Beyonce competes for the big prize - again - at Sunday's Grammys 

LOS ANGELES — 

The Grammy Awards instrumentality halfway signifier successful Los Angeles connected Sunday astatine a solemnisation that volition grant the champion of euphony portion acknowledging the deadly wildfires that scarred a hub of the industry.

Beyonce volition vie for the apical Grammy prize of medium of the twelvemonth with her state grounds "Cowboy Carter." The superstar vocalist has ne'er won the medium trophy contempt winning 32 vocation Grammys, much than immoderate different musician.

Also successful the moving for medium of the twelvemonth are megastar Taylor Swift for "The Tortured Poets Department" and Billie Eilish for "Hit Me Hard and Soft."

The ceremonial volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected CBS starting astatine 8 p.m. ET (0100 GMT connected Monday) from the Crypto.com Arena successful downtown Los Angeles. Comedian Trevor Noah returns to big the telecast, which volition beryllium portion awards show, portion fundraiser for musicians and others impacted by the caller fires. Hundreds of radical successful the euphony concern were among those who mislaid homes successful the disaster.

"It volition beryllium a small tricky to propulsion off, but I'm starting to deliberation they're going to beryllium capable to bash it," said Paul Grein, awards exertion astatine euphony work Billboard. With the fires nether control, "people tin instrumentality a breather and explicit gratitude and alleviation that we made it done that."

Eilish and champion caller creator nominees Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone and Teddy Swims are among the night's scheduled performers. The amusement volition diagnostic a tribute to Quincy Jones, the prolific euphony shaper who died successful November.

At past year's Grammys, Beyonce's hubby and rapper Jay-Z argued that voters had not fixed due designation to Black artists including his wife. Grammy winners are chosen by the 13,000 singers, songwriters, producers, engineers and others who marque up the Recording Academy.

"I don't privation to embarrass this young lady, but she has much Grammys than anyone and ne'er won medium of the year. So adjacent by your ain metrics, that doesn't work," Jay-Z said connected stage.

"Cowboy Carter" was viewed by experts and fans arsenic a reclamation and homage to an overlooked bequest of Black Americans wrong state euphony and culture. It became the archetypal medium by a Black pistillate to onshore astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Top Country Albums illustration erstwhile it was released past spring.

The Beyonce medium was snubbed, however, by voters for the Country Music Awards successful their nominations successful September.

The "Cowboy Carter" information is Beyonce's 5th introduction successful the medium of the twelvemonth category. Swift has won the grant a grounds 4 times, including past twelvemonth for "Midnights."

Beyonce leads each Grammy nominees this twelvemonth with 11 nods, followed by Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone with 7 nominations each. Swift landed six nominations and volition contiguous 1 of the night's awards.

Beyonce's different Grammy nods see grounds and opus of the twelvemonth for azygous "Texas Hold 'Em."

Competitors for opus of the year, an grant for songwriters, are Eilish for "Birds of a Feather," Carpenter for "Please Please Please" and Roan for "Good Luck, Babe!"

In grounds of the year, nominees see Carpenter's "Espresso" and Swift's duet with Post Malone, "Fortnight."