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'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'
The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.
He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.
Perfection is a disease of a nation.
We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.
We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.
Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?
I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.