Grammy Awards Set For Jan. 31 Postponed Due To COVID

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January 5, 2022 astatine 12:19 pm

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The 64th Grammy Awards ceremony, planned for Jan. 31 astatine Crypto.com Arena, has been postponed owed to the COVID-19 surge, according to The Recording Academy.

“After cautious information and investigation with metropolis and authorities officials, wellness and information experts, the creator assemblage and our galore partners, the Recording Academy and CBS person postponed the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Show,” according to a associated connection from the academy and network. “The wellness and information of those successful our euphony community, the unrecorded assemblage and the hundreds of radical who enactment tirelessly to nutrient our amusement remains our apical priority.

“Given the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, holding the amusement connected January 31 simply contains excessively galore risks. We look guardant to celebrating Music’s Biggest Night connected a aboriginal date, which volition beryllium announced soon.”

A caller day for the ceremonial has not yet been set.

Comedian and “The Daily Show” big Trevor Noah is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic the emcee of the ceremony.

Noah hosted past year’s ceremonial which was scaled backmost owed to the pandemic and held connected the outdoor lawsuit platform astatine L.A. Live successful downtown Los Angeles.

In November, the Grammy nominees were announced.

Jon Batiste scored a starring 11 nominations portion Disney actress-turned-singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo landed nods successful each 4 apical categories of champion caller creator and record, opus and medium of the year.

The ceremonial volition beryllium televised unrecorded connected CBS and streamed connected Paramount+.

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