Los Angeles (USA) (EFE).- The 66th edition of the Grammys will be held on February 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena theater in Los Angeles (California, USA), announced Thursday the Recording Academy in a statement.
The show will air live on the CBS Television Network and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
The organizing entity of these awards dedicated to music also announced that this year’s nominees will be announced on Friday, November 10, 2023 and that the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the year who have made music since October 1 will be distinguished. from 2022 to September 15, 2023.
At the beginning of June, the organization announced that the next edition will include three new categories: best African music performance, best pop dance recording and best alternative jazz album.
In addition, the existing sections of non-classical producer of the year and non-classical composer of the year will become part of the general categories, with which they will be chosen by all the voters recognized by the institution, and not as it had been until now when only the voters of those two sections, that is, non-classical producers and composers could choose the winners of their categories.
Some more “transparent” Grammy Awards
These developments are part of the Recording Academy’s efforts to make the awards process “more fair, transparent and accurate,” Harvey Mason Jr., the organization’s executive director, said in the letter. .
During the last edition, Beyoncé became the artist with the highest number of Grammys after winning four gramophones for her album “Renaissance” and adding a total of 32 throughout her career.
Other winners of the night included Harry Styles, who was crowned with the award for best album of the year for “Harry’s House”, while “About Damn Time”, by Lizzo, was the record of the year and the blues singer Bonnie Raitt gave I surprised her by winning the song of the year category for “Just Like That.”