Joni Mitchell, 80, making debut Grammy performance after recovering from brain aneurysm

 It's been an incredible few years for Joni Mitchell.

The Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter will make her debut performance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday as part of the 80-year-old's iconic comeback following a brain aneurysm in 2015.

The music legend, who already has nine Grammy Awards and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award to her name, is nominated for Best Folk Album for her album "Joni Mitchell at Newport [Live]," which will be nominated for her 2022 Was recorded during the surprise performance. Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.

Mitchell, best known for hits like "Both Sides Now" and "Big Yellow Taxi," was honored as the Grammy's MusicCares Person of the Year with a show in Las Vegas in 2022, and 2023. In 1959, he received the Library of Congress Gershwin. Washington DC. Award for Popular Song in a Program in

According to The Tennessean, friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile said on stage in Las Vegas, "We're living in the times of Joni Mitchell."

Her Newport set was one of Mitchell's first live performances in years.

After suffering a brain aneurysm, along with relearning how to walk and talk, Lok Katha also had to relearn how to play music. He taught himself to play by watching videos of other musicians.

"I'm learning. I'm watching videos on the net to see where to put my fingers," Mitchell told CBS Mornings in 2022. Can't figure out how to get up from bed. You will have to memorize all these things again."

He added, "It takes a lot to go back to infancy. You have to learn everything again."

She said her brain surgeon told her she had "willpower and patience", adding, "I have overcome many things, including polio."

Last summer, Mitchell performed his first show in more than 20 years – in central Washington state – dubbed “Joni Jam.” She also performed with other greats like Brandi Carlile and Annie Lennox at Carlile's Hollywood Bowl show in Los Angeles last October.

This October, Michelle will return to the Bowl to headline her first California concert since 2000 with another Johnny Jam.

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Organizers said a second date was recently added to their bowl set "due to overwhelming demand".

Johnny Jams are similar to the informal sessions that Michelle held in her California home with other musicians such as Carlyle and Paul McCartney while she was undergoing rehab.

Mitchell achieved the height of his fame while working in Los Angeles in the 1970s, and in a 1968 article he was described as the "yang" to Bob Dylan's "yin".

Other performers at the Grammys on Sunday night will include Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Burna Boy, Dua Lipa, Luke Combs, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott and U2.