<P> "My Father's Eyes" is a song written and performed by Eric Clapton and produced by Clapton and Simon Climie . It was released as a single in 1998 and was featured on the album Pilgrim . The song reached the top 40 on the Billboard Airplay chart, peaking at number 16, and spent five weeks at number two on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart . "My Father's Eyes" won a Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance . </P> <P> Clapton performed this track for the first time in 1992 and again in 1996, in both electric and unplugged versions . These versions of the song were completely different from the official single release in 1998 . He would later retire the song in 2004, along with "Tears in Heaven", until the 50 Years Further On Up The Road world tour in 2013 . </P> <P> The song is inspired by the fact that Clapton never met his father, who died in 1985 . Describing how Clapton wishes he knew his father, "My Father's Eyes" also refers to Clapton's son Conor, who died at age four after falling from an apartment window . "In it I tried to describe the parallel between looking in the eyes of my son, and the eyes of the father that I never met, through the chain of our blood", said Clapton in his autobiography . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Ceremony </Th> <Th> Award </Th> <Th> Result </Th> <Th> Ref . </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1999 </Td> <Th> BMI Awards </Th> <Td> Song of the Year </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Grammy Awards </Th> <Td> Best Pop Vocal Performance Male </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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