Beyoncé

 Beyonce in all her glory Beyonce Giselle Knowles, (born September 4 1981, Houston, Texas, U.S.), American singer-songwriter and actress who achieved notoriety in the late 1990s when she was the lead vocalist of the R&B group Destiny's Child and then launched her own highly successful solo career.At age nine Beyonce began the girl group that sang-rapped Destiny's Child (originally called Girl's Tyme) in 1990 with friends from her childhood. In 1992 the group lost on the Star Search television talent show in the following year, and it was dropped from a recording contract before an album had been released. The group's fortunes were turned around with a Columbia recording contract , followed by an eponymous debut album that yielded the hit single "No, No, No Part 2." The follow-up album, The Writing's on the Wall (1999), earned the group two Grammy Awards and sold more than eight million copies across the United States. The third album of the group, Survivor (2001), was a top-selling album on the Billboard 200 charts.