Children’s
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Music Facts: Children's
- Children's music and recordings have been around since the advent of the recording industry, experiencing a market boom and growing into a genre all its own in the mid-20th century.
- Mixing entertainment with education, children's music and recordings have seen mainstream success via breakout groups and franchises like "Sesame Street," "Schoolhouse Rock!" and Kidz Bop.
- Recent GRAMMY winners and nominees in the children's category include the Okee Dokee Brothers, Gustafer Yellowgold and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo.
- Joanie Leeds won the GRAMMY for Best Children's Music Album at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2021 for All The Ladies.
Every Children’s category, ceremony by ceremony.
| Year | Category | Winner | Work | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Best Children's Music Album | Harold Simmons II, Aura Valentina Simmons | Harmony | All Nominees |
| 2025 | Best Children's Music Album | Lucky Diaz | Brillo, Brillo! | All Nominees |
| 2024 | Best Children's Music Album | 123 Andrés | We Grow Together Preschool Songs | All Nominees |
| 2023 | Best Children's Music Album | Alphabet Rockers | The Movement | All Nominees |
| 2022 | Best Children's Music Album | Falu | A Colorful World | All Nominees |
| 2021 | Best Children's Music Album | Joanie Leeds | All The Ladies | All Nominees |
| 2020 | Best Children's Music Album | Jon Samson | Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype | All Nominees |
| 2019 | Best Children's Music Album | Lucy Kalantari | All The Sounds | All Nominees |
| 2018 | Best Children's Music Album | Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories | Feel What U Feel | All Nominees |
| 2017 | Best Children's Music Album | Secret Agent 23 Skidoo | Infinity Plus One | All Nominees |
| 2016 | Best Children's Music Album | Tim Kubart | Home | All Nominees |
| 2015 | Best Children's Music Album | Neela Vaswani | I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai) | All Nominees |
| 2014 | Best Children's Music Album | Jennifer Gasoi | Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well | All Nominees |
| 2013 | Best Children's Music Album | The Okee Dokee Brothers | Can You Canoe? | All Nominees |
| 2012 | Best Children's Music Album | Various Artists | All About Bullies... Big And Small | All Nominees |
| 2011 | Best Musical Album For Children | Pete Seeger | Tomorrow's Children | All Nominees |
| 2011 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton | Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies | All Nominees |
| 2010 | Best Musical Album For Children | Ziggy Marley | Family Time | All Nominees |
| 2010 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Buck Howdy | Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs | All Nominees |
| 2009 | Best Musical Album For Children | They Might Be Giants | Here Come The 123s | All Nominees |
| 2009 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Bill Harley | Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live | All Nominees |
| 2008 | Best Musical Album For Children | The Muppets | A Green And Red Christmas | All Nominees |
| 2008 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Jim Dale | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows | All Nominees |
| 2007 | Best Musical Album For Children | Daniel Zanes | Catch That Train! | All Nominees |
| 2007 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Bill Harley | Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs | All Nominees |
| 2006 | Best Musical Album For Children | Various Artists | Songs From The Neighborhood - The Music Of Mister Rogers | All Nominees |
| 2006 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Marlo Thomas | Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long | All Nominees |
| 2005 | Best Musical Album For Children | Various Artists | cELLAbration! A Tribute To Ella Jenkins | All Nominees |
| 2005 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Tom Chapin | The Train They Call The City Of New Orleans | All Nominees |
| 2004 | Best Musical Album For Children | Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer | Bon Appétit! | All Nominees |
| 2004 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sophia Loren | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks | All Nominees |
| 2003 | Best Musical Album For Children | Riders In The Sky | Monsters, Inc. - Scream Factory Favorites | All Nominees |
| 2003 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Tom Chapin | There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly | All Nominees |
| 2002 | Best Musical Album For Children | (Sesame Street Characters) | Elmo And The Orchestra | All Nominees |
| 2002 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Tom Chapin | Mama Don't Allow | All Nominees |
| 2001 | Best Musical Album For Children | Riders In The Sky | Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky | All Nominees |
| 2001 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Jim Dale | Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire | All Nominees |
| 2000 | Best Musical Album For Children | (Various Artists) | The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland | All Nominees |
| 2000 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Wynton Marsalis, Graham Greene, Kate Winslet | Listen To The Storyteller | All Nominees |
| 1999 | Best Musical Album For Children | (The Sesame Street Muppets & Various Artists) | Elmopalooza! | All Nominees |
| 1999 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | (Various Artists) | The Children's Shakespeare | All Nominees |
| 1998 | Best Musical Album For Children | John Denver | All Aboard! | All Nominees |
| 1998 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Charles Kuralt | Winnie-The-Pooh | All Nominees |
| 1997 | Best Musical Album For Children | Linda Ronstadt | Dedicated To The One I Love | All Nominees |
| 1997 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | David Holt | Stellaluna | All Nominees |
| 1996 | Best Musical Album For Children | Barbara Bailey Hutchison | Sleepy Time Lullabys | All Nominees |
| 1996 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Patrick Stewart | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf | All Nominees |
| 1995 | Best Musical Album For Children | (Various Artists) | The Lion King - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | All Nominees |
| 1995 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Robert Guillaume | The Lion King Read-Along | All Nominees |
| 1994 | Best Musical Album For Children | (Various Artists) | Aladdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | All Nominees |
| 1994 | Best Spoken Word Album For Children | Audrey Hepburn | Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales | All Nominees |
| 1993 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Various Artists) | Beauty And The Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | All Nominees |
| 1992 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Maranatha! Kids) | A Capella Kids | All Nominees |
| 1991 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Various Artists) | The Little Mermaid | All Nominees |
| 1990 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Tanya Goodman | The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 1 | All Nominees |
| 1989 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Robin Williams, Ry Cooder | Pecos Bill | All Nominees |
| 1988 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Bobby McFerrin, Jack Nicholson | The Elephant's Child | All Nominees |
| 1987 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Sesame Street Muppets) | The Alphabet | All Nominees |
| 1986 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Jim Henson | Follow That Bird - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | All Nominees |
| 1985 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Shel Silverstein | Where The Sidewalk Ends | All Nominees |
| 1984 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Michael Jackson | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | All Nominees |
| 1983 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Various Artists) | In Harmony 2 | All Nominees |
| 1982 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker) | Sesame Country | All Nominees |
| 1981 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Various Artists) | In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record | All Nominees |
| 1980 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Muppets) | The Muppet Movie | All Nominees |
| 1979 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Muppets) | The Muppet Show | All Nominees |
| 1978 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Various Artists) | Aren't You Glad You're You | All Nominees |
| 1977 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Karl Bohm, Hermione Gingold | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals | All Nominees |
| 1976 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Richard Burton | The Little Prince | All Nominees |
| 1975 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot, Paul Winchell | Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too | All Nominees |
| 1974 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (Sesame Street Cast) | Sesame Street Live | All Nominees |
| 1973 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby | The Electric Company | All Nominees |
| 1972 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Bill Cosby | Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs | All Nominees |
| 1971 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (The Muppets) | Sesame Street | All Nominees |
| 1970 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Peter, Paul And Mary | Peter, Paul And Mommy | All Nominees |
| 1968 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Boris Karloff | Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas | All Nominees |
| 1967 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Marvin Miller | Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran The Zoo" And "Sleep Book" | All Nominees |
| 1966 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Marvin Miller | Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox In Sox" And "Green Eggs And Ham" | All Nominees |
| 1965 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke | Mary Poppins | All Nominees |
| 1964 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Leonard Bernstein | Bernstein Conducts For Young People | All Nominees |
| 1963 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Leonard Bernstein | Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra | All Nominees |
| 1962 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Leonard Bernstein | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf | All Nominees |
| 1961 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | (David Seville And The Chipmunks) Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. | Let's All Sing With The Chipmunks | All Nominees |
| 1960 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | Peter Ustinov | Peter And The Wolf | All Nominees |
| 1959 | Best Recording For Children - Single or Album, Musical or Spoken | David Seville And The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.) | The Chipmunk Song | All Nominees |
Previous Winners
Harmony
Brillo, Brillo!
We Grow Together Preschool Songs
The Movement
A Colorful World
All The Ladies
Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype
All The Sounds
Feel What U Feel
Infinity Plus One
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