"We are going to resume the celebration subsequent yr once we will host an unbelievable night in our distinctive and glittering manner," reads a joint assertion from Davis & the Recording Academy.
The pre-Grammy gala hosted by the Recording Academy and Clive Davis has been canceled for 2022.
“As a result of logistical obstacles brought on by the continuing pandemic, together with the unavailability of an applicable venue, we've determined to postpone the 2022 Pre-Grammy Gala,” Davis and Academy CEO Harvey Mason, jr. stated in a joint assertion. “We are going to resume the celebration subsequent yr once we will host an unbelievable night in our distinctive and glittering manner, hospitable to our great music artists, music executives, movie, tv, sports activities and illustrious politicians who yearly love the occasion like no different.”
Selection was first to report the information.
Sony Music chairman Rob Stringer was to obtain the Grammy Salute to Business Icons award on the gala. An Academy spokesperson stated Stringer could also be acknowledged in another manner this yr.
Different Grammy week actions, together with the Individual of the Yr gala, which is about to honor Joni Mitchell, shall be held in Las Vegas. The MusiCares occasion is about for April 1, although the venue just isn't but decided. The sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards are set for April 3 from the MGM Grand Backyard Area.
Davis originated his pre-Grammy social gathering in 1976 as a manner of celebrating Barry Manilow’s “Mandy,” the fledgling label’s first hit, which obtained a Grammy nomination for document of the yr. It was a wise transfer, permitting his social gathering to face alone because the pre-eminent occasion earlier than the Grammys moderately than competing with quite a few different Grammy night time label events.
The occasion shortly grew to grow to be a music enterprise counterpart to expertise agent Swifty Lazar’s legendary Oscar events. Lazar died in 1993 at age 86.
The Academy later agreed to co-present the social gathering, although the occasion was invariably nonetheless known as “the Clive social gathering.”
As a result of pandemic, final yr’s social gathering was held as two separate digital occasions, which featured Davis talking with legends corresponding to Bruce Springsteen and Mitchell together with up to date stars together with John Legend.
This yr’s Grammy Awards had been postponed on Jan. 5 – the identical date that the 2021 present was postponed final yr. However this yr’s present was pushed even additional again than final yr’s – April 3 in comparison with March 14 final yr.
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.