Beyoncé is one of the greatest pop stars of her generation and has an incredible career. Since her rise to fame with Destiny's Child, fans have been following her work and have never been disappointed. But how much do people actually know about the Queen Bey? Her career is extensive, and there are many things to learn about it.
In this article, true fans will find info about the singer that they didn't know, and thankfully those who haven't listened to much of Beyoncé's music will learn about her and get into it. Here are the 10 crazy facts people didn't know about this iconic artist.
10 Her First Performance
Beyoncé's talents have never been in question, but she already had them from a very young age. Her first performance was when she was just seven years old. She entered a talent show and sang "Imagine" by John Lennon.
Her voice was great even then, and her talent stood out. She participated in many local talent shows throughout her childhood, which obviously helped her get used to singing in front of an audience. Maybe that's why her presence onstage is so impressive. She was a star from the very beginning.
9 Destiny's Child
It is a well-known fact that Beyoncé found fame with the all-female group Destiny's Child she formed with Kelly Rowland. What fans may not know is that when the group first started, it was Beyoncé's father who served as manager of the group.
During its first years, the band tried different line-ups, until in 1997 they were signed by Columbia Records and they released their self-titled album. After that, it didn't take the girls long before their great voices and hard work were properly recognized.
8 Record Grammy Winner
The singer has famously won an incredible amount of awards, especially Grammys. But a lot of fans probably don't know that she's got the record for the most awards won by a female artist in one night. Only Adele has matched her record a few years later, but no one has broken her record yet.
Beyoncé owns 24 well-deserved Grammy Awards and has 70 nominations, which earned her another title: the female artist with the most career nominations. She's also won countless other awards.
7 Her Battle With Depression
The pop star is always happy and confident on stage, but it wasn't always like that. When Destiny's Child rose to fame, she felt that the life she knew was over and that threw her off completely.
She didn't have any privacy and was questioning if people loved her for who she was or just for the money. On top of that, when the group broke up and her father was sued for mismanagement, she felt betrayed and spent some time away from the spotlight. It took time, but Beyoncé won that battle.
6 Sasha Fierce
The stage persona Beyoncé created is one of the things she's most famous for to this day. It started with her album I Am... Sasha Fierce and it went on to become an icon.
This is what Beyoncé had to say about her creation: "I turn into Sasha. I wouldn't like Sasha if I met her off stage. She's too aggressive, too strong, too sassy, too sexy! I'm not like her in real life at all. I'm not flirtatious and super-confident and fearless like her."
5 Crazy In Love
This song is one of the most popular ones in Beyoncé's career, but what a lot of people may not know is how it was written. This all started with producer Rich Harrison, who had agreed to work with Beyoncé even if they didn't get along at first.
Harrison wrote the first part of the song in a matter of hours, and Beyoncé loved it. She came up spontaneously with the chorus and in just an afternoon the song was finished. The rapper Jay-Z came in and added a rap he wrote in only a few minutes.
4 She Added A Word To The Dictionary
Even Oxford acknowledges the Queen B. In 2001, Destiny's Child released their third studio album Survivor. The second single from that record was the song "Bootylicious." Even though it wasn't the first time that made-up word had been used in music (the first one to use it was Snoop Dogg), it was through the Destiny's Child song that made it popular worldwide.
It was so used that it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2004, with the description "(of a woman) sexually attractive."
3 Her Boyfriend Before Jay-Z
As people know, Beyoncé is now happily married to rapper Jay-Z, with whom she has two beautiful daughters. But before meeting her husband, Beyoncé only had one other serious boyfriend, who she loved very much and had difficult time getting over him.
They were together throughout Beyoncé's teenage years, and this is what she said to CBS about him: "Now that I was famous, I was afraid I'd never find somebody again to love me for me," she said. "I was afraid of making new friends."
2 Her Daughter Is A Record Breaker
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's firstborn daughter, Blue Ivy, holds the title of the youngest person ever to appear on the Billboard 100. She got this record because when she was just two days old, Jay-Z released his song "Glory."
At the end of the song, you could hear the cries of a baby in the background. That baby was the little Blue Ivy, who was credited in the song. The track debuted on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, at number 74.
1 Her Charity Work
Along with Jay-Z, Beyoncé has been doing charity work for years. She's an incredibly generous celebrity. She supports over 30 different charitable organizations that promote education, health, and gender equality, but maybe the one that stands out the most is the Survivor Foundation.
Beyoncé created this organization with her friend and former bandmate Kelly Rowland to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Along with this foundation, the singer also held a concert to raise money.
