| Best Chamber Music Performance | The Art of Courtly Love, David Munrow conducting Early Music Consort of London |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (With Orchestra) | Beethoven, The Five Piano Concertos, Artur Rubinstein; Daniel Barenboim conducting London Philharmonic |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist (Without Orchestra) | Horowitz Concerts 1975/76, Vladimir Horowitz |
| Best Opera Recording | Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Lorin Maazel conducting Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (London) |
| Best Choral Performance, Classical | Rachmaninoff, The Bells, Arthur Oldham, Chorus master of London Symphony Chorus; André Previn conducting London Symphony Orchestra |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Music of Victor Herbert, Beverly Sills |
| Best Comedy Recording | Bicentennial Nigger, Richard Pryor (Warner Bros.) |
| Best Spoken Word Recording | Great American Documents, Orson Welles, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes and James Earl Jones (CBS) |
| Best Recording for Children | Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals, Hermione Gingold, narrator; Karl Bohm, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Best Album Package | Chicago X, John Berg, art director (Columbia) |
| Best Album Notes | The Changing Face of Harlem, the Savoy Sessions, Dan Morgenstern, annotator (Savoy) |
| Best Producer of the Year | Stevie Wonder |
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