It’s Great To Be Beyonce

Beyonce Knowles was born September 4, 1981. Since then, she has become a Grammy winning singer, a dancer, an actress, a fashion designer, a producer, and a model. This is quite a resume for a woman who is twenty five years old.

Destiny’s Child

Beyonce got her start as a collaborative force and the lead singer in the all-girl group Destiny’s Child. With the group losing singers and getting new ones, Beyonce was able to continue making chart topping hits. Destiny’ s Child is the best selling female group of all time. They have sold over fifty million records. Destiny’s Child first rose to fame in 1998 with the number one hit No No No pt.2. Since then they have had four number one singles, many top ten hits, and two number-one albums.

Film Career

After Beyonce thought she had done all that she could with Destiny’s Child, she decided to move on to a solo career. Her first step out of Destiny’s Child in acting. In 2001, Beyonce starred along side Mekhi Phifer in the made for MTV movie Carmen: A Hip Hopera. After working on that project, Beyonce had the acting bug. She went on to co-star with Mike Myers and Michael Caine in Austin Powers in Goldmember. Beyonce played sexy Foxy Cleopatra. She reordered a song for this movie as well but it was not a hit by any means. It did not get much radio play and only digital music stations were playing the video. After Austin Powers, Beyonce moved on to starring with Cuba Gooding Jr. in The Fighting Temptations in 2003. This soundtrack also did not do well, however the movie did well in the box office. The Pink Panther was Beyonce’s next movie was The Pink Panther released in 2006. With Austin Powers Goldmember, Pink Panther made two movies which Beyonce appeared in that opened at number one in the box office. Beyonce’s most recent movie was Dream girls. She called this movie her first “real acting job”. Beyonce was nominated for two Golden Globe awards for Dream girls. Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Best Original Song for “Listen”, which won two.

Solo Career

While Beyonce spent her time working on movies, she also had time to work on her solo music career. Her first solo album, released in 2003, Dangerously In Love, sold more than four million copies in the US. She released another album in 2006 called B’Day. This album sold over 541,000 copies in it’s first week.

Personal Life

Beyonce does all of this and also has time for a personal life. She has been said to be dating rapper Jay-Z, although neither of them ever comment on the relationship.

With all of this going on, all of the fame and fortune, it must be nice to be Beyonce.