The Grammy Awards will be held this Sunday at 5 p.m. in Los Angeles (United States), or 1 a.m. in France.
The most prestigious musical awards ceremony will be broadcast in full on CStar this Monday evening at 9 p.m.
Overview of the points to remember about this American musical high mass.
The ceremony adapts to the Covid
The Grammy Awards were scheduled to be held on January 31, but the Recording Academy, an association of music professionals in the United States and organizer of the event, postponed the event to March 14 due to the health crisis.
This 63rd edition will take place without an audience and will be presented by comedian Trevor Noah.
She will mix recorded sequences and live performances online.
Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B will be there, but it seems complicated that they interpret on stage their hit “WAP” riddled with sexual metaphors.
Taylor Swift and young Billie Eilish, who won the four most prestigious awards last year, will also sing.
The organizers are also announcing popstar Dua Lipa, rapper Roddy Ricch, Post Malone as well as Latin trap champion Bad Bunny, Harry Styles and Korean pop group BTS.
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Women in force
They are named in almost all categories.
Beyoncé in the lead, with 9 nominations.
The 39-year-old pop star may well expand his 24 Grammy collection.
She appears in the categories recording and song of the year, with her title "Black Parade" released in June, in tribute to the anti-racist demonstrations caused by the death of George Floyd and other African-Americans killed by the police.
Taylor Swift is nominated in 6 categories. / AFP / Robyn Beck
Right behind come Taylor Swift and the dark pop of Dua Lipa with six nominations each.
Rocker Brittany Howard - known as singer and guitarist for rock band Alabama Shakes - will also be in the spotlight with five nominations for her debut solo album "Jaime".
For the first time in the history of the competition, the category of best rock performance has a majority of women: Brittany Howard, Fiona Apple (favorite in the category "best rock performance"), Phoebe Bridgers, the Haim sisters, Grace Potter and Big Thief, a group of the breathtaking Adrianne Lenker.
Even the generally very conservative "best country album" section includes four female solo artists, and a mixed duet.
Mickey Guyton even offers himself the luxury of becoming the first black woman in a country category for his title "Black Like Me".
In revelation of the year, these ladies are 7 out of 8 selected, including rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
A French for the best clip?
Yohann Lemoine, aka Woodkid, rubs shoulders with Beyoncé, Anderson.
Paak, Harry Styles and Future and Drake in the “best music video” category, with “Goliath”.
This is her third Grammy nomination.
The clip shows "engineering marvels that tell of human madness and environmental disaster", enlightens the 37-year-old artist.
Goliath, from his latest album S16, sends spectacular images of coal mines, oil platforms and nuclear power plants, in a sublimated darkness that contrasts with the blue eyes of a worker as the central character.
The 4 million views are a far cry from the 200 million of Harry Styles and 1.7 billion of Future and Drake, but the clip artistically has its chances.
Woodkid has directed music videos for Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Drake, Lana Del Rey, Moby, Harry Styles and was artistic director of the famous "Happy" by Pharrell Williams.
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Posthumous appointments
Dead, but alive through their music.
The Grammys name deceased artists, such as Leonard Cohen, who died in 2016 and nominated for best folk album for "Thanks for the Dance".
This compilation was finalized by the son of the Canadian artist.
American John Prine, who succumbed to post-Covid complications last year, is nominated in two categories.
Rapper Pop Smoke, shot dead in Hollywood Hills in February 2020, will be in the running for his title "Dior", as will Nipsey Hussle, with "Deep Reverence".
The rapper was murdered two years ago outside his clothing store in Los Angeles.
Unexpected
After his candidacy for the White House in 2020, Kanye West is this time a candidate for the Grammy Awards.
But far from rap.
He is nominated for "Best Contemporary Christian Music Album" for his gospel "Jesus Is King".
The category of the spoken album, follower of former presidents (Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle…), this year selects the journalist Ronan Farrow and the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea.
And the prize for the award-winning goes to ...
Do you know who holds the price record?
Georg Solti, conductor and pianist of Hungarian origin.
With 74 nominations throughout his career, this Budapest-born artist won 31 Grammy Awards between 1962 and until his death in 1997. Yet his career was nearly shattered by the rise of Nazism.
Forced to take refuge in Switzerland, he was banned from working for several years.
After the war, Georg Solti shone on stages all over the world, conducting operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss.
He has recorded more than 250 albums, including the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Schumann.
The maestro also conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years and was the Music Director of the Orchester de Paris in the 1970s. He died in Antibes at the age of 84.
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CStar, 63rd Grammy Awards, Monday March 15 at 9 p.m.