Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (/biˈɒnseɪ/ (listen) bee-ON-say) (née Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. Nicknamed "Queen Bey", she has been widely recognized for her boundary-pushing artistry and vocal performances. Beyoncé is regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of her generation. Her contributions to music and visual media have made her a prominent and influential pop culture figure of the 2000s and 2010s.
Beyoncé started performing in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003). Following the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, Beyoncé released the commercially successful solo albums B'Day (2006) and I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008). After professionally splitting from her manager and father, Mathew Knowles, in 2010, Beyoncé's artistry achieved wider critical acclaim for releasing sonically experimental visual albums, including 4 (2011), Beyoncé (2013), Lemonade (2016), and Renaissance (2022), all of which explored multiple societal themes such as infidelity, feminism, womanism, escapism, and hedonism. She also became the first solo artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Throughout her career, she has amassed multiple chart-topping singles worldwide, including "Crazy in Love", "Baby Boy", "Check on It", "Irreplaceable", "If I Were a Boy", "Halo", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Perfect Duet", "Savage Remix" and "Break My Soul."
Beyoncé's other music ventures included Everything Is Love (2018), a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters, and the musical film Black Is King (2020), inspired by the music of the film soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift (2019). She also starred in multiple films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Obsessed (2009), and The Lion King (2019).

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