Beyonce and Adele booked to perform at 2017 Grammy Awards
Beyonce and Adele are bringing their superstar power to the stage for the 2017 Grammy Awards.
The show's executive producer, Ken Ehrlich, reveals the two icons, who are among the top nominees for the ceremony, are expected to perform at music's big night in February (17).
During a roundtable chat for Billboard magazine, Ehrlich was asked
if British soul sensation Adele would be a part of the
prizegiving's live line-up, to which he responded, "Very few people
say no to the Grammys. Over all of the years I've been doing the
show, there have been three or four acts who've actually said
no."
The producer was pressed to name names, and although he declined to
do so, he revealed Adele and Beyonce are both set to take up the
2017 Grammys performance invite.
"I can tell you that Adele and Beyonce are not two of them (who
have declined)," he said. "We have every anticipation that both of
them will be with us in February."
Beyonce leads all nominees heading into the big bash with nine nods
for her work on her hit album Lemonade, while Adele's 25 has earned
her five nods.
They will go head-to-head for the three top honors: Album of the
Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, with their
respective tunes Formation and Hello facing off in the two latter
categories.
"We love a good horse race," Ehrlich shared of the ladies' close
competition. "It's a fine line: We love the competition aspect of
it, but it's really more - here's the cliche - the family of music.
I don't know how many of those three categories they're in together
that we'll announce during the telecast, but we'll probably come
pretty close. When you can start with that as a foundation for a
show, you're in pretty good shape."