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Year

Year	Category	Title	Winners
1988	Record Of The Year	Don't Worry Be Happy	Bobby McFerrin, artist. Linda Goldstein, producer.
1988	Album Of The Year	Faith	George Michael, artist. George Michael, producer.
1988	Song Of The Year	Don't Worry Be Happy	Bobby McFerrin, songwriter.
1988	Best New Artist		Tracy Chapman, artist.
1988	Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female	Fast Car	Tracy Chapman, artist.
1988	Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male	Don't Worry Be Happy	Bobby McFerrin, artist.
1988	Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal	Brasil	Manhattan Transfer (Cheryl Bentyne, Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel), artist.
1988	Best Pop Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist)	Close-up	David Sanborn, artist.
1988	Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female	Tina Live In Europe	Tina Turner, artist.
1988	Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male	Simply Irresistible	Robert Palmer, artist.
1988	Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal	Desire	U2 (Bono, Adam Clayton, Edge, Larry Mullen Jr.), artist.
1988	Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist)	Blues For Salvador	Carlos Santana, artist.
1988	Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal Or Instrumental	Crest Of A Knave	Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, David Pegg), artist.
1988	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female	Giving You The Best That I Got	Anita Baker, artist.
1988	Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male	Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'arby	Terence Trent D'Arby, artist.
1988	Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal	Love Overboard	Gladys Knight And The Pips (William Guest, Bubba Knight, Gladys Knight, Harold Knight, Edward Patten), artist.
1988	Best R&B Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group Or Soloist)	Light Years	Chick Corea, artist.
1988	Best Rhythm & Blues Song	Giving You The Best That I Got	Anita Baker, Randy Holland & Skip Scarborough, songwriters.
1988	Best Rap Performance	Parents Just Don't Understand	D.J. Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince (Will Smith, Jeff Townes), artist.
1988	Best New Age Performance	Folksongs For A Nuclear Village	Shadowfax (Charles Bisharat, Chuck Greenberg, David Lewis, Phil Maggini, Stuart Nevitt, G.E. Stinson), artist.
1988	Best Jazz Fusion Performance	Politics	Yellowjackets (Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, William Kennedy, Marc Russo), artist.
1988	Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female	Look What I Got!	Betty Carter, artist.
1988	Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male	Brothers	Bobby McFerrin, artist.
1988	Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo Or Group	Spread Love	Take 6 (Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, Mark Kibble, Claude V. McKnight III, David Thomas, Mervyn E. Warren), artist.
1988	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist (On A Jazz Recording)	Don't Try This At Home	Michael Brecker, soloist.