Skip to content

Top Navigation

EW.com Entertainment Weekly EW.com Entertainment Weekly
  • TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • TV Recaps
    • Fall TV
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
  • Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
  • Music
    • Music Reviews
  • Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
  • Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
  • Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Awards
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Order Past Issues this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe

Explore EW.com

EW.com Entertainment Weekly EW.com Entertainment Weekly
  • Explore

    Explore

    • Here are all 70 puppies competing in Puppy Bowl XVII

      Read More Next
    • The best books to keep you warm this January

      Read More Next
    • The Masked Dancer revealed: Every unmasked celebrity on season 1

      Read More Next
  • TV

    TV

    See all TV
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Reunions
    • TV Recaps
    • Fall TV
    • Animated
    • Comedy
    • Crime
    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Reality
    • Sci-fi
    • Thriller
  • Movies

    Movies

    See all Movies
    • Movie Reviews
    • Trailers
    • Film Festivals
    • Movie Reunions
    • Movie Previews
  • Music

    Music

    See all Music
    • Music Reviews
  • Books

    Books

    See all Books
    • Book Reviews
    • Author Interviews
  • Theater

    Theater

    See all Theater
    • Theater Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • Gaming
  • Events

    Events

    See all Events
    • Comic-Con
  • Celebrity
  • Awards

    Awards

    See all Awards
    • Oscars
    • Emmys
    • Golden Globes
    • SAG Awards
    • Grammys
    • Tony Awards
  • Streaming

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Account

  • Join Now
  • Email Preferences
  • Newsletter
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Order Past Issues this link opens in a new tab
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. Awards Chevron Right
  3. Grammys Chevron Right
  4. All the best performances from the 2019 Grammy Awards

All the best performances from the 2019 Grammy Awards

By Joey Nolfi
February 10, 2019 at 11:32 PM EST
Skip gallery slides
Save FB Tweet

1 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Lady Gaga, Camila Cabello, and more bring down the Grammys house

Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

From Camila Cabello scaling the replicated streets of Havana with Ricky Martin to vocal highways paved by Lady Gaga's and Janelle Monáe's soaring pipes, the performers at the 2019 Grammy Awards blew the roof off of Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday. See some of the best moments from the night's standout performances in the gallery ahead.

1 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Camila Cabello, J Balvin, Ricky Martin, Arturo Sandoval, Young Thug — "Havana"

Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

The two-time nominee (and former Fifth Harmony member) proved her staying power on the mainstream scene with a fiery workout of a set that featured J Balvin, Ricky Martin, Arturo Sandoval, and Young Thug. Cabello told reporters on the Grammys red carpet the colorful “Havana” performance was inspired by her grandmother’s life, and members of her real family appeared on stage during the production, which was dressed to resemble a bustling block party in the No. 1-charting song’s titular Cuban city — which Martin, Sandoval, Young Thug, and Balvin promptly crashed.

2 of 12

3 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Chloe x Halle — "Where Is the Love" 

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Chloe x Halle, two-time nominated sisters who rose to prominence after impressing Beyoncé (and subsequently opening for the European leg of her Formation tour), put a subtle contemporary spin on Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway’s duet “Where Is the Love.”

3 of 12

Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

4 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Dolly Parton tribute with Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

What could’ve resulted in a peculiar mashup of vocal styles (Katy Perry’s bombastic pipes mixed with Kacey Musgrave’s smooth country cooing?) ended up as one of the sweetest moments of Sunday’s telecast thanks to an all-powerful binding ingredient: The performative energy of Dolly Parton, an icon whose country-to-mainstream-celebrity legacy received its proper time in the spotlight surrounded by some of the genre’s biggest contemporary acts as they sang through “9 to 5,” “Here You Come Again,” “Jolene,” “After the Gold Rush,” and “Red Shoes.” Perry and Cyrus complemented the group’s homespun twang with the perfect hint of glistening pop sheen — a balance Parton and her career thus far have similarly embodied with grace.

4 of 12

Advertisement

5 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Cardi B — "Money"

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Rap’s reigning queen (and one of EW’s favorite entertainers of 2018) flexed her flow-heavy might under the Grammys spotlight with feisty zest as she performed her current hit “Money” dressed in a skintight, diamond-encrusted leopard getup with a squad of female dancers flanking her. Regardless of how you feel about Cardi’s approach to the craft (or to the art of celebrity), the power and pride emanating from this peak moment in her Cinderella story — after rising from stripper to reality star to royal of the Recording Academy’s biggest stage — felt undeniably electric as she embraced her newfound diva status (and powered through a wardrobe mishap that saw her necklace tumble off her neck) atop a bedazzled piano before literally fluffing her feathers while sporting an appropriately massive peacock tail.

5 of 12

6 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Janelle Monáe — "Make Me Feel"

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Funky and fresh, Janelle Monáe’s avant-garde and futuristic approach to contemporary music styles like R&B and pop have made her a musical maverick. In fitting fashion, her 2019 Grammys performance of “Make Me Feel” incorporated lots of androgynous clothing, singular dance moves, and plenty of Janelle-on-the-floor writhing.

6 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

7 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Lady Gaga — "Shallow"

Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

Taking the stage Sunday night at Staples Center, just two days before final Oscar voting opens, Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson have given Grammy viewers and Academy voters alike reason enough to go off the deep end for their Oscar-nominated A Star Is Born smash “Shallow.” With hard-rocking flair (and full body glitter), Gaga married Jackson's Maine's bravado with Ally's vocal prowess for a show-stopping take on the cinematic single.

7 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement

8 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Kacey Musgraves — "Rainbow" 

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Having released Golden Hour, one of the best albums of 2018, Kacey Musgraves’ standout moment at the 2019 Grammys is no surprise, but that doesn’t make it any less powerful. The 30-year-old’s progressive lyrics and quiet intensity unfurled as effortlessly as her crystalline voice at Staples Center, wearing a crisp white gown (complete with matching white microphone) as she let her vocal skills provide the color as she sailed through a gorgeous, piano-driven rendition of “Rainbow.”

8 of 12

Advertisement

9 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Brandi Carlile — “The Joke”

Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

The most nominated woman of the evening made a solid case for her placement at the head of the pack, bringing the Staples Center audience to its feet — before her haunting performance of “The Joke” even ended — for a standing ovation in honor of her towering voice.

9 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement
Continued on next slide.
Advertisement

10 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Diana Ross medley

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Miss Ross arrived for her Grammys birthday bash as only a true diva would: tearfully making her way through “The Best Years of My Life." Proving that 75 looks just as good on her as half that number does on some of today’s reigning pop princesses, Ross then swayed through “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand),” showing contemporary acts that no one can do it like Diamond Diana can.

10 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

11 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Shawn Mendes and Miley Cyrus — "In My Blood"

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Each of the 20-year-old heartthrob’s televised performances have, to date, all felt like strategic shoe-ins aimed at shepherding masses of teenage eyes to the respective telecast, but Mendes cemented his might as a pop mainstay with palpable energy and irresistible suave as he belted his hit “In My Blood” from behind a piano, proving he needed few theatrics to stand out on music’s biggest night. That is, until he invited Miley Cyrus onstage for an impassioned duet that soared on pure talent and vocal acrobatics.

11 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement

12 of 12

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message

Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, and Andra Day's Aretha Franklin tribute

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Unlike Madonna’s earnest-yet-self-indulgent spoken word tribute to the late Aretha Franklin at the 2018 MTV VMAs, Fantasia, Andra Day, and Yolanda Adams gave the Queen of Soul a fitting sendoff in appropriate fashion: A cover of “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman” sung by a trio of women influenced by Franklin’s music, paying r-e-s-p-e-c-t to the dearly departed diva with a wall of powerhouse vocals.

12 of 12

Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

  • By Joey Nolfi @joeynolfi

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 12 Lady Gaga, Camila Cabello, and more bring down the Grammys house
2 of 12 Camila Cabello, J Balvin, Ricky Martin, Arturo Sandoval, Young Thug — "Havana"
3 of 12 Chloe x Halle — "Where Is the Love" 
4 of 12 Dolly Parton tribute with Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus
5 of 12 Cardi B — "Money"
6 of 12 Janelle Monáe — "Make Me Feel"
7 of 12 Lady Gaga — "Shallow"
8 of 12 Kacey Musgraves — "Rainbow" 
9 of 12 Brandi Carlile — “The Joke”
10 of 12 Diana Ross medley
11 of 12 Shawn Mendes and Miley Cyrus — "In My Blood"
12 of 12 Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, and Andra Day's Aretha Franklin tribute

Share options

Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message
EW.com Entertainment Weekly

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Content Licensing this link opens in a new tab
  • Sitemap

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Food & Wine this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
© Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://ew.com

View image

All the best performances from the 2019 Grammy Awards
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.