Beyoncé and her husband. Biography of Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been in the public eye almost all her life. In 2013, a documentary was even released dedicated to the life of the singer and created with her direct participation. Nevertheless, there are also facts that few people have heard, they are mentioned very rarely in interviews. Do you love Beyonce's work and would like to study the biography of a celebrity more closely? Just read on!

The singer is a fan of the Beatles

When she was only seven years old, Beyoncé won a school singing competition with John Lennon's Imagine. The audience in the hall clapped her standing, so impressive was the future star at that moment. Despite the fact that the star herself performs in a different genre, she still loves the music of the legendary British band.

She met her bandmates as a child

When Beyoncé was eight, she met Kelly Rowland and LaTavia Robertson at an audition. She and her future Destiny's Child friends, along with three other girls, performed in the children's singing group Girl's Tyme. Who would have thought that one day a successful acquaintance would lead the girls to world fame!

She has Irish and French roots.

Beyonce's father, Martin Knowles, is of African American descent, he was born in the Texas city of Houston. Her mother, Tina Knowles, was born in the same state, in the city of Galveston. She is of Creole origin - among her ancestors are Africans, Indians, Irish and French. She is related to Joseph Broussard, considered a hero of the British resistance.

The star battled depression

Beyoncé admitted that she suffered from depression for two years - this was before the breakup of her group. She did not want to eat, she constantly spent time in her room and could not bring herself to do anything. She was very lonely and sad, she could not understand herself and her relationship with the people around her. In 2011, she spent a whole year taking care of herself and is grateful to her mother for her support during this moment. The mother was very persistent, she was convinced that her daughter should take care of her psychological state.

She could have been in a remake of her favorite movie.

The film "A Star Is Born" is the singer's favorite, for some time she even thought that she would get into its remake. In early 2012, when filming was just planned, she could collaborate with Tom Cruise, Eminem or Russell Crowe. But her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, was born, and the singer decided to focus on her family rather than her career. As a result, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper played in the film, the premiere was just recently.

She is a member of many charities

Beyonce works with an organization dedicated to helping people affected by natural disasters, she also supported the victims of the Nepal earthquake, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight gender inequality, sent school supplies to poor children, and built housing for the homeless. In a word, the star is very actively working on charitable purposes and is always ready to cooperate with organizations aimed at helping people.

Her idol is a supermodel

Beyoncé herself could be called a fashion icon, but she also has idols. She is most inspired by the style of British supermodel Kate Moss. Well, Beyoncé is definitely not alone!

She set a record on Twitter

Beyoncé's first pregnancy announcement at the end of her 2011 awards entry made it into the Guinness Book of Records. Almost nine thousand messages per second were exchanged on the social network. In other social networks, the star is no less popular and has millions of subscribers, so that each of her publications immediately attracts attention.

Household chores do not attract her

The Queen of Pop admitted that she is not very neat and does not always cope with household chores, which sometimes annoys her husband. As the singer notes, he is much more organized and it is difficult for him to put up with his wife’s relaxed approach.

She can see the music

The singer admits that music is not only something that can be heard. When she likes some melody, she immediately begins to see pictures associated with a certain feeling or emotion, memories, thoughts about life, dreams and fantasies come to her mind. All this is related to music. There are special associations for each melody.

Her favorite number is four

Beyoncé's mother was born on the fourth of January. The star herself got married on the fourth of April. Her birthday is on the fourth of September, and her husband's is on the fourth of December, in a word, it is quite clear why this figure is of such great importance for the singer.

After the incident at the concert, the alter ego of the star appeared

During a performance in 2003, the singer threw a pair of expensive earrings into the crowd. Then she admitted that she could not explain why she did it. However, the earrings were returned. This incident led to the fact that Beyoncé discovered her stage alter ego - Sasha Fiers.

She sometimes smokes cigars

The singer was photographed several times with a cigar, she also smoked in her visual album. It is not known which cigars she prefers, but her husband likes Cuban ones.

Pizza is her favorite food

Once a week, the star allows herself to enjoy pizza - this is her favorite product. She usually orders it with lots of tomato sauce and jalapenos. The rest of the time, the singer tries to stick to proper nutrition, which allows her to maintain an impeccable figure.

Most of all, the star loves mascara

Despite the fact that she agreed to appear without makeup on the recent cover of fashion magazine Vogue, the star has her favorite beauty products. She considers mascara to be the most important tool for herself. It is quite clear that with such a bright appearance, the star really does not need more flashy means.

Her daughter made history

Within a few days of Blue Ivy's birth, Jay-Z released an album with a track that featured her daughter crying and screaming. The song became the leader of the charts, and so Blue Ivy became the youngest music star in history.

Beyoncé is allergic to perfume

The star has its own cosmetic line with a variety of perfume options. The singer is allergic to many types of smells, so her fragrances are created in a special way. Their composition has been changed so that the star herself can use them.

Beyoncé is also an opera star

Despite the fact that the singer usually performs in the pop music genre, she could also handle opera performances. Her vocal abilities are amazing - she has a range of almost four octaves. Her voice is classified as mezzo-soprano. Voices with a range of more than three octaves are rare, not all professional singers can boast of this.

She likes to travel

The superstar has a very busy work schedule. When she wants to relax, she becomes a tourist. For example, she likes to visit museums. A recent clip created with her husband, Beyoncé filmed at the famous French Museum of the Louvre. For the filming process, the building was completely rented and closed to other visitors.

There is an insect named after a star

In 2012, researcher Brian Lessard discovered a previously unknown type of fly found in North Queensland, Australia. He named these insects after Beyoncé because of the unique golden hairs that cover their bellies. Researchers have nicknamed these insects "diva among the flies." Few celebrities can boast of something like this!

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, she posted her new album Lemonade online - extremely frank and painful. In it, the singer for the first time confirmed what the Caravan of Stories had long suspected: about her husband's infidelities and her broken heart.

“This time the divorce is inevitable: Jay-Z and Beyoncé can no longer hide that their relationship has come to an end. In the near future, the couple will announce a breakup ... ”- and so on and so forth. Do you know, B, what is the reason for our divorce? Quote: "...Jay-Z cheating"!

The rapper finished his speech to the loud laughter of his friends with Beyoncé, with whom they went on a cruise in the Caribbean. The couple spent their holidays in the company of friends on a luxury rented yacht. They were sitting on the deck with the whole company, when Jay-Z decided to read secular news, the heroes of which were he and his wife. Beyoncé laughed the most at Jay-Z's trick - to tears! But when her eyes met her husband's, her face momentarily became serious, even stern. Seeing the metamorphosis that occurred with his wife, the musician hastily lowered his eyes and said:

Beyoncé performing at Madison Square Garden, New York, March 2010

- I can still read gossip about me and Bea! My newsfeed is full of them. Can you imagine how the reporters who make up this nonsense will be disappointed if we start posting our vacation photos on Instagram? Darling, - he turned to his wife, - let's "please" the paparazzi!

“I’m ready,” Beyoncé replied and, cheerfully getting up, began to pose for her husband while he filmed her on an iPhone. At some point, she abruptly stopped, threw: “Enough!” – and left, leaving the company in bewilderment.

Jay-Z shrugged, showing friends - they say, with whom it does not happen, and Beyoncé's friend Kelly Rowland hurried after.

She found the fugitive on the deck at the other end of the ship: Beyoncé silently looked at the azure water surface.

- Where did you go? – Kelly quietly came up behind and hugged her friend by the shoulders. - Still good? Is it true?

“Yes, yes,” the singer answered thoughtfully.

Beyoncé Knowles is not one to rush to open her soul. Even to the closest people like Kelly. They started together in the group Destiny's Child, which was produced by Beyoncé's father, Matthew Knowles. Bea and Kelly went through a harsh school of survival in show business, in their youth they trusted each other with all their secrets ... But then the group broke up, Beyoncé began a solo career, Kelly too. Only with Beyoncé things went better ... Naturally, the girls moved away from each other, and Knowles also closed tightly, not letting anyone into her soul.

“Just tired,” she added, still distant. - Better, Kelly, look what a fabulous sunset today.

The friends silently looked at the sky, painted in the color of flamingo plumage. Each thought about her own: Beyoncé - about Jay-Z, or rather, about the impudence with which he quoted to his friends notes about his adventures and betrayals from the gossip column.

“How can he do this? she mentally wondered. Doesn't he understand that everyone knows everything? Or he does it on purpose: look, I'm so brave, for me my infidelity to my wife is a reason for jokes.

Beyoncé is already used to this role - a woman whose husband is suspected of cheating by all and sundry, and she pretends that everything is in order. Although sometimes - like today - longing rolls over, doubts stifle, and once again she asks painful questions. Forgive or punish? Forget or torture yourself with memories? Jealous or love? Suffer or take everything for granted? As then, on that fateful evening ...

The Met Gala party is one of the most high-profile social events. All the cream of Hollywood society gathers here in their best outfits. That evening, Beyoncé and Jay-Z looked their best. Her younger sister Solange was also irresistible. She came without a partner, and all evening the men gave her compliments and poured champagne. And when Solange drinks too much, she becomes harsh and defiant. Knowing this feature of hers, Beyoncé decided to quickly take her sister away from the party - away from the all-seeing paparazzi. She offered to finish the evening to her husband, but he did not intend to go home at all.

“Listen, you go with Solange, and I’ll stop by Rihanna’s, she’s having a party,” Jay-Z replied as they entered the elevator with Beyoncé and her sister.

Everyone knows what happened next. Because the next day, the video that was recorded by the surveillance cameras in the elevator appeared on all sites. Beyoncé has never experienced such a scandal and shame, because in the video her husband and sister fought like two teenagers.

Not only was the entire press and social media buzzing about the “movie,” Beyoncé also had to choose which side to take: defend her sister, who could not contain her rage when she heard about Jay-Z’s intention to visit Rihanna, or justify her husband, who was clearly wrong?

While Beyoncé was thinking, everything, as always successfully, was decided by her mother, Tina Knowles. As soon as she found out about what had happened, she immediately convened a family council ... and reconciled everyone. She also organized a demonstration (including for the press) dinner to demonstrate to everyone: we are one family and there are no contradictions between us. And they really got together: mom, Beyoncé with Jay-Z, Solange with her son and boyfriend ... - and had a good time under the guns of the paparazzi cameras. In general, the incident was over. In front of others, reporters and the public, yes. But Beyoncé's heart was still heavy...

“Listen, why do I have to put up with this? she sobbed on her mother's shoulder. - After all, you broke up with your father - and nothing, everyone is alive, healthy and feeling great.

“Darling,” Tina answered, stroking her daughter’s hair, “your father and I broke off relations when we realized that there were no feelings left. But you and Jay-Z love each other, which is very valuable. Besides, it seems to me that his countless betrayals are in most cases the fruit of your imagination.

“Yes, his son from Chanel Scott is also, probably, my fantasy,” Beyoncé bitterly objected to her mother ...

... - Bee, let's go downstairs, it's getting colder, - Kelly turned to her friend. Beyoncé shuddered as she woke up from the memory.

A strong wind blew, and the airy scarf that covered her shoulders broke off and flew away after the sun disappearing into the sunset haze.

“Come on, Bee, there’s nothing for you to do here. You'll catch another cold, Rowland insisted. But the girlfriend did not succumb to persuasion.

“I want to be here alone. Please, Beyoncé pleaded, and Kelly obediently left ...

... She sang as long as she could remember. Therefore, it somehow decided by itself that the girl would become an artist. The father, whose work was related to show business, took up the production of the group, among the soloists of which will be his daughter Beyoncé, and the mother decided to sew costumes for the young members of Destiny's Child.

Soon, the group's popularity was already going through the roof, the tour schedule was scheduled months in advance, there was simply no time left for personal life. And although Beyoncé had a fan with whom she had been friends since the age of thirteen, the young man could not stand the competition with show business and the couple broke up.

She, of course, heard about the rapper Jay-Z, at that time already a well-known and respected musician. Especially once - it was back in 1999 - he mentioned Destiny's Child in his composition Lobster and Scrimp. A year later, the group appeared in Amil's music video I Got That, directed by Jay-Z. In 2001, the soloists of Destiny's Child, including Bee, starred in his Izzo (H.O.V.A), and a year later their first joint video for the song Bonnie & Clyde was released. By that time, B and Jay-Z were already together.

“I would not have become what I am now if it were not for this man,” Beyoncé repeated in an interview. He helped me so much! At first we were friends, and it took about a year and a half before we had our first romantic date. For six months, all our communication was reduced to telephone conversations. It was very important for me to have a friend nearby who needs me, who would be honest with me in everything. Then Jay-Z was already more than a friend to her, but they still hid their close relationship from everyone and everything. True, every day it was given more and more difficult, especially since their creative life together was in full view of everyone.

In 2002, Jay-Z helped B record her first solo record Dangerously in Love (then Knowles decided to go on a solo voyage in show business, without her girlfriends from Destiny's Child), and when they released their single Crazy in Love with her future husband , Bee woke up as a star, because the song hit the top positions of the charts. She understood that in many ways this was the merit of Jay-Z: as soon as he came up with just a small excerpt for the song, the composition turned into a hit!

Of course, Beyoncé was in love: Jay-Z is so talented, bright, gentle, sexy, adult - twelve years older ... She, in general, inexperienced in relationships with men, was fascinated. However, hardly anyone shared her enthusiasm. Most of all, the father was furious.

Why do you need him? - he started his favorite record. “Look at you—and at him!” You are beautiful and smart, a girl from a good, decent family, you are talented and ambitious in order to succeed on your own! And I will help you with everything. Why do you need this hanger-on? Yes, and much older than you!

Beyoncé fell in love: Jay-Z is so bright, gentle, sexy ... Inexperienced in relationships with men, she was fascinated

Beyoncé silently listened to the instructions, but in her heart she categorically disagreed: after all, she looked at Jay-Z through rose-colored glasses that girls in love do not remove from their beautiful nose.

But she also understood her father: he was jealous of her for Jay-Z. Before the appearance of the rapper, Beyoncé consulted with her parent in everything, he approved her repertoire, supported and directed her, led her, controlled everything. And now he was out of work, so he throws thunder and lightning in the back of Jay-Z.

Mother tried not to interfere. At best, she delicately hinted that she and her boyfriend were still very different: Beyonce is a girl from a wealthy family, and Jay-Z grew up in the slums, was addicted to drugs, had problems with the law. But Bee did not want to hear anything.

Did she regret it after? Perhaps ... When I found out - after their wedding - that Jay-Z was dating a certain Chanel Scott in parallel. And she subsequently bore him a son. But it will be later. In the meantime, she knows so little about life, about disappointments ...

“People would be extremely surprised to know how little experience I had,” Beyoncé thought. “I had my first boyfriend at the age of twelve. We dated until I was nineteen. They were good friends, but did not live together and did not sleep. Then I was still too young for all this. That, perhaps, is all my experience in relationships with guys. Since then, I have only had one man and that is Jay-Z."

A few more years passed before they got married. All this time, the couple carefully guarded their private life from rumors and press attention. They appeared together at social events, basketball games, and vacationed at luxurious resorts. But what was the status of their relationship remained a mystery.

The forthcoming wedding was also shrouded in mystery. Of course, the reporters were ready to give half their lives to get a glimpse of the celebration at least with one eye. But the best spies could envy them with Jay-Z!

On April 4, 2008, Beyoncé and Jay-Z got married at the groom's New York penthouse. The narrow circle of guests included Kelly Rowland, Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Janet Jackson, Usher and a few others. Plus, by this time, the relationship between Beyonce's father and Jay-Z improved. The parent managed to discern in her chosen one "a gentleman, a reasonable man and the best candidate for her daughter's husband", and the passions in the family subsided. Mom was also happy for Bee and sewed a gorgeous wedding dress for her.

Jay-Z put an 18 carat diamond ring on her finger worth $5 million

Jay-Z's house that day was decorated with 70,000 orchids specially brought from Thailand, and the wedding cake was amazing in its size. The groom put on her finger an 18-carat diamond ring worth five million dollars. She was so happy that day - it seemed that this charge of love would be enough for the rest of her life ...

Beyoncé smiled at her husband, and together they went down to the large cabin, where the whole company moved.

“Mommy, where have you been?” - Three-year-old Blue Ivy, sitting on Kelly Rowland's lap, barely seeing Beyoncé, held out her hands to her. - I missed. Kelly told me that you would be here soon. But I still worried...

Bee took her daughter in her arms and gently kissed her forehead, and Blue Ivy wrapped her arms around her mother's neck ...

Beyoncé waited for the birth of a child as she did not expect anything in life. It was her and Jay-Z's conscious, heartfelt, very strong desire, and when she found out that she was pregnant, there was no limit to joy.

She felt with every cell how her body was changing, her feelings were aggravated, her soul was becoming more vulnerable and tender. And when she felt the baby's heartbeat for the first time, she realized that this was the most beautiful music she had ever heard!

They sat together with Jay-Z for hours, holding hands, he stroked her stomach, and she whispered in his ear:

- I wonder who he will look like - you or me?

“It’s better if it’s for you,” the husband laughed, “you are beautiful, very beautiful. And from me let him get a good ear.

– What shall we call it?

– Darling, isn’t it too early to come up with a name?

- But I so want to call our baby by name ...

“Well, okay, I’ll think about it,” Jay-Z agreed. - When do you need to see a doctor?

- A week later…

At the appointed hour, Beyoncé flew to New York to undergo a routine examination. During the ultrasound, the doctor silently peered into the monitor of the apparatus, and then left the office. Some procedures followed, and then - as if in a fog.

She understood everything: the most terrible thing that could have happened had happened. Later, when it was all over, she sobbed, biting her lips and not feeling pain. And now, when the doctor said that he didn’t hear the baby’s heartbeat, and this could only mean one thing: she lost her first child, Beyoncé… No, she didn’t cry… She couldn’t… Everything inside froze, only her heart pounded like a jackhammer…

Beyoncé knew that only music would save her. Therefore, as soon as I could, I came to the studio and recorded the song. It was, perhaps, the saddest composition in her life, but it helped at least a little to come to her senses. And yet the pain never left...

Bee experienced the greatest tragedy of her life. But, fortunately, she was not alone: ​​Jay-Z was there. He supported, protected, calmed, inspired and instilled faith that all this would pass, that many, many happiness awaited them ahead ...

“Ivy is going to grow up to be the most spoiled and spoiled kid ever,” Jay-Z jokes

And so it happened: Knowles became pregnant again. Only now she reacted to her “interesting” position with much greater responsibility. And she was in no hurry to tell the good news to everyone around. Until the moment when it was simply not possible to hide her stomach, Beyoncé hid that she and Jay-Z were preparing to become parents.

She officially announced that she was pregnant during the MTV Video Music Awards, and then posed for reporters, not hiding her rounded tummy. However, stupid gossip, one more sophisticated than the other, still reached the expectant mother. Reporters came up with fables that she was not pregnant at all, she wore a false belly, and the child was supposedly being carried by a surrogate mother.

Generally speaking, she had to read and hear nonsense about herself almost daily - she must have already developed immunity to it. But when it came to the most intimate, dirty gossip hurt her especially painfully.

Fortunately, despite the evil tongues, on January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to a healthy daughter, whom she and Jay-Z named Blue Ivy, which means "blue ivy."

When journalists asked Beyoncé where the idea of ​​such a strange name for her daughter came from, she explained that she was inspired by the poem Rebecca Solnit. In one of the poems there are such lines dedicated to the blue color: “The whole world consists of the blue color: it is both in height and in depth. Look at the water, it seems that it is transparent, but the purer it is, the bluer ... "

The baby's godmother was Oprah Winfrey, a television personality to whom Beyoncé trusts many of her secrets. It was Oprah who first spoke about her failed pregnancy, and when Blue Ivy was born, she shared her thoughts on motherhood: “I gave myself time to focus on becoming the woman I always dreamed of being. Before having a child, I wanted to create my empire, build a relationship with the man I love, deal with self-esteem. And now God gave me the opportunity to realize the main dream - to be a mother.

The birth of Blue Ivy was her greatest happiness. She had never felt such strong feelings for anyone, forgive Jay-Z. However, he himself does not have a soul in the baby. “Ivy is going to grow up to be the most spoiled and spoiled kid ever,” he jokes about his daughter…

... - Hey, girl, - father turned to Blue Ivy, - in my opinion, it's time for you to sleep. Let me lay you down.

In the spacious cabin, where the star family settled down for the duration of the trip, a dim light flickered. Blue Ivy was sleeping peacefully in the bedroom, while Beyoncé and Jay-Z were talking in a whisper so as not to wake their daughter in the living room. Although it was difficult to call their conversation a conversation: they were desperately arguing with each other, waving their arms, gesticulating, making faces ... But at the same time they spoke as quietly as possible.

“Listen, Bea, I'm tired of your suspicions. If you want to think that I'm cheating on you, think so, - he spoke as if he was rapping. - If you want to believe your relatives and friends - believe. I am who I am, and we have talked about this more than once. You and I are too different, and this is the root of all our contradictions ...

It was lucky that Jay-Z didn't die and end up behind bars. in his life he received three gunshot wounds

Hundreds of times Beyoncé heard this phrase: "You and I are too different"! It was as if Jay-Z was chiding her for not having experienced half the hardships that he had, unlike him. Although… what is Jay-Z like? Sean Corey Carter is the real name that he hides behind a pseudo rapper. And Beyoncé increasingly thought that he had something to hide besides his real name. Probably, even the fact that Jay-Z did not die and did not end up behind bars is already a great success, because many of his peers and childhood friends suffered an unenviable fate.

He was born in the New York area of ​​Brooklyn. The mother independently raised Sean, his brother and two sisters (the father left the family when the future rapper was still just a baby). He studied somehow and was actually left to himself. No wonder Sean was expelled from school. To survive in the urban jungle, he had to engage in not the most legal activities.

“Many people from my disadvantaged area were drug dealers because they didn’t want to live from hand to mouth and dress in second-hand clothes,” Jay-Z once admitted. “I do not exalt or condone this 'work', but in any case I do not advise anyone to do such things. In my situation, I was forced to do this because I could not see how my family was malnourished.”

In his youth, he had a hard time: in his life, Jay-Z received three gunshot wounds. They say that one day he miraculously got out alive from a tough shootout, after which he decided to get involved with crime.

All he could do, besides illegal activities, was rap. Together with the same as him, losers, Jay-Z created his own label and released an album. In show business, he was more fortunate than on the dark streets of Brooklyn. His career developed so rapidly that in less than five years he was already rapping along with Mariah Carey herself. Their joint composition Heartbreaker hit the top of the charts, and Jay-Z was known far beyond New York.

By the time he met Beyonce, he was already called a successful musician and producer, considered one of the most influential people in the hip-hop industry.

It seemed strange to many that the singer made just such a choice: she is the right girl with a spotless reputation, and he is “from rags to riches”, a hardened type who, although he was popular, was still in a narrower rapper environment, and Beyoncé by that time had every chance of becoming a world celebrity. And she became it.

"He's using you!", "You're not a couple!", "Why do you need him?!", "He doesn't deserve you!", "He's cheating on you!" - Beyoncé constantly heard these phrases, if not from relatives, then from people from her environment, or read them in the press and social networks.

Journalists "bred" them every month, coming up with the most incredible reasons for parting - all the same betrayals, jealousy, money disputes, envy ... There were times when Beyoncé believed in the most fabulous of these gossip, and after a while laughed at her suspicion. Sometimes it seemed to her that Jay-Z himself was spreading such rumors in order to stir up interest in their personalities, first of all in his own person ... And even here, away from the worldly bustle, on vacation, she was overtaken by hateful gossip.

“I don’t know what I want anymore, Sean,” Beyoncé called her husband by his real name only in the most tense moments. I don't know who to believe and what to do.

"So what are you missing?" - Jay-Z raised his voice, but stopped short, remembering that his daughter was sleeping in the next room. You are a global star. You and I are the most powerful couple in show business. We are rich and happy. We have a wonderful child. And people like us, successful and strong, will always have envious people. And they will always write about us, even after our death. And most often - all sorts of abominations invented by the reporters themselves. You know all this better than me. It’s just that you remained a tender, vulnerable girl who is afraid to live in a big raging world. But you have me, and I will always protect you and Blue Ivy from all problems! Do you believe me?

Beyoncé smiled.

“Yes, I do, otherwise I wouldn’t be with you,” she replied, and after a long pause she added: “But I have a condition.

Her husband looked at her in surprise.

“Rihanna will no longer appear on the threshold of our house, and you will never touch her again! Bee said firmly. - Otherwise ... rumors about my betrayals may appear in the press. You wouldn't want that, would you? Really, my dear Sean?

Prepared based on the materials of the magazine "Caravan of stories" (March 2016)

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The singer posted the first photo of the twins

The happy mother posted on Instagram a long-awaited photo with newborn babies, taken against the backdrop of a flower arrangement. This photo resembles, or rather continues, the photo of a pregnant Beyoncé, which the star published a few months ago, finally informing the world about the upcoming birth of twins.

The star posted this picture, announcing her pregnancy

The couple have long dreamed of a second child

The first photo of Beyoncé and Jay Z's children has already gained 300,000 likes and several thousand comments. At the same time, the couple hides the details of the birth of the twins, wanting to keep it private. There were many rumors about Beyoncé's second pregnancy, but it is not known that the couple conceived children with the help of IVF. The couple had long dreamed of a second child and did everything necessary to become parents, but they did not succeed in getting pregnant in a natural way.

Beyoncé with eldest daughter Blue Ivy

Star family at a sports match

One way or another, now the world has become richer for two more charming kids, who, we are sure, will be no less talented and beautiful than their star parents. Welcome to this world Sir and Rumi!

She is the only singer whose solo albums have received every single Grammy Award in the Best R "n" B Album nomination, and also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 national music chart.

Childhood

Five years later, baby Solange Piaget was born in the family. By that time, young Beyoncé had already shown remarkable vocal abilities. It all started when her elementary school dance teacher sang a song and the girl sang it in high notes. The next stage was the school talent competition, where she performed the song "Imagine" by John Lennon and won first prize, figuratively destroying 15-16 year old competitors. Soon, not a single city musical competition could do without an artistic baby.

At the same time, the girl, who received incomparable pleasure from going on stage, was very reserved and shy in everyday life. Their family was quite wealthy, my mother had her own beauty salon, and Beyoncé, afraid to provoke her peers into ridicule and whispering behind her back, tried to be as inconspicuous as possible. She silently walked, staring at the floor, because of which, by the age of 7, she began to have problems with her posture.

Everything changed in 1990: the girl moved to high school with an emphasis on music education, where it was no longer possible to be inconspicuous. She was immediately taken to the school choir; a little later, she began performing in the church choir.

Start: Beyoncé in Destiny's Child

Beyoncé and the first composition of "Destiny" s Child "(" Girl "s Tyme")

The group was produced by Californian Arne Frager. Having bet on the young age of the participants, he decided to send the wards to the country's largest talent show of that time - Star Search. The man was sure that the audience would be touched by black babies reading rap, but he was mistaken. Girl's Tyme failed, as Beyoncé later admitted, due to a poorly rehearsed song: "We were rapping, but we had to sing."

Girl's Tyme on Star Search. Beyoncé's first failure

It was a real blow for little Beyoncé. Seeing the dejected state of his daughter, the father, who was directly related to the music industry, decided to help them with advice.

At his insistence, the composition of the group was reduced to four. Beyoncé and her girlfriends rehearsed in the back of her mother's salon, listening to advice and criticism from visitors. During the school period, they often performed at city events, and spent the summer holidays in a specialized vocal camp, where they improved their skills.

During the first years of their career, the group changed its name several times. From Girl's Tyme, they turned into Something Fresh ("Something Fresh"), then into Cliché ("Cliché") and the Dolls ("Dolls"). In 1995, the record label Electra records became interested in them. To sign a contract, the girls had to turn into Destiny ("Destiny").

Everything seemed to be going well, but shortly before the recording of the first album, the label terminated the contract. Then Beyoncé's father decided to produce their group himself. He said goodbye to other projects, because of which the family's income fell by half. The Knowles even had to move from their house to an apartment.

Beyonce and Destiny's Child, 1996

Matthew Knowles improved the band's name. From now on, the girl band was called Destiny's Child ("Child of Destiny", a reference to the "Book of the Prophet Isaiah"). He helped the girls sign a contract with Columbia Records. Already in 1997, their song Killing Time was included in the soundtrack of the action comedy "Men in Black" with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. This marked the beginning of a grand era.

In 1997, the whole world learned about Destiny's Child

In February 1998, the girls presented their debut album "Destiny's Child" to listeners, which hit #67 on the national Billboard 200 chart and sold 33 million copies, and their single "No No No" took first place in the hip-hop and p' n'b songs Billboard Hot.

Destiny's Child - No, no, no (1998)

1999 - new shocks. Two participants accused Matthew Knowles of unfair income sharing. Allegedly, he gave most of the fees to Boyoncé and her girlfriend Kelly, and infringed on them in every possible way. The second album "Writings On The Wall" was released with the participation of two other girls. The "fired" singers began a long trial with the group's producer, which did not yield any results. Unless one of the new participants left the project, unable to withstand the persecution.

The real financial frauds of Beyoncé's father became known much later, in 2011, when the singer fired him from her manager's position and said that for a long time he had taken significant amounts of her fees into his hands. She also said that at the dawn of Destiny's Child's success, he made her run 5 kilometers daily, and at the same time sing songs from their repertoire. Such preparation, he believed, would make Beyonce able to sing and dance in any, even extreme circumstances.

In 2000, Destiny's Child, already in trio format, warmed up the audience before the concerts of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. And the song they recorded "Independent Women Part I" for the song "Charlie's Angels" lasted on the first line of the Billboard 200 for 11 weeks - a record for the group.

The beginning of a solo career

All three girls successfully built a solo career. In 2003, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love, aimed at fans of r'n'b and soul, and according to the sales results, it became four times platinum, and also received 5 Grammy statuettes. The hit produced the single "Crazy In Love", a duet with rapper Jay-Z and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 months, and "Signs" featuring Missy Elliott.

For three years the girls did not perform together. Rumors spread about the impending breakup of Destiny's Child, which the members aggressively denied. In late 2004, they reconvened to record Destiny Fulfilled, which sold over 500,000 copies in its first week. For the group, these were very modest figures (the previous album sold 700,000 copies over the same period), but still the disc became the best-selling album of 2005.

The girls went on tour in support of the new album, and during a concert in Barcelona, ​​in front of an audience of 16,000, they announced the breakup of the group. In March 2006, Destiny Child posthumously received her own star on the Walk of Fame as the best-selling girl group of all time.

The heyday of Beyoncé's career

She then appeared in the musical film The Dreamgirls, starring Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Hudson. The prototype of her character was Diana Ross. For this role, Beyoncé was nominated for 2 Golden Globes: for Best Actress and for Best Song (“Listen”).

After completing the shooting, Beyoncé began a thorough work on the second album. The B'Day record was released on September 4, 2006, coinciding with the date of the singer's 25th birthday. The style became more diverse, "live" instruments took part in the recording. The album broke into the Billboard 200 quickly, immediately hitting the first line.

Two years later, the singer presented her third studio album "I am ... Sasha Fierce". When asked who Sasha Fiers (which means “fierce” in Russian) is, Beyonce answered that from now on it is her more sensual and energetic alter ego, which was born while working on the single “Crazy in Love” in 2003. A distinctive feature of Sasha Fiers was a “robo-glove” worn on her hand - in this image, Beyoncé first appeared at the MTV EMA-2008.

In 2009, film critics praised the acting tandem of Beyoncé and Idris Elba - the key actors in the thriller "Obsession" (not to be confused with "Obsession 2013 with J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller"). Her heroine had to fight for family happiness with a strong and powerful rival.

In 2010, Beyoncé almost broke Michael Jackson's record for the most Grammys awarded to a performer at a single ceremony, winning 6 out of 10 nominations. Soon after that, she took a short creative break, delighting fans with her 4th album (which was called “4”) already in mid-2011.

Beyoncé at the 2010 Grammys (If I Were A Boy LIVE)

In 2012, Beyoncé was named the sexiest woman of the 21st century by GQ magazine.

In 2013, the singer presented to the public a new album "Beyoncé" in an experimental format. Video clips were recorded for each of the 14 songs. The album appeared on iTunes without any prior advertising, stunned Beyoncé fans, and took a record for sales in 108 countries (only Adele had more than the first place in iTunes in 115 countries). Her daughter Blue Ivy sang along with Beyoncé on the song "Blue".

On April 23, 2016, the world heard Beyoncé's sixth album, Lemonade. The queen of r'n'b developed the theme of the "visual album": 12 songs were waiting for the listeners, for each of which a video clip was recorded. However, if in the previous album the clips appeared separately, this time they were combined into a complete story dedicated to the ups and downs in the singer's family life. HBO even showed the full version of "Lemonade" live on the day the album went on sale.

In the same secrecy, their first child was born. In January 2012, the singer went to an elite clinic under the assumed name of Ingrid Jackson. The baby who was born was named Blue Ivy Carter, and she became an integral part of their family happiness.

But, apparently, not everything in their life was as smooth as it seemed from the glossy "facade". In 2014, Beyoncé's younger sister attacked Jay-Z with fists. The rapper's bodyguard barely dragged the angry girl away, while Beyoncé herself looked at it and did not intervene. It was after the Met Gala, so the fight between her husband and Beyoncé's sister was caught on video.

Sister Beyoncé and Jay-Z fight

The recording was made public, and rumors spread in the media: did Jay-Z cheat on his beloved? However, the story was put on the brakes. Released in 2016, the album Lemonade, accompanied by an hour-long film of the same name, shed light on the situation. In the compositions Pray You Catch Me and Daddy Lessons, the singer explicitly stated that she knew firsthand the lies of her husband. However, the song All Night contains the following lines: "Every diamond has flaws", "My tormentor became my salvation." And the film ends with cute shots with Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Ivy. The storm in family relationships has subsided.

Meanwhile, fans conducted a whole investigation and found out that most likely the rapper cheated on his wife with Rachel Roy, creative director of the Rocawear brand. After that, the fans of the star couple staged an online harassment for the girl. Unable to stand it, Rachel tweeted that she respects family values, and bullying in any form is unacceptable.

In February 2017, Beyonce appeared at the Grammys. Her strongly rounded belly was emphasized by a spectacular golden dress. Beyoncé also played up her pregnancy in the performance, appearing in the image of the goddess of fertility.

Beyoncé now

The song "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce topped the list of the best songs of the beginning of the XXI century, compiled by Rolling Stone magazine.

The Texas town of Houston is where Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, the world-famous r'n'b diva, was born in 1981. Relatives saw the talent of little Beyoncé and made every effort to develop it.

Dance, artistic performances, concerts, competitions - young Beyoncé took part in all events with great pleasure. And it was they who became the foundation for the development of a real musical career.

The singer's star trek began in 1990 with a failure in a talent competition. Failure did not break the girl, and already in 1993 the Destiny's Child sextet was born.

It was this group that proved the possibilities of Beyoncé in the musical field and built her character. Shy and calm as a child, Beyoncé forgot about the existing complexes on stage and opened up.

Beyoncé was in for an unprecedented harvest of awards: three Grammy awards during her time in the group, and five Grammy awards after the release of a solo album.

Relationship with rapper Jay-Z

Along with popularity, love came to the singer. Rapper Jay-Z won her heart.

The couple hid the relationship from the press for a long time, but the journalists revealed the secret. The wedding expected by the fans took place in 2008, and 4 years later the singer gave the rapper a daughter.

Beyonce before plastic surgery: photo

Confident, spectacular, stylish, beautiful, sexy, successful - this is how Beyoncé appears before her fans. Already at the beginning of the journey, when Beyoncé's parameters differed from the rest of the group, she exhausted herself with diets.

Beyoncé has developed her own unique style. At the beginning of her career, chic dresses with revealing cutouts, made of fabric in golden hues, became her calling card.

In 2008, the r'n'b diva appeared before the public in an unusually hard style. Daring over the knee boots, revealing bodysuits with metal elements turned the singer into a warlike Amazon.

In the same period, she experiments with her hair, dyeing it either in light or in dark shades.

Beyoncé's efforts have not gone unnoticed. In 2016, the image of the Indian goddess and outfits from Gucci made her a style icon.

Beyonce plastic surgery

There is an opinion that not only physical activity and skin care, but also plastic surgeons helped to acquire the ideal appearance of Beyoncé.

The reason for the appearance of such rumors was a sharp change in the appearance of the singer in the photo. The first reason for visiting the clinic was rhinoplasty. After plastic surgery, Beyoncé's nose acquired a more European shape: a narrow back and raised wings.

In the Western media, the singer's rapid weight loss after giving birth also caused talk about plastic surgery. According to experts, Beyoncé's breasts lost their elasticity before the plastic surgery, and the singer returned to her former shape with the help of a lift.

After the operation, Beyoncé again put on open dresses and showed off her cleavage. The singer herself does not comment on rumors about plastic surgery and continues to demonstrate beauty on stage.

Beyoncé's legs have also been at the center of the scandal more than once. So, in the picture posted on Instagram, fans noticed traces of Photoshop, and the star, in her defense, posted a new batch of photos of taut, slender legs.

But be that as it may, the impeccable look, sexuality and sophistication of Beyoncé are undeniable.