Dua Lipa, in February 2020, at the Sanremo Festival (Italy).

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  • The 2021 Grammy Awards will take place this Sunday “in and around” the Los Angeles Convention Center.

  • Beyoncé, with nine nominations, leads the way, but the experts rely instead on Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift to win the day.

  • Although it marked the musical year, The Weeknd was snubbed to everyone's surprise.

Almost a year to the day after the closings of American theaters due to the pandemic, the music industry will try to celebrate its artists.

The Grammy Awards will be held this Sunday afternoon (overnight, Paris time) "in and around" the Los Angeles Convention Center.

It will be hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.

The organizers insist on very strict sanitary conditions and have planned for the only public the artists performing on stage, the candidates and a small number of guests.

The evening will alternate live performances and pre-recorded sequences.

With nine nominations, Beyoncé is leading the way.

His track

Black Parade

, released in June in the wake of anti-racism protests sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and other African-Americans killed by police, is up for the prestigious Grammys for Recording of the Year and song of the year.

However, she will not sing during the ceremony.

Some see it as a bad omen, recalling the multiple setbacks it has already suffered in the past in these generalist categories, the most popular.

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Experts are betting instead on Dua Lipa, whose album

Future Nostalgia

was the soundtrack of the confinement of many, or on Taylor Swift who marked the spirits with the album

Folklore

, released to everyone's surprise in the middle of the pandemic.

Another artist to watch: rapper Roddy Ricch who, with his hit

The Box

, is an outsider for "song of the year" but is a candidate in six categories in total.

Billie Eilish, who caused a sensation last year by winning trophies in the four queen categories, could still strike hard during this 63rd edition, just like Post Malone or Justin Bieber.

Fiona Apple, whose album

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

has been described as a "masterpiece" by many critics, is in the leading group of rockers, who this year monopolize a category too often male.

The Black Lives Matter movement and the artists it inspired are also present in force, with Lil Baby and

The Bigger Picture

, selected twice, and the anti-racist anthem

I Can't Breathe

by HER which can claim the " song of the year ”.

What audience?

Greatly absent noticed, The Weeknd, strangely snubbed by the Grammys as he connects the hits and performed an impressive performance on the occasion of the recent final of the American football championship.

His track

Blinding Lights

became the first to remain for 52 weeks in a row in the Billboard Top 10 and experts cannot explain the treatment inflicted on the Canadian artist.

The Weeknd does not understand more and, like before him Frank Ocean or Drake, decided to boycott an institution which according to him does not recognize at their fair value black artists and women.

Will the host of stars who will take turns during this evening succeed in arousing the enthusiasm of an entirely virtual audience?

The bet is high for this festival of music because on the cinema side, the Golden Globes paid the price at the end of February with a catastrophic audience, down 62% compared to the previous year. 

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