Artist

Chick Corea

Wins

Nominations

Biography

"You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form."

Born Armando Anthony Corea June 12, 1941, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Chick Corea broke through with his 1968 release, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. The jazz trio-based album featured Corea on piano, as well as Miroslav Vitous on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. Corea's 1976 album, The Leprechaun, became his highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, landing at No. 42.
At the 18th GRAMMY Awards, Corea took home his first GRAMMY for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group for "No Mystery," the title track to his 1975 album with his band Return To Forever. At the 46th GRAMMY Awards in 2004, Corea joined the Foo Fighters for a performance of "Times Like These," marking his GRAMMY stage debut.
Corea is currently the artist with the most jazz GRAMMY wins. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 1999.
In 2009 Corea participated in a GRAMMY U SoundChecks installment alongside Stanley Clarke and Lenny White.
In 2019, the GRAMMY Museum welcomed Chick Corea for a conversation discussing his remarkable career and documentary, Chick Corea: In the Mind of a Master, which offers a behind-the-scenes look into the making of Chick's 2019 album, Antidote, with the Spanish Heart Band. Watch the conversation here.

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Chick Corea

2026 • 68th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy 3 (Live). Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade
Best Jazz Performance

Windows - Live. Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade

2025 • 67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

Juno. Chick Corea, Béla Fleck
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Remembrance. Chick Corea, Béla Fleck
Best Instrumental Composition

Remembrance. Chick Corea

2024 • 66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Classical Compendium

Sardinia. Chick Corea, Bernie Kirsh

2022 • 64th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Latin Jazz Album

Mirror Mirror. Eliane Elias, Chick Corea, Chucho Valdés
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Akoustic Band LIVE. Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl
Best Classical Compendium

Plays. Chick Corea, Bernie Kirsh
Best Jazz Performance

Humpty Dumpty (Set 2). Chick Corea

2021 • 63rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

All Blues. Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy 2. Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade

2020 • 62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Latin Jazz Album

Antidote. Chick Corea

2015 • 57th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

Fingerprints. Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trilogy. Chick Corea

2013 • 55th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Further Explorations. Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian
Best Jazz Performance

Hot House. Gary Burton, Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Hot House. Chick Corea, Gary Burton
Best Instrumental Composition

Mozart Goes Dancing. Chick Corea
Best Jazz Performance

Alice In Wonderland. Chick Corea

2012 • 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Forever. Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Lenny White
Best Jazz Performance

500 Miles High. Chick Corea

2010 • 52nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Five Peace Band - Live. John McLaughlin

2009 • 51st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The New Crystal Silence. Chick Corea, Gary Burton
Best Instrumental Composition

Alegria. Chick Corea
Best Jazz Performance

Waltz For Debby. Gary Burton, Chick Corea

2007 • 49th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The Ultimate Adventure. Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Three Ghouls. Chick Corea

2005 • 47th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

The Long Passage. Chick Corea

2004 • 46th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

Matrix. Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Rendezvous In New York. Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Armando's Rhumba. Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin

2001 • 43rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Classical Crossover

Corea.Concerto ('Spain' For Sextet & Orch.; Piano Con. No. 1) (Album). Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Spain For Sextet & Orchestra. Chick Corea

2000 • 42nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Change (Album). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Like Minds. Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland
Best Instrumental Composition

Little Flamenco (Track). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Performance

Wigwam (Track). Chick Corea

1999 • 41st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Native Sense - The New Duets (Album). Chick Corea, Gary Burton
Best Jazz Performance

Rhumbata. Gary Burton, Chick Corea

1998 • 40th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Remembering Bud Powell (Album). Chick Corea

1996 • 38th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Instrumental Composition

New Life (Track). Chick Corea

1995 • 37th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

Lush Life (Track). Chick Corea

1994 • 36th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Instrumental Composition

Blue Miles (Track). Chick Corea
Contemporary Jazz Album

Paint The World (Album). Chick Corea

1992 • 34th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Alive (Album). Chick Corea

1991 • 33rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Fusion Performance

Inside Out (Album). Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Tale Of Daring, Chapters 1-4 (Track). Chick Corea

1990 • 32nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Chick Corea Akoustic Band. Chick Corea
Best Instrumental Composition

Morning Sprite (Track). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Performance

Sophisticated Lady (Track). Chick Corea

1989 • 31st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Amnesia (Track). Chick Corea
Best Instrumental Composition

Eternal Child (Track). Chick Corea
Best R&B Instrumental Performance

Light Years. Chick Corea

1988 • 30th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Pop Instrumental Performance

Light Years (Track). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Trio Music, Live In Europe (Album). Chick Corea, Roy Haynes

1987 • 29th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Corea: Septet (Track). Chick Corea
Best Instrumental Composition

Elektric City (Track). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Fusion Performance

The Chick Corea Elektric Band (Album). Chick Corea

1986 • 28th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Voyage (Album). Chick Corea, Steve Kujala

1985 • 27th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Chamber Music Performance

Corea: Lyric Suite For Sextet (Album). Ikwhan Bae, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Karen Dreyfus, Fred Sherry, Carol Shive

1984 • 26th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Performance

Trio Music (Album). Chick Corea

1982 • 24th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Chick Corea & Gary Burton In Concert - Zurich, October 28, 1979. Gary Burton, Chick Corea

1980 • 22nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Instrumental Composition

Central Park (Track). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Fusion Performance

Chick Corea/Secret Agent (Album). Chick Corea
Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Duet. Chick Corea, Gary Burton

1979 • 21st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Friends. Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Falling Alice (Track). Chick Corea
Best Instrumental Composition

Friends. Chick Corea
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Mad Hatter Rhapsody (Track). Chick Corea