This year proves to be no disappointment.
Performers added to the line-up were announced on Tuesday – including nominees Katy Perry and Lorde.
Girl power: Katy Perry and Lorde have been announced as performers at the 2014 Grammy Awards
However, the list grows more eclectic with the announcement of performances by eight-time Grammy-winning group Metallica with Grammy Cultural Ambassador to China Lang Lang, nominee Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers (of Chic), nominee Robin Thicke with Grammy-winning group Chicago, and 25-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder who will join a previously announced performance by nominee Daft Punk.
Such a cast is in addition to previously announced performances by nominees Kendrick Lamar joined by Imagine Dragons; Pink and Nate Ruess (of Fun); as well as a special performance featuring Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and nominee Blake Shelton.
Sexy vocals: Robin Thicke, pictured here at the
Today Show Summer Concert Series in New York in July, will perform at
the 2014 Grammy Awards with Grammy-winning group Chicago
Perry’s motivational anthem Roar has garnered her two nominations this year: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Lorde, who will perform for the first time on the Grammy Awards telecast, has four nods - Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for Royals and Best Pop Vocal Album for Pure Heroine.
Three-time Grammy winner Williams has seven nominations: two for Record of the Year and two for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Get Lucky (with Daft Punk) and Blurred Lines (with Robin Thicke and T.I.); two in Album of the Year as a featured artist on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and as a producer on Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, M.A.A.D City; and one for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Unique grouping: 25-time Grammy winner Stevie
Wonder, pictured here at the Global Citizen Festival in New York in
September, will join a previously announced performance by nominee Daft
Punk
Thicke is up for three awards: Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Blurred Lines (with Williams and T.I.), and Best Pop Vocal Album for Blurred Lines.
Metallica's Metallica Through the Never (Music From The Motion Picture) is nominated for Best Recording Package; art directors Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat, Brian Steele, and David Turner are the nominees.
Two-time Grammy winner LL Cool J will return as host.
Rockers: Eight-time Grammy-winning group
Metallica, pictured here in Serbia in May, will perform with Grammy
Cultural Ambassador to China Lang Lang
The 56th annual Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, January 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles – broadcast on CBS from 8 to 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The telecast will also be covered online at Grammy.com and CBS.com.
Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced.
Announced: Three-time Grammy winner Pharrell
Williams, pictured here in Miami in December, will perform at the Grammy
Awards, and has seven nominations
