Beyoncé Knowles

. The next single will be the Timbaland-laced soul throwback "Who Is She 2 U". Tommy Hilfiger. The album debut at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200 Album charts, and number 4 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts. L'Oreal. The album detailed the highs and lows of Brandy's relationships with a mixture of melodrama, independence, and sexuality. Pepsi. Both People and Rolling Stone magazine rated the album four stars, with Rolling Stone comparing it to 'Janet Jackson at her best..'.

She also has a host of other awards with Destiny's Child. Despite the negative blitz, Afrodisiac became Brandy's most critically-acclaim album to date. NAACP Image Awards. Brandy is said to embark on a concert tour with her own opening acts later in 2004.
. Hip-Hop guru Timbaland produced the bulk of the album.
Soul Train Music Awards. Early ticket sales for the outing were said to be poor.

Billboard Music Awards. West (who just so happens to be one of Medina's other clients) as an opening gig.
Vibe Award. Controversy surrounded Medina's handling of the lead single "Talk About Our Love" (Producer: Kanye West), a puzzling Vibe Magazine cover in which the singer appeared prostrated with headlines: "What's Behind Brandy?," and failed talks of a purported co-headlining tour with R&B singer Usher that was mysteriously handed to Mr.
TRL Awards. Brandy axed her relationship with his Los Angeles based Handprint Entertainment after less than a year of representation.
People's Choice Award. Brandy's latest album, the "Afrodisiac" disc is slated for a June 29, 2004 release, amidst her weakest promotional blitz ever and the well-publicized termination of her short-lived business relationship with entertainment manager Benny Medina - a (behind-the-scenes) superstar and diva in his own right.

Radio Music Awards. There has been no word on this project since 2001, however.
. Brandy was said to be the considered lead in a Diana Ross biopic planned by the legendary singer.
. Other roles include a television movie she co-produced and starred in with Diana Ross entitled Double Platinum; and a role in the franchise-flick I Still Know What You Did Last Summer where she portrayed the sassy Karla - best friend to Jennifer Love Hewitt's lead character.
BET Awards. The tele-film broke ratings records and garnered nine Emmy Award nominations.

Capital Awards. In 1997, she played the title character in Rodger And Hammerstein’s television version of Cinderella (see fan site (http://www.foreverbrandy.com)) featuring multi-cultural casting that also included Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters.
MTV Europe Music Awards. Brandy starred, for six seasons, in the popular television series Moesha in which she played the lead character, a rambunctious young teen.
MTV Video Music Award. However before the proposal, controversy once again arose when former lover, music producer/songrwiter Robert Smith, shocked radio viewers in a interview in New York when he revealed that he and Brandy did not legally get married in the summer of 2001 as reported.
ASCAP Pop Music Awards. In late July 2004, NBA player and Los Angeles Clippers guard Quentin Richardson proposed to Brandy at a private reception in Los Angeles with friends and family, according to People magazine.

Brit Awards. The song received a lukewarm reception, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard Top 100 charts and number 16 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Single & Tracks charts. Grammy Awards. Returning from yet another hiatus, Brandy's fourth album was released on June 29, 2004. The first single from that album, "Talk About Our Love", was produced by Kanye West and released in April 2004.
. However, the couple divorced in 2003. She's not sexy, she hasn't got a great body and she's not a great singer." He went on to defend Ashlee Simpson, something even the paper's editors found outrageous. Brandy entered the studio to record new material with Smith in December of 2002.

"I find the whole Beyonce thing really mystifying. The more she retreated from public life, the more she was hounded by gossip hounds and paparazzi. Simon Cowell, CEO of the BMG publishing house has openly criticized Beyonce Knowles in the January 2005 edition of Esquire magazine. Brandy ignored the rumblings and settled further into wedded and maternal bliss with her new family. Mr. Still, the album was rather quietly and cautiously declared as a flop by the media. The film is scheduled for release in 2005. Overseas, it faired much better, selling around 3.5 million copies outside of the United States.

Beyonce currently is in pre-production for The Pink Panther in the role of Xania, appearing opposite Steve Martin who plays Inspector Clouseau. Full Moon sold over a million copies - a modest number of units for an artist of Brandy's caliber. Both have also made the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, where "Naughty Girl" is currently still positioned. Brandy's third album Full Moon was released in March of 2002 and spawned the hits "What About Us" and "Full Moon," whose video disguised a five-month-pregnant Brandy, and whose lyrics explained how Brandy felt when she first locked eyes with her husband Robert Smith at a party. Fresh off the success of "Baby Boy", Beyoncé released her third solo single, "Me Myself And I" towards the end of 2003; Dangerously In Love's fourth single, "Naughty Girl", came out in mid-2004. The song was released internationally and became an instant smash hit, topping the charts in the UK, Germany, and Australia. Unlike Beyoncé's own singles, the song did not become popular, although the movie was a moderate success. In 2001, Brandy and her brother, Ray J, were chosen to remake Phil Collins' 1980s hit "Another Day in Paradise" for Urban Renewal: A Tribute to Phil Collins.

Around the same time, Beyoncé starred in the movie The Fighting Temptations and recorded a song for it called "Fighting Temptation", with rappers Missy Elliott, Free, and MC Lyte. Shortly after the birth of their child, Brandy retreated from public life with Smith. It, too, went on to become one of the biggest hits of 2003, dominating radio airplay for the fall of 2003. A 4-part reality series surrounding the birth of their daughter, Sy'rai Iman Smith, aired on MTV in the summer of 2002. Towards the end of the summer, "Baby Boy", Dangerously In Love's second single, which featured reggae star Sean Paul, began to climb the charts. The union did not make public acquaintance until February of 2002 as the singer waspreparing for her impending album release. "The way the world is now, who cares?" said Chapman Grant, "who knows? If the old guy were alive, he might have enjoyed it.". After a lengthy hiatus that saw the end of her Moesha television series, and a flurry of tabloid headlines discussing her bout with "dehydration", the singer quietly married music producer Robert Smith in the summer of 2001.

President Grant's great-grandsons Ulysses Grant Dietz and Chapman Foster Grant, spoke up on Knowles' behalf. She also landed a multitude of endorsement deals with CoverGirl cosmetics - whom she represented for several years, was the subject of a major advertisement campaign for DKNY Jeans for three seasons, and modelled Candies shoes in an eye-catch ad campaign photographed by Dave LaChapelle. Grant. For the next three years, Brandy completed the remaining three seasons of her lauded sitcom Moesha and starred in a number of widely successful and critically acclaimed television specials and movies. On the televised celebration of July 4 in 2003, Beyoncé came under controversy from the Grant Memorial Association for her performance of "Crazy In Love", in which she danced in a "patently inappropriate" way on the steps of the tomb of President Ulysses S. Like U Used To". When single and album simultaneously topped the pop charts in both the US and the UK, she became the first act to achieve this feat since Men At Work in 1983 - in the '60s and '70s, it was performed by the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Rod Stewart. During this time, her record company, Atlantic Records, issued a 9-track remix EP entitled "U Don't Know Me..

This album has sold in excess of 6 million copies worldwide. In late 1999, as part of her campaign to help UNICEF, as their International Spokesperson for Youth, "One Voice" (a selection from the Never S-A-Y Never LP) was made the official song of the organization. Dangerously In Love went to the top of the album charts in the UK and Canada, as well as on both the American pop (Billboard 200) and R&B charts. To date, Never S-A-Y Never has sold in excess of 14 million copies worldwide. Its first single, "Crazy In Love", featured a guest rap from Jay-Z and rapidly became one of the biggest hits of that summer, staying at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for ten weeks. Again, two versions of the song with corresponding music video clips were released. Both were minor hits late 1998 and through 1999. In 2003, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Dangerously In Love. While the album still had potential for a number of additional single releases, "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)," was the last single from Never S-A-Y Never.

The song was included both on her debut solo album and on Luther's Dance With My Father set, and they shared the Grammy for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. "Almost Doesn't Count" a guitar-laden acoustic ballad was the fourth single, accompanied by two different versions of another interesting video. In this version, the vocal parts are flipped around, with Luther taking Roberta's part and Beyoncé taking Donny's. The album's third single, "Have You Ever," was the first number one single of 1999 as it hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and dominated US radio airplay for a record three months. In the spring of 2003, Beyoncé remade a duet with Luther Vandross, called "The Closer I Get To You", originally performed by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. A remixed version of "Top Of The World," with Hispanic hip-hoppers Fat Joe & the late Big Pun, became an instant club classic. The couple are engaged, and current rumours say that they will marry soon. The concept video, while not her most beautiful, carried quite a bit of symbolism related to her life as a pop culture celebrity and international icon.

During the fall of 2002, Beyoncé was the featured vocalist on Jay-Z's smash single, "03 Bonnie And Clyde". This strange phenomena also included balancing herself vertically and horizontally alongside skyscrapers and buildings. "Work It Out" was a top 10 hit in the UK and a top 40 hit in the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland, despite being Beyoncé's biggest flop to date in her home country; in America, radio barely played the song and the video received very minor exposure, only on digital video channels, MTV Jams and VH1 Soul. She spontaneously floated in the air - flipping and somersaulting above random objects; telephone poles and vehicles, as people stopped to stare. She also recorded a song and produced a music video, called "Work It Out", for the movie soundtrack. The video featured Brandy incurring various supernatural phenomena. In the summer of 2002, Beyoncé co-starred in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember opposite Mike Myers' role of Austin Powers, as Foxxy Cleopatra. The second single from Never S-A-Y Never, "Top Of The World" featuring rapper Mase was not commercially released in the US.

Beyonce then turned to acting, starring in MTV's "Carmen" without any previous training. In the fall of 1998, Brandy co-hosted and performed at the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for "Favorite Female Artist Of The Year" in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories. She is the first African American woman and the second woman of any race to win the award. It was nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy Award, both as "Best Album Of The Year", in 1999. In 2001, Beyoncé won the Songwriter of the Year award, from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards. Amidst this phenomenal success, the album was also a number one smash on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, eventually reaching multi-platinum sales of over 5 million copies in the US. Both of these reached the top 10 Billboard album and singles charts respectively. "The Boy Is Mine," spent thirteen weeks atop the Hot 100 chart that summer and dominated several other Billboard charts in the US and around the world.

The first, Destiny Fulfilled has been released, along with the first single "Lose My Breath". The duet was released in the spring, and by the summer had transformed into a cult hit. "The Boy Is Mine" was, by far, the biggest single of 1998, winning the "Best R&B Performancy by a Duo or Group" award at the Grammys in 1999. In 2004 they have announced that they will release two albums. Brandy co-wrote and produced the song, which wasn't originally intended as a duet, then asked Monica to re-record it with her. The album's fourth and final single, "Emotions", was a cover of the Bee Gees hit of the same name; it continued the group's impressive string of top ten hits. Brandy recorded a duet with Monica, "The Boy Is Mine" which became the first single from Never S-A-Y Never. The title track "Survivor" would win the band their second Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The album received a total of four Grammy nominations and won in the "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group" category.

"Independent Women" (Part 1) had been the theme song for Charlie's Angels in late 2000, prior to the album's 2001 release. Brandy wrote and produced a great deal of the material on this album, executive producing the entire project as well. Two singles from the album went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100: "Independent Women" (Part 1) and "Bootylicious", with the album's title track reaching number 2. Her second album, 1998's Never S-A-Y Never, was nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy Award, both as Best Album Of The Year, and she co-hosted the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for Favorite Female Artist Of The Year in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories. The next album, Survivor, proved to be another smash, going to number one on both the American Billboard 200 and R&B Albums charts, and on the Canadian album chart, as well as being generally successful around the world. The song won a Grammy nomination in the "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals" category. ("Bug-A-Boo" and "Jumpin' Jumpin'" were also popular singles off the album.) "Say My Name" won two awards at the 2001 Grammys for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best R&B Song, the latter of which was awarded to the songwriters, which included Beyoncé herself. Even with the superstar lineup, it was Brandy's least successful single yet, but was still a moderate hit, and peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

Destiny Child's second album The Writing's On The Wall released in 1999 featured two number one hits in "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name". Later in 1996, Brandy teamed up with Tamia, Chaka Khan, and Gladys Knight, for the single "Missing You," released from the Set It Off soundtrack. The album itself also went platinum. Also in 1996, Brandy was taken to her prom by Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant. The group's self-titled album, released in 1998, was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and featured the platinum-selling, number one Hot 100 single "No, No, No". Towards the end of that year, she contributed a song to the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack, which yielded "Sittin' Up in My Room," a smash hit single that inhabited the top of the Pop charts throughout early 1996. The group has currently returned from a hiatus since 2001, when its three current members, Beyoncé, Rowland, and Michelle Williams, each decided to temporarily pursue solo careers. Also that year, an acoustic reading of her hit, "BrokenHearted" with Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men, stormed into the top 10 of the Billboard singles charts.

Beyoncé is the main songwriter for the group and is generally regarded as its leader. The sensual torch song was never released due to its mature theme and content (at the time, Brandy was only 16). The band is managed by her father, Matthew Knowles, who is acknowledged as a strong force in Beyoncé's life. In 1996, she recorded a duet with Lenny Kravitz for the Batman Forever soundtrack, penned and produced by Kravitz after viewing one of her videos on MTV and proclaiming he "had to have her". Beyoncé and Destiny's Child toured as an opening act for both Christina Aguilera and TLC before their first album, also called Destiny's Child. At the 2nd annual Lady of Soul Awards, Brandy was honored with the Aretha Franklin Award for Entertainer of the Year in 1996. As a teen, she attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where she honed her musical talents. Between 1995 and 1996, she won a total of seven Soul Train and Soul Train 'Lady of Soul' Music Awards, in the categories of "Best New Artist," "Best R&B/Soul Artist, Female," "Best R&B/Single, Solo," "Best R&B/Soul Song of The Year," "Best R&B/Soul New Artist," "Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year, Solo," and "Best New Artist of the Year".

Beyoncé has won five Grammy Awards for her solo work and three as a member of Destiny's Child. She was nominated for a 1996 "Best New Artist" Grammy and "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" Grammy Award, also for her smash hit "Baby"; in 1996, she won an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding New Artist". The album has spawned four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including "Crazy In Love" featuring partner Jay-Z and "Baby Boy" featuring Sean Paul, both of which were back-to-back multi-week number ones on said chart during last summer and fall. At the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards she eclipsed a category that comprised U2,Whitney Houston, and Seal to win the "Best Song From A Movie" award for "Sittin' Up In My Room". Her debut solo album, 2003's Dangerously In Love, topped both the R&B and pop charts in America, as well as the main album charts in Canada and the UK. In the fall of 1995 she attended the Billboard Music Awards taking home the awards for "Best New Artist, R&B," and "Best R&B Female". She is usually referred to by only her first name, Beyoncé, which is her stage name, but has come to be called "Beyoncé Knowles" by many in the media. Awards started to come soon after.

Beyoncé (born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is an African-American R&B singer, actress, songwriter and producer in the group Destiny's Child. To date, Brandy's debut album has sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide. Destiny Fulfilled (2004; in Destiny's Child) #2 U.S. The album contained the popular singles "I Wanna Be Down," "Baby," "Best Friend," "Brokenhearted," and made her an MTV star throughout 1995 and into early 1996. #1 UK. When Brandy was 14, she was able to land a record deal with Atlantic Records, and in 1994 her first album, Brandy, was released, reaching gold status in less than two months, and quadruple platinum status soon after. Dangerously in Love (2003; solo) #1 U.S. At 11, she met a record producer who took her to various record companies and led her to backup singing jobs with two groups: Norment and the more successful Immature.

Survivor (album) (2001; in Destiny's Child) #1 U.S. #1 UK. At the age of four, the Norwoods moved to California, where Brandy began her artistic career singing at talent shows in 1990. The Writing's On The Wall (1999; in Destiny's Child). Brandy became a fan of Whitney Houston, and she told her father that she wanted to be a singer, like Houston. Destiny's Child (album) (1998; in Destiny's Child). Norwood's father was a pastor, and by the age of two, she was singing at his church. The Pink Panther: 2005 (Beyoncé as Xania). She was born in McComb, Mississippi, USA and raised in southern California.

The Fighting Temptations: 2003 (Beyoncé as Lily);. Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an pop/R&B singer and actress. Austin Powers in Gold Member: 2002 (Beyoncé as Foxy Cleopatra);. 2004 "Who Is She 2 U". Carmen: A Hip Hopera: 2001 (Beyoncé as Carmen);. 2004 "Afrodisiac" #11 UK. Entertainer of the Year: 2004. Kanye West) #36 US, #6 UK.

Award for "Entertainer of the Year" - Female: 2004. 2004 "Talk about Our Love" (feat. The Sammy Davis, Jr. 2002 "Full Moon" #18 US, #15 UK. Best Female R&B/Soul Album(Dangerously in Love): 2004;. 2002 "What about Us?" #7 US, #4 UK. New R&B Artist: 2003. Ray J) #5 UK.

Hot 100 Award for Most Weeks at No.1: 2003;. 2001 "Another Day in Paradise" (feat. Hot 100 Female Artist: 2003;. 1999 "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used to)". New Female Artist: 2003;. 1999 "Almost Doesn't Count" #16 US, #15 UK. Most stylish Artist. 1998 "Have You Ever?" #1 US, #13 UK.

Coolest Collabo("Crazy in Love"): 2003;. Mase) #2 UK. TRL's First Lady Award: 2004. 1998 "Top of the World" (feat. Favorite Female Performer: 2004. 1998 "The Boy Is Mine" (with Monica) #1 US, #2 UK. Artist of the Year-Top 40 Radio: 2004. Tamia, Gladys Knight & Chaka Khan; from Set It Off soundtrack) #25 US.

Best Collaboration("Crazy in Love"): 2004. 1996 "Missing You" (feat. Best Female R&B Artist: 2004;. 1995 "Sittin' up in My Room" (from Waiting To Exhale soundtrack) #2 US, #30 UK. London's Favorite International Solo Artist. 1995 "Best Friend" #34 US. Best Song of the Year("Crazy in Love"): 2003. Wanya Morris of Boyz II Men) #9 US.

Best R&B Award: 2003;. 1995 "Brokenhearted" (feat. Best Female Video("Naughty Girl"): 2004. 1995 "Baby" #4 US. Best Choreography("Crazy in Love"): 2003;. 1994 "I Wanna Be Down" #6 US, #36 UK. Best R&B Video("Crazy in Love"): 2003;. P.Diddy and Bow Wow; 2003).

Best Female Video("Crazy in Love"): 2003;. The Wild Thornberrys: The Movie ("Dance With Us" feat. Pop Songwriter of the Year: 2001. Osmosis Jones ("Open"; 2001). Best International Female Artist, 2004. Set It Off ("Missing You"; 1996). Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy In Love" with Jay-Z. Waiting to Exhale ("Sittin' Up in My Room"; 1995).

Best Contemporary R&B Album for "Dangerously In Love"; and. Afrodisiac (2004) #3 US, #32 UK. Best R&B Song for "Crazy In Love" with Jay-Z;. Full Moon (2002) #2 US, #9 UK. Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for her duet with Luther Vandross for "The Closer I Get To You";. Never Say Never (1998) #2 US, #19 UK. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously In Love 2";. Brandy (1994) #20 US.

"Naughty Girl":U.S #3 (2004). #4 (2003). "Me Myself and I":U.S. #1(11 weeks) (2003).

"Baby Boy" featuring Sean Paul:U.S. #1(10 weeks) UK #1 (2003). "Crazy in Love" featuring Jay-Z:U.S.