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Awards
Adele appoints Grammys for live return, might see protests
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 1 February 2012
Several silent months after undergoing microsurgery to repair a haemorrhaged vocal cord, it’s been confirmed that Adele will make her ‘comeback’ of sorts by singing at the impending Grammy Awards ceremony. A tweet posted by the twice Grammy-winning singer, who is nominated in six categories at the 2012 awards, reads: “It’s been so long I started to forget I was a singer! I can’t wait, speak soon”.
Ms Adkins may have to dodge protestors when arriving at the big awards bash, with Rev Jesse Jackson threatening to lead protests outside this year’s Grammys over that previously reported decision by award organisers the Recording Academy to cut the number of categories.
As previously reported, some have accused the Grammys of penalising certain minority genres and ethnic groups by cutting and merging some categories, and some affected acts have been quietly, and in some cases not so quietly, fuming all year. Jackson has requested a meeting with Academy boss Neil Portnow, who has said he’ll gladly meet with the civil rights activist to explain why he believes the Grammy’s voting process to be fair.
Assuming nominees and other industry types can get past any protests on 12 Feb, they will also get to enjoy performances from the Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Coldplay and Paul McCartney between all that tedious award presenting (there may be less awards to be dished out over Grammy weekend this year, but there’s still flippin loads).
