Who is Beyoncé?
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, born Sept. 4, 1981, to Tina Knowles and Mathew Knowles, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. While famously known as the “Queen of Pop,” almost everyone simply calls her Beyoncé. Some even call her Sasha Fierce due to her alter ego she revealed back in 2008. She achieved her fame in the late 1990s as the head singer of R&B group, Destiny’s Child. She won a record-setting 32 Grammy Awards. Within her career, she has bartered over 200 million records and scored eight No. 1 solo hits. At age nine, Beyoncé formed the singing-rapping girl group Destiny’s Child.
While the group was formerly named Girl’s Tyme, Knowles states that she changed it because “the name was taken from a passage in the Bible: ‘We got the word destiny out of the Bible, but we couldn’t trademark the name, so we added child, which is like a rebirth of destiny.'” In due course, the group parted ways to pursue individual projects. During 2005, Beyoncé, along with her mother, launched the clothing line “House of Dereon” named after her grandmother. In April, 2008, Beyoncé married Shawn Corey Carter, who is also known as the rapper and record mogul Jay-Z, who also pursues his dreams in music. Knowles is a mother of three; Blue Ivy, and Twins, Sir and Rumi Carter.
Top of the Charts
Beyoncé on Wednesday embellished the first Black woman to achieve a No. 1 hit in the history of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, after “Texas Hold ‘Em” debuted at the top of the chart. Preliminarily to the triumph for “Texas Hold ‘Em,” no Black woman, or female known to be biracial, had previously topped Hot Country Songs.
Beyoncé’s new album, which materializes to be folk music, is set to be available on March 29. The name of the new project being a chronicle as “act ii” of the three-act project, following after Beyoncé’s Renaissance album which was dropped in 2022. Texas Hold ‘Em” drew 19.2 million official streams and 4.8 million in all-format airplay audience and sold 39,000 in the U.S. through Febraury 15, according to Luminate. Wednesday’s milepost marked a cultural shift for C&W, a genre often seen as exclusive. For decades, country music has had a distressed relationship with artists of color.
Also, Beyoncé is now the first Black woman to top both the country and R&B/hip-hop charts since the launch of the genre song charts in 1958, according to Billboard. Above all, the Hot Country Songs coronation of “Texas Hold ‘Em” grants Beyoncé No. 1s on seven of Billboard’s multimeric song charts as a solo artist: the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Gospel Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot R&B Songs, and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. About eight years ago, Beyoncé’s heavily country-inspired track “Daddy Lessons” was rejected by the Recording Academy’s folk music committee. Thus, making it ineligible for C&W Grammys.
Beyoncé Launches Haircare Brand
For Black women, hair care is more than a routine, it’s actually a sacred ritual. Our hair is a long way from simple, and caring for it requires not only time and patience but also intentional and worthwhile products. With that in mind, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter set out six years ago to create her new hair-care brand, Cécred. The eight-piece collection assemblages a clarifying shampoo and scalp scrub, hydrating shampoo, moisturizing deep conditioner, along with a “fermented rice and rose ritual treatment.”
The collection doesn’t stop here, in fact, there is a variety of commodities with this product. “The journey of creating Cécred has taken years, and I’m so proud to finally reveal what we’ve been working on,” says Knowles-Carter. On the Cécred website, Beyoncé explained that it’s been her dream to “create these hair products and bring some of my mother’s teaching to life. They started by prioritizing the needs of textured hair like Beyoncés’, and others who lack moisture and strength.
Written by Dijana Reedfields.
Britannica – Beyoncé
CBS News – Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to top country charts with “Texas Hold ‘Em”
Billboard – Beyoncé Makes History as First Black Woman Atop Hot Country Songs Chart
The Guardian – Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to top Billboard’s Country songs chart with Texas Hold ‘Em
Forbes – Beyoncé’s New Haircare Brand Is Met With Mixed Reception From Consumers
InStyle – I Tried Beyoncé’s New Hair-Care Line Cécred and It’s 100% Worth the Hype
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