PERSONALITY OF THE DAY: BEYONCE GISELLE KNOWLES
Do You know Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was birthed in the city of Houston, Texas? Her mother’s name is Celestine "Tina" Knowles, she was an hair stylist by profession and she also owned a salon while her father’s name is Mathew Knowles, he is a Xerox sales representative. Beyoncé's nomenclature stands as an honor to her mother's maiden name.
Beyoncé's immediate sibling Solange has also delved into singing and she is also a former member of Destiny's Child. Solange and Beyoncé are the primary sisters to equally hold No. 1 records. Beyonce’s father is a Black American, and Her Mom is of Louisiana Creole descendant.
Beyoncé schooled in St. Mary's Montessori School which is located across Houston, there she signed up for dance classes.
Her musical abilities were unveiled at the time dance coordinator Darlette Johnson started to hum a song and she completed it, she easily hit the top range pitch keys.
Beyoncé's genuine love for music grow as soon as soon as she won a school talent hunt at the tender age of seven, doing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat people way advanced an older than her both in age and class.
Towards the early falls of the year 1990, She Signed up in Parker Elementary School, a music-savvy high school located across Houston, there she sang with the school official choir. She also schooled in the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and finally Alief Elsik High School. Beyoncé in like manner was a chorister at St. John's United Methodist Church and was a soloist for two whole years.
When Beyoncé clocked eight, she and early pal Kelly Rowland stumbled upon LaTavia Roberson in an audition which was looking for all-girl entertainment group. The duo were arranged in a group with some three young girls as Girl's Tyme, the group basically did some rap and dances, after viewing the team, R&B producer Arne Frager took the group over to his Northern California studio and put them in Star Search, the biggest talent hunt on nationwide Television at that epoch.
Nonetheless Girl's Tyme failed to come out victorious, and Beyoncé soon after admitted that their performance were not really the best they could have given.
Come the golden year 1995, Beyoncé's father dropped out from his job to fully run the group. The step cut down Beyoncé's family's income, and her parents had to pack their belongings to different houses.
The girls sang in front of record labels and at the end of it all were given a contract by Elektra Records, they had to move to Atlanta Records for a short while to do on their first records, only to be fired by the company. The development placed more stress on the family, and Beyoncé's parents divorced.
Come October 5, 1995, Dwayne Wiggins's Grass Roots Entertainment employed the girls and come the year 1996, the girls started mixing their debut record based on a contract with Sony Music, the Knowles family got back together, in a short while, the group got employed by Columbia Records
The team reversed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, this was based on a scriptural quote from the bible, specifically the Book of Isaiah.
Come 1997, The group dropped their principal label debut song "Killing Time" as a sound track to the 1997 movie, Men in Black. The year after, the team dropped its renown album, this got the team its first principal hit-track "No, No, No". The record showed up the group as a thriving part of the large music world, this was due to average sales and coming out as the winner of the group three Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards for Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year, Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, and Best R&B/Soul Single for "No, No, No".
Back to Beyonce, come 2014, she had grown to be the topmost-paid African American musician for all of time and she came on on the list for Time's 100 most influential people in the world for two year consecutively. Forbes ranks this girl as the most powerful female in entertainment of 2015, and finally in the year 2016, she was on number six for Person of the Year award.
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