Beyonce Net Worth

Beyonce Net Worth: American R&B artist, fashion designer and actress, Beyonce Knowles has a net worth of $350 million.

A self described modern day feminist, Beyonce Knowles is probably one of the most popular female R&B recording artist of her generation. Born and raised in Houston, Beyonce participated in several singing and dancing competitions during her childhood before she became a part of the world’s best-selling groups of all time in 1990 with her R&B girl group named Destiny’s Child.

After getting such fame, Beyonce went on to release her debut album named Dangerously in Love in 2003, which sold more than 11 million copies to get her featured in the Billboard Hot 100 with number one singles “Baby Boy” and “Crazy in Love“. With staggering sales, several Grammy awards and movie roles, this siren-voiced music sensation has also a diversified her portfolio with investments in Dereon Clothing line and other properties.

Beyonce is better known for her songs that are themed on love, relationships, female sexuality, female empowerment and monogamy. With dynamic performance on stage, she has also been hailed as one of the best artists in the field of contemporary music which saw her win a total of 17 Grammy awards in her 16 years of career while her albums has sold to over 75 million records making her one of the best-selling artists of all times.

With her staggering sales records, she became the highest paid black musician in history in 2014 and is also listed in the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. She also have several endorsement deals from L’Oreal DirecTV, General Mills, etc. and believes that she likes to invest money one what she is happy for.

Born in Houston Texas to Mathew Knowles and Celestine Ann Beyonce, she is a descendant of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard through her mother. After getting her Elementary education at St. Mary’s, she started participating in several talent shows starting at the age of seven and won her first musical performance singing John Lennon’s “Imagine”. She then moved on with Parker Elementary School which focused more on music and it was where she joined the school’s choir to begin her musical journey to more advanced level. She then attended High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and later to ALief Elsik High School to gain further education regarding music and arts.

Despite R&B being her basic genre for singing, her incorporation of pop, funk and soul into her songs makes her one of the most versatile singers of all times. Having produced several female empowerment compositions like “Survivor” and “Independent Women”, she started making songs on love, relationships and romance after starting her relationship with another musical star Jay-Z. Beyonce and Jay Z got married on April 4, 2008 and the couple have also went on to make 300 million records together. The female artist got miscarriage around 2010-11 after which she also wrote and recorded music to cope up with the loss. Later in 2012, she gave birth to her first child Ivy Carter.

With her appealing on stage performance together with cherishable voice, she is also considered to be one of the best Singer/Dancers of all times. Sexy, provocative and seductive Beyonce has also been a crossover sex symbol with her curves for which the media coined a term ‘Bootylicious’ to describe her. She is also named as the World’s most Beautiful Woman in 2010, and Hottest Female Singer of All Time in 2012.

She has also been known for her acting skills in several films like- Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The fighting Temptations (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Obsessed (2009), Life is But a Dream (2013), Epic (2013) and more.

Together with her musical and business career, Beyonce has also worked as a Philanthropist to contribute for the Hurricane Katrina in 2005 after she established a foundation to work on several natural disasters. She also became the ambassador for the 2012 World Humanitarian Day, worked for “Chime for Change” to work on female empowerment programs and is a regular part of several charity buzz throughout the world.

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