Beyoncé Knowles
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a.k.a. Bey; Notorious pop sensation; 35 years old ou were born and raised in Houston, Texas. You have had an affinity for singing and performing since a young age, competing in, and often winning, local talent shows. Your parents, Celestine "Tina" Knowles, a hairdresser and salon owner of Creole descent, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager of African descent, were extraordinarily supportive of your aspirations, so much so that in 1995 your father resigned from his job as a Xerox sales manager (effectively cutting your family’s income in half) in order to become the manager of the all-girls group, Destiny’s Child, that you formed with your best friend and two other classmates. Your career as a singer took off in 1997 when Destiny’s Child released their first major song for the …show more content…
In fact, you have two songs, Independent Woman Part I and Run the World, that were listed in the top 10 girl power anthems. Despite the fact that many of your songs could be considered girl power anthems, you did not embrace the title “feminist” until recent years. It was in an interview with Vogue in 2013 that you first publicly said you considered yourself a modern feminist. You later made a more public alliance with the feminist movement when sampling from “We should all be feminists”, a speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in your song Flawless. You have also contributed to the Ban Bossy campaign, working with television and social media to encourage girls to be leaders. Not only do you advocate for woman, you have also publicly spoken out in support of same sex marriage, endorsing it in 2013 after the Supreme Court debate on California's Proposition 8, and you have publicly condemned police brutality against black Americans – in 2013 you and Jay Z attended a rally in response to George Zimmerman not being charged for the shooting and killing of Trayvon
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a.k.a. Bey; Notorious pop sensation; 35 years old ou were born and raised in Houston, Texas. You have had an affinity for singing and performing since a young age, competing in, and often winning, local talent shows. Your parents, Celestine "Tina" Knowles, a hairdresser and salon owner of Creole descent, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager of African descent, were extraordinarily supportive of your aspirations, so much so that in 1995 your father resigned from his job as a Xerox sales manager (effectively cutting your family’s income in half) in order to become the manager of the all-girls group, Destiny’s Child, that you formed with your best friend and two other classmates. Your career as a singer took off in 1997 when Destiny’s Child released their first major song for the …show more content…
In fact, you have two songs, Independent Woman Part I and Run the World, that were listed in the top 10 girl power anthems. Despite the fact that many of your songs could be considered girl power anthems, you did not embrace the title “feminist” until recent years. It was in an interview with Vogue in 2013 that you first publicly said you considered yourself a modern feminist. You later made a more public alliance with the feminist movement when sampling from “We should all be feminists”, a speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in your song Flawless. You have also contributed to the Ban Bossy campaign, working with television and social media to encourage girls to be leaders. Not only do you advocate for woman, you have also publicly spoken out in support of same sex marriage, endorsing it in 2013 after the Supreme Court debate on California's Proposition 8, and you have publicly condemned police brutality against black Americans – in 2013 you and Jay Z attended a rally in response to George Zimmerman not being charged for the shooting and killing of Trayvon