Armed with essentially the most nominations this 12 months, SZA took the stage to carry out on the 2024 Grammy Awards.

The singer, decked out in a black trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat, opened together with her smash hit “Snooze” off her sophomore album “SOS.” On a stage resembling a again alley replete with flaming rubbish cans and a dumpster, she sang shrouded in shadow, disregarding a person who approached her on the tune’s finish.

The printed anned to a girl within the viewers brandishing a sword, displaying off her samurai expertise on a desk the place Phoebe Bridgers and Victoria Monét had been seated. The girl joined a crew of dancers on stage as SZA ran by means of a Quentin Tarantino-inspired efficiency of “Kill Invoice,” taking off her jacket and becoming a member of in on the choreography, as soon as once more pushing off the suitor.

The R&B singer led the 2024 Grammy nominations with 9 nods, together with album of the 12 months for “SOS” in addition to tune and file of the 12 months for the hit single “Kill Invoice.” Previous to the primary broadcast, she was awarded the Grammy for finest pop duo/group efficiency with “Ghost within the Machine” that includes Phoebe Bridgers, in addition to finest progressive R&B album for “SOS.”

SZA’s first Grammy got here in 2022 for “Kiss Me Extra,” a collaboration with Doja Cat. Along with Doja Cat, she has additionally collaborated with Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Lizzo, Drake, Lorde, Justin Timberlake and James Blake, amongst others.

SZA was not too long ago introduced to headline the 2024 Governors Ball Pageant, alongside Submit Malone and the Killers.

She was named Selection’s Hitmaker of the 12 months in November. In her cowl story, the artist mirrored on her historical past with the Grammys and rise in reputation following the discharge of “SOS.”

“I’ve misplaced sufficient occasions to know that investing on this second will not be clever,” she stated. “And never as a result of it’s not essential — I’m so comfortable for it — however as a result of it’s important to place your significance on who you might be as an artist and as an individual. It’s my first time being this in style, and I noticed an enormous uptick in negativity at the very same time.”

Different Grammy performers embrace Joni Mitchell in her debut efficiency on the awards, U2 (making a distant look Las Vegas’ Sphere), Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Luke Combs, Travis Scott and Burna Boy.