Music icons who died within the final 12 months — from Tina Turner to Tony Bennett — can be honored at Sunday’s 2024 Grammys with performances by Stevie Surprise, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste.
A supply near the scenario tells The Hollywood Reporter that Barrino, on the heels of her success in The Colour Purple, will honor Turner with a efficiency, which can be launched by Colour Purple producer Oprah Winfrey, who was introduced as a Grammy presenter earlier this week. Surprise can pay tribute to Bennett onstage, whereas Batiste will keep in mind music govt Clarence Avant with a efficiency to be launched by Lenny Kravitz.
Lennox will honor Sinead O’Connor and can be joined by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, the Grammy- and Emmy-winning musicians who performed in Prince’s band The Revolution (Prince additionally wrote O’Connor’s greatest hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.”)
The performances will happen throughout the In Memoriam section of Sunday’s present, which may also embody particular video bundle tributes and photographs of members of the music group who died within the final 12 months.
Trevor Noah will host the Grammys, airing reside on CBS from the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles. Different performers embody SZA, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Joni Mitchell, U2, Billy Joel, Luke Combs, Burna Boy and Travis Scott, whereas Meryl Streep, Lionel Richie, Christina Aguilera, Maluma, Mark Ronson, Taylor Tomlinson and Samara Pleasure will current awards.
SZA is the highest contender with 9 nominations; Victoria Monét and Phoebe Bridgers comply with with seven nominations; Taylor Swift, Eilish and Rodrigo earned six nominations apiece. Feminine acts dominate this 12 months and rely for all the nominees within the high three classes aside from Jon Batiste. Album of the 12 months contenders are SZA’s SOS, Swift’s Midnights, Rodrigo’s Guts, Batiste’s World Music Radio, Miley Cyrus’ Infinite Summer season Trip, boygenius’ the file, Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd and Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure.
