The 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards announced winners on February 2, 2025, featuring several artists who come from the state of New York, with notable honorees including Lady Gaga, Samara Joy, and more.
The 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony is an event that honors the best recordings, compositions, and artists from September 16, 2023, to August 30, 2024, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.
Trevor Noah has returned to host the GRAMMY Awards for a fifth consecutive year. The ceremony has hosted flamboyant performances from Benson Boone, Billie Eilish, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard, Bruno Mars, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Chris Martin, Cynthia Erivo, Doechii, Herbie Hancock, Jacob Collier, Janelle Moná, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Lainey Wilson, RAYE, Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey, Shakira, Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Stevie Wonder, and Teddy Swims. Presenters of the awards were Cardi B, Gloria Estefan, Olivia Rodrigo, Queen Latifah, SZA, Taylor Swift, Victoria Monét, and Will Smith.
Beyoncé won Album of the Year for Cowbody Carter, Kendrick Lamar won Record for the Year for “Not Like Us,” as well as Song of the Year, and Chappell Roan won Best New Artist. New York had taken away huge wins from the night and brought well-deserved recognition to talent across the state.
Samara Joy – Best Jazz Vocal Album & Best Jazz Performance
A native of the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx, Samara Joy has won Best Jazz Vocal Album for A Joyful Holiday and Best Jazz Performance for “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me” with Sullivan Fortner.
Samara Joy was first introduced to jazz in a meaningful way while studying as a voice major at SUNY Purchase College, where she was named an Ella Fitzgerald Scholar. There, she was introduced to the jazz greats like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and so forth. Rising to prominence with her GRAMMY-winning album Linger Awhile (2022), she has earned five GRAMMYs, including Best New Artist in 2023 and two wins each for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Jazz Performance in 2024 and 2025.
Daniel Nigro – Producer of the Year, non-classical
Born and raised in Massapequa Park on Long Island, Daniel Nigro won Producer of the Year, non-classical. Daniel Nigro took up piano, guitar, and voice lessons in his youth and attended Fordham University for philosophy. Nigro has produced, written, and co-written songs for Sky Ferreira, Joe Jonas, Kylie Minogue, Caroline Polachek, Dermot Kennedy, Maisie Peters, and Conan Gray. Nigro has credits in Olivia Rodrigo’s “girl I’ve always been,” “so american”, “stranger,” and “Can’t Catch Me Now,” featured in the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes soundtrack, as well as a breakout star and fellow GRAMMY nominee Chappell Roan’s debut album The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess. He has collected various accolades, including sixteen GRAMMYs, from which he has won Best Pop Vocal Album for his work on Rodrigo’s Sour (2021) and Producer of the Year, non-classical.
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Best Folk Album
Gillian Welch from Manhattan and her musical partner David Rawlings from Rhode Island have won Best Folk Album for Woodland. While subjected to new music in New York City, Welch was introduced to the music of American folk singers Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Carter Family. She performed folk songs with her peers in elementary school, and then while a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Welch played bass in a goth band and drums in a psychedelic surf band. She has previously received nominations for the GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for her 1996 debut, Revival, and the 2001 release Time (The Revelator), and Best Contemporary Folk Album for her fifth studio album in 2011, The Harrow & The Harvest. In 2020, Welch and Rawling released All the Good Times (Are Past & Gone), which won the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
The Famed Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars have won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for their song “Die With A Smile”. Lady Gaga, born in Manhattan and raised on the Upper West Side, attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. During her college years, she refined her craft by performing with her band in the clubs of the Lower East Side. Gaga is one of the world’s best-selling music artists globally. She has achieved 14 GRAMMY Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Norah Jones – Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
American singer-songwriter and musician Norah Jones has won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Visions. Jones was born in Manhattan to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian Bengali musician Ravi Shankar. As a child, Jones began singing in church and also took piano and voice lessons. She had attended the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano and sang with the UNT Jazz Singers. Jones launched her solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me, a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk, and pop. The record earned Jones five GRAMMY Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist, making her the first person of South Asian descent to win that many GRAMMY Awards. She has won various awards for her music and has been recognized by Billboard as the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade.
Hell’s Kitchen Musical by Alicia Keys – Best Musical Theatre Album
Hell’s Kitchen’s very own Alicia Keys has won Best Musical Theatre Album for the Broadway performance Hell’s Kitchen and the Global Impact Award. Alicia Keys achieved enormous success in the early 2000s with her notable songs “Fallin,” “No One,” and “Empire State of Mind,” which was a collaboration with Jay-Z. Keys also created the semi-autobiographical musical Hell’s Kitchen, which is about her upbringing in Manhattan in the 1990s. With sixteen GRAMMY Award wins, she is the fourth most-awarded female artist at the GRAMMYs.
Bela Fleck and Chick Corea
For a full list of winners of the 67 Annual GRAMMY Awards, click here.
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