The Recording Academy has officially announced the lineup of presenters and performers for this year’s Premiere Ceremony. Set to air on Sunday, Feb. 2, hours before the main ceremony, the Premiere Ceremony will unveil winners for the majority of the categories in the 67th Grammy Awards. The ceremony will be accented by eight scheduled musical performances and gleam with star power from seven presenters, most of whom are nominated in this year’s awards.
The Grammy Premiere ceremony will be hosted by producer and songwriter Justin Tranter, who returns after hosting the same prelude to the Grammy Awards in 2024. Tranter is nominated this year for co-writing Chappell Roan’s standalone smash hit “Good Luck, Babe!,” which is among the favorites for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Other nominees will take part in the evening’s opening number, which boasts an all-star ensemble of Yolanda Adams, Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, Scott Hoying, Angelique Kidjo and blues legend Taj Mahal. Mahal is nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album for his 2024 release Swingin’ Live at The Church in Tulsa and for Best American Roots Performance for his part in The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ “Nothing In Rambling”; he will also receive the Recording Academy’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at Saturday’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony.
Joe Bonamassa, Joyce DiDonato, Béla Fleck, Renée Fleming, Muni Long and Kelli O’Hare are among the other nominees set to perform at the Premiere Ceremony. After their opening performance, Brady and Hoying will serve as presenters for the evening, as will Bob Clearmountain, Rhiannon Giddens, Queen Sheba, Anoushka Shankar and iconic Minneapolis sound producer and Record Academy board of trustees chair emeritus Jimmy Jam. Opening remarks will come from current board of trustees chair Tammy Hurt and Recording Academy and MusiCares CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
“The Premiere Ceremony will not only kick off our Grammy Sunday,” Mason offered in a statement, “it will provide an opportunity to show that in times of adversity, music has the power to be used for good, to help our community unite, and to show our community’s resilience.” In that spirit, the Premiere Ceremony and main ceremony of the 67th Grammy Awards will center fundraising efforts for Los Angeles wildfire relief and recovery efforts, as well as a tribute to the first responders who have bravely stepped forward in this time of crisis.
The Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony will stage at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater at the LA Live complex at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. The opening event to Sunday’s awards will stream live on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel and on live.GRAMMY.com.
Read more about the Premiere Ceremony here, and read on for the complete list of presenters and performers.
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Performers:
Yolanda Adams, Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, Scott Hoying, Angelique Kidjo, and Taj Mahal (opening number)
Joe Bonamassa (Best Contemporary Blues Album nominee, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2)
Joyce DiDonato (Best Opera Recording nominee, Puts: The Hours)
Béla Fleck (Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Jazz Performance nominee)
Renée Fleming (Best Opera Recording nominee, Puts: The Hours)
Muni Long (Best R&B Performance, Best Traditional R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Album nominee)
Kelli O’Hara (Best Opera Recording nominee, Puts: The Hours)
Kevin Puts (Composer, Puts: The Hours)
Presenters:
Wayne Brady (Best Musical Theater Album nominee, The Wiz)
Scott Hoying (Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella nominee, “Rose Without The Thorns” Featuring säje & Tonality)
Bob Clearmountain (Best Immersive Audio Album nominee, Avalon by Roxy Music)
Rhiannon Giddens (Best American Roots Performance nominee, “The Ballad of Sally Anne”)
Queen Sheba (Best Spoken Word Poetry Album nominee, CIVIL WRITES: The South Got Something to Say)
Anoushka Shankar (Best Global Music Performance nominee, “A Rock Somewhere” with Jacob Collier Featuring Varijashree Venugopal)
Jimmy Jam (Five-time GRAMMY winner)
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