Beyoncé

 Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter (/bi'anseIBeyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter (listen) bee-ON-say;[4] was born on the 4th of September, 1981)[5] is an American artist, singer, and actress. According to NPR, Beyonce is the 21st century's most influential female artist due to her boundary-pushing vocals and artistic talent. As a child Beyonce took part in a variety of dancing and singing contests. In the mid-90s she was a part of the R&B girl band Destiny's Child. This was one of the most popular girl groups of all time. The group's break ended with the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003) that included the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". The second album by Beyonce, B'Day (which included singles "Irreplaceable" as well as "Beautiful Liar") was released in 2006 following Destiny's Child disbanded. Beyonce was also in several films like The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Obsessed (2009) and The Lion King (2019). Jay-Z's wedding and the role she played as Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) had an influence on her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008). The album was awarded six Grammy Awards, a record. The album was followed by the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies" and "Halo". After her split from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, she released her diverse musical fourth album 4 in 2011.Beyonce later achieved universal acclaim for her sonically experimental visual albums, Beyonce (2013) as well as Lemonade (2016) The latter of which was the world's best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career. The album explored themes of infidelity, feminism, and women's rights, and. The year 2018 saw the release of Everything Is Love, a album she co-produced with Jay-Z. Beyonce was a featured artist and also topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017 with remixes from Ed Sheeran and Megan Thee Stallion. In the same year, she also released the musical Black Is King with an accompanying visual album that received the praise of critics. In 2022, Beyonce received further critical acclaim for her 7th studio album Renaissance which was a musical experiment that incorporated disco and house music and paid homage to LGBTQand ball culture. She obtained her first solo number-one since 2008 with the album's lead single, "Break My Soul" which was followed by Renaissance is her first solo studio album since 2016.She is one of the top-selling artists in the world selling more than 200 million albums worldwide. The success she achieved in the decade of 2000 was acknowledged by 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, was ranked number one on Billboard 200. Beyonce's achievements include 28 Grammy Awards, 26 MTV Video Music Awards (including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2014) 24, 24 NAACP Image Awards, 31 BET Awards, and 17 Soul Train Music Awards; all of which are more than any other singer. In 2014, Billboard named her the most successful black artist of all time, while in 2020,