Honors and Awards
Laurindo Almeida was nominated for sixteen Grammys and received the award five times:
- 1960 The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Duo
- 1960 Conversations with the Guitar Best Classical Performance Vocal or Instrumental Chamber Music
- 1961 Discantus Best Contemporary Classical Composition (tied with Igor Stravinsky)
- 1961 Reverie for Spanish Guitars Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra
- 1964 Guitar from Ipanema Best Instrumental Jazz Performance-Large Group
In 1992, he was honored with the Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Society Award for "his illustrious career as a performer and composer and his dedicated promotion of the music of the Americas." Shortly before his death, the Brazilian government honored Almeida, awarding him the "Comendador da Ordem do Rio Branco." In 2010, Fanfare inducted his 1958 Duets with Spanish Guitar into its Classical Recording Hall of Fame.
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