Artist

Ringo Starr

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Biography

"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."

After a storied career with the Beatles, Starr released "It Don't Come Easy," which went to No. 4 in the U.S. and U.K. His third album, Ringo, was hailed as a return to a rock sound after explorations into other genres.

Starr has won eight GRAMMY Awards as a member of the Beatles and an additional GRAMMY for the 1972 Album Of The Year-winning charitable efforts, The Concert For Bangla Desh, with Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar, among others. In 2014 he performed "Photograph" solo and reunited with Paul McCartney for "Queenie Eye" onstage at the 56th GRAMMY Awards, their first performance together in five years.

Starr is the only Beatle to have had another job before the band hit it big. He worked as a steward on a ferry in the early 1960s.

With the Beatles, Starr received a Recording Academy Trustees Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award. The band has 15 recordings in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, some of which were performed during "The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute to The Beatles," a TV special marking the 50th anniversary of the group's appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show."

The GRAMMY Museum has hosted Starr on several occasions: first in 2010 for a conversation about his album Y Not, and again in 2013 for the opening of the exhibit Ringo: Peace & Love, the first such exhibit to honor a drummer.

Starr and his wife Barbara Bach started the Lotus Foundation to combat social issues, including substance abuse and neurological disease. He has participated in several musical projects for charity, including an album benefitting victims of Hurricane Sandy.

2025 • 67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

2009 • 51st Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Immersive Audio Album

Ringo 5.1 The Surround Sound Collection. Bruce Sugar, Chris Bellman, Bill Crowley, Ringo Starr

1997 • 39th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

1990 • 32nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Country Collaboration With Vocal

Act Naturally (Single). Buck Owens, Ringo Starr

1973 • 15th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Album Of The Year

The Concert For Bangla Desh. George Harrison, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann

1971 • 13th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)

Let It Be. George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr
Record Of The Year

Let It Be. The Beatles
Best Contemporary Song

Let It Be. The Beatles

1970 • 12th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

1969 • 11th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

1968 • 10th Annual GRAMMY® Awards

Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles
Best Contemporary Song

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles
Best Contemporary Song

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles
Album Of The Year

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles