Taylor Swift will look to reign supreme at the 66th Grammy Awards

The 66th Grammy Awards will take place this Sunday with Taylor Swift likely to extend her 2023 success and with SZA as the event’s most nominated singer, with nine nominations.

After Beyoncé broke the record in the last edition shoot like an artist With the most Grammy awards in the history of the awards, the success and talent of women extends to this gala in four main categories.

SZA, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo aspire to win the part of the best song, record and album of the year. The only male artist whose name also appears in those three queen categories is Jon Batiste.

In the category of best new artist, the American rapper stands out Ice spicewho became famous with songs like ‘Munch (Feelin’ U)’ or the American singer Victoria Monét, who is also competing in the record of the year category with ‘Oh My Mama’.

With six nominations, Swift starts as favorite for best album of the year for ‘Midnights’, where he will also face Boygenius – the group of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – or Lana Del Rey, who could win the first Grammy of her career.

The author of ‘Karma’ also strives for achievement turntable for song of the year thanks to the ‘Anti-Hero’, but to achieve this he has to beat ‘Vampire’, Olivia Rodrigo, or ‘Flowers’, Miley Cyrus.

If she wins both awards, Swift would break her own record as the only female artist to win album of the year three times and receive her first shortlisted Grammy for song of the year, which recognizes the song’s songwriters.

Everything points to SZA leaving with great opportunities to be crowned in the recording of the year categorywhich with its song ‘Kill Bill’ rewards the whole team involved in the creation of the song, but ‘Flowers’ by Cyrus or ‘What Was I Made For?’ Billie Eilish will not make it easy for them.

Some of the most anticipated moments of the night are musical performances by Dua Lipa, SZA, Travis Scott or Billy Joelwith a special broadcast of U2, who will hold their first live performance from the Sphere technology venue in Las Vegas.

No other Latino or Hispanic singer has been able to repeat the milestone Bad Bunny 2023who for the first time in the history of the awards received an album of the year nomination for an album entirely in Spanish thanks to ‘Un Verano sin ti’.

On this occasion, the weight of rLatin performance at the main awards ceremony it went to Mexican composer Edgar Barrera, who is competing in the selection of composer of the year, one of the general categories of the meeting.

Featherweight and Pablo Alborán stand out in the Latin categories

The Recording Academy will recognize Latin artists at the gala dinner Before the popular televised ceremony, a meeting held on the same Sunday, where the organization awards most of the awards to different musical genres, technical awards are also included.

There, Karol G, Tainy and Rauw Alejandro They will compete for the gramophone award for the best album of urban music, and the Spaniard Pablo Alborán will debate with Malum for the award for the best album of Latin pop music.

Likewise, Juanes, Natalia Lafourcade and Fito Páez He will do the same in the category for the best Latin or alternative rock album, while the phenomenon Peso Pluma will seek the award for the best album of Mexican music, among which is Tejano.

The gala will be included Crypto.com Arena from Los Angeles, and will be presented by Trevor Noah.

In addition, its presenters will include people outside the music industry such as Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Tomlinson and also music legends such as Lionel Richie, Christina Aguilera and Lenny Kravitz.