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Beyonce

Introduction

Beyonce is a world-famous American Pop recording artist, actress and fashion designer. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the leader singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child (the world's second best- selling girl group of all time, behind the Spice Girls).

Among the large group of awards and accolades, she was ranked first on Forbes list of the 100 most powerful and Influential musicians in the world and was listed as Artist of the Decade by the observers in 2009 at that time.

Who Is Beyoncé Knowles?

Singer and actress Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas. She started singing at an early age, competing in local talent shows and winning many of these events by impressing audiences with her singing and dancing abilities. She first captured the public's eye as lead vocalist of the R&B group Destiny's Child.

Knowles has also starred in several films, including Dream Girls. She married hip-hop recording artist Jay-Z in 2008. In late 2013, she surprised audiences by releasing her fifth studio album, self-titled Beyoncé, and has twice performed at the Super Bowl. In April 2016, she released her sixth studio album, Lemonade, after the airing of an HBO special.

Early Career

Teaming up with her cousin, Kelly Rowland, and two classmates, Beyoncé formed an all-female singing group. Her father, Matthew Knowles, served as the band's manager. The group went through some name and line-up changes before landing a record deal in 1997 with Columbia Records. Destiny's Child soon became one of the most popular R&B acts, with the release of their first, self-titled album. Gaining momentum, the group scored its first No. 1 single on the pop charts with "Bills, Bills, Bills," off their second album. The recording also featured another smash hit, "Say My Name."

While enjoying her group's success, Beyoncé began exploring other projects. She made her acting debut in 2001 with a starring role in MTV's Carmen: A Hip Hopera. She then co-starred with Mike Myers in the Austin Powers spy parody Goldmemberthe following year.

Destiny's Child

On the musical front, Beyoncé took center stage as a solo artist, releasing her first album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003. The recording became a huge success for her both commercially and critically. It sold millions of copies and won five Grammy Awards. On the album, Beyoncé worked with a number of different artists, including Missy Elliott, Sean Paul and Jay-Z. She was rumored to be dating Jay-Z around this time, but the couple did not publicly acknowledge their relationship.

Destiny's Child released their last studio album, Destiny Fulfilled, in 2004, and officially broke up the following year.

On her own, Beyoncé continued to enjoy great success. Her second studio album, 2006's B'Day featured such hits as "Irreplaceable" and "Deja Vu." On the big screen, she starred opposite Jennifer Hundos, Jaime Foxx and Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls. The film was adapted from the hit Broadway musical of the same name.

Solo Career

Beyoncé initially rose to prominence as a member of Destiny's Child. The trio scored two No. 1 hits in 1999 with "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name" from their Top 5 album The Writing's On The Wall. As a solo artist, in 2003 Beyoncé released her debut solo album, Dangerously In Love, which topped the Billboard 200 and spawned the No. 1 hits "Crazy In Love" (a duet with Jay Z) and "Baby Boy."

She won her first three career GRAMMYs with Destiny's Child, including Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group for "Survivor." She won five awards as a solo artist at the 46th GRAMMY Awards, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for Dangerously In Love.

Achievements

She made her GRAMMY stage debut with Destiny's Child at the 43rd GRAMMYS in 2001, performing a medley of "Independent Women, Part I" and "Say My Name." Alongside Prince at the 46th GRAMMY Awards in 2004, Beyoncé performed a medley that included his "Purple Rain" and her "Crazy In Love."

Beyonce Music

Beyonce's music is known for her impressive voice, combining influences including Michael Jackson. Tine Turner, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. None of her rival pop divas can match Beyonce genius for dragging her vocal lines against a hip-hop beat . Incorporating a variety of styles, including funk, hiphop and soul into platform for her emotional vocals to create a simultaneously catchy and impressive songs. Therefore no questions that Beyonce is one of the best singers in pop, maybe one of the best alive.

In Earliest Videos

The earliest videos of Beyonce were from the band she used to be called Destiny Child'd I think at that time, her image was rather as a strong, confident women, which was aware of her own sexuality as . a leader of very famous band and she started her solo career from one of her most successful didn't changed her image much, she just became more independent.

Beyonce's Solo Albums

Dangerously in Love is the debut solo album by American singer Beyonce'. It was released on June 23, 2003 through Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment. During the recording of Destiny's Child's third studio album Survivor (2001), the group announced that they would produce solo albums to be released. Recording sessions for the album took place from March 2002 to March 2003 at several studios, during the hiatus of her then-group Destiny's Child. As executive producer of the album, Beyoncé took a wider role in its production, co-writing a majority of the songs, choosing which ones to produce and sharing ideas on the mixing and mastering of tracks.

1st solo Album

It was released to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday on September 4, 2006. Upon its release, B'Day received generally favorable reviews from music critics and has since earned Beyoncé several accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (2007). The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 541,000 copies in its first week, scoring the second-highest debut-week sales for Beyoncé. The album has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was also successful in international music markets and yielded six singes, including three commercial hits: "Deja vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". B'Day Anthology Video Album, which features thirteen music videos to accompany the songs, was released alongside the deluxe edition of B'Day.

2nd solo Album

I Am... Sasha Fierce is the third studio album by American singer Beyonce'. It was released on November 12, 2008 through Columbia Records and Music world Entertainment. In its initial release, the album was formatted as a double album, intending to market Beyoncé's contrasting facets of artistry. The first disc, I Am..., contains slow and Midtempo pop and R&B ballads, while the second, Sasha Fierce (named after Beyoncé's on-stage alter ego), focuses on more uptempo beats that blend electropop and Europop genres. In composing the songs' lyrics, Beyoncé worked with writers, with each session accompanied by live orchestration.

3rd solo Album

4 is the fourth studio album by American singer Beyonce . It was released on June 24, 2011 by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. Following a career hiatus that reignited her creativity, Beyoncé was inspired to create a record with a basis in traditional rhythm and blues that stood apart from contemporary popular music.

Her collaborations with songwriters and record producers The-Dream, Tricky Steward and Shea Taylor produced a mellower tone, developing diverse vocal styles and influences from funk, hip, hop and soul music.

4 was promoted in mid-2011 by television performances and festival appearances, such as Beyoncé's headliningGlastonbury set. The album received generally positive reviews by music critics; several publications included it on their year-end lists. It was her fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it also reached number one in Brazil, France, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

4th solo Album

Beyoncé Knowles's fifth solo offering, titled BEYONCÉ, is an event album worthy of her superstar status: it's sexy and smart, with a stripped back modernity that allows the character in her voice to flourish, and stamped with visual wit and swagger. It is also rude enough to make young Beyoncé fans and their parents weak at the knees, although possibly for different reasons

5th solo offering

Beyoncé's sixth studio album Lemonade was released on April 23, 2016, after an hour-long accompanying video that premiered on HBO. With Lemonade, Beyoncé became the first act in history to have six consecutive number one albums in the US. All twelve tracks from Lemonade charted within the Hot 100 in the US, breaking a record previously held by Taylor Swift for having the most songs chart consecutively with 11 for a female artist; Cardi B broke this record in 2018 with 13 songs. The album's lead single "Formation" became Beyoncé's first top ten single in the US since 2013's "Drunk in Love".

6th solo Album

Beyonce live Albums

The Dangerously in Love Tour was Beyoncé's first solo concert tour. Its set list mainly drew from her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), but also included songs by Destiny's Child and from the 2003 musical film The Fighting Temptations, in which Beyoncé stars.The tour comprised six shows in England and one each in Northern Ireland, Ireland and the Netherlands.Dave Simpson of The Guardian felt that Beyoncé took too much time off the stage when changing outfits and noted the show did not "fit" with her target audience at the time. A London concert was recorded and released in 2004 as Live at Wembley.

November 3, 2003 – November 19, 2003 (Europe)

First Tour in 2003

Dangerously in Love Tour

Beyoncé's first co-headlining venture, The Verizon Ladies First Tour, featured American R&B-soul singer Alicia Keys and American rapper Missy Elliott, with Canadian singer Tamia as their tour guest. The show toured around the United States and was co-sponsored by Steve Madden and L'Oreal. The tour was generally praised by critics, with Beyoncé and Keys particularly being hailed for their elaborative performances.

March 12, 2004 – April 19, 2004 (North America)

2nd Tour in 2004

Verizon Ladies First Tour

Serving as Beyoncé's first worldwide solo tour, The Beyoncé Experience supported her second studio album, B'Day (2006). The tour featured an all female band under the name "Suga Mama", chosen by Beyoncé after holding auditions prior to the tour's beginning.Unlike her first solo tour, Beyoncé was praised by music critics for her onstage performance abilities, including her execution of simultaneous singing and dancing. Shaheem Reid of MTV News commented on The Beyoncé Experience stating, "There are few (very few) ladies out there who can really sing, a lot who can dance, a lot more who look good — but really no other who can combine all three and add iconic star power like [Beyoncé], arguably the best all-around stage performer in the game right now." The show was filmed on September 2, 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. It was released as the live album The Beyonce Experience Live on November 20, 2007

April 10, 2007 – December 30, 2007 (Worldwide)

3rd Tour in 2007

The Beyonce Experience

4th Tour in 2009-10

Launched in support of I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), the I Am... World Tour was Beyoncé's second worldwide tour and served as the first time she had toured in South America. The singer collaborated exclusively with Thierry Mugler for her tour costumes, as well as those of her band and dancers. She commented that performing in the "elaborate" outfits was a hard-point of the tour. Critics provided favorable reviews for the tour's energetic performances, praising the singer's vocal performances, dance choreographs and the different songs present on the set list.The I Am... World Tour earned US $119.5 million becoming Beyoncé's highest grossing tour at that time. It was filmed in various cities throughout the world and on November 30, 2010, a live DVD/CD concert film named

I Am... World Tour was released.

March 26, 2009 – February 18, 2010 (Worldwide)

I Am... World Tour

5th Tour in 2013

The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour featured Beyoncé's most advanced production to date, with critics noting a mass improvement from her previous tours. The tour was Beyoncé's third consecutive worldwide concert tour venture and also became her longest running, spanning over 2013-2014. The 2013 shows of the tour were recognised as not having a specific supporting album (with her latest studio album 4, 2011, being two years old at the time). However, in December 2013, Beyoncé's fifth studio album Beyonce was unexpectedly released and the 2014 shows of the tour predominantly supported this album within the set list. The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour was a worldwide commercial success, grossing US $229,727,960 from the 132 shows in revenue, becoming one of the highest grossing tours of the decade.HBO aired Beyoncé: X10: A ten episode series of four-minute performance segments from different songs during the tour.

April 15, 2013 – March 27, 2014 (Worldwide)

The Mrs. Carter Show World tour

6th Tour in 2014

June 25, 2014 – September 13, 2014 (America, France)

The On the Run Tour was the all stadium-tour, headlined by Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z(whom she married in 2008). The tour was critically lauded for its movie-style theme and cinematic production. Both Beyoncé and Jay-Z were critically praised also for their onstage performance abilities, with critics commending Beyoncé for her intricate choreographies with her background dancers and Jay-Z for holding the stage and working the crowd alone. However, some felt the potential chemistry and "banter" between the couple was not what it could have been on stage.$1 from each ticket sold went to the "Shawn Carter Foundation" set up to "help and support existing students of the foundation that represent diverse backgrounds, and face significant barriers to success such as teen pregnancy, homelessness, poverty, former incarceration, sexual and domestic abuse, and gang membership. Following the conclusion of the North American leg, Billboard reported a gross of US $96 million from 19 sold-out concerts. The husband and wife co-bill of Beyoncé and Jay Z brought in $109.7 gross million, ranking at 5th highest grossing tour of 2014 with 21 total shows

On the Run Tour

April 27, 2016 – October 7,2016

The Formation World Tour was announced on February 7, 2016, following Beyoncé's guest appearance during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show headlined by Coldplay. The all-stadium tour's associated album Lemonade was released four days prior to the opening concert. The tour was praised by music critics for Beyoncé's performance abilities as well as its vast production, with the tours centrepiece, a 60 feet rotating cube nicknamed the 'Monolith' by designers, being described as a "game changer" for stadium concerts. The tour supported local United Way America programs, as well as the Flint water crisis (the latter of which resulted in $82,234 being raised for the cause from the tours first leg alone). Audio company THX partnered with Beyoncé to provide "the highest level of audio quality at concerts for the duration of the tour.