Live updates: The Grammys have begun

The 2025 Grammy Awards are recognizing some of the most talented performers and biggest hits in music. Beyoncé enters as the leading nominee for her acclaimed album, “Cowboy Carter.” Fashion at music’s biggest night is traditionally the wackiest on the awards circuit.Shakira, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx are performers. Will Smith, Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe are presenting a tribute to the late, legendary producer Quincy Jones. Comedian Trevor Noah is hosting the show for the fifth consecutive time. Here’s the latest:Dawes, directly affected by fires, pays tribute to LAAfter a short intro from host Trevor Noah, Dawes kicked off a tribute to Los Angeles with “I Love L.A.,” along with a backing band consisting of stars John Legend, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow, Brittany Howard and St. Vincent.Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lost a portion of the Altadena house he shares with his wife, actor-singer Mandy Moore, and his home recording studio and instruments were destroyed. His brother and bandmate, Griffin Goldsmith, and his pregnant wife also lost their home in the fire. Dawes also performed at the FireAid benefit concert on Thursday.‘I Love L.A.’A familiar song is blasting inside the arena. Dawes is opening the show with Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” with some lyrics changed to reflect the wildfires.The song plays after every Los Angeles Lakers victory in Crypto.com Atena.Trevor Noah starts the show with a sobering noteHost Trevor Noah replaced the usual revved-up opening to the Grammys with sober talk about the California wildfires.“Just a few weeks ago we weren’t sure tonight that this show would even happen,” he said from backstage before walking out on the stage at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.“His city has just been through one of the largest natural disasters in American history.”Tonight’s seating chartThe highest profile nominees will be sitting at small tables with white lamps clustered at the foot of the stage. Behind them are rows of traditional seats. The stage runs the width of the arena floor. Taylor Swift struts in redIt’s a short little number with a pleated skirt at the bottom and one sleeve up top. It matched her signature red lips perfectly.The sparkly dress had a little chain with red jewels at one hip.But first, lemme take a selfiePeople are taking turns posing for photos on the stage before the show begins. There’s no forgetting which awards show this is either. The Grammys is in all capital letters and lit at the foot of the stage.Premier Ceremony endsAfter handing out 85 awards over about four hours, the Grammys Premiere Ceremony is over.It’s time to move from the Peacock Theater next door to the Crypto.com Arena for the main show and telecast.Charli XCX and Kendrick Lamar have each already won two Grammys. Beyonce and Sabrina Carpenter also won at the early ceremony and have chances at winning many more tonight.They’ll go home with a ring — but no GrammysThe couple that got engaged on the red carpet just before the Premiere Ceremony isn’t going home quite empty-handed, given the ring. But Todd Boss and Hila Plitmann didn’t take home any Grammys tonight.Plitmann was nominated for best classical compendium for her album “Mythologies II.” Boss, a poet, was up for a Grammy for best choral performance for his work on the album “A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runstad.”Plitmann already has two Grammys. What a bottle of wine costs at the GrammysWhile the stars hit the red carpet and the preshow continues across the street, regular folks are already inside Crypto.com Arena.They’re picking up glossy souvenir programs and hitting the bars and concession stands to fuel themselves for the long night ahead.Here’s a price list:A bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon: $50.A bag of potato chips: $6.75.Beer runs $17.99 to $21.99.Hard liquor runs $23.99 to $25.99.St. Vincent kept wife and daughter ‘under wraps’ until nowAccepting the Grammy for best rock song, St. Vincent thanked her wife, Leah, and their daughter.That was news to some, and the musician born Annie Clark backstage said she kept it “under wraps” until now. She said her child was young, but didn’t reveal an age. Grammys keep giving Bradley Cooper the love the Oscars won’tBradley Cooper has yet to win an Oscar in a dozen nominations, but he keeps winning Grammys.He won his third, for best compilation soundtrack for visual media, for the music from “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic he directed and starred in. He won the same award for his previous film, “A Star is Born,” which also got him a Grammy for best pop duo/group performance for “Shallow” with Lady Gaga.But he’s still quite a ways from an EGOT. Major awards in his main disciplines — acting and directing — have evaded him. He’s never won an Oscar or a Tony (or a Golden Globe, for that matter) despite nominations for each. He was submitted for an Emmy for his cameo on “Abbott Elementary” last year but did not get a nomination.What do those pins on the red carpet mean?One accessory on the Grammys red carpet is making more than a fashion statement.Stars like Mike Dirnt from Green Day and singer Jacob Collier sported a pin representing the MusiCares fire relief efforts. The organization collaborated with the 67th Grammy Awards to support and raise funds for those impacted by the California wildfires. The pins feature a blue heart and a music note. MusiCares provides financial, personal and medical assistance to the music community.In January, the Recording Academy and MusiCares launched the Los Angeles Fire Relief effort with a $1 million donation.How the presidents stack up at the GrammysJimmy Carter leads all presidents with four Grammy wins. Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have two apiece.Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were all nominated, but didn’t win.First ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton have also each won.All the wins came for either audiobook or spoken word recordings, none for music.Black Crowes enjoy Grammys love several decades after first nominationThe first time Chris and Rich Robinson were at the Grammy Awards, it was 1991. The New York Giants had won the Super Bowl, and the U.S. was in the midst of the Gulf War.The siblings behind the band The Black Crowes had just released their debut album “Shake Your Money Maker” and were nominees for best new artist. They didn’t have high hopes. Sure enough, Mariah Carey would take the crown.”I don’t remember ever like getting too worked up about it,” singer-songwriter Chris Robinson recalls. “Of course, Mariah Carey is going to get that. Are they going to give it to these dirtbag kids from Atlanta who just came to the party really to get thrown out?”Fast forward more than three decades and the Black Crowes have been invited back to the party, earning their second career Grammy nod this year for best rock album alongside the Rolling Stones.It’s 2025 and The Beatles have won a GrammyThe best rock performance Grammy has gone to the Beatles for “Now and Then.””Since no one is coming up to take this award, I figured I’d come up and sit in,” John Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon said onstage.It’s the group’s first Grammy win in 27 years, and the song was notable for its use of artificial intelligence technology.”As far as I’m concerned, it’s the greatest band of all time,” he added.He instructed viewers to play his father’s band for their kids, saying the world couldn’t afford to forget about groups like them.Quick check-in on Grammy carpet designersNorah Jones was a remarkable mash-up of texture in an above-the-knee look by In Earnest. Belted in red at the waist, it had short sleeves, an adorned black front and side panels of chunky silver.Kehlani wore Robert Wun as she walked the carpet with her adorable daughter, Adeya Nomi Parrish. Kehlani’s look was strapless and pinstriped. Long black opera gloves brought home the look.Willow Smith’s itty-bitty, two-piece sparkler is Versace. Kacey Musgraves’ gold skirt is Ralph Lauren Collection for spring 2025. This isn’t Jimmy Carter’s first GrammyIt’s actually his fourth. His posthumous Grammy joins his three previous ones for spoken word album.Sean Ono Lennon seeks to innovate, not merely repeatOnly recently given stewardship over his late father’s work, Sean Ono Lennon is on a remarkable run.The only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono won an Academy Award this year for a short film based on his parents’ 1971 song “Happy Christmas (War is Over”)” and, a few months later, was nominated for his first-ever Grammy, for producing a box set on the album “Mind Games,” originally released in 1973. On Sunday, he won.For Lennon, who was 5 when the former Beatle was murdered in 1980, the work is a way to connect with his father. It’s more than a preservation mission: On “Mind Games,” he takes artistic license, pulling apart the recordings of John Lennon’s music to create something entirely new.▶ Read more from AP’s interview with Sean Ono Lennon‘Brat’ summer transitions to winter with Grammy win for best recording packageThe Grammy is given to an album’s art directors. In the case of “brat,” that includes the queen of brat summer herself, Charli xcx, along with Brent David Freaney & Imogene Strauss.Jimmy Carter wins posthumous GrammyThe late Jimmy Carter won a posthumous Grammy Award for narrating audiobook for “Last Sundays in Plains.”He received his nomination before his late December death at 100.“Having his words captured in this way for my family and for the world is truly remarkable and I think really means so much at this moment in our history as a country, as a world to bring people together, to preach that love and kindness,” grandson Jason Carter said, accepting the award.No Grammy for A$AP Rocky, on trial nearbyA$AP Rocky lost out on a Grammy as he goes through a trial just up the street that might mean years in prison. His partner and the mother of his sons Rihanna was in court supporting him for most of the week.Rocky got his third Grammy nomination for best music video for his song “Tailor Swif.” A win would’ve been his first, but it went to Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us.”Two miles away at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, he’s been on trial for the past two weeks on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. A former friend who goes by A$AP Relli testified that Rocky fired a gun at him on a Hollywood street in 2021. Rocky’s lawyers say he was shooting a starter pistol that only fires blanks that he carries for security.Where are the winners?The Grammys Premiere Ceremony moves at a breakneck pace, but much of it is spent waiting on winners as everyone wonders whether they’re in the room to accept.The answer is often no, at least in the early afternoon. Ten of the first 15 winners were not there to pick up the award, including Beyoncé, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter.With several hundred nominees, it’s impossible to keep track of the whereabouts of all of them at the 7,000-seat Peacock Theater.When Cory Henry won best roots gospel album, the Grammy had already been accepted on his behalf and the show was starting to move on by the time he was able to run up to the stage and make his speech.Best progressive R&B album race ends in a tieThere were two winners for the best progressive R&B album Grammy:“So Glad to Know You” by Avery(asterisk)Sunshine“Why Lawd?” by NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)Ties are not unheard of at the Grammys, but they still are relatively rare.Amy Allen becomes the first woman to win songwriter of the year, non-classicalAll of the nominees in this category were women except Édgar Barrera. RAYE, Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen or Jessie Jo Dillon all had the potential to be the first women to ever win in the category, and Allen took the crown.The category is also new, only in its third year. Allen dedicated her award to all the songwriters who she says should have been recognized before its inception.“We are the engine that fuels the entire music industry,” she said of her fellow songwriters.Jaden Smith’s Castle puzzles and amusesJaden Smith is walking the red carpet with his sister Willow, and he’s wearing a large black castle on his head. Willow went classic young Hollywood in a tiny, sparkling black two piece with a long matching coat.More details on big winner Sierra Ferrell’s outfitSierra Ferrell has won BIG with four Grammys. She did it just as BIG in a huge white gown that evoked a way enthusiastic bride with no fashion fears, designed by Jeffrey Kelly Designs.Ferrell’s dress included huge luminescent sleeves, pearl embellishment all over and a matching choker piece. And she didn’t forget her bold bride’s veil: a head piece with pearls and flower touches above large pearl chandelier earrings. And she had a scepter, where she stashed her acceptance speech.Beyoncé has already snagged a Grammy in a country categoryBeyoncé already snagged a Grammy in a country category, despite not even being nominated at the Country Music Awards.The superstar singer won best country duo/group performance for “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus during the Grammys’ Premiere Ceremony.However, Beyonce fell short in two other country categories: best country solo performance, which went to Chris Stapleton’s “It Takes a Woman,” and best country song, which was awarded to “The Architect,” a single written by Kacey Musgraves, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.Sierra Ferrell wins three in a rowSierra Ferrell won three straight Grammys and accepted them in a ruffly white gown and pearly headdress worthy of Marie Antoinette, or the top of a wedding cake.Ferrell won best Americana performance then best American roots song then best Americana album for “Trail of Flowers.”“Honestly this is hilarious,” as she came back for a third time after barely leaving the stage.Red is having a moment on the, uh, red carpetJaNa Craig, Quigley Goode, Poppy: All lent oomph to the color red. So did the hair of Kara Cannella.Red is an enduring trend in fashion of late, thanks to Taylor Swift’s commitment to the color at boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs games.Among other vibes: swingy and sparkly metallics. Kacey Musgraves represented in a long gold belted skirt she wore with a simple white muscle T-shirt.Justin Tranter wants to steer clear of politics“I know what you’re thinking, someone whose wrists move like this,” Tranter said, letting his wrist go limp, “and legs move like that,” he said, giving a showgirl-style kick, “hosting a celebration during these tumultuous times, ‘this is going to get political.’ But I promise you, I’m going to bring you nothing but joy, fashion and a lot of music. Because record labels trying to win over voters is political enough.”He said, “This year our Grammy Premiere is a tribute to resilience, creativity and community.”Groundhog goes unheeded as it’s sunny skies for the GrammysIt may be Groundhog Day, but Punxsutawney Phil’s prognostication of six more weeks on winter is going unheeded at the Grammys.They’re set to shine, and not just onstage. Los Angeles is serving up perfect award-show weather, with sunny skies and a high of 72 Fahrenheit.The weather today is quite the contrast from last year’s deluge that flooded streets near the arena and caused many attendees to arrive late and soaked.The temperature is expected to drop to around 60 degrees by the end of the main show.What makes a remix Grammy eligible?The best remixed recording category is one of few that honors singles or tracks that aren’t necessarily new — just newly altered. These aren’t covers, re-recordings or remastered tracks: To qualify as a remix, the remixer has to substantially change the original recording. Shortening the track or adding a featured artist, for example, wouldn’t cut it.“Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ (backslash)nWorking Late Remix)” FNZ & Mark Ronson, remixers (Sabrina Carpenter) won the award.Fitting with the remixes’ home on the dance floor, the category moved under the pop and dance/electronic field this year, from its previous home in the production, engineering, composition and arrangement field.

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