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View Beyonce’s Question and Answer here. Fans are still getting to know Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé’s musical alter ego, formally introduced on the singer’s 2008 album, “I Am…Sasha Fierce.”
Most probably don’t know, however, that the singer/songwriter has been friends with Fierce since elementary school.
Manager and father Mathew Knowles will never forget the moment he first met Fierce. A 7-year-old Beyoncé was entered in a talent search open to Houston elementary and middle school students. The song she sang? John Lennon’s “Imagine.” “Beyoncé was the youngest,” Knowles says. “She got up onstage and when she was finished, she received a standing ovation. Her mother [Tina Knowles] and I looked at each other and said, ‘That can’t be our Beyoncé. She’s shy and quiet.’ ”
Twenty-two years later, that simmering brew of shy, quiet talent peppered with fierce determination and ambition is at a boiling point. The former frontwoman of Destiny’s Child has come into her own, enjoying one of the best years of a still-evolving solo career.
On Oct. 2, Beyoncé will add one more honor to her array of accolades when she accepts Billboard’s Woman of the Year Award. The presentation will be made at Billboard’s Women in Music brunch in New York, recognizing the year’s top 30 women in the music business.
“Beyoncé is a multiplatinum artist and a multitalented woman who clearly embodies the qualities of excellence and achievement that the Billboard Woman of the Year Award was created to honor,” Billboard editorial director Bill Werde says. “She has not only influenced pop culture with her hit songs and her signature dance moves, but has inspired women everywhere with her unique style, business savvy and dedication to charitable causes.”
In the past 12 months alone, Beyoncé has accomplished several career milestones. She not only sang “American the Beautiful” during the opening ceremony of the 2009 presidential inauguration, she also sang the Etta James hit “At Last” as President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced their first dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball. Continue reading Beyonce: The Billboard Cover Story…
Scans from the May 2009 issue of Upscale Magazine have been added to BeyoncéGallery. Thanks a lot to Amy for donating them! Click on the thumbnails below to view the high qualities.
Inside Beyonce’s Entertainment Empire Beyonce Knowles is a perfectionist. That’s how she rakes in $87 million a year.
n a crisp Thursday evening in late April a Cadillac Escalade barrels down a cross street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, coming to a halt before the School of Visual Arts. Four-and-a-half-inch heels emerge, then the rest of Beyoncé Knowles, wearing a crowd-delighting, hip-hugging, black-sequined Balmain dress. Flashbulbs and shrieks explode from a gathering in the hundreds. The 27-year-old singer is there to promote Obsessed, a movie thriller she’s been plugging relentlessly since the beginning of the week. Beyoncé works the crowd for 45 minutes before heading into the theater. With two bodyguards, a publicist and a stylist alongside, she takes questions from the press. Yes, she did get bruised while filming the fight scene. That hoax, where Howard Stern played a distorted version of “If I Were a Boy,” making her sound grotesquely off-key–oh, that was silly.
After the premiere Beyoncé headed to a party at the Bowery Hotel. It had been quite a day. Call time at the Today show was 6 a.m. to rehearse and get made up for a live interview and performance. After that she appears on The View (11 a.m.) before heading over to tape Larry King [not quite] Live, followed by 106 & Park at BET. She has a few hours to herself at a downtown apartment.
That’s the way much of her life has played out for the past 20 years–one reason she has sold upward of 118 million records, won ten Grammys, starred in seven films and headlined three solo tours. This year she will bring in an estimated $87 million from publishing and music sales, touring and other performances, film work, her fashion collection and endorsement deals. That diversified portfolio helps her land at number 4 on the FORBES Celebrity 100 list, a ranking based on income and visibility. Beyoncé constantly works and reworks her act, watching every two-hour performance on tour–even after her hundredth appearance–taking notes on how to improve. “I’m never satisfied,” she says, adding with a nervous laugh, “I’m sure sometimes it’s not easy working for me.” Then, seriously: “I’ve never met anyone that works harder than me in my industry.”
Beyoncé Knowles posed for Gilles Bensimon in her I Am… Tour costumes for the cover/spread of May 2009’s issue of Marie ClaireBeyonceDaily.Org’s newest exclusive, here are 7 High Quality photos taken for the magazine! This is an amazing photoshoot and is one of my favorites of this year. Enjoy the photos! P.S. The last one is with legendary designer Thierry Mugler.
Beyonce Knowles keeps motivated during strenuous work-outs by staring at a painting of an Academy Award and dreaming of the day she takes home the statuette.
The singer-turned-actress’ home gym features a picture of an iconic gold Oscar, so she can keep her eyes on the goal she is working toward.
She told Self magazine: “I look at it, and I’m like, OK, I have to stay in shape.”
And the 27-year-old also goes shopping to give herself incentives to tone up: “I buy something too small and then say, ‘I have a reason (to exercise) – I need to wear these jeans or this hot dress.’”
But the bootylicious beauty doesn’t want to lose all her curves – because she wasn’t happy about the 15 pounds she shed for her role in 2006’s ‘Dreamgirls’.
She says about her thinner frame: “I felt very chic, like a model. But it didn’t look natural for me. I didn’t feel very sexy or feminine, and I didn’t have much confidence because I didn’t feel like myself.”
Beyoncé Knowles is nothing short of a glam goddess: on stage, in print, on screen and–as SELF found out when we shot her for our June cover –in person. She’s also totally approachable, and all too human. That “Single Ladies” body? It doesn’t come easy! The singer told us how she got in the best shape of her life for her current world tour.
She puts in the work. To get a tour-worthy body–one that can handle singing and dancing at the same time–the star works out five days a week with her trainer. Those workouts include 100 squats, step-ups and walking lunges (each!).
She makes it fun. An upper body workout can get boring with all those repetitions, so Knowles added her own twist. “I’ll put on a song that I really like and do [biceps curls with] 5-pound weights the whole song,” she told us. Or, using 3-pound weights, she’ll box for the length of one track.
She knows how to motivate herself. What’s the point of running, if you’re not running towards something? Knowles keeps a painting of an Oscar at the gym, so she’s literally running towards her next goal. “I look at it, and I’m like OK, I have to stay in shape,” she admits.
She’s consistent. From the beginning of rehearsals on January 19 to the start of her tour on March 26, Knowles practiced her choreography for nine hours a day, seven days a week–while wearing 5-inch stilettos. Think it’s tough to make it through the workday? That’s 603 hours in heels! The star admits, “When I come home and take them off, I’m like, “Oh, my God! I wish I could just chop my feet off!”
She understands the importance of confidence. Transforming into Sasha Fierce is more than putting on a teeny-tiny costume and sky-high heels. To become her alter ego, Knowles rehearses her sexy walk. “It’s about self-esteem,” she instructs. “It’s in the hips. Lean back, stretch your neck, keep your shoulders low, point your toes and cross one foot in front of the other.” Anyone can do it!
Learn more of Beyoncé’s secrets in SELF’s June issue, on newsstands May 26.
Beyoncé Knowles is making the most of her moment, mounting a 110-city tour in 6-inch heels. What keeps her going? The answer is—literally—written on her fingernails.
On a bright Friday morning in lower Manhattan, Beyoncé Knowles is dining in a back room of the haute sushi mecca Nobu, which opened early at her request. “I was in bed literally 20 minutes ago,” she tells me with a husky, homey laugh. Beyoncé is mostly unadorned—the only jewelry she wears are large leaf-thin filigree earrings that sway lightly beneath a wall of hair. But when she takes her chopsticks and lifts a hunk of sashimi to her lips, I catch a glimpse of some sort of black lettering on the silver acrylic nails on her left hand.
“Can I see?” I ask.
And suddenly Beyoncé becomes bashful. “It’s nothing,” she says, letting her left hand slip below the table and out of sight. “They’re just reminders,” she offers.
“Reminders of what, exactly?”
“Happiness,” she says, with a coy tilt of her head. “They just make me smile when I’m working.”
Lately, Beyoncé has been doing little else. When we meet, she is at the center of a massive 90-person effort to ready and refine her latest world tour, I Am . . ., which will keep her on the road through 2010. In just two weeks, Planet Beyoncé will lift off and begin to orbit the globe, touching down in 110 cities worldwide, and the woman who is its supreme leader and primary life force is busting her iconic ass to make sure it dazzles at every stop along the way. “Fifteen years from now, I want to be able to look back and say, ‘Wow. That’s where I was at 27,’” she tells me. “‘That was my best.’”
Can you really imagine Beyoncé delivering anything less? Her work ethic, her nerve, has always been up to the task; I’d be surprised if there weren’t a rehearsal leotard underneath her simple black jeans and lived-in leather jacket. But Beyoncé oozes more than mere focus and competence. “She’s a rarity—she just totally gets it,” says her longtime creative director, Frank Gatson Jr. “I knew it when I met her when she was 15 years old. I said, ‘How can you be so sweet? How can you be so tactful? How can you be so hands-on? What is that?’” It’s one of the things that makes Beyoncé special: Beneath the juggernaut facade, there’s the hint of a girl who’d just as soon be back in bed with her husband in their apartment nearby.
“Here,” she says, finally offering her left hand, and blushing like the newlywed she is. Spelled out on her index, middle, and ring fingers are the appliquéd letters J-A-Y; on the thumb is a mini likeness of Mr. Beyoncé, Jay-Z, the world’s preeminent rapper, wearing a cocked Yankees cap and a cocky smile.
Beyoncé giggles at herself. “It’s just a silly thing that makes me smile,” she repeats. And then she’s off to work. Continue reading She Is Legend…
Beyoncé is on yet another magazine for June 2009 – Marie Claire! She looks gorgeous on the cover! I’ll be picking up the issue this week and will be scanning when I do. Click on the thumbnail below to view it in HQ!
Beyonce is on the cover of 2 international editions of Glamour Magazine’s June 2009 issues! She is currently gracing the covers of Glamour UK and Glamour Germany! She looks absolutely gorgeous and hopefully Borders will have some imports… at least the UK issue! Check the covers and spreads (German only) by clicking the thumbnails below!
Beyoncé’s already started the new year off right…4 weeks early! She’s gracing the cover of Elle Magazine January 2009 in one of their very best photographic and best written articles. You can read her entire coverstory here. But make sure you pick up the issues in stores! Here’s a little taste:
On marriage to Jay-Z: It’s a power struggle. But if I didn’t respect someone and they didn’t have that strength, then I would be bored. I wouldn’t be attracted to them.”
On having kids: I’m terrified of having a child. “No way! I’m terrified of delivering a child because I saw my nephew being born. That traumatized me. I’m only 27. I’ve got time”
How her latest role, playing Etta James in Cadillac Records, took an emotional toll on her personal life: “My mom had to leave the set. I don’t normally curse. Maybe twice a year. I have to be really livid. Somebody saying things or scheduling something where I’m not in control. It was freeing, but it was also the most emotionally draining time of my life. Every day I would come home; my eyes would be completely swollen”
And thanks to Elle, we have some exclusive high quality photos you’ll only find here! More to come!
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Alexei Hay for Elle Magazine, 2008
Alexei Hay for Elle Magazine, 2008 HQ- ThanksElle.Com!
Beyoncé put on her alter ego Sasha Fierce to cover the December 2008 issue of Giant Magazine! She’s featured in the magazine paired with a photospread by Ellen von Unwerth. These are some amazing shots of the Queen. I just got the magazine tonight after watching Cadillac Records. Which, by the way, I highly recommend to not only a Beyoncé fan but a music fan in general. Beyoncé’s great performance as Etta James aside, the movie is a great representation of the history of Rock and Roll. Go see it! I loved the movie. I’ll be scanning the magazine tomorrow and posting them as well!
Beyonce is on another magazine for the month of December! She is currently gracing the cover of GQ Magazine Germany! Thanks to a fan of B’Daily I’ve added photos of the inside of the magazine as well as the cover. Check them out by clicking on the thumbnails below. I have to say the photos in this spread are one of my favorites from this era so far.
Here’s all of the magazines Beyonce has covered this era so far that I’ve missed! I also have to scan InStyle for you all. Beyonce Takeover is happening! She is currently on the cover of major magazines such as Seventeen Magazine, Billboard Magazine, and more! Check out the gorgeous covers below!
Fans are still getting to know Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé’s musical alter ego, formally introduced on the singer’s 2008 album, “I Am…Sasha Fierce.”
Beyoncé Knowles is making the most of her moment, mounting a 110-city tour in 6-inch heels. What keeps her going? The answer is—literally—written on her fingernails.
