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Beyonce Giselle Knowles[a] was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston to Celestine "Tina" Knowles (ne Beyonce), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager.[16] Tina is Louisiana Creole and Mathew is African American.[17][18][19][20] Beyonc's younger sister, Solange Knowles, is also a singer and a former backup dancer for Destiny's Child. Solange and Beyonc are the first sisters to have both had number one solo albums.[21]
Beyonc's maternal grandparents, Lumis Albert Beyinc and Agnz Deron (daughter of Odilia Broussard and Eugne DeRouen),[22] were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles, with roots in New Iberia;[23][22][24] She is a descendant of Acadian militia officer Joseph Broussard, who was exiled to French Louisiana after the expulsion of the Acadians, and of the French military officer and Abenaki chief Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie, Baron de Saint-Castin.[18][25] She has additional Breton heritage. Beyonc's fourth great-grandmother, Marie-Franoise Trahan, was born in 1774 in Bangor, located on Belle le, France. Trahan was a daughter of Acadians who had taken refuge on Belle le after the Acadian expulsion. The Estates of Brittany had divided the lands of Belle le to distribute them among 78 other Acadian families and the already settled inhabitants. The Trahan family lived on Belle le for over ten years before migrating to Louisiana, where she married a Broussard descendant.[26] Beyonc researched her ancestry and discovered that she is descended from a slave owner who married his slave.[27] Her mother is also of distant Irish, Jewish, Spanish, Chinese and Indonesian ancestry.[28][29][30][23] Beyonc also has Belgian ancestry from Hainaut Province, Wallonia and is related to a former mayor of Froidchapelle, Belgium.[31][32]
Beyonc was raised Methodist and attended St. John's United Methodist Church in Houston.[33][34] As her mother's family was Catholic, on Christmas Eve her family attended Midnight mass at St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church.[35] She went to St. Mary's Catholic Montessori School in Houston and enrolled in dance classes there.[36] Her singing ability was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and Beyonce finished it, able to hit the high-pitched notes.[37] Beyonc's interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat 15/16-year-olds.[38][39] In the fall of 1990, Beyonc enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she performed with the school's choir.[40] She also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts[41] and later Alief Elsik High School.[17][42] Beyonc was also a member of the choir at St. John's United Methodist Church where she sang her first solo and was a soloist for two years.[33][43]
When Beyonc was eight, she met LaTavia Roberson at an audition for an all-girl entertainment group.[44] They were placed into a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls, and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston.[45] After seeing the group, R&B producer Arne Frager brought them to his Northern California studio and placed them in Star Search, the largest talent show on national TV at the time. Girl's Tyme failed to win, and Beyonc later said the song they performed was not good.[46][47] In 1995, Beyonc's father, Matthew, resigned from his job to manage the group.[48] The move reduced the family's income by half, and Beyonc's parents were forced to sell their house and cars and move into separated apartments.[17][49]
Mathew cut the original line-up to four and the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R&B girl groups.[44] The girls auditioned before record labels and were finally signed to Elektra Records, moving to Atlanta Records briefly to work on their first recording, only to be cut by the company.[17] This put further strain on the family, and Beyonc's parents separated. On October 5, 1995, Dwayne Wiggins's Grass Roots Entertainment signed the group. In 1996, the girls began recording their debut album under an agreement with Sony Music, the Knowles family reunited, and shortly after, the group got a contract with Columbia Records with the assistance of Columbia talent scout Teresa LaBarbera Whites.[38]
The group changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, based upon a passage in the Book of Isaiah.[50] In 1997, Destiny's Child released their major label debut song "Killing Time" on the soundtrack to the 1997 film Men in Black.[47] In November, the group released their debut single and first major hit, "No, No, No". They released their self-titled debut album in February 1998, which established the group as a viable act in the music industry.[44] The group released their Multi-Platinum second album The Writing's on the Wall in 1999. The record features songs such as "Bills, Bills, Bills", the group's first number-one single, "Jumpin' Jumpin'" and "Say My Name", which became their most successful song at the time, and would remain one of their signature songs. "Say My Name" won the Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and the Best R&B Song at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.[44] The Writing's on the Wall sold more than eight million copies worldwide.[46] During this time, Beyonc recorded a duet with Marc Nelson, an original member of Boyz II Men, on the song "After All Is Said and Done" for the soundtrack to the 1999 film, The Best Man.[51]
The remaining band members recorded "Independent Women Part I", which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Charlie's Angels. It became their best-charting single, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for eleven consecutive weeks.[44] In early 2001, while Destiny's Child was completing their third album, Beyonc landed a major role in the MTV made-for-television film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring alongside American actor Mekhi Phifer. Set in Philadelphia, the film is a modern interpretation of the 19th-century opera Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.[52] When the third album Survivor was released in May 2001, Luckett and Roberson filed a lawsuit claiming that the songs were aimed at them.[44] The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 663,000 copies sold.[53] The album spawned other number-one hits, "Bootylicious" and the title track, "Survivor", the latter of which earned the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.[54] After releasing their holiday album 8 Days of Christmas in October 2001, the group announced a hiatus to further pursue solo careers.[44]
In July 2002, Beyonc made her theatrical film debut, playing Foxxy Cleopatra alongside Mike Myers in the comedy film Austin Powers in Goldmember,[55] which spent its first weekend atop the U.S. box office and grossed $73 million.[56] Beyonc released "Work It Out" as the lead single from its soundtrack album which entered the top ten in the UK, Norway, and Belgium.[57] In 2003, Beyonc starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in the musical comedy The Fighting Temptations as Lilly, a single mother with whom Gooding's character falls in love.[58] The film received mixed reviews from critics but grossed $30 million in the U.S.[59][60] Beyonc released "Fighting Temptation" as the lead single from the film's soundtrack album, with Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free which was also used to promote the film.[61] Another of Beyonc's contributions to the soundtrack, "Summertime", fared better on the U.S. charts.[62]
Beyonc's first solo recording was a feature on Jay-Z's song "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" that was released in October 2002, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.[64] On June 14, 2003, Beyonc premiered songs from her first solo album Dangerously in Love during her first solo concert and the pay-per-view television special, "Ford Presents Beyonc Knowles, Friends & Family, Live From Ford's 100th Anniversary Celebration in Dearborn, Michigan".[65] The album was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts.[66] The album sold 317,000 copies in its first week, debuted atop the Billboard 200,[67] and has since sold 11 million copies worldwide.[68]
The album's lead single, "Crazy in Love", featuring Jay-Z, became Beyonc's first number-one single as a solo artist in the US.[69] The single "Baby Boy" also reached number one,[63] and singles, "Me, Myself and I" and "Naughty Girl", both reached the top-five.[70] The album earned Beyonc a then record-tying five awards at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards; Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously in Love 2", Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy in Love", and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Closer I Get to You" with Luther Vandross. During the ceremony, she performed with Prince.[71]
In November 2003, she embarked on the Dangerously in Love Tour in Europe and later toured alongside Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys for the Verizon Ladies First Tour in North America.[72] On February 1, 2004, Beyonc performed the American national anthem at Super Bowl XXXVIII, at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.[73] After the release of Dangerously in Love, Beyonc had planned to produce a follow-up album using several of the left-over tracks. However, this was put on hold so she could concentrate on recording Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by Destiny's Child.[74] Released on November 15, 2004, in the US[75] and peaking at number two on the Billboard 200,[76][77] Destiny Fulfilled included the singles "Lose My Breath" and "Soldier", which reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[78]
Destiny's Child embarked on a worldwide concert tour, Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It sponsored by McDonald's Corporation,[79] and performed songs such as "No, No, No", "Survivor", "Say My Name", "Independent Women" and "Lose My Breath". In addition to renditions of the group's recorded material, they also performed songs from each singer's solo careers, including numbers from Dangerously in Love. and during the last stop of their European tour, in Barcelona on June 11, 2005, Rowland announced that Destiny's Child would disband following the North American leg of the tour.[80] The group released their first compilation album Number 1's on October 25, 2005, in the US[81] and accepted a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2006.[82] The group has sold 60 million records worldwide.[83][84]
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