John Legend, Cynthia Erivo to 成し遂げる Grammys' In Memoriam
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― John Legend and Broadway 星／主役にする Cynthia Erivo will be singing a Beach Boys song at Sunday's Grammy Awards.
(n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 Ken Ehrlich 発表するd Tuesday that Legend and Erivo will 成し遂げる a new 協定 of "God Only Knows" during the show's In Memoriam segment.
The 退役軍人 生産者 was listening to music at home when he suddenly heard the 50-year-old song in a new way.
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, とじ込み／提出する photo, John Legend …に出席するs a photo call for WGN America's "地下組織の" at the CTAM 部分 of the 2017 Winter Television Critics 協会 圧力（をかける） 小旅行する in Pasadena, Calif. The 生産者 of the Grammy Awards said Legend and Broadway 星／主役にする Cynthia Erivo will 成し遂げる during the show?s In Memoriam segment on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. They will 成し遂げる the Beach Boys? ?God Only Knows.? (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, とじ込み／提出する)
"I heard that song for the first time in the 状況 of loss ― not lost love, but in the 状況 of what would I be without you, someone who's gone?" said Ehrlich, who is producing his 37th Grammy Awards this year. "And I played it again, and then I played it again. And then when I wiped away the 涙／ほころび ― which 本気で I had ― I said, 'This is what we need to do this year. This is the song,'" 追加するing, "It's by far my favorite Beach Boys' song."
He imagined a slower 見解／翻訳／版 for In Memoriam, which he quickly arranged on piano, then tapped Legend and Erivo to 成し遂げる it.
"They both 誘発するd to it and said yes," Ehrlich said. "It's not a song that's written by someone who is in the In Memoriam segment, but it's about it, and it really resonates."
As for whom to 含む in the segment, Ehrlich said a 委員会 at the 記録，記録的な／記録するing 学院 循環させるs a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of more than 500 指名するs, which must be whittled 負かす／撃墜する to 50 for the three-minute 一括.
Still, he finds the 仕事 of putting the segment together so heart-wrenching, he 手渡すs it off to a fellow 生産者.
"There are people that I would put in there, but it's not about me," Ehrlich said. "It's about the music 産業 as a whole and all of its parts: classical and 激しく揺する and pop and Latin and jazz. So it's a difficult 過程. ... One of my co-生産者s on the show 肉親，親類d of shepherds it because さもなければ I think it could be so time-消費するing that it wou ld eat me up."
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FILE - In this May 17, 2016, とじ込み／提出する photo, actress Cynthia Erivo 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a portrait in New York. The 生産者 of the Grammy Awards said John Legend and Broadway 星／主役にする Erivo will 成し遂げる during the show?s In Memoriam segment on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. They will 成し遂げる the Beach Boys? ?God Only Knows.? (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP, とじ込み／提出する)
