She hit the carpet in a black leather halter dress with cutouts in all the right places.
It’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.
Taylor Swift arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
People 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.
After 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.
Cardi B arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
She’s a bombshell in gold, black and feathers at the bottom. It’s a custom Roberto Cavalli Couture creation. The mermaid design is a true body hugger. It’s covered in hand-embroidered beads and sequins reminiscent of a tiger pattern.
Nominee Todd Boss (poet on the “A Dream So Bright” album for best Choral Performance) proposes to nominee Hila Plitmann (on “Mythologies II” album for Best Classical Compendium) on the red carpet of the Grammy Awards. (Feb. 2)
The 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.
In classic Charli XCX fashion, the “Brat” singer is always ahead even when it comes to the latest fashions.
The performer wore a custom look from Jean Paul Gaultier by Ludovic de Saint Sernin. Sernin debuted his first collection for Gaultier titled “Le Naufrage” at Paris couture week. In a twist from the runway look, Charli XCX’s exposed her décolletage and swapped out the white for a bluish gray.
Folk music artist Rhiannon Giddens and songwriter Alice Randall share how the country music genre has changed — and talk Beyoncé — on the Grammys red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Gracie Abrams arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
There were no wedding bells on the Grammy red carpet, but singer Gracie Abrams glowed in a demure custom Chanel bridal look.
While some celebrities use the Grammys as a chance to go all out with color, fun cutouts and over-the-top sequined looks, the “I love you, I’m sorry” singer took a more modest route.
In a rare classical performance at the Grammys, sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sang a selection from “The Hours” by Kevin Puts, nominated for best opera recording.
It came as the crowd thinned at the Premiere Ceremony in Peacock Theater, with the main show next door at Crypto.com Arena growing closer. Host Justin Tranter urged people to fill in the seats in front of the stage.
“There are people all over the world that would do anything to see what you’re about to see!” he shouted.
Grammy nominee Wayne Brady says he wants to “steal” AP reporter Gary Hamilton’s suit on the red carpet.
While 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, left, accepts the award for best alternative music album for “All Born Screaming” from Bob Clearmountain during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Accepting 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.
In case there’s any doubt about whose house the Grammys are it, there’s a large reminder on the wall.
A sign reading “Taylor Swift most sold out performances” is next to three photo panels of her performing at Crypto.com Arena. The sign is located next to a bar near a busy concourse.
Raiche Wright, left, and Teddy Swims arrive at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
He and his partner, Raiche Wright, are expecting their first child. So what’s an R&B singer to do? Cover himself in the baby’s birthstone: pearl.
Swims wore a heavily pearl-embellished look in tan. By pearls, we mean pearls from the cap on his head to the outer seams of his trousers. Big pearls. Small pearls. Swims pulled it off beautifully, as he always does.
And he didn’t forget the man bling. He wore a chunky choker around his neck.
Swims is nominated for best new artist.
Bradley 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.
Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is no stranger to causing a scene at the Grammys. On the Grammys red carpet, his partner Bianca Censori took all the spotlight in her barely there, seemingly transparent dress that left nothing to the imagination. Censori is known for causing a stir with her sheer street-style shots. She dropped her dark fur coat to reveal her exposed backside to the flash of cameras.
Kanye West, left, and Bianca Censori arrive at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
With brother Finneas, natch. They vamped on the carpet wearing hipster shades. Billie wore trousers and a black jacket, a jaunty hat on her head and a big smile on her face. The look is Prada.
Billie Eilish arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The brightest stars and creatives in the music industry walk the red carpet in Los Angeles for the 67th annual Grammy Awards. (Feb. 2)
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.
Chappell Roan’s vintage Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture look from spring 2003 was first worn by Beyonce in Elle magazine that April.
The two are nominated against each other for top awards.
Chappell Roan arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Grammy Award winner Jacob Collier explains how audiences across the globe contributed his latest album “Djesse Vol. 4″ and track “100,000 Voices.” (Dec. 18)
▶ Read more about Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 4,” nominated for album of the year
He’s wearing a sequined coat of many colors on the carpet, his hair sticking up high and proud. Collier is part of a crew honoring the late Quincy Jones, who helped launch his career when he was still a teen.
“Quincy is the man, as we all know. Quincy is the king,” he said.
Collier is nominated in the album of the year category.
Teddy Swims poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)
Teddy Swims is busier than ever with two babies on the way: The child he’s expecting, and his new album, “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2).” While he’s excited to talk new music, fatherhood is what elates him.
“I can’t wait to hear the voice or ‘What’s your favorite color?’ … I hope he thinks I’m cool – or she thinks I’m cool,” said the soulful crooner. “I want my son – or daughter – to say that, about what I say about my father.”
Continuously switching pronouns, Swims carefully concealed the gender, fearing facing a displeased girlfriend, fellow musician Raiche Wright. But it’s difficult for the Grammys best new artist nominee to contain his joy.
▶ Read more from AP’s interview with Teddy Swims
Jimmy 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.
The 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.
▶ Read more about the Black Crowes today
She appeared in a bowtie-strapped look, long wavy hair flowing down her back. Her makeup was whitened and full of color: yellows and blues and pinks and reds. Her look had touches of teal and images of women from a bygone era on the skirt. It was Jean Paul Gaultier vintage from spring 2003.
The 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.
Norah 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.
Norah Jones accepts the award for best traditional pop vocal album for “Visions” during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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.
A general view of the carpet at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The interplay between sports and music is well-chronicled, but a blockbuster NBA trade has yielded quite the collision today.
The Los Angeles Lakers traded forward Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks in return for star guard Luka Doncic. That means Doncic’s new home arena is the Crypto.com Arena — also home to the Grammys.
If any performers from Dallas — or anyone who happens to randomly be a Mavs fan — take the Grammys stage tonight, don’t be surprised if Doncic’s name gets mentioned. The trade of Dallas’ best player for the last few years has shocked those who follow the NBA.
Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar are among the best-known musical Lakers fans. We’re guessing they’ll be thrilled to see Doncic in purple and gold very soon.
As for that other Los Angeles team, the Clippers had their own musical interlude this past week: Their home arena, the Intuit Dome, and the Clippers-owned Kia Forum were the dual sites of the FireAid benefit concert for wildfire relief.
It’s actually his fourth. His posthumous Grammy joins his three previous ones for spoken word album.
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.
Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, accepting the award for best audio book narration
Sean Ono Lennon poses for a portrait on the observation deck of the Empire State building on Thursday Oct. 8, 2020 (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)
Only 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
The 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.
This cover image released by Atlantic Records shows “brat” by Charli XCX. (Atlantic Records via AP)
(Atlantic Records via AP)
The album cover that washed the summer in a neon green hue and spawned endless memes — including by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign — is up for “best recording package,” the Grammy given to an album’s art directors. In the case of “brat,” that includes the queen of brat summer herself, Charli xcx.
The nominees for best recording package are:
- “Pregnancy, Breakdown, And Disease” Lee Pei-Tzu, art director (iWhoiWhoo)
- “Jug Band Millionaire” Andrew Wong & Julie Yeh, art directors (The Muddy Basin Ramblers)
- “House of Love The Bakersville Edition” Kate Bush & Albert McIntosh, art directors (Kate Bush)
- “F-1 Trillion” Archie Lee Coates IV, Jeffrey Franklin, Bobby Greenleaf, Blossom Liu, Kylie McMahon, Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta & Austin Post, art directors (Post Malone)
- “BRAT” Charli xcx, Brent David Freaney & Imogene Strauss, art directors (Charli xcx)
- “Baker Hotel” Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (William Clark Green)
- “The Avett Brothers” Scott Avett, Jonny Black & Giorgia Sage, art directors (The Avett Brothers)
Last year’s trophy went to Annie Collinge and Rottingdean Bazaar, art directors of the provocative cover for Dry Cleaning’s “Stumpwork,” which featured the album title spelled out in hair on a wet bar of soap.
Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
The 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.
Rapper A$AP Rocky arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
A$AP Rocky lost out on a Grammy as he goes through a trial just up the street that might mean years in prison. His partner and the mother of his sons Rihanna was in court supporting him for most of the week.
Rocky got his third Grammy nomination for best music video for his song “Tailor Swif.” A win would’ve been his first, but it went to Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us.”
Two miles away at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, he’s been on trial for the past two weeks on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. A former friend who goes by A$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.
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.
Fifty years ago, the music mogul Clive Davis threw a party to celebrate the release of Arista Records’ first Grammy record of the year nominee: Barry Manilow’s “Mandy.” Stevie Wonder showed up. So did John Denver and Elton John.
What was a one-off celebration for an enduring hit morphed into one of the best-known and most exclusive parties of the year: the annual pre-Grammy fundraising event hosted by Davis, held every year on the Saturday before the Sunday award show.
At the 2025 benefit gala, once again held at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, Manilow performed his 1975 classic. He was introduced with a short video depicting him doing the same five decades prior.
“Can you believe I looked like that,” Manilow joked after attendees watched both versions. “Can you believe Clive looked like that?”
▶ Read more from the Pre-Grammys Gala
There were two winners for the best progressive R&B album Grammy:
- “So Glad to Know You” by Avery*Sunshine
- “Why Lawd?” by NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)
Ties are not unheard of at the Grammys, but they still are relatively rare.
Amy Allen poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
All 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 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.
Jaden Smith, left, and Willow Smith arrive at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Grammy-nominated artist Kehlani looks back on recording her 2024 hit album “Crash.” (Dec. 20)
▶ Read more about how their risk-taking paid off
Sierra Ferrell arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Sierra 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.
Beyonce appears at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston, on Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Beyoncé 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.
