1988 Grammy Awards
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| Record of the Year | “Don't Worry Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin | |
| Album of the Year | Faith, George Michael (Columbia/CBS) | |
| Song of the Year | “Don't Worry Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin, songwriter | |
| Best New Artist | Tracy Chapman | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | “Don't Worry Be Happy,” Bobby McFerrin | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female | “Fast Car,” Tracy Chapman | |
| Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | Brasil, Manhattan Transfer | |
| Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | Close-up, David Sanborn | |
| “Simply Irresistible,” Robert Palmer | |
| Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female | Tina Live in Europe, Tina Turner | |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Desire,” U2 | |
| Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | Blues for Salvador, Carlos Santana | |
| Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, Vocal or Instrumental | Crest of a Knave, Jethro Tull | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Song | “Giving You the Best That I Got,” Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough and Randy Holland, songwriters | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Male | Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, Terence Trent D'Arby | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance, Female | “Giving You the Best That I Got,” Anita Baker | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Love Overboard,” Gladys Knight and the Pips | |
| Best Rhythm and Blues Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) | “Light Years,” Chick Corea | |
| Best Rap Performance | “Parents Just Don't Understand,” D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male | Brothers, Bobby McFerrin | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female | Look What I Got!, Betty Carter | |
| Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group | “Spread Love,” Take 6 | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist on a Jazz Recording | Don't Try This at Home, Michael Brecker | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group | Blues for Coltrane, A Tribute to John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, David Murray, Cecil McBee and Roy Haynes | |
| Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | Bud and Bird, Gil Evans and the Monday Night Orchestra | |
| Best Jazz Fusion Performance | Politics, Yellowjackets | |
| Best Country Song | “Hold Me,” K.T. Oslin, songwriter | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Male | Old 8 × 10, Randy Travis | |
| Best Country Vocal Performance, Female | “Hold Me,” K.T. Oslin | |
| Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal | “Give a Little Love,” Judds | |
| Best Country Vocal Collaboration | “Crying,” Roy Orbison and k.d. lang | |
| Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloists) | “Sugarfoot Rag,” Asleep at the Wheel | |
| Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental) | Southern Flavor, Bill Monroe (MCA) | |
| Best Gospel Performance, Male | Christmas, Larnelle Harris | |
| Best Gospel Performance, Female | Lead Me On, Amy Grant | |
| Best Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus | The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall, Winans | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Male | “Abundant Life,” BeBe Winans | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female | One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, Aretha Franklin | |
| Best Soul Gospel Performance By a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus | Take Six, Take 6 | |
| Best Latin Pop Performance | Roberto Carlos, Roberto Carlos | |
| Best Tropical Latin Performance | Antecedente, Rubén Blades | |
| Best Mexican/American Performance | Canciones de Mi Padre, Linda Ronstadt | |
| Best Traditional Blues Recording | Hidden Charms, Willie Dixon (Bug/Capitol) | |
| Best Contemporary Blues Recording | “Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,” Robert Cray Band (Mercury) | |
| Best Traditional Folk Recording | Folkways: A Vision Shared—A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, various artists (Columbia/CBS) | |
| Best Contemporary Folk Recording | Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman (Elektra) | |
| Best Reggae Recording | Conscious Party, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (Virgin) | |
| Best New Age Performance | Folksongs for a Nuclear Village, Shadowfax | |
| Best Polka Recording | Born to Polka, Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra (Starr) | |
| Best Arrangement on an Instrumental | “Memos From Paradise,” Roger Kellaway, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) | “No One Is Alone,” Jonathan Tunick, arranger | |
| Best Instrumental Composition | “The Theme From L.A. Law,” Mike Post, composer | |
| Best Musical Cast Show Album | Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist (RCA) | |
| Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | The Last Emperor, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su, composers (Virgin) | |
| Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television | “Two Hearts” (From the motion picture Buster), Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier, songwriters (Atlantic) | |
| Best Contemporary Composition | Nixon in China, John Adams, composer | |
| Best Classical Album | Verdi, Requiem and Operatic Choruses, Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc) | |
| Best Orchestral Recording | Rorem, String Symphony; Sunday Morning, Eagles; Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: String Symphony, Louis Lane conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Sunday Morning and Eagles (New World) | |
| Best Chamber Music Performance (Instrumental or Vocal) | Bartók, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Brahms, Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for Two Pianos, Murray Perahia and Sir Georg Solti, pianos; David Corkhill and Evelyn Glennie, percussion | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) | Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Giulini conducting LaScala Opera Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) | Albéniz, Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espagnola, Alicia de Larrocha | |
| Best Opera Recording | Wagner, Lohengrin, Sir Georg Solti conducting Vienna State Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Domingo, Norman, Randova, Nimsgern, Sotin and Fischer-Dieskau (London) | |
| Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) | Verdi, Requiem and Operatic Choruses, Robert Shaw conducting Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra | |
| Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance | Luciano Pavarotti in Concert, Luciano Pavarotti | |
| Best Comedy Recording | Good Morning Vietnam, Robin Williams (A&M) | |
| Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording | “Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson (July 27),” Rev. Jesse Jackson (Arista) | |
| Best Recording for Children | Pecos Bill, Robin Williams, narrator; Ry Cooder, music (Windham Hill) | |
| Best Album Package | Tired of Runnin', Bill Johnson, art director (Columbia/CBS) | |
| Best Album Notes | Crossroads, Anthony DeCurtis, annotator (Polydor) | |
| Best Historical Album | Crossroads, Eric Clapton (Polydor) | |
| Best Performance Music Video | “Where the Streets Have No Name,” U2 | |
| Best Concept Music Video | “Fat,” “Weird Al” Yankovic | |
| Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) | Neil Dorfsman | |
| Classical Producer of the Year | Robert Woods |
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