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BEYONCE
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas. She is a R&B singer, a songwriter, an actress, a fashion designer and a record producer. She was the founding member of Destiny's Child, the R&B group that leaded her to fame.
Beyoncé’s father is African American and her mother is Creole: her parents decided on her first name as a tribute to her mother's surname Beyince. Beyoncé’s sister is the actress and singer Solange Knowles.
When she was 7, Beyoncé attended dance school and was a soloist in her church choir. Her dance instructor decided to take Beyoncé to different competitions and she went on to win over 30 local singing and dancing contests.
Together with her former best friend LaTavia Roberson, Beyoncé met Kelly Rowland and LeToya Luckett. The four girls formed a group named "Girl's Tyme" and Matthew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian, decided to help the girls reach their dreams of becoming singers.
In 1996, the quartet was signed to Columbia Records as Destiny's Child. Two years later, they scored the top ten hit, "No, No, No Part 2," and became one of the most successful R&B/pop acts of the late 1990s/early 2000s with several top-ten hits and two number-one albums.
During the autumn of 2002, Beyoncé was the featured vocalist on rapper Jay-Z's hit single, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde". So, after a series of successful records with the Destiny’s Child, in 2003 Beyoncé released her debut solo album “Dangerously in Love,” which included the highly successful song "Crazy in Love."
Her first album, "Dangerously in Love," was released in 2003, and sold over four million copies in U.S. and eleven million copies worldwide. The second single from the album, "Baby Boy," featured Sean Paul and became one of the biggest hits of 2003, dominating radio airplay and spending nine weeks at number one. At the end of that year, Beyoncé released her third solo single, "Me, Myself and I."
In December 2005, she released "Check on It", featuring Slim Thug. The song was from the Destiny's Child compilation, #1's and the “The Pink Panther” soundtrack and it was Knowles' sixth top five hit and third number one.
Beyoncé has won nine Grammy Awards – six for her solo work, and three as a member of Destiny's Child – and has already had a successful film career. Beyoncé co-starred in “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” one of the highest-grossing films of 2002. In 2003, she starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film “The Fighting Temptations”, and recorded a song for it called "Fighting Temptation", featuring Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free. Beyoncé co-starred also in the film “The Pink Panther”, playing the role of Xania!, an international pop singer, opposite Inspector Clouseau. In 2006, she played in the movie “Dreamgirls,” the film adaptation of the hit 1981 Broadway musical about a 1960s singing group.
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