Adele Makes come Back in Grammys 2012

Big night: Adele is nominated for six awards

Adele, whose smash hit album '21' with chart-topping songs like Rolling in the Deep is nominated for six Grammys, including album of the year and record of the year.
She is second in nominations only to rapper Kanye West with seven nods, but West was shut out of the top categories paving the way for Adele to be the night's big winner - or surprise loser if she fails to overcome stiff competition.
In the category of best album, Adele with 21 faces rockers Foo Fighters for their hit Wasting Light Lady Gaga with Born This Way Bruno Mars and his Doo-Wops & Hooligans and pop star Rihanna with Loud.
Adele also figures prominently among nominees for record of the year where "Rolling in the Deep" squares off against rockers Bon Iver and "Holocene," Bruno Mars for "Grenade," Mumford & Sons with "The Cave," and Katy Perry for "Firework."
Moreover, British singer Adele will perform in front of a live audience for the first time since vocal cord surgery late last year, and fans will want to hear if her voice is back to its sultry, soulful best.
Among other key races, music fans will be watching closely include best new artist with Nicki Minaj with her debut album "Pink Friday" is picked by the pundits to win over Bon Iver, country's The Band Perry, hip-hop star J.Cole and in a nod to the growing popularity of dance music, the DJ Skrillex.
Indeed, for the first time Grammy organisers have planned a performance that spotlights dance and electronica sounds that have become increasingly popular in the past decade, moving the nightclubs and rave parties into mainstream music.
Veteran acts will be claiming their fair share of the spotlight, too, with a special life achievement award going to Glen Campbell and the Beach Boys expected to turn out on Grammys stage.
But even with all that celebration, the buzz at the show will surely turn to the 48-year-old Houston's untimely death and the comments and songs sung by artists like Hudson who have followed in her footsteps.

On the cover: Readers of Vogue will see Adele on the March 2012 issue of the magazine

Meanwhile, Karl Lagerfeld may have called Adele 'too fat' but he clearly hadn't seen this month's issue of Vogue.
The 23-year-singer graces the magazine's cover in their March edition and clearly doesn't have a problem with her weight.
The singer made her musical comeback this week ahead of her highly-anticipated performance at the Grammy awards tonight.

Vocal stylings: Adele's singing of Rolling In The Deep came before her performance at the Grammys this weekend

Speaking out: The singer spoke to Anderson Cooper about her recent surgery

During an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes with host Anderson Cooper, Adele is seen belting out a verse of her hit track Rolling In The Deep.
In the interview with 60 Minutes, Adele spoke about the surgery, and described her vocal cord haemorrhage as 'like someone putting a curtain over my throat’.
The injury and subsequent surgery left her unable to speak and having to resort to writing on a notepad to communicate for several weeks.
The most frustrating thing during this traumatic time was not her inability to sing, but her inability to swear, she said.
However, the singer – whose album 21 was 2011’s top seller worldwide with sales of 17million – said she found an application on her iPhone which reads out words typed into the device.
She added: 'The great thing is I love to swear. Most of the apps you can’t swear on, but I found this one app where you can swear, so I’m still really getting my point across.'

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