Los Angles: It was yet another major victory for the Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama when he won the music industry’s most coveted award, Grammy Award beating two former US presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter in Los Angeles.

Obama won the Grammy Award for best spoken word album, for his audiobook version of his blockbuster tome "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream." However, the Illinois senator was not present at the awards ceremony in downtown Los Angeles. He was scheduled to attend a rally in Virginia later in the day. This is Obama’s second Grammy, following a win in 2006 for "Dreams From My Father," an audiobook for a memoir first published in 1995.

Bill Clinton was nominated for his Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, his best-selling guide to how individuals can contribute to worthy causes. Clinton was seeking his third Grammy. Jimmy Carter, the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was nominated for his Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bringing Peace to a Changing World, a collection of Bible lessons. Carter won the award last year. Other nominees included Maya Angelou for Celebrations and actor Alan Alda for Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself.

Obama's latest book, published in October 2006, articulates that Americans have more in common than their polarizing politics suggest. The book includes personal anecdotes about his struggles to balance public service and family life.

Not to be outdone by Obama, Hillary Clinton has also a Grammy under her belt. She won the spoken word prize in 1997, while she was first lady, for her book "It Takes a Village." From Republican front, no politician has won the award in the category since Everett Dirksen, an Illinois congressman and senator, in 1968.