42nd Annual Grammy Awards


The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2000, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Nominations were announced on January 4, 2000. Santana was the main recipient with eight Grammys, tying Michael Jackson's record for most awards won in a single night. Santana's album Supernatural was awarded a total of nine awards. Former Mouseketeers and American teen singers, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, were both nominated for Best New Artist, ultimately won by Aguilera.

Performers

ArtistSong
Will Smith
Sisqo
"Freakin' It" / "Wild Wild West"
Backstreet Boys"How Deep Is Your Love" / "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" / "I'll Make Love to You" / "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"
TLC"Unpretty" / "No Scrubs"
Sting
Cheb Mami
"Desert Rose"
Carlos Santana
Rob Thomas
"Smooth"
Britney Spears"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" / "...Baby One More Time"
Elton John
Backstreet Boys
"Philadelphia Freedom"
Faith Hill"Let Me Let Go"
Ricky Martin
Marc Anthony
Ibrahim Ferrer
Chucho Valdes
Poncho Sanchez
Tribute to Latin Music
"María"
I Need to Know
Candela
Kid Rock"Only God Knows Why" / "Bawitdaba" / "We're an American Band"
Dixie Chicks"Goodbye Earl"
Whitney Houston"It's Not Right but It's Okay" / "I Learned from the Best"
Diana Krall
Erykah Badu
George Benson
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"

Presenters

Award winners

General

;Record of the Year
;Album of the Year
;Song of the Year
;Best New Artist

Pop

;Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
;Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
;Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
;Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
;Best Pop Instrumental Performance
;Best Dance Recording
;Best Pop Album
;Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance

Rock

;Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
;Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
;Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
;Best Hard Rock Performance
;Best Metal Performance
;Best Rock Instrumental Performance
;Best Rock Song
;Best Rock Album
;Best Alternative Music Performance

R&B

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
;Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
;Best R&B Song
;Best R&B Album
;Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

Rap

;Best Rap Solo Performance
;Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
;Best Rap Album

Country

Best Female Country Vocal Performance"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" – Shania Twain
Best Male Country Vocal Performance"Choices" – George Jones
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal"Ready to Run" – Dixie Chicks
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals"After the Gold Rush" – Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt
Best Country Instrumental Performance"Bob's Breakdowns" – Asleep at the Wheel featuring Tommy Allsup, Floyd Domino, Larry Franklin, Vince Gill & Steve Wariner
Best Country Song"Come On Over"
Best Country AlbumFlyDixie ChicksRide with BobAsleep at the WheelTrio IIEmmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt & Dolly PartonThe Cold Hard TruthGeorge JonesForget About ItAlison Krauss
Best Bluegrass Album
Ancient TonesRicky Skaggs & Kentucky ThunderBluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza – various artists

New Age

;Best New Age Album

Jazz

Best Contemporary Jazz PerformanceInsideDavid SanbornEthnomusicology, Vol. 1Russell GunnAnimation/ImaginationTim HagansJoy RideBob James
Best Jazz Vocal Performance
When I Look in Your EyesDiana KrallIt's All About LoveCarla Cook
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo"In Walked Wayne" – Wayne Shorter
Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or GroupLike MindsGary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes & Dave HollandChangeChick Corea & OriginRequiemBranford Marsalis QuartetArt of the Trio 4: Back at the VanguardBrad MehldauInner VoyageGonzalo Rubalcaba
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance
Serendipity 18Bob FlorenceFar East SuiteAnthony Brown's Asian American OrchestraTime's MirrorTom HarrellEpiphanyVince MendozaInspirationSam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra
Best Latin Jazz PerformanceLatin SoulPoncho SanchezTumbao Para Los Congueros Di Mi VadaAl McKibbonLatin Jazz Explosion – Bobby RodriguezAntiguoGonzalo Rubalcaba & Cuban QuartetBriyumba Palo Congo-Religion of the CongoChucho Valdés

Gospel

Best Rock Gospel Album
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album
Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album

Blues

;Best Traditional Blues Album
;Best Contemporary Blues Album

Children's

Comedy

  • From 1994 through 2003, see "Best Spoken Comedy Album" under the "Spoken" field, below.

Classical

Composing and arranging

Film/TV/media

Folk

;Best Traditional Folk Album
;Best Contemporary Folk Album

Historical

Latin

Musical show

Music video

Best Short Form Music Video
Best Long Form Music Video

Packaging and notes

Polka

Production and engineering

Reggae

;Best Reggae Album

Spoken

World

;Best World Music Album

Special merit awards

Grammy Hall of Fame Award">Grammy Hall of Fame">Grammy Hall of Fame Award

[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]

[Grammy Trustees Award]

[MusiCares Person of the Year]

[Technical Grammy Award]

The 42nd GRAMMY LOGO

The design of the 42nd GRAMMY AWARDS logo, was commissioned to Mark Deitch and Associates. The actual design was conceived and executed by Raoul Pascual of WYNK Marketing. Michael Green of the Recording Academy stipulated that the logo should encompass all forms of musical genre and the GRAMMY logo had to be prominently featured. Raoul's concept was to represent music with some of its major instruments: the clarinet for woodwinds, the piano for percussion, the guitar for strings plus a microphone:
"I imagined all the instruments emanating from behind the logo. My problem was how to translate that into a visual. I designed black and white icons of the instruments using a vector program. I was working overtime and I was getting desperate. I was moving the different icons around the GRAMMY logo but none of the combinations seemed to work. As I picked up the guitar icon, I decided to pray and make a deal with God. I said 'if you bless me with a winning design, I will give you the glory every time I share how I designed the GRAMMY logo.' Suddenly, I inadvertently released my hold of the icon and it fell on top of the GRAMMY logo. I stared at the image on my screen and I saw my solution. I added the other icons and curved them to suggest movement from behind. Eureka! That was it!"
With suggestions from the staff and the people at the Recording Academy in the course of several weeks, the design underwent an evolution from a 2 dimensional rendering into 3D.

Fashion

In January 2015, Google's president Eric Schmidt cited the massive attention to the dress Jennifer Lopez wore to the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards as the motivation for the creation of Google Images search in 2001. In 2000, Google Search results were limited to simple pages of text with links, but the developers worked on developing this further, realizing that an image search was required to answer "the most popular search query" they had seen to date: Jennifer Lopez's green dress.
Designed by Donatella Versace, the dress has been described as "jungle green", "sea green" or "tropical" green, a green dress with touches of blue to give an exotic appearance. It is a see-through silk chiffon dress with a tropical leaf and bamboo pattern, with a citrine-studded crotch. The dress "had a low-cut neck that extended several inches below navel, where it was loosely fastened with a sparkly brooch and then opened out again," exposing Lopez’s midriff and then cut along the front of the legs like a bath robe. The dress then drooped behind her on the floor, open at the back.