Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( (listen) bee-ON-say; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and businesswoman. Nicknamed "Queen Bey", she has been widely recognized for her boundary-pushing artistry, stage presence and vocal performances. Her contributions to music and visual media have made her a prominent pop icon.Beyoncé started performing in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003). Following the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, Beyoncé released a series of successful solo albums, including B'Day (2006), I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), 4 (2011), Beyoncé (2013), Lemonade (2016), and Renaissance (2022), and became the first solo artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Throughout her career, she has amassed multiple chart-topping singles worldwide, including "Crazy in Love", "Baby Boy", "Check on It", "Irreplaceable", "If I Were a Boy", "Halo", "Single Ladies", "Perfect Duet", "Savage" and "Break My Soul."

After professionally splitting from her manager and father, Mathew Knowles, in 2010, Beyoncé's artistry achieved wider critical acclaim for releasing sonically experimental visual albums and exploring societal themes such as infidelity, feminism, womanism, escapism, and hedonism. Her other music ventures included Everything Is Love (2018), a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters, and the musical film Black Is King (2020), inspired by the music of the film soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift (2019). Beyoncé also starred in multiple films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Obsessed (2009), and The Lion King (2019).

Having sold 200 million records worldwide, Beyoncé is one of the world's best-selling recording artists. Her accolades include 32 Grammy Awards, 26 MTV Video Music Awards (including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2014), 24 NAACP Image Awards, 31 BET Awards, and 17 Soul Train Music Awards, all of which are more than any other artist. With 31 career top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 – including eight chart-toppers – she became the first female artist and third overall to achieve at least twenty as a solo artist and ten as a group member. Her success during the 2000s earned her recognition as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s Top Certified Artist of the Decade and Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Decade. In 2014, Billboard named her the highest-earning black musician of all time. She is the most successful black touring act in history. In 2020, Time magazine featured her among a list of 100 women who defined the last century. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her the eighth-greatest singer of all time.

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