Beyoncé - Wikipedia. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles- Carter (; born September 4, 1. American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1. R& B girl- group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best- selling girl groups in history.

Their hiatus saw Beyoncé's theatrical film debut in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2. Dangerously in Love (2. The album established her as a solo artist worldwide, earned five Grammy Awards, and featured the Billboard Hot 1.

Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Following the break- up of Destiny's Child in 2. B'Day (2. 00. 6), which contained the top- ten singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé also continued her acting career, with starring roles in The Pink Panther (2. Dreamgirls (2. 00.

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Obsessed (2. 00. 9). Her marriage to rapper Jay- Z and portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2. I Am.. Sasha Fierce (2. Sasha Fierce and earned a record- setting six Grammy Awards in 2.

Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Beyoncé took a hiatus from music in 2. Her critically acclaimed fifth album, Beyoncé (2. With the release of the widely acclaimed Lemonade, Beyoncé had the best- selling album of 2. Billboard 2. 00 chart.

Throughout her career, Beyoncé has sold an estimated 1. Destiny's Child,[9][1.

She has won 2. 2 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history. She is also the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 2. The Recording Industry Association of America recognized Beyoncé as the Top Certified Artist in America during the 2. In 2. 00. 9, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2.

Millennium Award in 2. In 2. 01. 4, she became the highest- paid black musician in history and was listed among Time's 1. Forbes listed her as the most powerful female in entertainment of 2. Watch The Final Destination Online Iflix on this page. Person of the Year.[2.

Early life. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, to Celestine "Tina" Knowles (née Beyincé), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager.[2. Beyoncé's name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name.[2. Beyoncé's younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former back up dancer for Destiny's Child. Solange and Beyoncé are the first sisters to have both had No. Mathew is African American, while Tina is of Louisiana Creole descent (African, Native American, and French).[2. Through her mother, Beyoncé is a descendant of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard.[2.

Beyoncé attended St. Mary's Montessori School in Houston, where she enrolled in dance classes. Her singing talent was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and she finished it, able to hit the high- pitched notes.[3. Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat 1. In fall of 1. 99. Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she would perform with the school's choir.[3.

She also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts[3. Alief Elsik High School.[2. Beyoncé was also a member of the choir at St. John's United Methodist Church as a soloist for two years.[3.

When Beyoncé was eight, she and childhood friend Kelly Rowland met La. Tavia Roberson while in an audition for an all- girl entertainment group.[3.

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They were placed into a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls, and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston.[3. After seeing the group, R& B producer Arne Frager brought them to his Northern California studio and placed them in Star Search, the largest talent show on national TV at the time. Girl's Tyme failed to win, and Beyoncé later said the song they performed was not good.[4. In 1. 99. 5 Beyoncé's father resigned from his job to manage the group.[4. The move reduced Beyoncé's family's income by half, and her parents were forced to move into separated apartments.[2. Mathew cut the original line- up to four and the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R& B girl groups.[3. The girls auditioned before record labels and were finally signed to Elektra Records, moving to Atlanta Records briefly to work on their first recording, only to be cut by the company.[2.

This put further strain on the family, and Beyoncé's parents separated. On October 5, 1. 99.

Dwayne Wiggins's Grass Roots Entertainment signed the group. In 1. 99. 6, the girls began recording their debut album under an agreement with Sony Music, the Knowles family reunited, and shortly after, the group got a contract with Columbia Records.[3.

Career. 19. 97–2. Destiny's Child. The group changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1. Book of Isaiah.[4.

In 1. 99. 7, Destiny's Child released their major label debut song "Killing Time" on the soundtrack to the 1. Watch A Run For Your Money Mediafire. Men in Black.[4. 1] The following year, the group released their self- titled debut album,[4. No, No, No". The album established the group as a viable act in the music industry, with moderate sales and winning the group three Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards for Best R& B/Soul Album of the Year, Best R& B/Soul or Rap New Artist, and Best R& B/Soul Single for "No, No, No". The group released their Multi- Platinum second album The Writing's on the Wall in 1. The record features some of the group's most widely known songs such as "Bills, Bills, Bills", the group's first number- one single, "Jumpin' Jumpin'" and "Say My Name", which became their most successful song at the time, and would remain one of their signature songs.

Say My Name" won the Best R& B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and the Best R& B Song at the 4. Annual Grammy Awards.[3. The Writing's on the Wall sold more than eight million copies worldwide.[4. During this time, Beyoncé recorded a duet with Marc Nelson, an original member of Boyz II Men, on the song "After All Is Said and Done" for the soundtrack to the 1. The Best Man.[4. 4]Le.

Toya Luckett and Roberson became unhappy with Mathew's managing of the band and eventually were replaced by Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams.[3. Beyoncé experienced depression following the split with Luckett and Roberson after being publicly blamed by the media, critics, and blogs for its cause.[4. Her long- standing boyfriend left her at this time.[4. The depression was so severe it lasted for a couple of years, during which she occasionally kept herself in her bedroom for days and refused to eat anything.[4.

Beyoncé stated that she struggled to speak about her depression because Destiny's Child had just won their first Grammy Award and she feared no one would take her seriously.[4. Beyoncé would later speak of her mother as the person who helped her fight it.[4. Franklin was dismissed, leaving just Beyoncé, Rowland, and Williams.[4. The remaining band members recorded "Independent Women Part I", which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2. Charlie's Angels. It became their best- charting single, topping the U.

S. Billboard Hot 1. In early 2. 00. 1, while Destiny's Child was completing their third album, Beyoncé landed a major role in the MTV made- for- television film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring alongside American actor Mekhi Phifer. Set in Philadelphia, the film is a modern interpretation of the 1. Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.[5.

When the third album Survivor was released in May 2. Luckett and Roberson filed a lawsuit claiming that the songs were aimed at them.[3. The album debuted at number one on the U. S. Billboard 2. 00, with first- week sales of 6. The album spawned other number- one hits, "Bootylicious" and the title track, "Survivor", the latter of which earned the group a Grammy Award for Best R& B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.[5.

After releasing their holiday album 8 Days of Christmas in October 2.

Oprah Winfrey - Wikipedia. Not to be confused with Orpah. Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey in 2. Born. Orpah Gail Winfrey[1](1. January 2. 9, 1. 95. Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.

S. Residence. Montecito, California. Lavallette, New Jersey. Telluride, Colorado.

Maui, Hawaii. Chicago, Illinois. Fisher Island, Florida. Alma mater. Tennessee State University. Occupation. Years active.

Salary$7. 5 million(2. Net worth. US$ 3 billion (September 2. Political party. Democratic. Partner(s)Stedman Graham (1. Children. Canaan (born c.

Websiteoprah. com. Signature. Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 2. American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.[1] She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest- rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1.

Chicago, Illinois.[6] Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",[7] she has been ranked the richest African- American,[8] the greatest black philanthropist in American history,[9][1. North America's first multi- billionaire black person.[1. Several assessments rank her as the most influential woman in the world.[1. In 2. 01. 3, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama[1.

Duke and Harvard.[1. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner- city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 1. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co- anchoring the local evening news at the age of 1.

Her emotional ad- lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third- rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[1. Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication,[1. Phil Donahue,[1. 9] which a Yale study says broke 2. LGBT people to enter the mainstream.[2. By the mid- 1. 99.

Though criticized for unleashing a confession culture, promoting controversial self- help ideas,[2. From 2. 00. 6 to 2. Obama, by one estimate, delivered over a million votes in the close 2.

Democratic primary race.[2. Early life. Winfrey was named "Orpah" on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.[1]Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother. She later said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke up not long after.[2. Her mother, Vernita Lee (born c. Winfrey's biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey (born 1. Armed Forces when she was born.

However, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson, Sr. A genetic test in 2. Kpelle ethnic group, in the area that today is Liberia.

Her genetic makeup was determined to be 8. Sub- Saharan African, 8% Native American, and 3% East Asian. However, the East Asian may, given the imprecision of genetic testing, actually be Native American markers.[2.

After Winfrey's birth, her mother traveled north and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae (Presley) Lee (April 1. Watch Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker`S Apocalypse Tube Free. February 2. 7, 1. Winfrey often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which the local children made fun of her.[3. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses. When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother would hit her with a stick when she did not do chores or if she misbehaved in any way.[3. At age six, Winfrey moved to an inner- city neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her mother Vernita Lee, who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother had been, largely as a result of the long hours she worked as a maid.[3.

Around this time, Lee had given birth to another daughter, Winfrey's younger half- sister, Patricia[3. February 2. 00. 3, at age 4. By 1. 96. 2, Lee was having difficulty raising both daughters so Winfrey was temporarily sent to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee.[3.

While Winfrey was in Nashville, Lee gave birth to a third daughter[3. Lee's being on welfare) and later also named Patricia.[3. Winfrey did not learn she had a second half- sister until 2. By the time Winfrey moved back in with Lee, Lee had also given birth to a boy named Jeffrey, Winfrey's half- brother, who died of AIDS- related causes in 1. Winfrey has stated she was molested by her cousin, uncle, and a family friend, starting when she was nine years old, something she first announced to her viewers on a 1. TV show regarding sexual abuse.[3. When Winfrey discussed the alleged abuse with family members at age 2.

Winfrey once commented that she had chosen not to be a mother because she had not been mothered well.[4. At 1. 3, after suffering years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home.[1] When she was 1. Winfrey later stated she felt betrayed by the family member who had sold the story of her son to the National Enquirer in 1. She began going to Lincoln High School; but after early success in the Upward Bound program, was transferred to the affluent suburban Nicolet High School, where she says her poverty was constantly rubbed in her face as she rode the bus to school with fellow African- Americans, some of whom were servants of her classmates' families. She began to steal money from her mother in an effort to keep up with her free- spending peers, to lie to and argue with her mother, and to go out with older boys.[4. Her frustrated mother once again sent her to live with Vernon in Nashville, Tennessee, though this time she did not take her back.

Vernon was strict, but encouraging, and made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honors student, was voted Most Popular Girl, and joined her high school speech team at East Nashville High School, placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation.[4. She won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship to Tennessee State University, a historically black institution, where she studied communication. Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.[4. At the age of 1. 7, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant.[4. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part- time.[3. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college.

Winfrey's career choice in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. As a child, she played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of her family's property. Winfrey later acknowledged her grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had encouraged her to speak in public and "gave me a positive sense of myself".[4.

Television. Working in local media, she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WLAC- TV. She moved to Baltimore's WJZ- TV in 1. In 1. 97. 7, she was removed as co- anchor and worked lower profile positions at the station. She was then recruited to join Richard Sher as co- host of WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 1. She also hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there.[5. In 1. 98. 3, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS- TV's low- rated half- hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1.

Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest- rated talk show in Chicago. The movie critic Roger Ebert persuaded her to sign a syndication deal with King World. Ebert predicted that she would generate 4. At the Movies.[5.