Grammy Winners

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Visa issues may have prevented Amy Winehouse from attending the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night, but logistical red tape and her ongoing personal turmoil couldn't keep the troubled singer from sweeping the ceremony and delivering the night's best performance (albeit via satellite).

The beehived soul songstress took home five trophies, including the best new artist award, beating Canadian crooner Feist, who came up empty-handed in all four of the categories in which she was nominated. Winehouse also won best female pop vocal performance, best pop vocal album for Back to Black and record of the year for "Rehab." Accepting the latter trophy via satellite, the stunned and emotional Winehouse kept her arm around her mother as she thanked her jailed husband, calling him "my Blake incarcerated."

The night's other big winner was nomination leader Kanye West, who took home four awards for best rap album, best rap solo performance for "Stronger," and best rap performance for "Southside" with Common and best rap/sung collaboration for "Good Life" with T-Pain.
Amy Winehouse and Kanye West were the big winners at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, but both singers lost out on the night's biggest trophy, which was won by surprise victor Herbie Hancock. (Getty Images)
Amy Winehouse and Kanye West were the big winners at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, but both singers lost out on the night's biggest trophy, which was won by surprise victor Herbie Hancock. (Getty Images)

West's performance, which began as a black-lit dance riot with Daft Punk, closed with a heartfelt tribute to his late mother, Donda, who passed away of heart failure and complications from plastic surgery in November.

Both West and Winehouse lost out on the night's biggest category, album of the year, which was nabbed by surprise winner Herbie Hancock for River: The Joni Letters.

Grammy winners:
Album of the Year: Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters
Record of the Year: Amy Winehouse, "Rehab"
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Rihanna, Jay-Z, "Umbrella"
Best Country Album: Vince Gill, These Days
Best Rap Album of the Year: Kanye West, Graduation
Best New Artist: Amy Winehouse
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys, "No One"
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Love
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Maroon 5, "Makes Me Wonder"
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)"
Best Pop Vocal Album: Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Amy Winehouse, "Rehab"
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Justin Timberlake, "What Goes Around...Comes Around"
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Bruce Springsteen, "Radio Nowhere"
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: The White Stripes, "Icky Thump"
Best Hard Rock Performance: Foo Fighters, "The Pretender"
Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, "Radio Nowhere"
Best Alternative Music Album: The White Stripes, Icky Thump
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Prince, "Future Baby Mama"
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Chaka Khan Featuring Mary J. Blige, "Disrespectful"
Best R&B Song: Dirty Harry, Kerry Brothers & Alicia Keys, songwriters (Alicia Keys), "No One"
Best R&B Album: Chaka Khan, Funk This
Best Contemporary R&B Album: Ne-Yo, Because Of You
Best Rap Solo Performance: Kanye West, "Stronger"
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Common featuring Kanye West, "Southside"
Best Dance Recording: Justin Timberlake, "Lovestoned/I Think She Knows"
Producer of the Year: Mark Ronson
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: Bruce Springsteen, "Once Upon A Time In The West"
Best Hard Rock Performance: Foo Fighters, "The Pretender"
Best Gospel Performance (tie): The Clark Sisters, "Blessed & Highly Favored"; Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige, "Never Gonna Break My Faith"
Best Zydeco/Cajun Music Album: Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience, Live! Worldwide
Best Score Soundtrack Album: Michael Giacchino, Ratatouille
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture: "Love You I Do," Dreamgirls
Best Spoken Word Album: Barack Obama, The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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