

Beyoncé's accolades include 28 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 singer. Her success during the 2000s was recognized with the RIAA's Top Certified Artist of the Decade as well as Billboard's Top Female Artist of the Decade. She is the first artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 with their first six solo studio albums. She later achieved universal acclaim for her sonically experimental visual albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016), the latter of which was the world's best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career, exploring themes of infidelity and womanism.īeyoncé is one of the world's best-selling recording artists, having sold 118 million records worldwide. Following the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, she released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained hit singles "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar".Īfter splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, Beyoncé released her musically diverse fourth album 4 in 2011. Their hiatus saw the release of her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which featured the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy".

She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
