With this year’s nine nominations, Beyoncé already made history before this year’s Grammy gala as the most nominated artist alongside her husband Jay-Z. But the superstar is about to make history in the number of statuettes as well. During the pre-gala, she took home two awards, including for best traditional r’n’b performance, and thus has a total of 30.
During the main gala, she is also nominated for this year’s album, song and record. The gala takes place in Los Angeles and began at 02:00 (Swedish time) with the appearance of the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny.
If Beyoncé takes home two more awards, she will overtake Hungarian-British composer Georg Solti, the artist who has won the most Grammys so far, according to the AP news agency.
Viola Davis won her first Grammy.
The actor Viola Davis can now call herself EGOT, one of the few to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, since she was awarded in an audiobook category.
Sweden is represented this year above all by Abba, with four winning chances; record of the year for the single “Don’t shut me down” and album of the year for “Voyage”, as well as for pop group or duo of the year and pop album of the year.
The group made its much-talked about comeback in the fall of 2021. The reason it is being noticed in this context only now is that the Grammy year is counted between October 1, 2021 and September 30 last year.
Among the artists scheduled to perform are Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith and Lizzo.