Joni Mitchell fans tear up over 80-year-old’s first-ever Grammys performance

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Joni Mitchell has earned reward for the outfit she selected for her first-ever performance on the Grammys stage.

On Sunday 4 February, Mitchell, 80, took to the stage on the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, for a shocking performance of her 1966 music “Both Sides Now”.

For the event, Mitchell, who’s nominated for Best Folk Album for her 2023 LP Joni Mitchell at Newport [Live], wore a black velvet matching set consisting of a coat, high, and pants embroidered with gold celestial motifs.

She accomplished the look together with her iconic blonde braids and black beret, a beaded necklace with inexperienced stones, and a black cane with a diamond-encrusted tiger head.

On social media, and contained in the Grammys theatre, the 80-year-old singer’s first-ever Grammys performance was met with applause, with many viewers moved to tears.

The “River” singer’s outfit selection was additionally met with reward, with one individual describing the look as “Dumbledore but feminine”.

“Gorgeous gorgeous Joni Mitchell performance (but also, her outfit is exactly what I want to wear when I am 80, a LOOK),” one other individual wrote on X, previously often called Twitter, whereas another person mentioned: “Joni Mitchell and company serving Hunger Games with the outfits …. Love.”

Others took the chance to reward Mitchell’s equipment, with one individual writing: “I swear I think Joni Mitchell could do Gandalf stuff with that sweet a** cane.”

“The Joni Mitchell performance was so beautiful! She looked so pretty wearing her black hat and holding her bada** cane while she was singing,” another person tweeted.

During Mitchell’s performance, the digicam panned to the viewers, the place attendees resembling Meryl Streep have been seen turning into emotional.

The Canadian singer has made solely a handful of reside performances after she suffered a mind aneurysm in 2015.

Following her hospitalisation in 2015, a lot consideration was positioned on Mitchell’s uncommon situation, often called Morgellons illness. The little-known pores and skin situation is characterised by sufferers as having biting and stinging sensations underneath the pores and skin. However, the controversial situation has raised eyebrows among the many medical neighborhood, a lot of who imagine that its signs are brought on by a psychiatric dysfunction.

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