Foo Fighters, who have been beforehand introduced as performers on the present, aren't included within the newest launch.
Silk Sonic, John Legend, Carrie Underwood and J Balvin with Maria Becerra have been added to the lineup of performers for the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards held Sunday (April 3). Silk Sonic — the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — are slated to open the present.
As well as, Maverick Metropolis Music, Aymée Nuviola and Billy Strings will carry out in particular segments that can showcase Las Vegas, which is internet hosting the Grammys for the primary time, and highlight genres not traditionally represented on the Grammy telecast, per a press release that accompanied this third and presumably final slate of Grammy performers introduced on Wednesday (March 30).
Beforehand introduced Grammys performers are Jon Batiste, Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish, H.E.R., Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, Nas, Olivia Rodrigo and Chris Stapleton. The ceremony will even embody a beforehand introduced In Memoriam salute to legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim carried out by Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler.
Foo Fighters, who have been beforehand introduced as performers on the present, weren't listed within the newest launch. The band is mourning the lack of its drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who died all of a sudden at age 50 on Friday. March 25. On Tuesday, March 29, the band canceled all tour dates. The band has been intently related to the Grammys over time. The band has received greatest rock album 4 occasions — twice as usually as anybody else — and is nominated once more this yr. Will the band present up on the Grammys as a method of honoring their drummer or is it too merely quickly and too painful?
A lot of the main 2022 Grammy nominees are set to carry out on the present, however a handful of artists who rated excessive within the nominations aren’t performing (or at the least haven’t been introduced but). They embody Doja Cat and Justin Bieber, who every obtained eight nominations, in addition to Woman Gaga and Tony Bennett, who're nominated for each album and report of the yr; Abba, which is up for report of the yr; Taylor Swift and Kanye West, who're each vying for album of the yr; and Ed Sheeran, who's up for music of the yr.
The Academy has invited Bennett and Gaga, who obtained 5 Grammy nominations for his or her second collaborative album, Love for Sale, to the present. A efficiency could hinge on how Bennett, who's 95 and residing with Alzheimer’s illness, is feeling that day. Gaga could carry out individually if Bennett is lower than becoming a member of her, however such a transfer, even when deliberate, has not been introduced.
All of as we speak’s newly added performers besides Legend and Becerra are 2022 Grammy nominees. Silk Sonic are nominated for 4 awards, together with report and music of the yr, for “Depart the Door Open,” which they premiered on final yr’s Grammy telecast. Underwood is up for 2 awards — greatest roots gospel album for My Savior and greatest nation duo/group efficiency for “If I Didn’t Love You,” a collab with Jason Aldean. J Balvin is nominated within the new greatest música urbana album class for Jose.
Maverick Metropolis Music is nominated for 4 awards, together with greatest gospel album for Jubilee: Juneteenth Version and greatest up to date Christian music album for Outdated Church Basement, a collaborative album with Elevation Worship. Maverick Metropolis Music, a nine-member collective which originated in Atlanta, is the primary act to be nominated in each of these album classes in the identical yr for the reason that awards classes have been streamlined to their current kind in 2011.
Nuviola is nominated for greatest tropical Latin album for Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso. Strings is nominated for 2 awards — greatest bluegrass album for Renewal and greatest American roots efficiency for “Love and Remorse.”
It was introduced on Monday March 28 that Legend will obtain the first-ever Recording Academy International Affect Award on the Recording Academy Honors offered by the Black Music Collective. The in-person occasion is about to happen at Resorts World Las Vegas on Saturday, April 2, the night time earlier than the Grammys.
Trevor Noah is about to host the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards, which is able to air dwell from MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS. The present can be accessible to stream dwell and on demand on Paramount+.
The present is produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy. Raj Kapoor serves as showrunner and government producer, alongside Ben Winston and Jesse Collins as government producers, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay as co-executive producer. Hamish Hamilton returns as director, and Eric Prepare dinner as supervising producer with Tabitha D’umo, Patrick Menton, Fatima Robinson, and David Wild as producers.
This story initially posted on Billboard.