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Awards

Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Shakira & More Set to Perform on 2025 Grammys

Benson Boone, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Doechii, RAYE and Teddy Swims will also perform.

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Sabrina Carpenter
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Current Grammy nominees Benson Boone, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Doechii, RAYE, Sabrina Carpenter, Shakira, and Teddy Swims are the first performers announced for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. Additional performers will be announced in the coming days.

Live from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and hosted by Trevor Noah, the show will be broadcast live on Sunday Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.


As announced last week, this year’s Grammy telecast will carry a renewed sense of purpose: raising additional funds to support Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who risk their lives to protect others.

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“The upcoming Grammy Awards won’t just be about celebrating and honoring the best in music this year, it will also show how the power of music can help rebuild, uplift and support those in need,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. said in a statement. “We are thrilled that so many artists in our community are banding together at this time to show support for their fellow music makers and others impacted by the recent wildfires.”

Charli XCX is nominated for eight Grammys this year, more than any of these other initial performers. Eilish is nominated for seven awards; Carpenter and Roan for six each; Doechii and RAYE for three each; and Boone, Shakira and Swims, for one each.

Boone, Roan, Doechii and Swims are all first-time nominees this year. All four artists are in the running for best new artist. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will be produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy for the fourth consecutive year. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are executive producers.

Prior to the telecast, the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony will be broadcast live from the Peacock Theater at 12:30 p.m. PT and will be streamed live on live.GRAMMY.com.

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This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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Concerts

Francos de Montréal 2025 Highlights: One Language, A Thousand Faces

From June 13 to 22, Montreal transformed into a vibrant capital of Francophone music. From French rapper Théodora to local rockers Corridor, this year’s acts showed that the French language, far from static, is an endless playground.

In Montréal, June rhymes with music, and Francos de Montréal are the perfect proof. Once again this year, the festival celebrated the full richness of the French language in its most lively, vibrant, and above all, varied forms. While French served as a common thread, every artist inhabited it in their own unique way – with their accent, life experience, expressions, imagery and struggles. Between urban poetry, edgy rock and hybrid Creole, Francos 2025 showed that French has never been so expansive – or popular.

What Francos 2025 proved is that the French language is no fixed monument. It’s alive, inventive, plural. It can be slammed by a poet from Saint-Denis, chanted by an afro-futurist rapper, whispered by an indie band, or hammered out in Montréal neighbourhood slang. From Congolese expressions to Québec regionalisms, from playful anglicisms to Creole nods, the French language danced in every form this year. It was « full bon »!

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