Beyoncé Giselle Knowles: R & B Singer

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Beyoncé Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter an R&B singer, songwriter and actress. She was born on September 4,1981, from the mother of Celestine Knowles, who was also a hairdresser at the time. Her father Mathew Knowles, was a sales manager along with a great father. She had one younger sister, Solange, who was also extremely beautiful. Beyoncé was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She started out young and performed in singing and dancing competitions. Her father managed a group of girls called Destiny’s Child, which included her and her younger sister, also two other girls from her elementary school. In the late 90’s she became the lead singer of the group and over time they became very popular. Beyoncé’s big break was her new album, Dangerously …show more content…

Mary’s elementary school in Texas, which is where she enrolled in her first dance classes. At the age of seven she entered her first school talent show, and won against girls twice her age, because of this, her interest in singing and performing increased drastically. In the late 1990’s, she enrolled at Parker Elementary School, which was a music school that she had entered in the schools choir class. By this point in her life, Beyoncé had won over 30 competitions for doing what she loved. At age 8, both her childhood friend and her had tried out for an all girls’ entertainment group. They were placed into a group with three others girls, and performed in a talent show in Houston. The group was honored and liked so much that the producer brought the group to his studio and placed them in a Star Search, which was the largest talent show on television at the time. The group unfortunately did not win, and because they lost, Beyoncé’s dad resigned from his current job to take over the girls group and help them win the next time. After this decision Beyoncé’s family had a lower-income due to her dad leaving his primary job. Also, the family had to spilt up and live in two different houses during this rough time. Later, the girls auditioned for another record label and signed with Elektra Records, they then moved to Atlanta to work on their first recording, but again were eventually let go by the company. After the second attempt was a fail, it started …show more content…

Her second acting role was in Dream Girls, a version of the Broadway musical based on The Supremes. In April 2008, Beyoncé ended up marrying Jay Z, in New York having a small private service. Her third album, I Am… Sasha Fierce, came out in November of 2008, and became her third consecutive number one-album in the U.S. Then following in 2009, she had her second big worldwide tour I Am… also entail to 108 amazing shows. Her fourth album released in June 2011, selling over 310,000 copies within the first week and becoming top of the Billboard 200 chart, and also her fourth consecutive number-one album 4. A year later, Beyoncé gave birth to her first baby in January of 2012, and named her daughter Blue Ivy Carter. After giving birth to her precious baby girl, the industry did not slow down along with her bust music career. “Within a few months, she was performing in Atlantic City, and she was later appeared at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.” Beyoncé had one of her most successful tours of all times staring in April 2013 and ending in March 2014, The Mrs. Carter Show World tour, in Belgrade and Serbia. On December 2013, she released her firth studio album, and it reached atop the Billboard 200 charts, giving her, her fifth consecutive number-one album. She became the first women in the chart’s history to have her first five-studio albums debut at number one. Later in

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