The Grammy Awards have been postponed due to Covid.
the ceremony, scheduled in Los Angeles on January 31, has been postponed to a date yet to be decided.
"The health of our music community and of the public remains our priority - reads a note from Recording Academy and CBS -. Due to the uncertainty about the Omicron variant, predicting the show on January 31 involves too many risks. We will celebrate the night of music. on another date that we will announce shortly ".
The ceremony was initially planned with the public 'en plein' at Crypto.com Arena (the former Staples Center) in Los Angeles. But the new wave of Covid with the highly contagious Omicron variant has had the better of the Grammys as well as other events across the country. "Many artists and music industry executives told organizers that attending the evening would create too much concern," Variety sources said. Meanwhile, yesterday the Golden Globes announced that next Sunday the awards evening will be in reduced form without an audience, VIPs or red carpet: in that case it was not only Covid that spoiled the party, but also the controversies that involved the Hollywood Foreign Press distributing the awards. While it isOmicron was to blame for the cancellation of the Sundance festival in attendance: the independent film festival founded by Robert Redford will be held in Park City in Utah exclusively online starting from the scheduled date, January 20, which coincides with when the contagions of the new variant - it is expected - should mark their peak in the United States.