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Gorillaz, Madonna team up
Material Girl to play live with the cartoon world at Grammy Awards; Paul McCartney also added to list of performers.
The last time Madonna collaborated with a big-name artist at an awards show, it ended with her smooching Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Here's hoping her live performance alongside the cartoon characters fronting the Gorillaz ends with a comparable surprise.
Madonna and the Gorillaz will perform together for the first time at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, set for Wednesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The public face of the Gorillaz, however, is a cartoon quartet created by Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett, meaning that Madge will be sharing the stage with cartoon characters projected onto the stage.
The band and Gorillaz creator Damon Albarn, also front man of Blur, tend to play behind a screen for the band's live performances, letting the animated characters act out the performance, instruments and all. The characters last shared the stage with live performers when Albarn invited all of guests on the band's Demon Days album--nominated for four Grammys this year--to a five-show run last November in the UK.
The Recording Academy also said today that Sir Paul McCartney has been added to the list of performers, which also includes Mariah Carey, John Legend, Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen, U2 with Mary J. Blige, Coldplay, Faith Hill with Keith Urban, Sugarland, and Jamie Foxx.
McCartney, nominated for three awards, including album of the year for Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, has never performed at the Grammys before, the academy said.
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