īeyoncé's maternal grandparents, Lumas Beyince, and Agnez Dereon (daughter of Odilia Broussard and Eugene DeRouen), were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles, with roots in New Iberia.
Solange and Beyoncé are the first sisters to have both had No. Beyoncé's younger sister, Solange Knowles, is also a singer and a former backup dancer for Destiny's Child. Life and career 1981–1996: Early life and career beginningsīeyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas, to Celestine "Tina" Knowles ( née Beyonce), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager Tina is Louisiana Creole, and Mathew is African American. 1.9 2019–2021: Homecoming, The Lion King and Black Is King.1.8 2016–2018: Lemonade and Everything Is Love.1.6 2011–2013: 4 and Super Bowl XLVII halftime show.1.3 2003–2005: Dangerously in Love and Destiny Fulfilled.1.1 1981–1996: Early life and career beginnings.
In 2014, Billboard named her the highest-earning black musician of all time, while in 2020, she was included on Time 's list of 100 women who defined the last century. Beyoncé's accolades include 28 Grammy Awards, 26 MTV Video Music Awards (including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2014), 24 NAACP Image Awards, 31 BET Awards, and 17 Soul Train Music Awards all of which are more than any other singer. Her success during the 2000s was recognized with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s Top Certified Artist of the Decade as well as Billboard 's Top Female Artist of the Decade. She is the first solo artist to have their first six studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200. The same year, she released the musical film and visual album Black Is King to widespread acclaim.īeyoncé is one of the world's best-selling recording artists, having sold 120 million records worldwide. As a featured artist, Beyoncé topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the remixes of " Perfect" by Ed Sheeran in 2017 and " Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. In 2018, she released Everything Is Love, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters. She later achieved universal acclaim for her sonically experimental visual albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016), the latter of which was the world's best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career, exploring themes of infidelity and womanism. It spawned the successful singles " If I Were a Boy", " Single Ladies", and " Halo".Īfter splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, Beyoncé released her musically diverse fourth album 4 in 2011. Sasha Fierce (2008), which earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010. Her marriage to Jay-Z and her portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am. Beyoncé also starred in multiple films such as The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Obsessed (2009), and The Lion King (2019). Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003), which featured the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " Crazy in Love" and " Baby Boy".įollowing the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, she released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained singles " Irreplaceable" and " Beautiful Liar". She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. It makes me so uncomfortable to think that my mother and sisters haven't watched Lemonade yet, because they could be more complete women than they are right now and because they are living in ignorance of the new definition of hot sauce - "any sports equipment used to exhibit righteous misandry.Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( / b iː ˈ j ɒ n s eɪ/ bee- YON-say) (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. This is good news for anyone who wants to feel the bottom fall out of their stomach and then watch their hearts rise to the sky, accompanied by a reggae break-up banger. This is bad news for Hillary Clinton, who has really been capitalizing on the fact that she carries hot sauce in her bag, and that she had the good sense to establish this fact four years ago. She was talking about a baseball bat, which she uses to bust up car windshields and fire hydrants and wig store security cameras, singing, "I don't want to lose my pride but Imma fuck me up a bitch." Plot twist: when Beyoncé told us "I got hot sauce in my bag / swag" she was not talking about a condiment.