Winners List – 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards

The GRAMMY Awards rang in its 50th show with a wide-ranging, celebratory telecast that honored the old, the new and everything in between as The Recording Academy paid tribute to its legacy as well as the exciting list of this year's honorees and performers.

Introduced by Ludacris, who described the upcoming performance as "holy rolling [and] soul sanctifying," a special gospel performance included a mighty cavalcade of spiritual power. Aretha Franklin and BeBe Winans got it started with "Never Gonna Break My Faith," bathed in a light beaming from a glowing cross overhead. The million trombone band Madison Bumble Bees added their brass shouts to the proceedings on "You Brought The Sunshine," followed by the Clark Sisters and Trin-I-Tee 5:7, with mighty vocal harmonies. Israel & New Breed entered with the soaring "With Long Life." To bring it all back home, Aretha Franklin and the whole gospel cast united to sing "Old Landmark."

GRAMMY Award recipients are indicated in red

Category 51
Best Gospel Performance
(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.)

• East To West
  Casting Crowns
  Track from: The Altar And The Door
  [Beach Street Records/Reunion Records]
  (Tie)

Blessed & Highly Favored The Clark Sisters Track from: Live - One Last Time [EMI Gospel]

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• Never Gonna Break My Faith
  Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige (Featuring The Harlem Boys Choir)
  Track from: Bobby: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  [Island Def Jam]


• With Long Life
  Israel And New Breed Featuring T-Bone
  Track from: A Deeper Level
  [Integrity Music]


• He Set My Life To Music
  CeCe Winans
  Track from: She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool - A Tribute To Barbara Mandrell
  [BNA Records]
  

Category 52
Best Gospel Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)