Taylor Swift, the six-time Grammy-winning country-pop superstar has been tapped to co-host a special concert event for the 2013 Grammy nominations.

Grammy producers’ choice to add the 22-year-old country music phenom as a co-host for the special event comes as no surprise, given her extraordinary success in the genre that the producers have chosen to focus on this year. For the first time in the five-year history of the show, the producers have changed venues from the pop music Mecca of Los Angeles to the country music capital of Nashville for the iconic celebration. She will share the podium with LL Cool J to announce the nominations in several categories during the live awards show, which will air live from the Bridgestone Arena on December 5 at 10:00 p.m. EST.

Taylor Swift will take time off from her already busy schedule to return to Nashville for the live broadcast. It looks as if the down-to-earth megastar will be returning to her musical roots before setting off across North America next year on tour to promote her latest album, Red. It was only last month that Swift unveiled her new single ” to the delight of fans during the 2012 MTV Music Video Awards. Swift is also a fitting choice since she was the last country artist to win a Grammy for “Album of the Year” for her 2008 oeuvre Fearless.

There are several top artists slated to perform during the show, including rising country star Luke Bryan and current radio favorite Maroon 5, with many other Grammy-nominated acts to be announced shortly.