Steve Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He started his career in 1980 playing with Frank Zappa and has since recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth, and Public Image Ltd. Since 1983 Vai also released his own studio albums. His discography consists of eleven studio albums, two EPs, two special albums, eight live albums, twelve soundtracks, twenty compilation albums and seven videos. Vai has been awarded three Grammy Awards and forty other awards. Vai has also appeared as a guest musician on forty-four albums, as diverse as Motörhead, M83, and most recently for the second time with Jacob Collier.
|- | style="text-align:center;"|1990 | style="width:260px;"|Passion and Warfare |Best Rock Instrumental Album | |- | style="text-align:center;"|1994 | style="width:260px;"|"Sofa" from Zappa's Universe |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|1995 | style="width:260px;"|"Tender Surrender" from Alien Love Secrets |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|1997 | style="width:260px;"|"For the Love of God" from ' |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|1999 | style="width:260px;"|"Windows to the Soul" from The Ultra Zone |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2001 | style="width:260px;"|"Whispering a Prayer" from Alive in an Ultra World |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="width:260px;"|No Substitutions |Best Pop Instrumental Album | |- | style="text-align:center;"|2006 | style="width:260px;"|"Lotus Feet" |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|2008 | style="width:260px;"|"The Attitude Song" |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|2009 | style="width:260px;"|"Peaches En Regalia" from Zappa Plays Zappa |Best Rock Instrumental Performance | |- | style="text-align:center;"|2010 | style="width:260px;"|"Now We Run" from Where the Wild Things Are |Best Rock Instrumental Performance |