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this Grammy Awards Known as “music’s biggest night,” the Recording Academy hands out plenty of trophies in non-music categories, too—and you might be surprised Find out who won them.
One of the main sources of unusual Grammy winners is Best Spoken Word Album, which was first awarded in 1959. The award is given to the politician who reads a speech (Martin Luther King Jr.), poets reciting their works (Maya Angelou), and more recently, writers and actors read audiobooks (LeVar Burton, cynthia nixon, Michael J. Fox There are many more).
Winning a Grammy isn’t easy, of course, but the breadth of the category has helped many stars accomplish their own showbiz feats of transcendence: winning Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys.
legendary audrey hepburnFor example, in 1953 with ” roman holiday1954 Tony Award Ondine and won an Emmy Award in 1993 Audrey Hepburn’s Garden of the World. Finally, in 1994, Breakfast at Tiffany’s The star won a Grammy for Best Children’s Spoken Word Album, making her the first person to posthumously win all four awards. (She died a month before the ceremony.)
Keep scrolling to see the most surprising Grammy winners over the years:
