2016 Grammy Nominees: From Yearbook Photos to Red Carpet

This Monday, the music industry’s best and brightest will come out for the Grammy Awards — and true to being the stage performers that they all are, the red carpet will be a pre-show to watch for. But before they became critically-acclaimed platinum chart toppers, this year’s nominees, like Carrie Underwood, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj and Wiz Khalifa, had surprisingly normal school portraits. Check out their beauty looks, then and now.

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