38th Annual Grammy Awards

The 38th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Alanis Morissette was the main recipient, being awarded four trophies, including Album of the Year. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men opened the show with their Record of the Year nominated "One Sweet Day".
The ceremony was controversial for its unexpected snub of Mariah Carey's Daydream album, which proved to be one of the bestselling and most acclaimed albums of 1995. When the Grammy Award nominees were announced, and Daydream was nominated for six different awards, critics began raving how it would be "cleaning up" that year. Carey, being a multiple award nominee, was one of the headlining performers. Together with Boyz II Men, she sang a live rendition of "One Sweet Day", to a very positive response. The album had lost all of its six nominations, shocking most critics who branded it the "album of the year". Carey did not perform again until the 2006 ceremony, when she was nominated for eight awards for The Emancipation of Mimi.
The ceremony is also significant for Tupac Shakur introducing Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, and Paul Stanley of Kiss for the first time in full makeup and costume since 1979. Shakur said "And I've seen just about everything now," in response to seeing Kiss walk on stage to announce the nominees for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal.

Award winners

General

;Record of the Year"Kiss From a Rose" – Seal

* Trevor Horn, producer
"One Sweet Day" – Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
* Walter Afanasieff & Mariah Carey, producers
"Gangsta's Paradise" – Coolio
* Doug Rasheed, producer
"One of Us" – Joan Osborne
* Rick Chertoff, producer
"Waterfalls" – TLC
* Organized Noize, producer

;Album of the YearJagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette

* Glen Ballard, producerDaydream – Mariah Carey
* Walter Afanasieff, Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Dave Hall, David Morales & Manuel Seal, producersHIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I – Michael Jackson
* Dallas Austin, Bill Bottrell, David Foster, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Jam, R. Kelly, Terry Lewis, René & Bruce Swedien, producersRelish – Joan Osborne
* Rick Chertoff, producerVitalogy – Pearl Jam
* Brendan O'Brien & Pearl Jam, producers

;Song of the Year"Kiss From a Rose"

* Seal, songwriter
"I Can Love You Like That"
* Maribeth Derry, Steve Diamond & Jennifer Kimball, songwriters
"One of Us"
* Eric Bazilian, songwriter
"You Are Not Alone"
* R. Kelly, songwriter
"You Oughta Know"
* Glen Ballard & Alanis Morissette, songwriters

;Best New ArtistHootie & the Blowfish

Alternative

Blues

Children's

Best Musical Album for Children
*J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman & Barbara Bailey Hutchison for Sleepy Time Lullabys
[Grammy Award for Best |Spoken Word Album for Children|Best Spoken Word Album for Children]
*Dan Broatman, Martin Sauer & Patrick Stewart for ''Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf ''