We all know that Adele won every single Grammy Award possible back in 2012, while Beyoncé should always prepare an acceptance speech when she attends the annual LA bash.

But among the biggest and most iconic winners in the Grammy Awards' hall of fame, there reside a few surprise recipients from over the years.

Novelty songs, comedians and even US presidents have all scooped one of the prestigious gramophone statuettes, so we take a look back at the Grammy Award winners you probably didn't know about.



1. BILL CLINTON



While the 42nd President of the United States is a formidable saxophonist, he has actually won two Grammy Awards for his voice. Speaking voice, that is. The first was in 2005 for Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf; an album that combined an orchestral composition with narration by Clinton over the top. It won the award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. What's even more strange is that Italian-French film star Sophia Loren was a co-recipient with him.



The second was in 2008 for the audio book for his autobiography My Life, which scooped the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.



2. BAHA MEN



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They may have been a one-hit wonder, but at least they're a Grammy-winning one-hit wonder. Baha Men's 'Who Let The Dogs Out?' was a worldwide smash back in 2000 and went on to win the award for Best Dance Recording. What's even more shocking is that Eiffel 65's trance-pop record 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' was also nominated in the same category.



3. WILL SMITH

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If we were to ask you which Will Smith song had won a Grammy Award, you'd probably suggest 'Gettin' JIggy Wit It' or maybe even 'Miami', right? Well it was actually 1997 theme track 'Men In Black' which won Big Willie the award for Best Rap Solo Performance. Don't get us wrong, it's a great track, but a Grammy Award-winning song? We'd never have guessed it.

4. BARACK OBAMA

Former president Bill Clinton isn't the only leader to have won a pair of Grammy Awards, as current US President Barack Obama has a pair of statuettes on the mantlepiece in the White House right now. The politician won two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album before he was elected into office. The first was for an audio recording of his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, which was re-released in 2004. The second was in 2008 for his second memoir The Audacity of Hope.

5. DUFFY

The Welsh singer was a massive breakout success with her debut album Rockferry back in 2008. We all remember her big swoop of wins at the Brit Awards the following year, before she disappeared from the music business altogether, but some will be surprised to learn that her debut collection also won her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

6. PATRICK STEWART

There are many awards you'd expect Patrick Stewart to have won. Tonys, Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and even an award for best Twitter account ever, if such a prize exists. However, the British actor was the recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 1996 for his recording of Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf. He faced tough competition from Morgan Freeman and Winona Ryder.

7. MILLI VANILLI

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R&B duo Milli Vanilli - consisting of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus - were huge in the late 1980s, but it would later transpire that neither group member actually sang on their own records. The scandal was only causing ripples when they won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990, but when the cover-up was completely exposed that prize was firmly taken from them. The gong was never handed out to a runner-up either, which included nominees Neneh Cherry and Soul II Soul.

8. SESAME STREET

The cast of Sesame Street are multiple Grammy Award winners. Having bagged two awards for Best Album for Children (one in 1971 and another in 1982), they join a long list of fictional characters who have been handed the famous gramophone trophy. Others include The Muppets, ET, The Little Mermaid and Winnie the Pooh.

9. HILLARY CLINTON

Never one to stand at the side-line and let her husband get all the glory (and rightly so), Hillary Clinton can also count herself as a bonafide Grammy Award winner. Hillary, in fact, bagged an award at the glitzy ceremony years before her husband did, winning the trophy for Best Spoken Word Album in 1997 for It Takes a Village.

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