Impressive Career: Through The Years With Beyoncé Knowles

Beyoncé Knowles is a household name now, but her humble beginnings in Texas prove that she was a star from the beginning just waiting for her big break! Being born on September 4, 1981, this Virgo is typical of their kind - ambitious and hardworking, unable to settle for anything less than their dream! 

From a young age, Beyoncé attended talent shows, singing competitions, and dance recitals. While she was often a winner, Beyoncé knew that she was meant for greatness. In 1989, Beyoncé met her childhood friend Kelly Rowland, and the two formed their girl group, which was originally called Girl’s Tyme.

After failing a few talent shows, the girls added a new girl to the group and kept grinding toward their goal. Beyoncé’s father quit his day job to be the girls’ manager full-time, and the trio of ladies travelled all across Texas in talent shows, singing competitions and more. Then, finally,  in 1996 Beyoncé Knowles and her girl group were signed on with Sony Music and moved to Atlanta to record their first-ever debut album under their new name, Destiny’s Child.

In 1999, the girls recorded their second album, The Writing’s on the Wall, which reached Platinum. On the album, "Say My Name", "Bills Bills Bills", and "Jumpin’ Jumpin’" awarded the girls with 2 Grammy awards under the R&B category. 

In 2000, Destiny’s Child made another huge smash hit, "Independent Woman Part I" for the box office hit Charlie’s Angels, which awarded them the No.1 spot on the Billboard 100 charts. A year later, the girls created their third album Survivor, and within the first week sold over 600,000 copies and launched to the top of the charts.

In 2003, Beyoncé made her first debut on the big screen for Mike Myers's comedy, Austin Powers in Goldmember as "Foxxy Cleopatra", and the film grossed $73 million dollars at the box office. That same year, Beyoncé worked on her first solo album which caused some contention with the other girls of Destiny’s Child, but Beyoncé was on the top of the world, and nothing would stop her!

Her first solo album in question had the smash hit "Crazy in Love", which she worked with rap mogul Jay-Z. Rumours of their relationship circulated, but neither Jay-Z nor Beyoncé confirmed how they felt about one another. Beyoncé performed that year at the Grammy’s without her trio, and was joined on stage with Prince, a historic performance that would be written down as iconic for years to come!

Following her first album, in 2006 Beyoncé released her second solo album B’Day to commemorate her turning 25. Once again the album was launched to the No.1 spot on Billboard and earned her 5 Grammy award nominations. That same year she also appeared in the comedy Pink Panther, as well as portraying Diana Ross in the film Dreamgirls, loosely based on the Supremes, and starred alongside the likes of Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx. 

In 2008, Beyoncé release I Am… Sasha Fierce, her third album. While critically it wasn’t adored, the album still reached the No.1 spot, and featured the iconic single, "Single Ladies". The music video would go on to be nominated 9 times at the MTV Music Awards in 2009. When she failed to win for Best Female Pop Video to Taylor Swift, the iconic Kanye West interruption happened on stage where he proclaimed that Beyoncé "had the best music video of all time". Later that evening, Beyoncé won an award to which she called Swift on stage to "have her moment", proving she lives up to the hype.

That same year, Beyoncé and Jay-Z tied the knot. A few years later in 2012, the couple gave birth to their first child, Blue Ivy Carter. Later, Jay-Z and Beyoncé would go on to have twins, who were born in June of 2017. Little is known about the twins, but Blue Ivy is seen often with her parents at events and is musical herself.