Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Grammy Awards are being postponed, a rep for the show confirms to Variety. Further details are expected shortly.
Sources say the show may be moved to March, although no date was confirmed at the time of this article’s publication.Like all awards shows during the pandemic, the Recording Academy and its network partner CBS have faced many challenges in how safely to stage an event on the scale of the Grammys, which ordinarily has an audience of 18,000-plus people.While interim Grammy chief Harvey Mason, jr.
told Variety last summer that the initial general plan was to hold the event at its longtime home of the 18,000-capacity Staples Center in Los Angeles, with either a limited or no audience, in recent weeks.
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