May 25 , 2023

9 Indian artists who have won the prestigious Grammy Award

By True Scoop

The iconic AR Rahman won two Grammy Awards in 2010 for ‘Best Compilation Soundtrack for a Motion Picture for Slumdog Millionaire and ‘Best Motion Picture Song for Jai Ho.

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has won two Grammys. In 1991, he bagged the first award - ‘Best World Music Album; alongside percussionist TH Vinayakram.

Sitar maestro, the late Pandit Ravi Shankar, was the first Indian to win a Grammy Award in 1968. He went on to win four more Grammys, including the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.

Instrumentalist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt won a Grammy in 1992, under the ‘Best World Music Album’ category.

Zubin Mehta, an Indian conductor of Western classical music, has won five Grammys. He won his first in 1981 for Best Classical Performance (With Orchestra).

Singer Tanvi Shah is the first Indian woman to receive a Grammy Award. She bagged the Best Song Written for Visual Media award for the song Jai Ho in 2010.

Composer Ricky Kej had previously won two Grammy Awards - the first being in 2015, under the Best New Age Album category, and his third came this year for globally-acclaimed Divine Tides.

Mix engineer and record producer PA Deepak also earned his Grammy for Slumdog Millionaire in 2010, under the Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.

The renowned late chief audio engineer, H Sridhar, won a Grammy - For best Compilation Soundtrack Album for his contribution to Slumdog Millionaire.