11 Grammy winners who triumphed during the middle of their careers

After winning best electronic/dance album in 2009 for their live album "Alive 2007," Daft Punk finally was honored by the Grammys in 2014, winning four awards: Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for the smash-hit "Get Lucky" and Album of the Year and Best Electronica/Dance Album for "Random Access Memories." The album's engineers won Best Engineered Album, Non-classical, as well.

After several nominations closer to the start of their career for albums like"Gaucho" and "Aja," Steely Dan took home Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for "Two Against Nature" and Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo with vocals for "Cousin Dupree" in 2001. The band had not released an album in some time and defeated acts like Beck and Radiohead.

"Supernatural" won nine Grammy awards for Santana in 2000, including the big ones like Album of the Year and Record of the Year. It was a coronation of Santana, as "Supernatural" was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, with several hit singles that achieved popularity among the old and young alike.

After a decade-and-a-half as one of the biggest bands in alternative music, Green Day won Song of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in 2006 off their album "American Idiot."

Though Led Zeppelin has won several legacy Grammy Awards, Robert Plant had never been individually honored until he joined forces with Alison Krauss to release the "Americana" album "Raising Sand" in 2009.  The duo won Record and Album of the Year.

Though he had won minor Grammys in the past, over 20-years into his recording career, Bruce Springsteen was a big winner in 1995 four individual awards for "The Streets of Philadelphia." He's added more Grammys to his resume, but has never had a night like that at the awards since.

After decades of writing songs that became huge hits in movies or elsewhere, Bacharach won Song of the Year in 1986 for his collaboration with Dionne Warwick.

After years, and Grammy recognition, as a successful producer, Pharrell Williams has most recently become known for his own music. After sharing Grammys with Daft Punk for "Get Lucky," Williams took home Best Pop Solo Performance in 2015 for "Happy."

Shockingly, Madonna was not a huge Grammy winner until 1999's "Ray of Light" which captured three awards: Best Pop Album, Best Dance Recording, and Best Short Form Music Video.

After losing out on Best New Artist in 1966 as part of Sonny and Cher, she rode "Believe" to several nominations and a Best Dance Recording win in 2000.

After winning twice for Best Pop Vocal Performance in the 1980s, Whitney Houston finally got the recognition as one of music's greatest ever singers in 1994. That year, Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" took Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Performance, and the soundtrack to "The Bodyguard" won Album of the Year. A fitting moment for a singer who was at the time at the height of her powers.