Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, also known as Beyonce, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress born on September 4, 1981. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she performed in several singing and dancing competitions as a child.
She rose to stardom as the main singer of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, in the late 1990s. During their sabbatical, she released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love (2003), which included the number-one singles ‘Crazy in Love’ and ‘Baby Boy’ on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Beyoncé released her musically diversified fourth album 4 in 2011 after parting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010. Her sonically adventurous visual albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016) received global praise, with the latter becoming the world’s best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career, tackling themes of infidelity and womanism.
Beyoncé is one of the best-selling recording artists in the world, with 118 million albums sold worldwide. She is the only solo artist to start at number one on the Billboard 200 with her first six studio albums. Her achievements in the 2000s were acknowledged by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the Top Certified Artist of the Decade and Billboard as the Top Female Artist of the Decade.
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