Beyoncé's Parents Had a Huge Impact on Her Career, Especially Early On
“It’s my maiden title. My identify was Celestine Beyoncé, which at that time was no longer a cool factor to have that weird identify."
By Brandon CharlesApr. 1 2024, Published 8:29 a.m. ET
Do we know about Beyoncé without her parents? Sure, they made her, so they’re obviously essential to the story of Beyoncé, but would the singer be the same without her manager father and stylist mother?
With another inevitably record-smashing album release, Cowboy Carter, it’s time to look at who Beyoncé was before Sean Carter entered her life. Who are the parents of Beyoncé Knowles?
Beyonce’s parents were primed to raise a superstar.
Mathew Knowles and Tina Knowles, now Tina Knowles-Lawson (the couple was divorced in 2011 and both have since remarried), had a very large role in making sure you knew about their eldest daughter.
Mathew co-founder Destiny’s Child in 1990, then called Girl's Tyme, in Houston. The members were Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson, and LeToya Luckett. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1997 as Destiny's Child.
Mathew worked as Beyoncé's manager until 2011. He also worked as manager for Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. When he stopped working as a manager for his daughter, Beyoncé said, “I am grateful for everything he has taught me. I grew up watching both he and my mother manage and own their own businesses. They were hardworking entrepreneurs, and I will continue to follow in their footsteps. He is my father for life, and I love my dad dearly. I am grateful for everything he has taught me."
Tina won't have co-created Destiny’s Child however she has contributed to shaping how all of us view Beyoncé. She used to be the costume clothier for Destiny's Child and of their early days, additionally styled their hair, which is smart making an allowance for she opened Headliners in 1990, a 12-seat hair salon positioned in Houston.
In addition to dressing the lady workforce of their early days, Tina wrote the 2002 ebook Destiny's Style: Bootylicious Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle Secrets From Destiny's Child. She introduced the House of Deréon clothing line with Beyoncé in 2010. It’s named after her mom Agnes Deréon.
Tina additionally labored as costumer fashion designer for more than one films starring Beyonce: Austin Powers in Goldmember, Cadillac Records, Dreamgirls, Obsessed, and Pink Panther. You can have noticed her within the 2013's Life Is But a Dream, 2016’s Beyoncé: Lemonade, 2019’s Homecoming and 2020’s Black Is King. In 2022 she made her voice acting debut in Disney+’s The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder and appearing debut in the Lifetime movie Wrath: A Seven Deadly Sins Story alongside Michelle Williams.
Beyonce’s maternal grandmother was once just as fashionable as her daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter.
The September 2018 Vogue quilt story is about Beyoncé, her mother, and their type line. In one of the most pictures of Beyoncé and her mother, a framed photograph of her grandmother Agnes Derouen.
Agnes’s 2nd marriage was to a salad mine worker named Albert Lumas Buyince. They had seven kids including Tina. Her surname is listed on her beginning certificate as Beyoncé, despite the fact that she steadily makes use of the spelling Beyince.
On the In My Head With Heather Thomson podcast in 2020, Tina said, “Numerous people don’t know that Beyoncé is my remaining name. It’s my maiden identify. My title was once Celestine Beyoncé, which at the moment used to be now not a cool factor to have that bizarre name. I sought after my name to be Linda Smith as a result of those have been the cool names."
It’s for the best Beyoncé used to be her ultimate identify. Smith-Knowles isn't just about as memorable of a name.
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