Artist Influence

1. Beyoncé Knowles

2. Background Information
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles started her music
career as an artist in the R&B girl group
Destiny Child. Late 1990’s she became
famous as the lead singer.
When Destiny Child first formed there was
4, and they in got narrowed to three. The
well-known destiny child is Beyoncé, Kelly
And Michelle (picture on the right)
They produced hit singles such as ‘jumping, jumping’ ‘bills bills bll’s and ‘say my name’ (links
below). They won a number of American music awards 2001-2005. 2001 they received 2
Grammy awards one for Best R&B song “say my name” and best R&B vocal performance by
duo or group. In 2002 they received a Brit award for the best international group. In 2005
they got nominated for BET Award and in the same year won a BET Award for Best Group.
They continued to win a Billboard music award 2005-2006.
They also won 2 NAACP image award, 2 Nickelodeon kids’ choice awards, 10, Soul Train Lady
of Soul Awards, MTVAward.
Destiny Child- Bills Bills Bills- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-0UTqtc&ob=av2e

3. Beyoncé after Destiny Child
Destiny Child split due to all three of them wanting to peruse solo careers.
In 2003 Beyoncé released her first solo artist song, “Crazy In Love”
Featuring JayZ, it went to the top of the pop singles charts, and was also
voted n.o1 in the VH1’s charts. Baby Boy featuring Sean Paul also came
number 1 in 2003, following “irreplaceable” became n.o1 in 2006.
Her album “dangerously in love” hit #1 in the U.S. and U.K. eventually
selling over 4 million copies in the U.S. and 8 million worldwide. 3 more
top 10 pop singles from the album followed in quick succession.
In 2004 Beyoncé received a number of Grammys. Best Female R&B Vocal
Performance, "Dangerously In Love"
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for her duet with
Luther Vandross for "The Closer I Get To You";, Best R&B Song,"Crazy In
Love" with Jay-Z;
Best Contemporary R&B Album, "Dangerously In Love";
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ,"Crazy In Love" with Jay-Z.
She continued to receive awards in 2004 for Brit Awards, 2003 VH1
awards for big entertainer, MTV music awards 2003 and 2004, BET awards
2004 and many more along the years.
It is evident that even as a solo artist she is an amazing inspiration, and
entertainer for both males and females and puts a lot of effort into her
career to please her fans.
Crazy In Love-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwtNLUqkMY

4. Further Successes
As well as successful music, Beyoncé has also had success with her perfumes. She has a website
of her perfumes which tell her fans about the perfumes. “I want women to feel sexy, strong,
empowered and I want them to feel like they can conquer anything. When they walk into a room, I
want them to feel like they can leave a lasting impression on everyone they walk past”
http://www.beyonceparfums.com/ (when on the website click the perfumes to view information
and explore the site) Both of her perfumes ‘Heat’ and ‘Heat Rush’ arrived on the market in 2010 and
has am amazingly huge success.
Late 2011 (recently) Beyoncé Knowles released her
third perfume to the market called ‘Pulse’ (which is also
on the website) which has already bin proven to
already be an massive achievement. As she has
received positive feedback from her fans on twitter
(view on the website)
Due to Beyoncé effort thought her career she had
created bold attractive advertisements from her
perfumes which also widened her target audience for
her perfume and increase her fan base, as the adverts
is attractive and appealing to men and women, women
who want to be/smell like Beyoncé and men who want
the females to be/smell like Beyoncé. (links below)
Heat- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76lPciEip3A
Pulse- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thd1QrxX318

5. Film Career
In-between Beyoncé's music career she made space for a film career. In 2002
Beyoncé Knowles starred in a film next to Austin powers as one of the main
characters; Austin Powers in Goldmember. A comedy. It was a very successful
film and defiantly gave a boost to her career.
The year after she starred in a film called The Fighting Temptations. She starred
as one of the main characters again along side Cuba Gooding Jr, a very
famous male American actor, who stars in mostly comedy films. The Fighting
Temptations was also an Comedy genre film.
Beyoncé has also featured in other comedy films such as
The Pink Panther 2005, again as one of the man characters
side-by-side with Steve Martin, a well-know comedian actor.
She was also the main character in the drama, musical,
Dream girls in 2006 along side Jenifer Hudson and Jamie
Foxx, and Eddie Murphy.
Beyoncé Knowles also starred in a document called Fade To
Black in 2004 with JayZ, Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot and
R.Kelly. The document was about ‘the greatest night in hip-
hop, and the greatest hip hop artist.
Fade To Black Part 1 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkYVcxyOFiY