Joni Mitchell to make Grammy Awards debut efficiency at 80

Joni Mitchell will carry out on the Grammy Awards for the primary time in her five-decade music profession this weekend.

The 80-year-old singer-songwriter, who’s greatest identified for her hit Big Yellow Taxi, is up for greatest folks album.

The Canadian star’s beforehand received 9 Grammys and a lifetime achievement award, and has impressed artists together with Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan and Prince.

Mitchell was pressured to re-learn how one can stroll, discuss and play guitar after struggling a near-fatal mind aneurysm in 2015.

Nominated for her album Joni Mitchell At Newport [Live], the document marked her first headline present in 20 years.

Her three-hour present noticed her carry out with stars together with Annie Lennox, Marcus Mumford and Brandi Carlile.

Despite being some of the essential feminine recording artists of the twentieth century, Mitchell has beforehand mentioned she believes her work didn’t get the popularity it deserved within the Seventies attributable to sexism inside the music trade.

Other artists who will carry out on stage on the 66th Grammy Awards embody Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Burna Boy, Travis Scott and Olivia Rodrigo.

Irish rock band U2 may also ship a particular distant efficiency from Sphere in Las Vegas.

US singer-songwriter SZA leads the nominations, with 9, Victoria Monet has seven and Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift are up for six awards every.

Swift has additionally damaged a Grammys document together with her nod for Anti Hero, turning into the primary artist to have seven tracks nominated for Song Of The Year.

In a very good 12 months for feminine artists, all of the nominees within the high three classes (album, document and track of the 12 months) are ladies, aside from Jon Batiste.

The Grammys will happen in Los Angeles on Sunday 4 February, hosted by comic Trevor Noah.