The week leading up to the Grammy Awards is typically a star-studded seven days.

It is filled with exclusive parties that draw some of music's top talents from across the globe - producers, singers, agents and musicians - all to the epicentre of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

But nearly all of that is non-existent this year. Even the hallmark rowdy after-parties have been cancelled.

There were questions over whether the Grammys ceremony, the "Oscars for Music," would even go on as planned on Sunday after Los Angeles saw its most devastating fire disaster ever recorded - blazes that were only fully doused on Friday after burning for 24 days.