The Recording Academy announced the full performer lineup for the earlier 2021 GRAMMY Awards shows, officially known as the 63rd GRAMMY Awards.
Performers include Bad Bunny, Black Pumas, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, Mickey Guyton, Haim, Brittany Howard, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, Chris Martin, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift.
Artists will be coming together, while still safely apart, to play music for each other as a community and celebrate the music that unites us all.
Harry Styles to open 2021 Grammy Awards
Singer-actor Harry Styles will be kicking off the 2021 Grammy Awards. The ceremony is set to open with a performance by the singer, who is nominated for three awards on music’s biggest night.
As per Variety, Styles is nominated for best pop solo performance for ‘Watermelon Sugar’, the best pop vocal album for ‘Fine Line’, and best music video for ‘Adore You’. “You don’t want to miss the top of the show,” Jack Sussman, CBS’ executive VP of specials, music, and live events, told Variety.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has recently given a small spoken preview of her Grammy performance on Sunday. The 31-year-old singer was seen in a video post on CBS’s Twitter account.
In the video, the songstress revealed that she is reuniting with two of the collaborators who helped her make her nominated album ‘Folklore.’ Swift revealed that in preparation for the performance, the three have quarantined together in a house for the entire week.
The ‘Blank Space’ songstress said, “The one thing I can tell you about my Grammy performance that isn’t highly confidential is that my Grammy performance includes my collaborators, Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, which is really exciting because this has been an adventure that the three of us have gone on since the very beginning of quarantine and lockdown.”
American singer-songwriter Justin Bieber will not attend the 2021 Grammys on Sunday because he is not performing at this year’s show. As per Page Six, the ‘Holy’ crooner’s decision to skip music’s biggest night also comes after Bieber, who is nominated for four awards this weekend, called out the Recording Academy for nominating his album ‘Changes’ in a pop category instead of classifying it as R&B as intended.
Bieber wrote on Instagram following the nomination announcement. He said, “I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry. I am very meticulous and intentional about my music. With that being said, I set out to make an R&B album. ‘Changes’ was and is an R&B album. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album, which is very strange to me.”
