Beyonce Knowles
Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love, which established her as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth4 September 1981
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.
Tatoo your name across my heart, so it will remain / not even death could make us part / what kind is it / It could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare / either way I don't want to wake up from you.
To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.
To me it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym. I feel best when I'm not really thin and not really heavy - when I'm still curvy.
But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning.
Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
When you're famous no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. There's nothing real about it.
I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.
You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.
You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.