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2. Beyoncé was born on September 4 th 1981. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Her mom’s name is Tina Knowles and her fathers name is Mathew Knowles. Her mother was a costume designer and hair stylist and her father was a professional record manager. Her father is a African- American and her mother is a Louisiana, Creole, has African, French, Native American, and Irish ancestry.

3. Beyoncé was in a girl group called Destiny’s Child which formed in 1990 in Houston, Texas. The group had 3 people, the girls names were Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Beyoncé Knowles. They had 3 singles named Writings on the wall, Bills Bills Bills and say my name. Destiny’s child sold over 50 million records worldwide. Billboard magazine ranked the group as “one of the greatest musical trios of all time.” they released, an autobiography called Soul Survivors. The albums they released are called 8 days of Christmas, Destiny’s Child, Destiny’s fulfilled, and Survivor

4. Destiny’s Child reunited for a performance at the 2006 NBA all star game on February 19 th in Houston, Texas. Beyoncé, at the show said "It's the last album, but it's not the last show” Their final performance on TV was at the Fashions Rocks benefit concert, the same month. On March 28 th, 2006, Destiny’s Child got admitted into the Hollywood walk of fame

5. Beyoncé didn’t go solo until 2005 permanently. When she did go solo she had her first album released called Dangerously in Love, which came out on June 22,2003. Her album got five Grammy Awards. Also her album had a lot of collaborations with Jay-Z, Sean Paul ect.She thought that by recording an album by herself would be for “ liberating and therapeutic” reasons because then her ideas would get flowing for more collaborations with other artists.

6. Beyoncé met Jay Z when she was 18, and they started dating when she was 19. She said that she was in no rush to get married, and that she promised herself to not get married before she was 25. On April, 4. 2008, when she was 28 she married Jay Z in New York City. Beyoncé didn’t publically show her wedding ring until September, 5 th 2008 at the Fashion Rocks concert.

7. On January 7 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to a baby girl named Blue Ivy Carter at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. 2 days after the birth of Blue Ivy, Jay-Z released a song called “Glory” dedicated to their daughter. The song detailed her pregnancy struggles and a miscarriage she suffered before becoming pregnant with Blue Ivy.

8. Beyoncé is the eighth best-selling digital artist in the United States with over than 30.4 million singles sold as of January 2012. She has sold over 13 million albums in the United States and over 75 million, worldwide, which made her one of the best selling musical artists of all time. Beyoncé was ranked third on VH1’s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music. She has 16 Grammy Awards, 12 MTV Video Music Awards, a Billboard millennium award and more.