Her full name is Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter. She was born on September 4, 1981, so she is 31. She is 5'7". She is known as Beyonce.Beyonce was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she enrolled in performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child.
She is the daughter of Mathew Knowles, a professional record manager, and Tina Knowles, a costume designer and hair stylist.Solange Knowles, a singer, songwriter and actress, is her younger sister.
Beyonce rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
Beyonce released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003.Her second solo album was B'day in 2006 and her third album, Iam...Sasha Fierce, was released in 2008. She released her most recent album, 4, in 2011.
She has also ventured into acting. She made her acting debut in the musical TV film Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001), prior to appearing in major films, Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Fighting Temptations (2003), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008) and Obsessed (2009).
Beyonce and designing clothes and various perfumes She introduced her family's fashion line House of Dereon in 2005, and has endorsed such brands as L'Oreal, Pepsi, Tommy Hilfiger, Nintendo and Vizio.
On April 4, 2008, Knowles married Jay-Z in New York City.On January 7, 2012, Knowles gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
