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Beyoncé Giselle
Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is an R&B singer,
songwriter, record producer, actress, fashion designer
and model. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force
and lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child,
the world's best-selling female group of all time, with
over fifty million records sold.
After a series of commercially successful releases with
the group, Knowles released her debut solo album
Dangerously in Love in 2003. The album became one of the
biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the
album charts in the U.S. and the UK. It also spawned the
number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and
"Baby Boy" and earned Knowles five Grammy
Awards in a single night in 2004. Knowles' sophomore
album, B’Day, which was released worldwide on
September 4, 2006 (her twenty-fifth birthday), continued
her success. The album spawned the UK number-one singles
"Deja Vu" and "Beautiful Liar". As
well as U.S. near-top ten hit "Ring the
Alarm", and the worldwide number-one hit
"Irreplaceable", B'Day also earned Knowles her
10th Grammy Award.
Early life: Knowles is the older of two daughters
born to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyincé in Houston,
Texas. Her parents decided on her first name as a
tribute to her mother's maiden name. Her maternal
grandparents, Lumis Beyincé and Agnéz Deréon (a
seamstress), were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles. She
is the older sister of Solange Knowles, cousin to Angela
Beyincé (her personal assistant and song co-writer),
and aunt to Solange's son Daniel Julez Smith, Jr. By age
seven, she was attending dance school and was a soloist
in the church choir. Her dance instructor took an
interest in Knowles and took her star student to various
competitions, Knowles went on to win over thirty local
singing and dancing competitions.
Knowles and her childhood best friend LaTavia Roberson
along with Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett formed a
quartet that would perform in their backyards and in
Tina Knowles' hair salon. After singing at local events,
they got their break when they entered Star Search.[5]
The group, then named "Girl's Tyme", were
disappointed after losing the competition. Mathew
Knowles, Knowles' father decided to help the girls reach
their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his six-figure
salary job as a multi-million dollar equipment salesman
at Xerox to manage the group.This decision by Mathew
eventually affected the whole family. Their income had
been cut in half, causing the family to move into two
different apartments. When the group was signed to
Columbia Records in 1996, it gave the entire family a
second chance at making things work.
Destiny's Child: Destiny's Child rose to fame in
1998 with the Billboard top ten hit and R&B
number-one single "No, No, No Part 2". Even
after much-publicized turmoil involving the departure of
LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, Destiny's Child
(eventually a trio) becoming one of the most successful
R&B/pop acts of the early 2000s, charting four
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, several top ten
hits, and two number-one albums.
Their 1998 Platinum-selling debut album Destiny's Child
was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and
featured the double Platinum number-one single "No,
No, No Part 2". The group's second album, The
Writing's on the Wall, released in 1999, featured two
number-one hits: "Bills, Bills, Bills" and
"Say My Name". "Bug a Boo" and
"Jumpin' Jumpin'" were also popular singles
from the album. It went on to sell thirteen million
copies worldwide and eight million in the U.S.
Furthermore, "Say My Name" won two awards at
the 2001 Grammy Awards: "Best R&B Performance
by a Duo or Group with Vocals" and "Best
R&B Song".
Their following album, Survivor, proved to be another
big success, going to number one on both the U.S.
Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, as well as
the Canadian and the UK albums charts. Two singles from
the album went to the top of the Hot 100:
"Independent Women Part I" and
"Bootylicious", while "Survivor",
the album's title track, reached number two. In the
United Kingdom, the first two tracks released reached
number one consecutively. "Independent Women Part
I" had been the theme song for the film Charlie's
Angels (2000), before the album's release. The title
track, "Survivor", won the group their third
Grammy Award, "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or
Group with Vocal".
In 2001, Knowles won the "Songwriter of the
Year" award from the American Society of Composers,
Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. She is the
first African-American female and second overall female
songwriter of all time to accomplish this.
After the three-year journey that involved concentration
on individual solo projects. Knowles rejoined Rowland
and Williams for Destiny's Child's fourth (and so far
final) studio album, Destiny Fulfilled, released in
November 2004. The album hit number two on the Billboard
200 and spawned the hits "Lose My Breath",
"Soldier", "Girl", and "Cater 2
U". It has sold eight million copies worldwide.
In 2005, Destiny's Child embarked on a world tour
sponsored by McDonald's titled Destiny Fulfilled ... And
Lovin' It, visiting over seventy cities throughout
Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America from April to
September. On June 13, 2005 it was announced that the
group would disband after their world tour ended in
September 2005. In October 2005, the group released
their final album, entitled #1's, including all of
Destiny's Child's number-one hits and most of their
well-known songs. The greatest hits collection also
includes three new tracks, including "Stand Up for
Love". The album debuted at number one on the
Billboard 200 and number seven on the UK Albums Chart.
#1's has gone on to sell three million copies worldwide.
Solo career: During the autumn of 2002, Knowles
was the featured vocalist on rapper Jay-Z's hit single,
"'03 Bonnie & Clyde". In the spring of
2003, Knowles remade a duet with Luther Vandross,
"The Closer I Get to You", originally made
famous by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In this
version, the vocal parts are switched, with Vandross
taking Flack's part and Knowles taking Hathaway's. The
song was included on both her solo debut album and on
Vandross's Dance with My Father album, and the two
shared the Grammy for "Best R&B Performance by
a Duo or Group with Vocals" that same year. She
recently collaborated with her beau, Jay-Z, on his
latest album, Kingdom Come, providing the vocals and the
hook for the track entitled "Hollywood". This
song is also on B' Day Deluxe Editon.
Dangerously in Love (2003): In 2003, Knowles
released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love. The
album entered the Billboard 200 at number one selling
317,000 copies in its first week. It was certified
Platinum just three weeks later on June 22, 2003. Its
first single, the funky "Crazy in Love", was a
track constructed around a propulsive riff sampled from
The Chi-Lites' 1970 "Are You My Woman (Tell Me
So)" and featured a guest rap from Jay-Z. It
rapidly became one of the biggest hits of that summer,
staying at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight
weeks. Dangerously in Love went to the top of the album
charts in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany,
Greece, and the Philippines, and peaked on both the U.S.
Billboard 200 and R&B charts. When her single and
album simultaneously topped the main charts in both the
U.S and the Uk.The album has sold 4 million in the u.s
and 8 million worldwide[8], she became the first act to
achieve this feat since Men at Work in 1983 and The
Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart in the
1960s and 1970s; she is the first and so far the only
female artist to do this. Knowles was consequently one
of the biggest-selling artists of 2003.
Towards the end of the summer, "Baby Boy", the
second single from Dangerously in Love, which featured
dancehall artist Sean Paul, began to climb the charts.
It went on to become one of the biggest hits of 2003,
dominating radio airplay in the autumn of 2003, and
spending nine weeks at number one — one week longer
than "Crazy in Love". Afterwards Knowles
released her third solo single, "Me, Myself and
I"; Dangerously in Love's fourth single,
"Naughty Girl", came out in mid-2004.
At the 2004 Grammy Awards ceremony, Knowles won five
Grammy Awards for her solo effort, which included
"Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" for
"Dangerously in Love 2", "Best R&B
Song" for "Crazy in Love", and "Best
Contemporary R&B Album". Three other female
artists hold this record: Lauryn Hill (1999), Alicia
Keys (2002), and Norah Jones (2003). She also won a BRIT
Award in 2004 for "International Female Solo
Artist" in the United Kingdom.
In December 2005, Knowles released "Check on
It", featuring rappers Slim Thug and (on the
official remix) Bun B. The song was from the Destiny's
Child's greatest hits compilation, #1's and the
soundtrack to the 2006 film The Pink Panther and it was
Knowles' sixth top five hit and third number one in the
U.S.
At the 2006 Grammy Awards, Knowles won a Grammy in the
category of "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or
Group with Vocals" for the song "So
Amazing", a duet with Stevie Wonder from the Luther
Vandross tribute album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute
to Luther Vandross.
B’Day (2006): Knowles' second studio album
B’Day was released worldwide on September 4, 2006 and
on September 5, 2006 in the U.S. to coincide with the
celebration of Knowles' twenty-fifth birthday. In its
first week, the album sold more than 541,000 copies in
the U.S., immediately coming in at number one, making it
her highest first-week sales as a solo artist. This is
also the highest first-week sales of any solo female
artist in 2006, a record which used to be held by pop
singer Christina Aguilera whose album Back to Basics
sold 346,000 copies in its first week. In the UK, it
debuted at number three with sales of 35,000 copies, and
has sold in excess of 382,000 copies, making the album
Platinum. "Déjá Vu", the album's first
single, features Jay-Z, and the back-up vocals of her
cousin Tré Gordon. Also with the co-production by
Rodney Jerkins. Other co-producers on B’Day included
Rich Harrison, The Neptunes, and Swizz Beatz. Currently,
the album has been certified triple Platinum in the U.S.
for shipments of over 3 million copies. Over 3 million
copies in the U.S. and over 5.1 million copies worldwide
have been sold. The album's lead single "Deja
Vu" became a top five hit in the United States and
a number-one hit on the U.S. R&B chart and the UK
chart, making it Knowles' second UK number-one single,
when it climbed twenty spots to take the top spot over
Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean's "Hips Don't
Lie" in the week of August 27, 2006.
The second single, "Ring the Alarm", was
leaked to the Internet on August 8, 2006. The video for
"Ring the Alarm" was released on August 16,
2006 on Yahoo.com and peaked at number one on the site's
video chart. "Ring the Alarm" became Knowles'
highest-charting single debut, when it debuted at number
twelve on the singles chart but only peaked at number
eleven.
Outside North America, "Irreplaceable" was
released as the album's second international single in
October 2006. The single debuted at number eighty-seven
on the Hot 100 and number forty-two on the Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song peaked at number
four on the UK Singles Chart and at number one on the
Australian Singles Chart. It has also been taking over
on the Irish Singles Chart, peaking at number one in its
second week. "Irreplaceable" is her fourth
number one as solo artist on Billboard Hot 100 chart. It
is Knowles' eighth top ten hit in the U.S. as a solo
artist and fourth number-one hit on the Billboard Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. In December 2006, a
Spanish-language version of "Irreplaceable",
called "Imprescindible", was released.
"Irreplaceable" spent ten consecutive weeks at
number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
On December 6, the nominations for the 2007 Grammy
Awards were announced, and Knowles received five, of
which she won "Best Contemporary R&B
Album".
On February 28, "Beautiful Liar", a duet with
Latin superstar Shakira, and "Upgrade U",
Knowles' fourth collaboration with Jay-Z, were released
as the latest singles from B’Day. To promote the new
releases, Knowles premiered music videos for both
singles on MTV's Total Request Live and BET's 106 &
Park on February 28, 2007, respectively. Columbia
Records is expected to release one more single from the
album to coincide with Knowles' world tour. Once the
tour is completed, Knowles plans to take a year long
break.
Deluxe Edition' and the 'B’Day Anthology Video Album
Knowles re-released B’Day as a Deluxe Edition on April
3, 2007. It features new tracks — including
"Beautiful Liar", which made Billboard history
when it jumped from number ninety-four to number three
in one week on March 29, 2007. Also included are
Spanish-language versions of "Irreplaceable",
"Listen", and "Beautiful
Liar".[citation needed]
On April 2, full-length videos for "Get Me
Bodied", "Kitty Kat/Green Light", and
"Suga Mama" premiered on BET to promote
B’Day Anthology Video Album released the following
day. Sony has released all of the videos (with the
exception of Still in Love) from the DVD on their
official music video site, Musicbox.
In Australia the Deluxe Edition of "B'Day" was
released on April 16, 2007. Unlike the US release, the
Australian edition comes packaged in a CD/DVD combo
featuring 19 tracks on the CD and 12 music videos on the
DVD. The Australian release does not feature the track
"Still in Love (Kissing You)" on either the CD
or DVD. However, the CD does feature tracks
"If" and "Check on It" which are not
featured on the US release. Additionally, "World
Wide Woman" appears as a hidden track on the US
release while it is an officially listed track on the
Australian disc. Finally, apart from the track
"Amor Gitano", the Australian disc does not
feature any Spanish tracks. The United Kingdom's edition
of B'Day is the same as the Australian release.
On the week of April 21, B'Day jumped from 69-6 on the
Billboard 200 thanks to sales of the re-release on April
3 with sales of 126,000 units on the first week. As of
the week of April 22, B'Day The Deluxe Edition will not
be distributed due to a lawsuit.
On the week of April 22, the Delux Edition of B'day and
Anthology Video album will not be distributed. Due to a
lawsuit filed by British sing Des'ree. It is said to be
cause by the song "Still In Love (Kissing
You)". It appears that the original song by Des'ree
was changed by Knowles and a music video was never
suppose to be made.
In 2007, Knowles embarked on her long The Beyoncé
Experience concert tour which has sold out various shows
worldwide. She is expected to have Robin Thicke, Lemar
(Europe Only), and Chris Brown (Australia Only) as her
opening acts. She will tour from the beginning of the
spring of 2007 to the end of the summer of 2007. She
will be in Raleigh North Carolina on July 28th at the
RBC Center.
Knowles will release a live album from The Beyoncé
Experience Tour after its conclusion in late 2007.
Personal life: Since 2002, Beyoncé Knowles
privately and as of lately publicly dated Jay-Z The
couple have never publicly discussed their relationship,
but have been steadily coming out of their shell as a
couple. Knowles has stated that she believes that not
publicly discussing their relationship has helped them.
Film career: In 2001, Knowles turned to acting,
starring alongside actor Mekhi Phifer in the MTV
made-for-television film Carmen: A Hip Hopera.
In the summer of 2002, Knowles co-starred in the film
Austin Powers in Goldmember, playing Foxxy Cleopatra
opposite Mike Myers and Michael Caine. Knowles also
recorded the song "Work It Out" for the film's
soundtrack. "Work It Out" was a top ten hit in
the UK and a top forty hit in the Netherlands,
Australia, and Ireland, despite being Knowles' biggest
commercial disappointment to date in the U.S., where
radio stations barely played the song and the video
received very minor exposure, playing only on digital
video channels, MTV Jams, and VH1 Soul.
In 2003, Knowles starred opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr. in
the film The Fighting Temptations, and recorded a song
for it called "Fighting Temptation", alongside
female rappers Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free. Unlike
Knowles' own singles, the song did not become a hit,
although the film was a moderate success at the box
office.
Knowles co-starred in the film The Pink Panther, playing
the role of Xania, an international pop star, opposite
Steve Martin, who plays Inspector Clouseau. The film was
released on February 10, 2006, and was number one at the
box office on its opening weekend. With Austin Powers in
Goldmember and The Pink Panther, Knowles appeared in two
films that opened at number one at the box office; the
two films have grossed over $481,364,728 worldwide.
Knowles' latest film work is Dreamgirls, the film
adaptation of the hit 1981 Broadway musical about a
1960s singing group loosely based on Motown all-female
group The Supremes, as the Diana Ross-based character
Deena Jones. The film received a limited release on
December 15, 2006 and a wider release on December 25,
2006. On December 14, 2006, Knowles was nominated for
two Golden Globe Awards for the film Dreamgirls —
"Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or
Comedy" and "Best Original Song" for
"Listen". The film opened number three at the
box office with an eight-million-dollar opening weekend.
Knowles was quoted to say this was her first real acting
film. Dreamgirls was nominated for eight 2007 Academy
Awards — including "Best Original Song" for
"Listen" —, of which it won two. The film
has passed the $100 million dollar gross mark in the
United States.
Philanthropy: Knowles, music producer David
Foster, and his daughter, Amy Foster Gillies, wrote
Destiny's Child's single "Stand Up for Love"
for World Children's Day, an event which takes place
annually around the world on November 20 to raise
awareness and funds for children's causes worldwide.
Destiny's Child lent their voices and support as global
ambassadors for the 2005 World Children's Day program.
Knowles and Kelly Rowland, along with Mathew Knowles,
Tina Knowles, and sister Solange Knowles recently
announced the formation of the Survivor Foundation, a
charitable entity set up for the purpose of providing
transitional housing for 2005 Hurricane Katrina victims
and storm evacuees in the Houston, Texas area. The
Survivor Foundation extends the philanthropic mission of
the "Knowles-Rowland Center For Youth", a
multi-purpose community outreach facility in downtown
Houston.
Controversy: Animal rights organization People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have voiced
concern over Knowles wearing and using fur in her
clothing line, House of Deréon. After winning an online
eBay auction, offered by VH1 for the Save the Music
Foundation, to dine with Knowles in June 2006, two PETA
members confronted the singer at a restaurant in New
York City about her use of fur. Knowles did not respond,
and the PETA members were escorted out. PETA also wrote
a letter of concern to Knwoles about the treatment of
baby alligators in a photoshoot for B’Day. Another
source for controversy around Knowles is her desire to
credit herself for songs she didn't write by herself.
She one time in concert said that she wrote
Irreplaceable which she didn't write but co-wrote with
Ne-yo and other writers but she has said Ne-yo wrote it
many other times including on the BET dvd that came with
the original B'Day.
Recently Des'Ree pursued legal action against Knowles
for allegedly ignoring copyright law following the terms
Des Ree's team submitted to Knowles for use of the song
(these included not being made to change the title, or
make a video based on it) were not satisfactory, and as
a result Knowles ignored copyright law and recorded her
own version.
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