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Beyonce Knowles ProfileBirth name: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
Born: September 4, 1981 (age 26), Houston, Texas, United States
Genre(s): R&B
Occupation(s): Singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, fashion designer
Years active : 1990–present
Associated acts: Destiny's Child, Solange, Jay-Z
Influences
: The Chi-Lites, En Vogue, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Karen
Clark Sheard, Gladys Knight, Vanessa Williams, Janet Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Prince, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige
Website:
http://www.beyonceonline.com/Beyonce Knowles BiographyBeyoncé
Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is an American R&B singer,
songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and
fashion designer. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead
singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's
best-selling female group of all time.
After a series of
commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her
debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in June 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' second album B'Day was released
worldwide on September 4, 2006, coinciding with her twenty-fifth
birthday. The album spawned the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and
"Beautiful Liar", as well as the worldwide hit "Irreplaceable", which
reached number one in several countries. It also earned Knowles her
seventh solo Grammy Award (she has won ten in total).
Knowles
also achieved success in the film industry, starring in such Hollywood
films as the 2006 comedy The Pink Panther and the 2006 musical film
Dreamgirls, which earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations—one for
acting and other for the song "Listen".
Knowles is the elder of
two daughters born to Mathew and Tina Knowles 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 her church's 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.
As a
teenager, Knowles attended the High School for the Performing and
Visual Arts in Houston, where she showed her musical talents. She later
went to Alief Elsik High School, in the Alief neighborhood of Houston.