Music Artist Beyonce Bio

Youth and Beyonce friend Kelly Rowland proceeded to form the supergroup Destiny’s Child’s crux. The women got their break when they entered Star Search after singing in events. The group, subsequently called”Girl’s Tyme”, were frustrated after losing the contest but were finally signed to Columbia Records in 1996.

Destiny’s Child rose to fame in 1998 with their Platinum-selling debut album Destiny’s Child that was made by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and featured the dual breasted number-one “No, No, No Part 2”.

The band’s second album, The Writing’s on the Wall, published in 1999, featured two number-one strikes: “Bills, Bills, Bills” and”Say My Name”. “Bug a Boo” and”Jumpin’ Jumpin’” were also popular singles from the record. It went on to sell eight million from the U.S. and twelve thousand copies globally. Moreover, the group won 2 awards in the 2001 Grammy awards: “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” and also”Greatest R&B Song”.

Their subsequent album, Survivor, was another significant success, moving to #1 on either the U.S. Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The title track, “Survivor”, made the team their third Grammy Award, “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals”.

Back in 2001, Beyonce won the”Songwriter of the Year” award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. She’s a second female songwriter of time to achieve this and the very first female.

Back in 2003, her debut solo album was published by Beyonce. The record entered the Billboard 200 selling 317,000 copies in its first week. It had been certified Platinum just 3 months later. Its first single, “Crazy in Love” featured a guest rap from Jay-Z and it immediately became among the greatest hits of the summer.

Dangerously in Love went to Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, and the Philippines. The record has sold more than four thousand copies in the U.S. and more than eight million copies globally. After her single and album simultaneously topped the principal charts in the U.S. and the UK, she became the first act to achieve this feat since Men on the job in 1983 as well as The Beatles, Simon, and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart from the 1960s and 1970s; she’s the first and thus far the only female performer to perform this.

Beyonce won five Grammy awards and this album: Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, and Norah Jones are held by just three female musicians.

On June 13, 2005, it had been declared that the Child of Destiny could disband after their world tour finished in September 2005.

In the 2006 Grammy Awards, Beyonce won a Grammy in the category of”Greatest R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” for the tune”So Amazing”, a duet with Stevie Wonder in the Luther Vandross tribute album So Amazing: A All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross.

Beyonce’s next studio record, B’Day, premiered worldwide on September 4, 2006, and on September 5, 2006, in the U.S. to coincide with the party of Beyonce’s twenty-fifth birthday. In its first week, the record sold over 541,000 copies from the U.S., instantly coming in at number one, which makes it her greatest first-week earnings as a solo performer. Presently, the record was certified triple Platinum in the U.S. for imports of more than three thousand copies. The record has had global success promoting 5.3 million copies globally.

On December 6, the nominations for the 2007 Grammy awards were announced, and Beyonce received five, where she won”Best Contemporary R&B Album”. Beyonce has been on tour for her most recent record B’Day and will be touring the U.S. before the end of September. Beyonce would be always to go on tour it’s strongly suggested as tickets will go that you purchase tickets.