The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2000, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Nominations were announced on January 4, 2000. Santana was the main recipient with eight Grammys, tying Michael Jackson's record for most awards won in a single night. Santana's album Supernatural was awarded a total of nine awards. Former Mouseketeers and American teen singers (at the time), Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, were both nominated for Best New Artist, ultimately won by Aguilera.

Performers

Presenters

Award winners

General

Pop

Rock

R&B

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

Rap

Country

Best Female Country Vocal Performance Best Male Country Vocal Performance Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Best Country Instrumental Performance Best Country Song Best Country Album Best Bluegrass Album

New Age

Jazz

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance Best Jazz Vocal Performance Best Jazz Instrumental Solo Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Best Latin Jazz Performance

Gospel

Best Rock Gospel Album Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album

Blues

Children's

Comedy

Classical

Composing and arranging

Film/TV/media

Folk

Historical

Latin

Musical show

Music Video

Best Short Form Music Video Best Long Form Music Video

Packaging and notes

Polka

Production and engineering

Reggae

Spoken

World

Special merit awards

Grammy Hall of Fame Award

MusiCares Person of the Year

The 42nd GRAMMY LOGO

The design of the 42nd GRAMMY AWARDS logo, was commissioned to Mark Deitch and Associates. The actual design was conceived and executed by Raoul Pascual of WYNK Marketing. Michael Green of the Recording Academy stipulated that the logo should encompass all forms of musical genre and (whatever the design) the GRAMMY logo had to be prominently featured. Raoul's concept was to represent music with some of its major instruments: the clarinet for woodwinds, the piano for percussion, the guitar for strings plus a microphone: "I imagined all the instruments emanating from behind the logo. My problem was how to translate that into a visual. I designed black and white icons of the instruments using a vector program. I was working overtime and I was getting desperate. I was moving the different icons around the GRAMMY logo but none of the combinations seemed to work. As I picked up the guitar icon, I decided to pray and make a deal with God. I said 'if you bless me with a winning design, I will give you the glory every time I share how I designed the GRAMMY logo.' Suddenly, I inadvertently released my hold of the icon and it fell on top of the GRAMMY logo. I stared at the image on my screen and I saw my solution. I added the other icons and curved them to suggest movement from behind. Eureka! That was it!" With suggestions from the staff and the people at the Recording Academy in the course of several weeks, the design underwent an evolution from a 2 dimensional rendering into 3D.