Beyoncé
American singer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter Beyoncé 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 . She then released the commercially successful solo albums B'Day , I Am... Sasha Fierce , and 4 . After creating her own management company Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé achieved acclaim for releasing the sonically experimental visual albums Beyoncé and Lemonade , which explored multiple societal themes such as feminism, relationships and womanism. Following the release of the queer-inspired dance album Renaissance , she became the first solo artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one in the United States.