Dalai Lama, tibetan spiritual leader, has won his first Grammy. The award is for his spoken-word album, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama‘.The album was collaborated with sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Ayaan Ali Bangash and Amaan Ali Bangash.

The 68th Annual Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles, US, on February 1, 2026.

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WINNER LIST

Album of the year: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (Bad Bunny)

Best pop vocal album: MAYHEM, Lady Gaga

Record of the year: Luther (Kendrick Lamar and SZA)

Best New Artist: Olivia Dean

Song of the year: Wildflower (Billie Eilish)

Best pop solo performance: Messy, Lola Young

Dance-pop recording: Lady Gaga – Abracadabra

Best pop duo/group performance: Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande – Defying Gravity

Rapper Kendrick Lamar bags three awards. His album GNX won Best Rap Album of the Year.

LEARNING FROM HOMES/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS

At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, 2024. India’s Zakir Hussain secured the Best Global Music Performance Grammy for his contribution to “Pashto”

And second Grammy for best contemporary instrumental album for his contribution to As We Speak. A Indo-Western jazz project with Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Indian flutist Rakesh Chaurasia.

Another Indian Shankar Mahadevan from Shakti, Indian jazz , clinched the award for Best Global Music Album at the Grammys, recognizing the album “This Moment.”the album is crafted by a talented ensemble including John McLaughlin (guitar, guitar synth), Zakir Hussain (tabla), Shankar Mahadevan (vocalist), V Selvaganesh (percussionist), and Ganesh Rajagopalan (violinist).

Taylor Swift, TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year. Became the first artist to win Album of the Year four times with Midnights.

GRAMMY AWARDS WON BY INDIANS OVER THE YEARS

Pandit Ravi Shankar had won 4 Grammy Awards

Zubin Mehta, a world-renowned orchestral conductor born in Mumbai, has won  5 Grammy Awards.

Neela Vaswani won  a Grammy for her audiobook narration of “I Am Malala.

Tanvi Shah became the first Indian woman to win a Grammy Award. For her performance in the song “Jai Ho” from the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.

Ricky Kej has won two  Grammy ; “Divine Tides” and for  his album “Winds of Samsara

Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. His album “A Meeting by the River” won the Grammy for Best World Music Album in 1993

Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram, fondly known as Vikku. Became the first Carnatic musician to win a Grammy with his performance in “Planet Drum” in 1991.

H. Sridhar was a sound engineer extraordinaire who played a pivotal role in creating the soundtrack for “Slumdog Millionaire,”

A. R. Rahman has won two Grammy Awards

Falguni Shah won her first Grammy in 2022 for the album “A Colourful World” in the Best Children’s Album category.