On this Oct. 10, 2017, file photograph, varied Grammy Awards are displayed on the Grammy Museum Expertise at Prudential Middle in Newark, N.J. AP Picture/Julio Cortez, File)
LOS ANGELES --
The 2022 Grammy Awards will shift to an April present in Las Vegas after just lately suspending the ceremony attributable to rising COVID-19 circumstances due to the Omicron variant.
The awards will likely be broadcast dwell from the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas on April 3, in response to a joint assertion launched Tuesday from the Recording Academy and CBS. The present postponed its authentic date on Jan. 31 on the newly renamed Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles after organizers' decided there have been "too many dangers" due to the virus's newest surge.
For the Grammys, it was making an attempt a back-to-normal present with a dwell viewers, however the determination to postpone the ceremony got here after "cautious consideration and evaluation with metropolis and state officers, well being and security consultants, the artist neighborhood and our many companions."
That is the second consecutive yr the Grammys has been rescheduled because of the unfold of the coronavirus. Final yr, like most main award reveals, the Grammys had been postponed due to virus issues.
It was a giant evening for Beyonce and Taylor Swift, however the dwell performances that set the Grammys other than different awards reveals had been staged individually with no important crowds, lots of them pre-taped.
The present was moved from late January to mid-March and held with a spare viewers made up of largely nominees and their visitors in and across the Los Angeles Conference Middle, subsequent door to its standard residence, the sector then referred to as Staples Middle.
The multitalented Jon Batiste is the main nominee for this yr's honours, grabbing 11 nods in quite a lot 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.
The Grammys' transfer has created one other shift for upcoming awards reveals -- the CMT Awards will transfer from its initially scheduled ceremony date from April 3 to a later date that month.
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