Person Open DS/UK/10740 Knowles; Beyoncé (4 September 1981); American singer songwriter, producer and actress Knowles Beyoncé 4 September 1981 American singer songwriter, producer and actress Female (cisgender) Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter Houston, Texas, United States (born)

American Musician; Singer Black Daughter of Celestine "Tina" Beyincé (hairdresser and salon owner) and Mathew Knowles (Xerox sales manager). Beyoncé's name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name. Sibling of Solange Knowles (singer) Descendant of Joseph Broussard (Acadian leader) Wife of Jay-Z (American rapper) Heterosexual Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. During Destiny's Child's hiatus, Beyoncé made her theatrical film debut with a role in the US box-office number-one Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and recorded her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2006, she released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained the US number-one single "Irreplaceable" as well as the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé continued her acting career with starring roles in The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), and Obsessed (2009). Her marriage to rapper Jay-Z and her portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), which earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010. It spawned the UK number-one single "If I Were a Boy" and the US number-one single "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Beyoncé received widespread critical acclaim for her albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016); the latter became the world's best-selling album of 2016. She became the first and only music act in the Billboard 200 chart history to debut at number one with their first six solo studio albums. In 2018, she released Everything Is Love, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters. Awards, Honours and Legacy: Beyoncé is the most nominated woman in the Grammy Award history with a total of 19 wins.She is the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 24 wins, including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. In 2014, she became the highest-paid black musician in history and was listed among Time's 100 most influential people in the world for a second year in a row. Forbes ranked her as the most powerful female in entertainment on their 2015 and 2017 lists, and in 2016, she occupied the sixth place for Time's Person of the Year. Activism and Views: Beyoncé performed "America the Beautiful" at the 2009 presidential inauguration, as well as "At Last" during the first inaugural dance at the Neighborhood Ball. They held a fundraiser at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Manhattan for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign which raised $4 million. In the 2012 Presidential election, Beyoncé voted for Obama. She performed the American national anthem at his second inauguration in 2013. She also headlined for Hillary Clinton in a 2016 concert held the weekend before Election Day. In 2013, Beyoncé stated in an interview with Vogue that she considered herself to be "a modern-day feminist". She would later align herself more publicly with the movement, sampling "We should all be feminists", a speech delivered by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a TEDx talk in 2013, in her song "Flawless", released later that year. Adichie responded towards Beyoncé's feminism with "…her type of feminism is not mine, as it is the kind that, at the same time, gives quite a lot of space to the necessity of men. Adichie expands upon what 'feminist lite' means to her, referring that "more troubling is the idea, in Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to "treat women well"" and "we judge powerful women more harshly than we judge powerful men. And Feminism Lite enables this." Beyonce has contributed to the Ban Bossy campaign, which uses television and social media to encourage leadership in girls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9 (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHeharper 12/20/2013 RAHAKirkbride 11/3/2022 23732eb1-cbf6-4c82-938a-318601f5afed