The Grammy Awards ceremony, the American equivalent of the Victoires de la Musique, will take place on April 3 in Las Vegas, and not in Los Angeles, where it was originally planned, the organizers announced on Tuesday January 18.
Due to the sharp increase in cases of the Omicron variant, the Recording Academy, which organizes the Grammy Awards, announced in early January that it might not maintain the show scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles, judging that it presented “too many risks” in terms of health for the hundreds of artists and technicians mobilized.
The 64e edition will be held in the hall of the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, announce the organizers in a press release.
Eleven nominations for Jon Batiste
Omicron has become the ultramajority SARS-CoV-2 variant in the United States and continues to spread in California, where more than a million new cases have been reported in one week. In total, seven million cases have been identified since the start of the pandemic in the most populous state in the country (regarding 40 million inhabitants).
The Grammy Award nominations this year gave pride of place to diversity and youth (Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo or rapper Doja Cat), led by Jon Batiste, a 35-year-old African-American jazz pianist who has eleven nominations. .
Last year, the Grammy gala evening had already had to be postponed due to the coronavirus, but had finally adapted to the sanitary requirements – tests and physical distancing. The 2022 edition was supposed to return to a more traditional format in a large stadium in central Los Angeles.