The award present was initially set to happen on Jan. 31, however was postponed over what organizers known as “too many dangers” from the omicron variant.
WASHINGTON — The Grammy Awards are heading to Las Vegas.
The 2022 ceremony, initially scheduled for Jan. thirty first in Los Angeles, was postponed over what organizers known as “too many dangers” from the omicron variant.
The Recording Academy introduced Tuesday the present will now happen on April 3 and be broadcast reside from the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas.
“We’re excited to take the GRAMMYs to Las Vegas for the very first time, and to placed on a world-class present,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. mentioned in an announcement. “From the second we introduced the postponement of the unique present date, we’ve got been inundated with heartfelt messages of help and solidarity from the artist neighborhood.”
The 2022 Grammys will probably be hosted once more by comic Trevor Noah.
Organizers didn’t say why they selected to maneuver the ceremony from Los Angeles to Vegas, however the present’s preliminary location, the newly renamed Crypto.com Enviornment, has two basketball video games on the schedule for April 3.
Final 12 months, like most main awards reveals in early 2021, the Grammys had been postponed because of coronavirus considerations. The present was moved from late January to mid-March and held with a spare viewers made up of largely nominees and their friends in and across the Los Angeles Conference Heart, subsequent door to its typical dwelling, the world then often called Staples Heart.
The multitalented Jon Batiste is the main nominee for this 12 months’s honors, grabbing 11 nods in a wide range of genres together with R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video.
Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R. are tied for the second-most nominations with eight apiece.
