Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album |
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| Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1959 |
| Currently held by | Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, Brillo, Brillo! (2025) |
The Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album is a special honor given out at the Grammy Awards. These awards celebrate the best music and recordings. This specific award is given to artists who create amazing music albums especially for children. It's all about recognizing great artistic work, not just how many copies an album sells.
The Grammy Awards started in 1958 and were first called the Gramophone Awards. Each year, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States presents these awards. They want to celebrate excellent music and recording skills. The current winner of this award, as of 2025, is Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band for their album Brillo, Brillo!.
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History of the Children's Music Grammy
The award for children's music has changed its name a few times over the years. It always honors recordings that have great performances for kids.
Early Years and Name Changes
- From 1959 to 1960, it was called Best Recording for Children.
- In 1961, it changed to Best Album Created for Children.
- From 1962 to 1968, it went back to Best Recording for Children.
- No award was given in this category in 1969.
- From 1970 to 1991, it was again Best Recording for Children.
- In 1992 and 1993, it became Best Album for Children.
Splitting and Merging Categories
- From 1994 to 2011, the award was split into two separate categories:
- Best Musical Album for Children (for music albums)
- Best Spoken Word Album for Children (for albums with stories or spoken performances)
- In 2012, these two categories were combined again. The award was then known as Best Children's Album until 2019. This change brought the award back to how it was before 1994, with one main category for children's recordings.
- In 2020, spoken-word children's albums moved to a different category called Best Spoken Word Album. The children's category was then renamed to its current name: Best Children's Music Album.
Why the Changes Happened
The Recording Academy, which gives out the Grammys, decided to make these changes to have fewer award categories overall. They felt it made more sense to have one main category for all types of children's recordings, just like it was from 1958 to 1993.
Today, the category is for music albums aimed at children from babies up to 12 years old. When artists submit their albums, they need to include the lyrics and English translations if the songs are in another language.
Award Winners
This table shows the winners of the Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album (and its previous names) over the years.
| Year | Winner(s) | Winning Album | Other Nominees | Ref. |
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| 1959 | Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (artist) | "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" |
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| 1960 | Peter Ustinov (artist) | Peter and the Wolf |
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| 1961 | Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (artist) | Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks |
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| 1962 | Leonard Bernstein (artist) | Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf |
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| 1963 | Leonard Bernstein (artist) | Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra |
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| 1964 | Leonard Bernstein (artist) | Bernstein Conducts For Young People |
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| 1965 | Dick Van Dyke & Julie Andrews (artists) | Mary Poppins |
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| 1966 | Marvin Miller (artist) | Dr. Seuss Presents: "Fox in Socks" and "Green Eggs and Ham" |
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| 1967 | Marvin Miller (artist) | "Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran The Zoo" And "Sleep Book"" |
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| 1968 | Boris Karloff (artist) | "Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas" |
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| 1970 | Peter, Paul and Mary (artist) | Peter, Paul and Mommy |
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| 1971 | Joan Cooney & Thomas Z. Shepard (producers) | Sesame Street |
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| 1973 | Bill Cosby & Rita Moreno (artists) · Produced by Christopher Cerf, Joe Raposo, and Lee Chamberlin |
"The Electric Company" | ||
| 1974 | Joe Raposo (producer) | Sesame Street Live! |
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| 1975 | Paul Winchell, Sebastian Cabot & Sterling Holloway (artists) | "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" |
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| 1976 | Richard Burton (artist) | "The Little Prince" | ||
| 1977 | Hermione Gingold & Karl Böhm (artists) | Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals |
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| 1978 | Christopher Cerf & Jim Timmens (producers) | Aren't You Glad You're You |
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| 1979 | Jim Henson (producer) | The Muppet Show |
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| 1980 | Jim Henson & Paul Williams (producers) | The Muppet Movie |
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| 1981 | David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) | In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record | ||
| 1982 | Jim Henson & Dennis Scott (producers) | Sesame Country | ||
| 1983 | David Levine & Lucy Simon (producers) | In Harmony 2 |
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| 1984 | Michael Jackson (artist) · Quincy Jones (producer) |
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial |
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| 1985 | Shel Silverstein (artist) · Ron Haffkine (producer) |
Where the Sidewalk Ends |
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| 1986 | Jim Henson & Steve Buckingham (producers) | Follow That Bird: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| 1987 | Jim Henson, Geri Van Rees & Kathryn King (producers) | The Alphabet |
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| 1988 | Bobby McFerrin & Jack Nicholson (artists) · Produced by Bobby McFerrin, Mark Sottnick, and Tom Bradshaw |
The Elephant's Child |
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| 1989 | Robin Williams (artist) · Music by Ry Cooder · Produced by Mark Sottnick and Ry Cooder |
Pecos Bill |
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| 1990 | Tanya Goodman (artist) · David R. Lehman & J. Aaron Brown (producers) |
The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Volume 1 |
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| 1991 | Alan Menken (composer) Howard Ashman (lyricist) | The Little Mermaid: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack |
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| 1992 | Clifford "Barney", Robertson (producer) | A Cappella Kids |
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| 1993 | Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (songwriters) | Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| 2012 | Gloria Domina, James Cravero, Kevin Mackie, Patrick Robinson & Steve Pullara (producers) | All About Bullies... Big and Small |
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| 2013 | The Okee Dokee Brothers · Engineered/Mixed & Produced by Dean Jones |
Can You Canoe? |
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| 2014 | Jennifer Gasoi (artist) · Engineered/Mixed by Pierre Messier · Produced by Jennifer Gasoi |
Throw a Penny in the Wishing Well |
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| 2015 | Neela Vaswani (artist) | I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World |
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| 2016 | Tim Kubart (artist) | Home |
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| 2017 | Secret Agent 23 Skidoo | Infinity Plus One |
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| 2018 | Lisa Loeb (artist) | Feel What U Feel |
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| 2019 | Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats | All The Sounds |
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| 2020 | Jon Samson & Al Walser | Ageless Songs for the Child Archetype |
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| 2021 | Joanie Leeds | All the Ladies |
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| 2022 | Falu | A Colorful World |
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| 2023 | Alphabet Rockers | The Movement |
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| 2024 | 123 Andrés | We Grow Together - Preschool Songs |
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| 2025 | Lucky Diaz & The Family Jam Band | Brillo, Brillo! |
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Artists with Multiple Wins
Some artists have won this Grammy Award more than once. Here are the artists who have won two or more times:
| Wins | Artist |
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| 5 | Jim Henson |
| 3 | Leonard Bernstein |
| 2 | Howard Ashman |
| Ross Bagdasarian Sr. | |
| Bill Cosby | |
| David Levine | |
| Alan Menken | |
| Marvin Miller | |
| Lucy Simon |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Premio Grammy al mejor álbum para niños para niños
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