Grammy-Hopefuls HAIM Take Center Stage by Olivia Malone for Porter Edit March 8, 2021

Pop-rock trio HAIM will be making history at Sunday’s upcoming Grammy Awards. The group is the first all-female rock band nominated for the Grammy’s top prize, album of the year, and the competition is fierce. Top talents like Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Post Malone, Dua Lipa and mroe also have their eye on the prize.

HAIM’s three sisters are also nominated for best rock performance. Other nominees include Fiona Apple, Brittany Howard, Grace Potter, Phoebe Bridgers and Big Thief, the alternative band led by Adrianne Lenker. Yes, the roster is all-female.

Porter Edit’s March 8 issue features the Californian sisters Alana, Danielle and Este who make up HAIM. Sean Knight styles the artists in Bottega Veneta, Christopher Esber, Gabriela Hearst, Jonathan Simkhai, Michael Kors collection, Paco Rabanne, Proenza Schoule, Stella McCartney and more for images by Olivia Malone [IG]. / Hair Lauren Palmer-Smith; makeup by Edwin Sandoval

Hanna Hanra talks to the members of HAIM in Sisterhood.

Having just erased a reference to HAIM as consummate “valley girls” (bad Anne!), that’s exactly the term the youngest HAIM sister Alana uses to establish the group’s identity.

“Growing up in the Valley, you’re kind of the butt of everyone’s joke – everyone thought you were super-uncool and had no idea what was going on. But it also gave you a unity; our producer Ariel [Rechtshaid, who is also Danielle’s boyfriend] is from there – when you find out someone else is from the Valley, it’s like, ‘I got you’.”

Alana plays the guitars and keys, with Este on bass. Their three-part vocal harmonies help define their sound, with Danielle the lead in vocals , being the guitarist and sometime drum player. This HAIM music fest has gone on since 2007, with the group going on the road in advance of the release of Women in Music Pt III, due out Mid-April 2020.

Going on the road has an original twist with these women, who were booked in delis across America before going to England, then Australia. After playing one deli in New York, the trio got to DC when lockdown became for real. “We took a flight home on March 12 and have been here since,” says Este.

It’s Taylor Swift herself who jokes that she’s the fourth HAIM sister, Billboard wrote last February. as the group released a remix of Gasoline.

"Gasoline" isn't the first time Haim have teamed up musically with Taylor. Haim are featured on Swift's Evermore, on the murder-mystery country track "No Body, No Crime."

Being a woman artist in music isn’t easy; and recognition for women artists has been a long-time waiting in the wings. Whatever happens at Sunday night’s Grammys, HAIM feels like winners.

“The number of times we have been told ‘No’, or that it wasn’t going to work, or people have told us how to play or dress, or that we should look different… It feels like every step forward, we had to take five back. We could have given up so many times, but we kept going – and we did it on our own terms,” says Alana. “No one gave us a roadmap on how to get here,” she pauses, as she pours boiling water into a coffee filter. “But here we are.”

Check out the clothes and read more of the interview at Porter Edit.