Beyoncé Knowles first became known through star group Destiny’s Child before embarking on a solo career in 2003.
Thanks to her hits “Crazy in Love” or “Baby Boy” and her dance skills, she was one of the most recognized artists in r’n’b.
An early diva
BeyoncéGiselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas on September 4, 1981. The Knowles family is a small business: Dad is its manager, Mom is its personal stylist. She also has a younger sister, Solange, who also became a singer.
Beyoncé’s career began very early. From the age of four, she began to dance and sing.
The Destiny’s Child Adventure
In 1989, Beyoncé was eight years old. She met LaTavia Roberson during a cast with which she formed a band called Girl Tymes. Three years later, Kelly Rowland and Letoya Luckett joined them to form Destiny’s Child.
In 1997, they signed to Colombia Records and appeared on the international stage for the first time. Their first track, “Kiling Time”, was on the soundtrack of the film Men in Black.
In 1999, the album “The Writing Is On The Wall” sold over 10 million copies, worn by hits such as “Jumpin’, jumpin'”, “Bills Bills Bills” or “Say My Name” which remained No. 1 on the American Singles charts for nine weeks.
In 2000, Letoya and Latavia left the band and were replaced by Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin, who would only remain for 5 months.
Destiny’s Child is now a hit-and-no-husavy trio due to the album Survivor”Survivor”. The band’s leader, Beyoncé Knowles sang, composed and produced many songs.
A well-deserved reward
In 2002, she won the title of “Best Pop Author of the Year” by ASCAP (formed by American composers, authors and distributors). It’s a historic event: Beyoncé is the first black woman to win this award. At the time of their separation, Destiny’s Child sold 33 million records worldwide.
A new start
In 2003, Beyoncé began her solo career. It started in a trumpet with the album Dangerously in Love, which won a record number of awards.
Different from the Destiny’s Child sound, the album is made in collaboration with many renowned artists: Missy Elliot, Jay-z, Sean Paul, Mark Batson, Mario Winans, D-Roy and Mr.B, OutKast’s Big BoiOutKast, Rich Harrison, FAnatic, Scott Storch, Luther Van Dross and even IAM.
Nothing stands up to Beyoncé Knowles
In parallel, Beyoncé Knowles embarked on an acting career and acestrated roles in “Austin Powers: Goldmember” and “The Fighting Temptations”, released in 2002 and 2003. She will later appear in “Dreamgirls” and “The Pink Panther”.
Beyoncé Knowles’ second solo album, “B’Day”, was released on September 4, 2006, on her 25th birthday. Two years later, “I Am… Sasha Fierce” arrives in the trays.
Sasha Fierce is Beyoncé Knowles’ alter ego and the name she adopts when she sings on stage. Thanks to the singles “If I were a boy”, “Single ladies” and his music video or “Halo”, he was immensely successful.
A little rest in 2010
As his “I AM… ends) In February 2010, Beyoncé announced that she wanted to take a musical break of at least six months. A desire to live one’s life other than to go to the studio, according to one’s own statements.
In the week, the rumors of a fourth studio album are well under way. Beyoncé would prepare her return, but without her alias, Sasha Fierce, which she claims to have definitively “killed”.
An album… and a baby
Beyoncé Knowles’ fourth album, soberly titled 4 “4” was released in June 2011. For this new album, the diva remained in an R and B style but with a few touches of electro.
She has used producers such as The Dream or Franck Ocean and has been inspired by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill or Michael Jackson. The first three singles from the album “4” were “Run The World (Girls)”, “Best Thing I never Had” and “Countdown”.
The success of this record is accompanied by a happy news in its private life. In August 2011, Beyoncé Knowles announced live from the MTV Video Music Awards that she and her husband Jay-z were expecting a little girl.
On January 7, 2012, she gave birth to Blue Ivy at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. For a few months, Beyoncé Knowles devoted herself to her new role as a mother, then began working on her fifth album.
Once again, she surrounds herself with American hip hop cream, Kanye West, Miguel, Ne-Yo and her husband Jay-z. The album is expected in early 2013.
On February 3, 2013, Beyoncé Knowles star was the Superbowl half-time star and a few days later, a documentary event about her life was broadcast on HBO. She realized it herself.
Following her Superbowl performance, Beyoncé announced a new world tour “The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” included a stint in Bercy on April 24, 2013.
A surprise album
On December 12 Beyoncé premiered the event by releasing a surprise album on the night. Without any announcements or promotions, the album rankes directly number one on iTunes in almost 100 countries in just 24 hours. Entitled “Beyoncé“, the opus contains 14 tracks including the hit “Drunk In Love”. Each song in this new album is accompanied by a video, a first.
On The Run
Wanting to spend more time together after the birth of their daughter Blue Ivy, Beyoncé and Jay-z announced their decision to go on a joint tour in 2014. Named “On the Run Tour”, this concert series debuted on June 25, 2014 for about twenty shows in the United States. Only two European dates are scheduled and it is France that the superstar couple has chosen, with them performances at the Stade de France on 12 and 13 September.
In November 2014, she once again posted to the general surprise a new song with her YouTube clip, “7/11”. One year later, it exceeded 300 million views.
The big comeback in 2016.
After her tour, which was a huge success, Beyoncé took a short break from his family.
Despite the release of an event music video in May 2015, that of “Feeling Myself” with Nicki Minaj, taken from the album “The Pinkprint” of the latter, Beyoncé made herself musically discreetly.
She took the opportunity to become even more involved in Gucci’s “Chime For Change” campaign, aimed at promoting women’s rights. She also posed for many magazines, such as Vogue, Flaunt and Beat.
While not expected, she confirmed her presence at the 50th Super Bowl in early January 2016, singing alongside Coldplay.
The next month, a few hours before she climbed the Super Bowl stage, she released a new music video, “Training”. During the famous half-time, she then broadcasts an advertisement announcing a tour of the world stadiums, the “Formation World Tour”, which will travel around Europe and the United States, with a new visit notably to the Stade de France in July 2016.
Tickets are sold as rolls, since only a few weeks after the installation, dozens of stadiums are already complete.
Little present in the media for several months, Queen Bey blew up the Internet on February 1, 2017 by announcing that they are pregnant with twins.
“Lemonade”
On April 16, 2016, Beyoncé released the trailer of a project called “Lemonade”. It will actually be her new album, which she released by surprise a week after the documentary of the same name. Starting directly at the top of the Billboard 200, “Lemonade” allowed Beyoncé to be the first artist to have 6 numbers 1 at the top. And that’s not all. Indeed, Queen Bey also saw the album’s twelve songs enter the chart, making her the first female artist to have twelve songs ranked at the same time. Just that.
In September 2016, Beyoncé was nominated for the 2016 NRJ Music Awards. The singer is in the Women’s Artist category.
Happiness
In January 2017, Beyoncé announced that she would perform at the Coachella Festival, before cancelling her performance: as she was pregnant, her doctors advised her not to perform. The twins, Rumi and Sir, were born on 13 June.
She was then featured on a remix of “Mi Gente”, by J Balvin and Willy William, on which she also had her daughter Blue Ivy sung. All proceeds from the sale were paid to the victims of the hurricanes that shook America during the summer.
On November 10, she appeared in duet with Eminem on the song “Walk On Water”. Twenty days later, Ed Sheeran’s turn announced that she appeared on the remix of her song “Perfect”, titled “Perfect Duet”.
A documentary and a musical comedy
In 2018, Beyoncé performed a very notable performance at the Coachella festival. In April 2019, Netflix starred in Beyoncé with the documentary “Homecoming”. The singer took the opportunity to release the album “Homecoming: The Live Album”, a compilation of her best songs as well as unreleased songs. Beyoncé also announced that a musical depicting the Destiny’s Child career is in preparation, “Survivor: The Destiny’s Child Musical.”
Beyoncé, a 7th studio album that materializes for the singer
Beyoncé worked with Disney to design a visual album: “Black Is King”. She then collaborated the following year with director Reinaldo Marcus Green for her feature film “The Williams Method”. She composed the main song “Be Alive”. In 2022, she released the single “Break My Soul”. A first title that precedes the release of a new studio album called “Renaissance”. It was published on 29 July 2022.
“Renaissance”, number 1 worldwide
To produce this seventh studio album, Beyoncé surrounds himself with a plethora of artists such as Nile Rodgers, Skrillex and Grace Jones. The success was not long in coming: “Renaissance” ranked number one in most of the world’s charts and became one of the biggest hits of 2022. In addition, “Break My Soul” brings Beyoncé into the legend: this is her twentieth single to rise in the US Billboard Hot 100. The singer finds herself at the level of Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney.
In November 2022, she was nominated for the NRJ Music Awards in the “International Women’s Artist of the Year.”
A three-act project that suggests that Queen Bey will soon release two more albums.
Beyoncé, an unparalleled entrepreneur
Beyond her successful musical and film career, Beyoncé is also a successful entrepreneur. Indeed, in parallel with music, it develops and launches many commercial projects, and becomes the advertising face of several brands. Between the lines of clothing, perfumes and other products derived from its effigy, nothing seems to resist the international female artist of a whole generation. Over the years, Beyoncé has become a true icon of pop culture and fashion.
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