Happy Birthday Beyonce!
On Saturday, 4 September 2021, Beyonce turned 40 and Fabulous! And she is definitely not backing down from giving more reasons to keep calling her Queen B. We have compiled 5 facts about her and our top 5 of her songs.
The icon, who just turned 40, is a Grammy award-winning singer, actress, fashionista and wife to billionaire singer Jay-Z.
5 interesting facts about Beyonce
- Her full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, and she was born on 4 September 1981 in Houston, Texas, U.S.
- She is an American singer-songwriter, an actress and a fashionista. She achieved fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny’s Child and then went solo in 2003, releasing her first album after Destiny Child’s split.
- In 2004 Beyoncé won five Grammy Awards, including best contemporary R&B album and best female R&B vocal performance.
- In 2002, there were rumours that she was involved with singer Jay-Z after her collaboration with him on his 7th album. On 4 April 2008, Beyoncé got married to Jay-Z in a private ceremony. They have three children together – Blue Ivy, Rumi and Sir Carter.
- In 2010, Beyoncé founded her own entertainment company Parkwood Entertainment, and this is where all her works stem from.
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List of Awards
Over the years, Beyonce has garnered a total of 23 Grammy awards out of 79 nominations. See the full list of Beyoncé’s Grammy win list below.
2021
- R&B Performance – ‘Black Parade’
- Rap Song – ‘Savage’
- Rap/Sung Performance – ‘Savage’
- Music Video – ‘Brown Skin Girl’
2020
- Best Music Film – Homecoming
2019
- Best Urban Contemporary Album – Everything Is Love (with Jay-Z)
2017
- Best Urban Contemporary Album – Lemonade
- Best Music Video – ‘Formation’
2015
- Best Surround Sound Album – Beyoncé
- Best R&B Performance – ‘Drunk In Love’ (feat. Jay-Z)
- Best R&B Song – ‘Drunk In Love’ (feat. Jay-Z)
2013
- Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – ‘Love On Top’
2010
- Best Contemporary R&B Album – I Am… Sasha Fierce
- Best Female Pop Vocal Performance – ‘Halo’
- Song of the Year – ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’
- Best R&B Song – ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’
- Best Female R&B Vocal Performance – ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’
- Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance – ‘At Last’
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2007
- Best Contemporary R&B Album – B’Day
2006
- Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – ‘So Amazing’ (with Stevie Wonder)
2004
- Best Contemporary R&B Album – Dangerously In Love
- Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – ‘The Closer I Get to You’ (with Luther Vandross)
- Best R&B Song – ‘Crazy In Love’ (feat. Jay-Z)
- Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – ‘Crazy In Love’ (feat. Jay-Z)
- Best Female R&B Vocal Performance – ‘Dangerously in Love 2’
2002
- Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – ‘Survivor’
2001
- Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals – ‘Say My Name’
- Best R&B Song – ‘Say My Name’
Top 5 Beyonce songs
Flawless (feat Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (2013)
Beyoncé’s Flawless offers a powerful message that goes beyond catchy lyrical soundbites, thanks to author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s potent We Should All Be Feminists speech.
Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) (2008)
