Beyoncé is the real queen of pop ... because of her checkbook
Beyoncé has a turnover of 87 million dollars a year; none of the little pop princesses earn more than she does.
According to Forbes magazine, Beyoncé Knowles is the second most powerful celebrity in the world. A significant fact, if you consider that the first is Oprah Winfrey, who has a lot in common with Beyoncé: she is a woman and she is black. And receiving $ 87 million a year, according to the magazine's estimate for Beyoncé, is no small feat. They call her The Ebon Queen for a reason.
Today the Beyoncé brand is embodied in products manufactured by Nintendo and L'Oréal, and it also has its own fashion company: Dereon. Beyoncé was born in 1981 in Houston, Texas. The first pines hers as her singer were made in the Methodist Church of San Juan, in the suburbs of her hometown. Until now she has remained so close to her church that her spiritual guide is Pastor Rudy Rasmus, who is still leading her congregation. With Beyoncé's donations, a major youth rehabilitation center has been built.
When she was still a teenager she entered a talent contest with the John Lennon song Imagine and came in first place. Seeing her talent for music, her father decided to look for a record company that would welcome Beyoncé, and sacrificed her work, which implied reducing her already austere quality of life. Finally, in 1996 she managed to sign with Columbia, and the family's situation improved.
Since then it has not stopped improving. His career in music began in the late nineties in the famous youth group Destiny's Child, and it was during a temporary hiatus from the group, in 2003, when he launched as a soloist with the album "Dangerously in Love", which generated several numbers. 1 on the Billboard charts. This definitely led to Beyoncé going solo, and the group disbanded.
Years later, in 2006, Beyoncé confessed that she had a deep depression during those turbulent years at the beginning of the century: not only did the group dissolve, but her then her boyfriend, with whom she had been for 7 years, the let. Depression in some cases led her to lock herself in her room for days, without eating anything.
The end of Destiny's Child, however, was the beginning of a brilliant musical career, which has so far made her the woman who has won the most Grammys in a single night, when she won 6 of the 10 awards for which she was nominated. during the awards ceremony in 2010, for his album "I Am ... Sasha Fierce".
Famous for her hips and her legs, Beyoncé married rapper Jay-Z in New York in July 2008, following back and forth rumors about her relationship.
