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Pat Metheny and the Pat Metheny Group have won 16 Grammys in total, including six consecutive awards for six consecutive albums. Metheny, as of the 2004 Grammy Awards, holds the record for Grammy wins in the most different categories:1. Best Jazz Fusion Performance (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1990)
2. Best Instrumental Composition (1991)
3. Best Contemporary Jazz Performance/Album (1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003)
4. Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group (1998, 2000)
5. Best Rock Instrumental Performance (1999)
6. Best Jazz Instrumental Solo (2001)
7. Best New Age Album (2004)
Session drummer Hal Blaine played on six consecutive records which won Record of the Year:
1. 1966 Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey"
2. 1967 Frank Sinatra - "Strangers in the Night"
3. 1968 5th Dimension - "Up, Up and Away"
4. 1969 Simon & Garfunkel - "Mrs. Robinson"
5. 1970 5th Dimension - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"
6. 1971 Simon & Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Legendary Opera Diva Leontyne Price has won 18 awards
Soul and R&B legend Aretha Franklin has won 11 awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, including 8 consecutive (and the first 8 ever awarded) awards in the category:
1. 1968 - "Respect"
2. 1969 - "Chain of Fools"
3. 1970 - "Share Your Love With Me"
4. 1971 - "Don't Play That Song"
5. 1972 - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
6. 1973 - Young, Gifted, and Black
7. 1974 - "Master of Eyes"
8. 1975 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing"
9. 1982 - "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
10. 1986 - "Freeway of Love"
11. 1988 - Aretha
Conductor Sir Georg Solti holds the record for most Grammys won, having won a total of thirty-eight awards before his death in 1997.
The most Grammys won in a single night is eight -- a record shared by Michael Jackson (1984), and Carlos Santana (2000).
Christopher Cross (Grammy Awards of 1981) and Norah Jones (Grammy Awards of 2003) are the only artists to receive the "Big Four" (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in a single ceremony.
Béla Fleck has been nominated in more categories than any other musician, namely country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, and spoken word, as well as composition and arranging.
