LOS ANGELES — Leave it to Beyoncé to shape the Grammy Awards in a year when she’s not even on the ballot.

With 35 trophies to her name, the pop superstar is the winningest artist in the nearly seven-decade history of music’s most prestigious awards show; with 99 nods, she’s the most-nominated act of all time too.

Yet despite her steady presence over the last quarter-century at pop’s creative vanguard, it took the singer until this last February to finally win the Recording Academy’s top prize, album of the year, with “Cowboy Carter” — a long-overdue victory that prompted countless think pieces about the academy’s fraught relationship with race, gender and genre.

In addition to taking the album award, “Cowboy Carter” — Beyoncé’s thorny and audacious exploration of the Black roots of coun

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