Beyoncé

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Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Beyoncé in 2023
General information
Birth name	Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
Born	September 4, 1981 (age 43) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Gender	Female
Nicknames	Yoncé Bey Sasha Fierce Queen Bey Beysus Goddess of Music Mother of the House of Renaissance BB
Genres	R&B, pop, hip hop, etc
Occupation	Singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, director, model, dancer, fashion designer, businesswoman
Years active	1997 - Present

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, director, model, dancer, fashion designer, and businesswoman. She is the most awarded artist alive and one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Ariana Grande is a fan and has also credited Beyoncé and Destiny's Child as one of her major influences.

Influences

Grande mentioned Beyoncé, along with Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in her Excuse Me, I Love You documentary, explaining that they had taught her how to sing and do runs.

Trivia

• Ariana's song "Baby I" was initially written for and offered to Beyoncé, but she rejected it which led to Ariana releasing the song instead.
• A scrapped Beyoncé demo titled "Wake Up" from her eponymous fifth studio album, Beyoncé, was sold to Grande and retitled "R.E.M." and became a popular song from Grande's fourth studio album, Sweetener.
• Grande and Beyoncé first met in person in February 2015, at Grande's then-boyfriend Big Sean's album promotion, held at the SKY Studio in L.A.
• In 2015 Beyoncé was seen dancing to Grande performing The Way at Michael Jordan’s event in NYC.
• During Grande's 2019 Coachella performance, an unidentified assailant in the crowd threw a lemon at Grande. This was due to speculation that Ariana had been paid double the amount of money for the performance than Beyoncé had when she headlined the previous year, which was false and quickly debunked.
  • The lemon thrown represented the sixth studio album of Knowles-Carter's discography, Lemonade, of which since lemons have been used as a symbol, a flag, an icon, and a way to show their support of Beyoncé and her work.
• On June 26, 2021, Beyoncé wished Ariana Grande a happy birthday through a post on her official website.
• Grande attended one of Beyoncé's shows for her Renaissance World Tour in London on June 4, 2023.
• As revealed in the leaked session files, Grande's song, "True Story" samples its drum pattern from "Don't Hurt Yourself" by Beyoncé.

Discography

• Destiny's Child (1998, as part of Destiny's Child)
• The Writing's on the Wall (1999, as part of Destiny's Child)
• Survivor (2001, as part of Destiny's Child)
• 8 Days of Christmas (2001, holiday, as part of Destiny's Child)
• Dangerously In Love (2003)
• Destiny Fulfilled (2004, as part of Destiny's Child)
• B-Day (2006)
• I Am...Sasha Fierce (2008)
• 4 (2011)
• Beyoncé (2013)
• Lemonade (2016)
• Everything Is Love (2018, with Jay-Z as The Carters)
• The Lion King: The Gift (2019, soundtrack)
• Renaissance (2022)
• Cowboy Carter (2024)

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