SZA to carry out at 2024 Grammys this weekend

SZA has been introduced as the most recent performer on the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Final night time (January 29), the Recording Academy took to X to announce SZA as the most recent addition to the listing of performers at this 12 months’s Grammy Awards ceremony, its caption studying: “You don’t need to snooze and miss this second!”

⏰ You don’t need to snooze and miss this second! Watch @SZA on the 66th #GRAMMYs on February 4th at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT on @CBS.

🔗 See who else is performing: https://t.co/Z5bhlGNtNW pic.twitter.com/tjSWIfD02D

— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) January 29, 2024

SZA joins the likes of fellow performers Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Billy Joel, Burna Boy, U2 (who will carry out through the primary reside broadcast from the Sphere in Las Vegas) and Joni Mitchell, who will carry out on the Grammys for the primary time in her over six-decade profession.

The 66th Grammy Awards will happen on February 4, 2024 on the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles, and can be broadcast reside at 8PM Japanese Time or 5PM Pacific Time on CBS. SZA leads the nominations with 9 nods, together with Album of the Yr, Report of the Yr and Track of the Yr. SZA is adopted by Victoria Monét and Phoebe Bridgers, who each have obtained seven nods. Boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus are additionally up for six nominations together with Album of the Yr. The complete listing of nominations will be discovered right here.

Regardless of having beforehand been nominated for 15 awards on the Grammys in whole, SZA has solely ever gained one, merely as a characteristic on Doja Cat’s ‘Kiss Me Extra’ on the 2022 ceremony. In 2018, she obtained 5 nods in whole for her acclaimed full-length debut ‘Ctrl’ – to which NME awarded 4 stars – however didn't win any.

In an interview following the discharge of ‘SOS’, the singer described the Grammys as a “thirsty, darkish house” to be in, stating: “The Grammy room is likely one of the weirdest rooms ever. There's a lot wanting in there. Desirous to be seen, eager to be, like, acknowledged, to win, wanting to only be amongst n****s within the room, eager to really feel useful or validated.”

SZA has been teasing the discharge of the ‘Lana’ deluxe version of ‘SOS’, which she first introduced final September, although a launch date has but to be confirmed. In December, on the day after the one-year anniversary of her chart-topping album, SZA revealed the six variations of album covers for ‘Lana’, which may also characteristic “seven to 10 new songs”.

The day prior to this, she mirrored on ‘SOS’ in a separate publish, writing: “I haven’t processed this 12 months AT ALL trigger it’s nonetheless taking place.. that is past my wildest desires. I by no means imagined we’d accomplish a fraction of the accolades that got here from this.. it typically doesn’t really feel actual and it’s humorous trigger I swore I’d know what to do if it ever occurred . seems I I froze.. I do know the perils of consuming the koolaid so I gained’t dabble in that .. however I've to precise the immense GRATITUDE I've for each individual that made this attainable.”