Knowles is commsimply referred to only by her number one title, which she utilizes when her stagename, however has came to exist as known as Beyoncé Knowles by several in the media. Her debut solo album, 2003's Dangerously in Love, topped both a R&B and Pop charts in America, as well as the main album charts in Canada and the UK. Beyoncé has won eight Grammy Awards — five for her solo act, & trine as a member of Destiny's Little one.

Beyoncé is presently dating a rapper also when CEO & President of Def Jam Recordings, Jay-Z.

Biography
Beyoncé was a 1st kid of ii babies innate to Matthew & Tina Knowles on September 4, 1981. By age heptad, she was the attending dance school, & was the soloist in her church choir. Her dance teacher took an interest within Beyonce, personally ingesting her star student to various competitions. Following, Beyoncé began for celebrated inside her community, convince 30 local singing & dancing competitions.

Beyoncé & her full cousin Kelly Rowland met LaTavia Roberson and Letoya Luckett. It formed the quartet that would perform within their backyards and in Tina Knowles' beauty salon. Fallowing performing at local cases, it had their break whilst it entered Star Search. A class action, so known as Girl's Tyme, were heart broken once it received simply deuce-ace stars, losing a competition.

Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father & Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help a girls email their dreams of becoming singers. He quit his half a dozen figure earnings at Xerox to manage a class action.

As a adolescent, she attended a High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she honed her musical talents. She in the future attend Alief Elsik High School, also around Houston. She graduated from either Elsik around 2000.

Destiny's Child
Beyoncé & Destiny's Little one toured as an opening work for two Christina Aguilera and TLC before their self-titled debut album ''Destiny's Child'' was freed. A band is managed by her father, Matthew Knowles, who is acknowledged as a hard inflict within Beyoncé's life. Beyoncé is the independent ballad maker for the class action & is usually repute its leader. the class action has presently returned from either a hiatus since 2001, when its triplet todays members, Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, each decided to temporarily pursue solo careers.

Their next album, Survivor, proved to exist as an additional smash, attend first in each a U.s. Billboard 200 and R&B Albums charts, as well as the Canadian album chart. Both singles from either a album went to the top of the Hot 100: "Independent Women" (Part One) & "Bootylicious", with a album's title track reaching total deuce. "Independent Women" (A portion One) got been a theme song for ''Charlie's Angels'' in late 2000, before the album's 2001 release. A title track "Survivor" would win a class action their third Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. A album's for & final only, "Emotions", was the handle of the Bee Gees hit of a same title; it continued the class action's telling string of top 10 hits.

Inside 2001, Beyoncé won the Songster of the Season award, from either a American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. She is the foremost African-American woman, and a 2nd woman of any race to win a award.

Within 2004, the class action began getting threats from either either an obsessed fan from San Diego, California named LaToya Langford. Primarily aimed at Beyoncé, a threats induced major black eye for the class action. Langford continued a threats, until her arrest in August 23 2004 at her San Diego home. Fallowing Langford's arrest a release of Destiny Fulfilled went through. "Lose My Breath" & "Soldier" two became top-5 hits on the Hot 100; their survive individual, "Cater 2 U", mass produced it to the top twenty, when "Girl", their third lone, just managed to email a top 40.

In June 13 2005 it was announced that the class action would disband when their globe tour ended within September 2005.[http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/13/music.destinys.child.ap/index.html]

Solo career
Acting
Beyoncé so turned to acting, starring alongside Mekhi Phifer in the MTV TV film Carmen: A Hip Hopera, while forgoing any last educational videos. This film was a modern same of the 1954 musical Carmen which starred Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.

In the summertime of 2002, Beyoncé co-starred in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember opposite Mike Myers as Austin Powers, as Foxxy Cleopatra. A film is in The Guinness Book of World Records as gaining the Greatest Pack Professional Comedy Film gross. She besides recorded the song known as "Work It Out" for the film's soundtrack. "Work It Out" was the top-ten hit in the UK & the top-forty hit in the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland, despite being Beyoncé's large flop up to now inside her at home united states; inside America, radio barely played a song & a streaming received super minor exposure, single in digital cd trend lines, MTV Jams and VH1 Soul.

Around 2003, Beyoncé starred in the film The Fighting Temptations opposite Cuba Gooding Jr., and recorded a song for it called "Fighting Temptation", with rappers Missy Elliott, Free, and MC Lyte. Unlike Beyoncé's possess singles, the song did non get popular, although a film was a moderate profits.

Beyoncé is presently inside post-production for The Pink Panther in which she plays role of Xania, appearing opposite Steve Martin, who plays Inspector Clouseau. A film is scheduled for release around 2006. She is likewise placed to play Deena Jones around an adaptation of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, set for release around 2006.

Solo album
When you took Autumn 2002, Beyoncé was a featured singer in rumoured young man, Jay-Z's smash only, "'03 Bonnie And Clyde". Inside Spring 2003, Beyoncé remade a duet by having the late Luther Vandross, "The Closer I Get to You", originally mass produced celebrated by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In that version, a vocal area come switched, sustaining Vandross ingesting Flack's a share & Beyoncé ingesting Hathaway's. A song was involved each in her debut solo album & in Vandross's Dance with My Father album, and it shared a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Inside 2003, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Hazardously taken with. Its foremost individual, "Crazy in Love", featured a propellent riff & the guest rap from either Jay-Z & apace became one of the large hits of that summertime, staying at first on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for ten weeks. Perilously dotty went to a top of the album stock & index charts in the UK and Canada, also when in two the Our contries pop (Billboard 200) and R&B charts. This album has sold eight million copies worldwide. Whenever only & album at a same time topped a popular stock and index charts around each the U.S. & a UK, she became a foremost work to achieve this effort since Men at Work in 1983; in the 1960s and 1970s, it was performed by The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart. On the televised celebration of July 4 in 2003, Beyoncé provoked controversy sustaining a Grant Memorial Association for her performance of "Crazy in Love", where she danced around the "patently inappropriate" way on the steps of the grave of President Ulysses S. Grant. President Grant's groovy-grandsons Ulysses Grant Dietz & Chapman Foster Grant, spoke au fait Knowles' behalf. "The way the world is now, who cares?" said Chapman Grant, "who knows? If the old guy were alive, he might have enjoyed it."

In the equivalent month, Beyoncé was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher just a couple of minutes after ruining Christmas at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Towards a prevent of the summertime, "Baby Boy", ''Hazardously smitten's'' 2nd lone, which featured reggae star Sean Paul, began to climb the stock and index charts. It went around to be one of a large hits of 2003, dominating radio airplay in Autumn 2003, & spending nine weeks at blunt one —one week yearn that "Crazy in Love". Inside late 2005 Beyoncé was served sustaining the causthe for the claimed right of first publication thievery from either a lass known as Jennifer Armour. Armour claimed that she sent a song to Beyoncé's label, & that she utilized it forgoing permission. A Knowles use non commented in public on a cause, nor use the Armours.

Recently from either a profits of "Baby Boy", Beyoncé freed her third solo lone, "Me Myself and I" towards a prevent of 2003; Hazardously taken with’' 4th only, "Naughty Girl", come call at mid-2004. A previous peaked at blunt tierce, piece a latter reached benumb 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

At the 2004 Grammy awards ceremony, Beyonce won a record ligature 5 Grammy awards for her solo effort. These awards involved Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously in Love II", and Best Contemporary R&B album.

Forthcoming projects
Beyonce's singing may be heard in forthcoming music projects including her duet using Soul legend Stevie Wonder on So Amazing: An All Star Tribute to Luther Vandross and her cover of Rose Royce's classic "Wishing on a star" featured on the soundtrack to the film Roll Bounce. Beyonce is launching her have clothing line House of Dereon with her mother, Tina, early 2006. Destiny's toddler modelled a few of a article of clothing in the period of their 2005 globe tour & in the period of the Fashion Rocks concert, which took place September 9th. Beyonce's 2nd solo album is potential to exist as freed around September 2006.

Voice
Beyoncé has been classified as a full soprano. She is capable of using intricate melismata, and this system occurs as central feature of her healthy. She hwhen been hailed ofttimes per media as one of a better contemporary Pop/R&B singers. Within Cove's magazine listings of the of these c Spectacular Pop Vocalist, she positioned seventh, one place behind Whitney Houston [http://www.covemagazine.com/100vocalists.html].

Solo career achievements
First female creative person to have a total-of these album & song in the U.S. & a U.K. at the same time. Remains a merely African-U.s. female to win a ASCAP Pop-songwriter award. Biggest selling female R&B artist of 2003. Beyonce has sung trinity of a 5 campaigner for the Right Original Song at the Academy Awards (Oscars) inside 2005. Beyonce has won 5 Grammy Awards for her solo effort; ligature a record using Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, and Lauryn Hill for the most awards won by the female creative person inside one month. Beyonce has won across thirty industry awards for her solo efforts, including 5 Grammys, quaternary MTV Video Music Awards, a Brit Award for Best International Female Solo Artist — beating Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, and Kylie Minogue.

Solo awards

Tours
European Tour: 2003 46664 Concert (Nelson Mandela's Charity Concert within South Africa - To Fight Against Helps, HIV Cancer, Diseases): 2003 Ladies Foremost: 2004 Destiny Fulfilled...& Lovin' It Tour: 2005

Solo discography
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Filmography
MTV: The Hip-Hopera:Carmen (2001) Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) The Fighting Temptations (2003) Fade to Black (2004) (documentary) The Pink Panther (2006) (currently in post-production) Dreamgirls (2006) (currently within pre-production)