Beyoncé

 Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter (/bi'anseI/ (listen) bee-ON'-say; born September 4, 1981)[5] is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Beyonce's awe-inspiring vocals and artistry have been credited with making her the most influential female singer in the 21st century according to NPR. As a young girl, Beyonce participated in many dance and singing contests. In the latter part of the 1990s, she became a member the R&B girl group Destiny's Child. This was one of the most successful girl groups to ever. Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003), which included the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Beyonce's sophomore solo album B'Day (which included singles "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar") was released in 2006 following Destiny's Child disbanded. Beyonce also starred in multiple films like The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Obsessed (2009) as well as The Lion King (2019). Her wedding to Jay-Z and her performance as Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008) which won a record-breaking six Grammy Awards in 2010. The album was followed by the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies", and "Halo". After professionally splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010 she released her diverse musical fourth album 4, in 2011.Beyonce has since received acclaim worldwide for her sonically experimental visual albums: Beyonce (2013) as well as Lemonade (2016), the latter of which was the most-seller in the world of 2016 and also the most critically acclaimed album of her career. The album explored issues of infidelity, feminismand women's rights, and. In 2018, she debuted Everything Is Love, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z and the Carters. as a guest artist, Beyonce was atop the Billboard Hot 100 with the remixes of "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran in 2017 and "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. In the same year, she released the musical film Black Is King with an accompanying visual album, with the praise of critics. Beyonce's seventh studio album, Renaissance has received greater praise from critics in 2022. It featured a blend of house and disco and paid tribute to the LGBTQand ball culture. She obtained her first solo number-one since 2008, with the album's first track, "Break My Soul", with Renaissance is her first solo studio album since 2016.She is one of the world's best-selling recording artists selling more than 200 million records worldwide. The success she achieved in the 2000s was acknowledged with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s Top Certified Artist of the Decade and the Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Decade. 10] Her debut solo album, which included seven studio albums, climbed to number one on Billboard 200. Beyonce has been awarded 28 Grammy Awards, 26 MTV Video Music Awards and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2014, as well as 24, NAACP Image Awards and 31 BET Awards. She also received 17 Soul Train Music Awards. These awards are more than any other singer. In 2014, Billboard ranked her as the highest-earning black artist ever.