The same year, she released the musical film and visual album Black Is King to widespread acclaim.īeyoncé is one of the world's best-selling recording artists, having sold over 120 million records worldwide as a solo artist by 2010. As a featured artist, Beyoncé topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the remixes of " Perfect" by Ed Sheeran in 2017 and " Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
In 2018, she released Everything Is Love, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters. She later achieved universal acclaim for her sonically experimental visual albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016), the latter of which was the world's best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career, exploring themes of infidelity and womanism. It spawned the successful singles " If I Were a Boy", " Single Ladies", and " Halo".Īfter splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, Beyoncé released her musically diverse fourth album 4 in 2011. Sasha Fierce (2008), which earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010. Her marriage to Jay-Z and her portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am. Beyoncé also starred in multiple films such as The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Obsessed (2009), and The Lion King (2019). Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003), which featured the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles " Crazy in Love" and " Baby Boy".įollowing the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, she released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained singles " Irreplaceable" and " Beautiful Liar". She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child.
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( / b iː ˈ j ɒ n s eɪ/ bee- YON-say née Knowles born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.