The ceremony organized by the American music industry usually stands at the end of January in Los Angeles. It had been postponed because of COVID-19.
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The Grammy Awards ceremony, American equivalent of the victories of music, will take place on April 3 in Las Vegas, not in Los Angeles, where it was originally planned, announced Tuesday, January 18 the organizers.
Due to the strong case increase in the Omicron variant, the disk academy that organizes the Grammy Awards announced in early January that it could not maintain the show scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles, judging that this presented “too many risks” on the sanitary level for the hundreds of artists and technicians mobilized.
The 64 e edit will be held in the MGM Grand Garden Arena room, in Las Vegas, announce the organizers in a press release.
Eleven nominations for Jon Batiste
OMICRON has become the variant of the Ultra-Graduate SAR-COV-2 in the United States and continues to spread in California, where more than one million new cases have been reported in one week. In total, seven million cases have been identified since the beginning of the pandemic in the most populous state of the country (about 40 million inhabitants).
The nominations of Grammy Awards made this year the beautiful share of diversity and youth (Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo or the Doja Cat Religant), with Jon Batiste, Jazzman African-American pianist 35 years old who account eleven appointments.
Last year, the Grammy Gala evening had already been postponed because of the coronavirus, but had finally adapted to the health requirements – tests and physical distancing. The 2022 edition was supposed to return to a more traditional formula in a large stadium of the center of Los Angeles.