9 Things You Didn’t Know About Beyoncé
Beyonce broke 2 Grammy records
After collecting 22 Grammy Awards, Beyonce broke the world records for the second-most awarded female artist and the most Grammy-nominated woman in history with 62 nominations.
In 2010, Bey became the most awarded female artist in one night at Grammy, being tied two years later by Adele.
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles’ Alter-Ego is called Sasha Fierce.
Lots of singers have alter-egos, born to help amplify a certain part of their personality, to help them cope with their deepest fears or only to easily allow the audience to connect with the artist and his work.
The reason that lies beyond the creation of Sasha Fierce it’s hard to imagine, but Beyonce said she gets very nervous on stage, and her alter-ego it’s helping her to healthy defeat her stage fright.
Sasha Fierce is extroverted, aggressive, and bold, emanating powerful feelings and high energy on her performances.
On the other side, Beyonce herself is introverted, reserved, and needs the fierce persona of Sasha to express herself through music.
The character of Sasha Fierce was invented on the set of the “Crazy in Love” music video.
- In 2006, Beyoncé revealed for Parade magazine that she “wouldn’t like Sasha if I met her offstage,” claiming her alter ego was “too aggressive, too sassy and too sexy” to be friends with.
- In 2008, Beyonce released her third album titled “I Am… Sasha Fierce,” and in 2010, the album won six Grammys, smashing the world record for the most Grammys won in one night by a woman.
Beyoncé is the longest-charting album by a black female singer.
Released in 2013, Beyonce’s self-titled album became the year’s top-selling female debut in only 27 hours after its surprise launch.
In July 2017, Beyoncé became the longest-charting album by a black female artist in Billboard 200 history, surpassing the record held by Whitney Houston’s self-titled album.
Beyonce Knowles won two Grammys with her sixth album Lemonade and broke three records.
1. In 2016, her 6th solo album named “Lemonade” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Albums 200, making Beyonce the first and only singer to have all of her albums debut at #1.
2. The same week, Beyonce made history, as she became the first woman to have 12 songs charting simultaneously on the US Billboard Hot 100, with every track on the album debuting on the chart.
By doing so, Beyonce surpassed the previous record of 11 songs held by Taylor Swift’s third album, “Speak Now (2010).”
Beyonce Knowles held the charting-record for two years until 2018, when Cardi B surpassed her with 13 songs from her debut album “Invasion of Privacy.”
3. With 155 million streams on Tidal, “Lemonade” broke the record for the most-streamed album in the first week, which was again surpassed by Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy.
Lemonade ranks the US third best selling album of 2016, and in June 2019, was certified 3x platinum for global shipments of 3 million copies. At exactly 3 years since its release, the Lemonade album was made available for purchase on Spotify and iTunes.
- In 2017, Lemonade was nominated for nine Grammys, winning the Grammy Awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album and Best Music Video for “Formation.”
- NPR or The US National Public Radio ranked Beyonce Knowles’s Lemonade as the 6th greatest album made by a female artist.
Beyonce is the 2nd most award-winning artist of history and the VMA most awarded artist ever.
Since 1997 when she started her career until 2014, Beyoncé won 292 awards, becoming the second most awarded artist of all time, after Michael Jackson.
- In 2019, after 22 years of career, Beyonce’s work received 1040 nominations, and her collection of awards grew to 533 wins.
In 2016, Beyonce gathered 24 Moonmen and became the most-awarded artist in VMA’s history, after overthrowing Madonna’s previous record with 20. As of December 2019, her Moonmen collection grew up to 28 statues.
Beyonce Knowles had only two boyfriends, including her husband, Jay-Z.
Lyndall Locke was Beyonce’s first boyfriend until Jay-Z came along and charmed her, for such an attractive and infamous woman which can have anybody at her feet, doesn’t seem a lot at all.
”When I was 12, 13 I had my first boyfriend, and he was my boyfriend till I was 17. I’ve always been very loyal and a little more mature. Though I was too young for it to really be a boyfriend – we didn’t live together, we didn’t, you know… That was my only experience with a guy, and since then I’ve only had one other boyfriend in my life.”
- Beyonce was just 18 years old when she met Jay-Z, somewhere around the year 1998.
The sparks were already flying in 2001, there was a constant filtring when Beyonce and Jay-Z appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair’s music issue.
Since then, the rumors started to intensify until 2003 when their collaboration on both “Crazy In Love” and “Bonnie and Clyde,” fueled the story.
- At the 2004 VMAs, Beyonce, and Jay-Z revealed their relationship, and four years later, in April 2008, they got married.
Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy is the youngest person to ever chart on Billboard.
On 7th January 2012, The Carters welcomed their first child, Blue Ivy Carter, into the world.
- In less than 48 hours, Jay-Z released the emotional track “Glory,” in honor of his daughter Blue, including her first sounds of life.
The song begins with Blue Ivy’s heartbeats and ends with her crying, featuring her cooing from the cradle.
- On 21st January, the emotional track peaked at #74 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and #23 on the Rap Songs chart.
- Due to her official credit on the track, Blue Ivy became the youngest person ever to land on the Billboard charts.
In the song, Jay-Z tells the story of his greatest creation, as he called Blue Ivy.
He revealed that their first child was conceived in Paris, a day before Beyonce shot the cover for her fourth album 4 (2011).
Jay-Z also raps about a miscarriage Beyonce suffered previously, the pregnancy struggles, and the fear of losing baby Blue.
Beyoncé’s father took a 50% pay cut when he left his job to manage Destiny’s Child.
According to the sources, Matthew Knowles, resigned from his job in 1995 to manage the girl group ‘Destiny’s Child’ for a 50% pay cut.
This move reduced Beyoncé’s family’s income by half, and her parents decided to move into separate apartments. Tina and Mathew Knowles got married in 1980, and in 2009 they divorced.
The name of the music girl group, Destiny’s Child, is derived from a passage in the Book of Isaia.
Formed in 1990, the girl group was initially titled Girl’s Tyme. In 1997, after seven years of limited success, the quartet comprising Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson, and LeToya Luckett were signed to Colombia records under the rebirth name, Destiny’s Child.
La Tavia said :
‘We got that name out of the Bible. One day Beyonce’s mom was about to read The Bible and she opened it up to read a scripture in Isaiah. Our picture fell out. Under our picture in bold-faced print was the word “destiny”.At the time we were looking for a name, so felt that God was sending us this name. We found out that a lot groups had the name, so we had “Child”, as a rebirth of Destiny’.
- The following year in 1998, the girl group released their first album titled, Destiny’s Child.
- In 1999, they released the 2nd album Writing’s on the Wall.
But despite their commercial success, Destiny’s Child was plagued by internal conflicts and legal turmoil, as Luckett and Roberson tried to split from the group’s manager Mathew Knowles, citing favoritism of Beyonce and Rowland.
- In 2001, they released the third album, Survivor, and in 2002, the trio announced their breakup to pursue solo careers.
- In 2004, the famous trio got together for the release of their fourth and final album titled Destiny Fulfilled.
Since the group’s official breakup in 2006, Beyonce, Rowland, and William have reunited for a couple of times, including at the Super Bowl (2013) and Coachella festival (2018).
- Billboard magazine ranked Destiny’s Child as the 9th most successful artist/band of the 2000s and placed at 68th on All-Time Hot 100 Artists.
- Destiny’s Child was nominated for 14 Grammys, of which they won two awards, for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
