Beyonce Knowles
Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love, which established her as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth4 September 1981
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.
I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.
I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.
Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.
At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.
I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.