Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, Golden Globe Award-nominated actress, dancer, and fashion designer and model for House of Deréon. Beyoncé rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the best-selling female group of all time[1][2][3], with over fifty million records sold.
After a series of commercially-successful releases with the group, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love in 2003. The album became one of the biggest successes of the year, topping the album charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Beyoncé a record-tying five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Beyoncé's sophomore album, B'Day, which was released on her on September 4, 2006 (her twenty-fifth birthday) continued her success. The album spawned the UK number-one single "Deja Vu", "Ring the Alarm", and the worldwide number-one hit "Irreplaceable". The album is nominated for five 2007 Grammy Awards.
Destiny's Child rose to fame in 1998 with the Billboard top ten hit and Billboard R&B number one single "No, No, No Part 2". Even after much-publicized turmoil involving the departure of LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, Destiny's Child (eventually a trio) became the most successful R&B/pop acts of the early 2000s, charting four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, several top ten hits, and two number-one albums.
Their 1998 Platinum-selling debut album was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and featured the 2x Platinum number-one single "No, No, No Part 2", which also has become the world's bestselling single of all time. The group's second album, The Writing's on the Wall, released in 1999, featured two number-one hits: "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name". "Bug a Boo" and "Jumpin' Jumpin'" were also popular singles from the album. The Writings On the Wall went on to sell 13 million copies worldwide and 8 million in the U.S. Furthermore, "Say My Name" won two awards at the 2001 Grammy Awards: "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" and "Best R&B Song".
Their following album, Survivor, proved to be another big success, going to number one on both the U.S. Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, as well as the Canadian and the UK albums chart. Two singles from the album went to the top of the Hot 100: "Independent Women Part I", "Bootylicious", and "Survivor", the album's title track reaching number two. In the United Kingdom, the first two tracks released reached number one consecutively. "Independent Women Part 2" had been the theme song for the film Charlie's Angels (2000), before the album's release. The title track, "Survivor", won the group their third Grammy for "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal".
#1's (2005)In 2001, Beyoncé won the "Songwriter of the Year" award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. She is the second female and first African-American female songwriter of all time to accomplish this.
After the three-year journey that involved concentration on individual solo projects, Beyoncé rejoined Rowland and Williams for Destiny's Child's fourth (and so far final) studio album, Destiny Fulfilled, released in November 2004. The album hit number two on the Billboard 200 and spawned the hits "Lose My Breath", "Soldier", "Girl", and "Cater 2 U". Destiny Fullfilled has sold 8 million copies worldwide.
In 2005, Destiny's Child embarked on a world tour sponsored by McDonald's titled Destiny Fulfilled... And Lovin' It, visiting over 70 cities throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America from April to September. On June 13, 2005 it was announced that the group would disband after their world tour ended in September 2005. In October 2005, the group released their final album, entitled #1's, including all of Destiny's Child's number-one hits and most of their well-known songs. The greatest-hits collection also includes three new tracks, including "Stand Up for Love". The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and number seven on the UK Singles Chart. #1s has also went on to sell 3 million copies worldwide and is the bestselling #1s album by a female group ever.
During the autumn of 2002, Beyoncé was the featured vocalist on rapper Jay-Z's hit single, "'03 Bonnie & Clyde". In the spring of 2003, Beyoncé remade a duet with the late Luther Vandross, "The Closer I Get to You", originally made famous by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In this version, the vocal parts are switched, with Vandross taking Flack's part and Knowles taking Hathaway's. The song was included on both her solo debut album and on Vandross's Dance with My Father album, and the two shared the Grammy for "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" that same year. She recently collaborated with her beau, Jay-Z, on his new album, Kingdom Come, providing the vocals and the hook for the track entitled "Hollywood".
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