History Music / Beyonce

** ''The Beyoncé Experience Live'' (2007): showcasing her concert at the Staples Center in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles during The Beyoncé Experience tour. The show ends with a celebration of the singer's birthday.

* LiveAlbum: As of 2024, Beyoncé has six live albums.

** ''The Beyoncé Experience Live'' (2007): showcasing her concert at the Staples Center in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles during The Beyoncé Experience tour. The concert ends with a celebration of the singer's birthday.

* LiveAlbum: ''Homecoming.''

* ''act ii: Cowboy Carter'' (2024)

* ''Music/{{Renaissance|2022}}'' (2022)
* ''Cowboy Carter'' (2024)

* ''Act II'' (2024)

"Crazy in Love" featured Music/JayZ, who would later become her husband and the father of her three children, Blue Ivy (b. 2012) and twins Rumi and Sir (b. 2017). The two of them, Beyoncé in particular, are notoriously adamant about keeping their private lives private, which would later prove to be something they strategically subvert in order to clear the air or dispel rumors about them, often with the brutal truth. They also relentlessly protect their children from the spotlight, especially the twins; she’s only showed their faces a handful of times on her own terms, and they’ve never really been publicly photographed.

!!!Collaborative Albums
* ''Everything Is Love'' (2018) (collaborative album with Jay-Z, credited as The Carters)

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981), known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model and businesswoman. Since beginning her career in the late 1990s, she has become one of the most prominent figures in the music industry and pop culture of the 21st century.

After four commercially successful albums, Beyoncé released two works that both contained innovations on the modern album format that were nearly unprecedented from a musician of her stature. Her 2013 SelfTitledAlbum ''[[Music/Beyonce2013 Beyoncé]]'' was developed as a visual album, in that it had a music video accompanying ''every'' song[[note]]although Beyoncé had actually done this as early as her 2006 sophomore album ''Music/BDay'' and its accompanying 2007 DVD ''B'Day Anthology Video Album''[[/note]]. It was also released with zero promotion whatsoever, a nearly unprecedented move from someone of her stature that caused the media and internet alike to collectively piss itself. Two years later on April 23, 2016, she released her sixth album ''Music/{{Lemonade}}'', an album that further cemented her genre mixing, featuring Louisiana bounce beats, an outright rock song featuring Music/JackWhite, and even a country song. In the complete opposite way of her previous album, Beyonce promoted the album's release with a short film that premiered on Creator/{{HBO}}, giving only a week's notice ahead. ''Lemonade'' details Beyonce coping with her husband's infidelity, forgiving him, while also promoting womanist ideas and concepts. The world once again lost its mind at the revelations. After having to take some time off due to her pregnancy with the twins being high-risk that led to an emergency c-section, Beyonce had the honor of being the first female black headliner at the Coachella musical festival in 2018. Her nearly 2 hour set of almost continuous singing and dancing was instantly named a classic, with fans and commentators alike dubbing that year "Beychella." In April 2019, a ConcertFilm entitled ''Homecoming'' of this performance was released as a Creator/{{Netflix}} original along with the audio as a standalone album. It’s part of a three project deal she signed with the company.

After a six year break, her seventh studio album was announced in June 2022. Entitled ''Renaissance: Act 1'', it was released on July 29th. The project is much more upbeat than her previous two. Sonically, it moves her back from R&B to the pop sphere but is more dance inspired than her pre-self titled album pop output. It was announced as the first in a trilogy but no further details were given when it was released.

At almost any given time she is probably Website/{{Tumblr}}'s resident MemeticBadass, and she's certainly one of the biggest pop-culture feminist icons of her time.

She is also big sister to fellow singer {{Music/Solange}}!

'''Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter''' (born September 4, 1981), known simply as '''Beyoncé''', is an R&B singer, actress, and model. She started off in the girl group Music/DestinysChild, and soon became the face of the band.

In 2002, she started a solo career (mostly collaborations with rappers but without the other girls), and got her first big hit a year later, "Crazy in Love". Since then, almost every song she's sung has made it to the top of the charts. "Crazy in Love" featured Music/JayZ, who would later become her husband and the father of her three children: Blue Ivy (b. 2012) and twins Rumi and Sir (b.2017). The two of them, Beyonce in particular, are notorious about keeping their private lives private, which would later prove to be something they strategically subvert in order to clear the air/dispell rumors about them, often with the brutal truth. They also relentlessly protect their children from the spotlight, especially the twins. She’s only showed their faces a handful of times on her own terms and they’ve never really been publicly photographed.

She fronted the 2013 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime show with a reunited Music/DestinysChild and in 2016, she and Music/BrunoMars basically stole the halftime show from Music/{{Coldplay}}. This appearance, much like a lot of what Beyonce does in some circles, kicked up a lot of controversy due to her styling herself and her back up dancers like members of the militant, pro-black civil rights era political group, [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement The Black Panther Party]]. She also had the honor of performing the national anthem at President UsefulNotes/BarackObama's second inauguration in 2013. In the near future she is predicted to become [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Empress of Earth]].

In 2013, she released a SelfTitledAlbum that heavily featured a SouthernRap sound and a video accompanying ''every'' song with zero promotion whatsoever, a nearly unprecedented move that caused the media and internet alike to collectively piss itself. Two years later on April 23, 2016, she dropped her sixth album ''Lemonade'', an album that further cemented Beyonce's genre mixing, featuring Louisiana bounce beats, an outright rock song featuring Music/JackWhite, and even a country song. In the complete opposite way of her previous album, Beyonce promoted the album's release with a short film that premiered on Creator/{{HBO}}, giving only a week's notice ahead. ''Lemonade'' details Beyonce coping with her husband's infidelity, forgiving him, while also promoting womanist ideas and concepts. The world once again lost its mind at the revelations. After having to take some time off due to her pregnancy with the twins being high-risk that led to an emergency c-section, Beyonce had the honor of being the first female black headliner at the Coachella musical festival in 2018. Her nearly 2 hour set of almost continuous singing and dancing was instantly named a classic, with fans and commentators alike dubbing that year "Beychella." In April 2019, a ConcertFilm entitled ''Homecoming'' of this performance was released as a Creator/{{Netflix}} original along with the audio as a standalone album. It’s part of a three project deal she signed with the company.

* SelfBackingVocalist: One of the most skilled in popular music. Her self-background vocals are a hallmark of her musical style.

** This has become a hallmark of the Renaissance World Tour. Throughout the tour’s seven[[note]]eight at certain shows[[/note]] distinct acts, she and her dancers don a variety of different costumes. Her opening act outfits are the most notable for being different at ''almost'' every show[[note]]She wore dresses from her Atlanta and Inglewood shows again in New Orleans and Houston.[[/note]], making every performance distinctly recognizable.