


Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, signed on to be the girls' manager, eventually quitting his full-time job to focus on their efforts. She joined her cousin Kelly Rowland and classmates LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett in forming an adolescent vocal group. With Renaissance (2022), her chart-topping seventh album, Beyoncé made history as the most awarded artist in the history of the Grammys.īorn in Houston, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles began performing at age seven, winning over 30 local competitions for her dancing and vocal abilities.

Beyoncé expanded the latter project with the executive production of the soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift, and wrote and directed the related musical film Black Is King (2020). The notion has been reaffirmed with her second visual album, Lemonade (2016), the Jay-Z collaboration Everything Is Love (2018), and her work on The Lion King (2019). Once Beyoncé released her self-titled visual album (2013), it was evident that the powerhouse vocalist, songwriter, and dancer wasn't merely an entertainer but a progressive artist as well. Billboard named her female artist of the decade, while the RIAA acknowledged that, with 64 gold and platinum certifications, she was the decade's top-selling artist. Chart-topping singles such as "Crazy in Love" (2003), "Irreplaceable" (2006), and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (2008), combined with sold-out world tours and Grammy Awards, all heightened her profile in the 2000s. A multifaceted superstar by any measure, Beyoncé rose to fame in the late '90s as the central member of pop-R&B group Destiny's Child, and the following decade embarked on a multi-platinum, record-breaking solo career with Dangerously in Love (2003), her first in an unbroken string of number one pop solo albums.
