Last hours for the start of the 66th Grammy Awards

Everything is ready for the next few hours to start 66th Grammy Awards from the Crypto.com Arena, where Los Angeles basketball players play their home games. Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers.

The ceremony will be held starting at 5:00 p.m. local time this Sunday (01:00 GMT Monday), in which there is a high probability of “very intense” rain, according to the US National Weather Service, so the organization rushed to set up a special a contraption of tents and giant umbrellas to protect the stars during their red carpet walk.

This new installment of the Grammys, featuring a comedian Trevor Noah as master of ceremonies for the fourth year in a row, will be marked by the almost absolute dominance of talented women.

SZA is the most nominated artist of the event with nine nominations thanks to her album ‘SOS’, followed by Phoebe Bridgers and Victoria Monet with seven each, while boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift and Jon Batiste They aim for six prizes in a row.

The ‘Kill Bill’ singer is competing in three main categories – song, recording and album of the year – and if she wins the latter category she would become the first African-American woman to win the award in 25 years, after Lauryn Hill did the same with ‘The Miseducation’ of Lauryn Hill’ in 1999.

In the Appendix, Taylor Swift With the album ‘Midnights’, he could go down in history if he wins the album of the year category. If so, he would become the first person to win the section four times, surpassing singers such as Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonderwho so far, like her, have three.

Other singers with long careers could debut their record at the Grammys, as is the case with King’s wool, who collected eleven nominations in her career or Miley Cyrus, who has been nominated eight times since 2015.

Veteran artists such as Joni Mitchell, which will compete for the award for the best folk album; Metallica and Foo Fighters to compete for the gramophone award for best rock album; or Dolly Parton, who is aiming for the best country solo performance.

Four and a half hours before the main ceremony, the so-called ‘Grammy premiere’ will be held, in which the names of the winners will be revealed in other less flashy categories, such as those specialized in Latin music, where names such as that of Karol G, Rauw Alejandro, Maluma, Peso Pluma or Pablo Alborán.