Winehouse, Kanye West & Foo Fighters – Grammy Winners

AMY WINEHOUSE, KANYE WEST and FOO FIGHTERS have all triumphed at the 2008 Grammy Awards – picking up early prizes.

Troubled singer Winehouse has landed the Best Pop Vocal Album award for her acclaimed Back to Black L.P.

Kanye West picked up the Best Rap Solo Performance for his hit single Stronger. The star also triumphed in the best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group category for his collaboration with Common on Southside.

Foo Fighters picked up the Best Hard Rock Performance gong for their 2007 single The Pretender while Bruce Springsteen landed the Best Rock Song award for Radio Nowhere.

The main winners so far are as follows:

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)

Best Pop Vocal Album
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere

Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
The White Stripes – Icky Thump

Best Hard Rock Performance
Foo Fighters – The Pretender

Best Rock Song
Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere

Best Alternative Music Album
The White Stripes – Icky Thump

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Prince – Future Baby Mama

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
Chaka Khan Featuring Mary J. Blige – Disrespectful

Best R&B Song
Dirty Harry, Kerry Brothers & Alicia Keys, songwriters (Alicia Keys) – No One

Best R&B Album
Chaka Khan – Funk This

Best Contemporary R&B Album
Ne-Yo – Because Of You

Best Rap Solo Performance
Kanye West – Stronger

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group
Common featuring Kanye West – Southside.

(LR&IG/WN)