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Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, born on September 4, 1981, often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American R&B and pop recording artist, actress and fashion model. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love (2003), which spawned the number one hits "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the group's disbandment in 2005, Knowles released B'Day in 2006. It debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and included the hits "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce, released in Novem
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Dressed in jeans, a low-cut filmy top, big hoop earrings, and strappy high-heeled sandals, Beyoncé is sitting on a sofa in her assistant (and cousin) Angela’s Manhattan high-rise apartment. On a sunny May afternoon, wearing very little makeup, she looks even younger than her then 23 years. Downstairs, a convoy of S.U.V.’s are lined up to take her to a West Side recording studio where she’ll work on the songs for her second solo album. Upstairs, we’re waiting for a pizza and talking about shoes. Specifically, a shoe crisis that occurred in the middle of this past year’s Oscar telecast. If you saw the 2004 Oscars, you saw Beyoncé; she sang three nominated songs, and it seemed as if she had more airtime than host Chris Rock. But now she’s telling me what the millions who tuned in didn’t see.
“When I did the Andrew Lloyd Webber song from Phantom, my shoe wasn’t snapped,” Beyoncé says. “And when I walked down those stairs, not only was my shoe not on, my ear monitor wasn’t on. So, the song started, and I’m thinking, Oh my God, my shoe’s not done, my monitor’s not on, and this is goi
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Beyoncé Knowles Biography
September 4, 1981 • Houston, Texas
Singer/actress
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From her early childhood, Beyoncé Knowles wanted to be more than a performer: she wanted to be a superstar. By the age of twenty-one, she had reached that goal, becoming world-famous not just in her chosen field of singing but also as an actress. After attaining wide success with the R&B group Destiny's Child, Knowles broke out on her own, releasing her solo debut, Dangerously in Love, in 2003. The single "Crazy in Love," featuring her boyfriend, rapper Jay-Z, was one of the biggest hits of the summer of 2003. The song propelled the album to multimillion-unit sales and earned Knowles a number of awards, including a Grammy Award and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002 she displayed her acting abilities in the third installment of Mike Myers's Austin Powers series Austin Powers in Goldmember, starring as Foxxy Cleopatra. The following year she appeared opposite
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