2. Beyonce
Beyoncรฉ Giselle Knowles-Carter, is an American singer,
songwriter, and businesswoman. Nicknamed "Queen Bey",
she has been widely recognized for her boundary-pushing
artistry and vocal performances. Beyoncรฉ has been regarded
as one of the greatest entertainers of her generation. Her
contributions to music and visual media have made her a
prominent and influential pop culture figure of the 2000s
and 2010s.
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3. beyonce
Beyoncรฉ started performing in various singing and dancing competitions as a child.
She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child,
one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of her debut
album Dangerously in Love (2003). Following the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child,
Beyoncรฉ released the commercially successful solo albums B'Day (2006) and I Am...
Sasha Fierce (2008).
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After professionally splitting from her manager and father, Mathew Knowles, in
2010, Beyoncรฉ's artistry achieved wider critical acclaim for releasing sonically
experimental visual albums, including 4 (2011), Beyoncรฉ (2013), Lemonade (2016),
and Renaissance (2022), all of which explored societal themes such as infidelity,
feminism, womanism, escapism, and hedonism. She became the first solo artist to
have their first seven studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard
200.[11][12] Throughout her career, she has amassed multiple chart-topping singles
worldwide, including "Crazy in Love", "Baby Boy", "Check on It", "Irreplaceable", "If I
Were a Boy", "Halo", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Perfect Duet", "Savage" and
"Break My Soul."
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Beyoncรฉ's other music ventures included Everything Is Love (2018), a collaborative
album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters, and the musical film Black Is King
(2020), inspired by the music of the film soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift (2019).
She also starred in multiple films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The
Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Obsessed (2009),
and The Lion King (2019).
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Having sold 200 million records worldwide, Beyoncรฉ is one of
the world's best-selling recording artists.[13][14] Her
accolades include 32 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
artist. With 31 career top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100
including eight chart-toppers she became the first female artist
and third overall to achieve at least twenty as a solo artist and ten
as a group member.
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Her success during the 2000s earned her recognition as the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA)'s Top Certified Artist of the Decade and Billboard's
Top Female Artist of the Decade.[16] In 2014, Billboard named her the highest-
earning black musician of all time. She is the most successful black touring act in
history.[17] In 2020, Time magazine featured her among a list of 100 women who
defined the last century. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her the eighth-greatest singer
of all time.