The Memoir Of Ms. Butterfly

Beyoncé will no longer be visiting Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium, which was set to host her massive “Renaissance” tour next month.

On Wednesday, the stadium confirmed the news via social media, revealing that the show had been canceled “due to production logistics and scheduling issues.

” Two additional stops in Seattle and Kansas City have been postponed, with Seattle’s delay being just one day after the original date, and the Kansas show shifted from September 18 to October 1.

Both venues cited the same scheduling and production issues for the move. Fans have rallied online to discuss the canceled Pittsburgh date, many expressing their frustrations with how the last-minute announcement left them with the minimal option of finding replacement tickets on costly resale sites.

Pittsburgh concert-goers can try to attend dates in Philadelphia or East Rutherford, though both shows have sold out or have a small batch of tickets left. Refunds for the Pittsburgh show will be automatically issued at the point of purchase.

Variety has contacted Beyoncé’s representatives and Acrisure Stadium for additional information.

The “Renaissance” world tour started earlier this May in Stockholm, Sweden, and visited stadiums and arenas across Europe through the end of June. The North American leg of the tour is scheduled to begin on July 8 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto and will now end in Kansas City instead of New Orleans due to the schedule shift.

The world first tasted Beyonce as a singer in the girl group Destiny Child. A group that was managed by her father with discipline and structure that made them the best female-selling group of all time,

 Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas, to Celestine “Tina” Knowles (née Beyonce), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager.

Tina is Louisiana Creole, and Mathew is African American. Beyoncé’s younger sister, Solange Knowles, is also a singer and a former backup dancer for Destiny’s Child. Solange and Beyoncé were the first sisters to have had number one solo albums.

Beyoncé’s maternal grandparents, Lumas Beyonce and Agnez Dereon (daughter of Odilia Broussard and Eugene DeRouen), were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles, with roots in New Iberia Beyoncé is considered a Creole, passed on to her by her grandparents.

Through her mother, Beyoncé is a descendant of many French aristocrats from the southwest of France, including the family of the Viscounts de Béarn since the 9th century and the Viscounts de Belzunce.

She is a descendant of Acadian militia officer Joseph Broussard, who was exiled to French Louisiana after the expulsion of the Acadians.

Her fourth great-grandmother, Marie-Françoise Trahan, was born in 1774 in Bangor, Belle Île, France. Trahan was a daughter of Acadians who had taken refuge in Belle Île after the Acadian expulsion.

The Estates of Brittany had divided the lands of Belle Île to distribute them among 78 other Acadian families and the already settled inhabitants. The Trahan family lived on Belle Île for over ten years before immigrating to Louisiana, where she married a Broussard descendant.

Beyoncé researched her ancestry and discovered that she is descended from a slave owner who married his slave. Her mother also has distant Jewish, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian ancestry.

Beyoncé was raised Catholic and attended St. Mary’s Montessori School in Houston, where she enrolled in dance classes. Her singing was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song.

She finished it, able to hit the high-pitched notes. Beyoncé’s interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” to beat 15/16-year-olds.

In the fall of 1990, Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she would perform with the school’s choir.

She also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and later Alief Elsik High School. Beyoncé was also a choir member at St. John’s United Methodist Church as a soloist for two years.

When Beyoncé was eight, she met LaTavia Roberson at an audition for an all-girl entertainment group. They were placed into a group called Girl’s Tyme with three other girls and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston.

After seeing the group, R&B producer Arne Frager brought them to his Northern California studio and placed them in Star Search, the largest talent show on national TV.

Girl’s Tyme failed to win. Beyoncé later said the song they performed was not good. In 1995, Beyoncé’s father resigned to manage the group. The move reduced Beyoncé’s family’s income by half, and her parents were forced to sell their house and cars and move into separate apartments.

Mathew cut the original lineup to four, and the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R&B girl groups. The girls auditioned before record labels.

They were finally signed to Elektra Records, moving to Atlanta Records briefly to work on their first recording, only to be cut by the company. This put further strain on the family, and Beyoncé’s parents separated.

On October 5, 1995, Dwayne Wiggins’s Grass Roots Entertainment signed the group. In 1996, the girls began recording their debut album under an agreement with Sony Music; the Knowles family reunited, and shortly after, the group got a contract with Columbia Records with the assistance of Columbia talent scout Teresa LaBarbera Whites.

The group changed its name to Destiny’s Child in 1996, based upon a passage in the Book of Isaiah. In 1997, Destiny’s Child released their primary label debut song, “Killing Time,” on the soundtrack to the 1997 film Men in Black.

In November, the group released their debut single and first major hit, “No, No, No.” They released their self-titled debut album in February 1998, which established the group as a viable act in the music industry, with moderate sales and winning the group three Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards for Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year, Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, and Best R&B/Soul Single for “No, No, No.”

The group released their Multi-Platinum second album, The Writing’s on the Wall, in 1999. The record features some of the group’s most widely known songs, such as “Bills, Bills, Bills,” the group’s first number-one single, “Jumpin’ Jumpin’,” and “Say My Name,” which became their most successful song at the time, and would remain one of their signature songs.

“Say My Name” won the Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and the Best R&B Song at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards. The Writing on the Wall sold more than eight million copies worldwide. During this time, Beyoncé recorded a duet with Marc Nelson, an original member of Boyz II Men, on the song “After All Is Said and Done” for the soundtrack to the 1999 film The Best Man.

LeToya Luckett and Roberson became unhappy with Mathew’s managing of the band and eventually were replaced by Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams.

Beyoncé experienced depression following the split with Luckett and Roberson after being publicly blamed by the media, critics, and blogs for its cause.

Her long-standing boyfriend left her at this time. The depression was so severe it lasted for a couple of years, during which she occasionally kept herself in her bedroom for days and refused to eat anything.

Beyoncé stated that she struggled to speak about her depression because Destiny’s Child had just won their first Grammy Award. She feared no one would take her seriously. Beyoncé would later speak of her mother as the person who helped her fight it. Franklin was then dismissed, leaving just Beyoncé, Rowland, and Williams.

The remaining band members recorded “Independent Women Part I,” which appeared on the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels soundtrack. It became their best-charting single, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for eleven consecutive weeks.

In early 2001, while Destiny’s Child was completing their third album, Beyoncé landed a significant role in the MTV made-for-television film Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring alongside American actor Mekhi Phifer. Set in Philadelphia, the film is a modern interpretation of the 19th-century opera Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.

When the third album, Survivor, was released in May 2001, Luckett and Roberson sued, claiming that the songs were aimed at them. The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 663,000 copies.

The album spawned other number-one hits, “Bootylicious” and the title track, “Survivor,” which earned the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. After releasing their holiday album 8 Days of Christmas in October 2001, the group announced a hiatus to further pursue solo careers.

In July 2002, Beyoncé made her theatrical film debut, playing Foxxy Cleopatra alongside Mike Myers in the comedy film Austin Powers in Goldmember, which spent its first weekend atop the U.S. box office and grossed $73 million.

Beyoncé released “Work It Out” as the lead single from its soundtrack album, which entered the top ten in the U.K., Norway, and Belgium. In 2003, Beyoncé starred opposite Cuba Gooding, Jr., in the musical comedy The Fighting Temptations as Lilly, a single mother with whom Gooding’s character falls in Love.

The film received mixed reviews from critics but grossed $30 million in the U.S. Beyoncé released “Fighting Temptation” as the lead single from the film’s soundtrack album, with Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free, which was also used to promote the film. Another of Beyoncé’s contributions to the soundtrack, “Summertime,” fared better on the U.S. charts.

Beyoncé’s first solo recording was a feature on Jay-Z’s song “’03 Bonnie & Clyde,” which was released in October 2002, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

On June 14, 2003, Beyoncé premiered songs from her first solo album Dangerously in Love during her first solo concert and the pay-per-view television special, “Ford Presents Beyoncé Knowles, Friends & Family, Live From Ford’s 100th Anniversary Celebration in Dearborn, Michigan.

The album was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts. The album sold 317,000 copies in its first week, debuted atop the Billboard 200, and sold 11 million copies worldwide.

The album’s lead single, “Crazy in Love,” featuring Jay-Z, became Beyoncé’s first number-one single as a solo artist in the U.S. The single “Baby Boy” also reached number one, and singles “Me, Myself and I” and “Naughty Girl” both reached the top five.

The album earned Beyoncé a then record-tying five awards at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards: Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Dangerously in Love 2”, Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Crazy in Love,” and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for “The Closer I Get to You” with Luther Vandross. During the ceremony, she performed with Prince.

In November 2003, she embarked on the Dangerously in Love Tour in Europe and later toured alongside Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys for the Verizon Ladies First Tour in North America.

On February 1, 2004, Beyoncé performed the American national anthem at Super Bowl XXXVIII at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.

After the release of Dangerously in Love, Beyoncé planned to produce a follow-up album using several left-over tracks. However, this was put on hold so she could concentrate on recording Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by Destiny’s Child.

Released on November 15, 2004, in the U.S. and peaking at number two on the Billboard 200, Destiny Fulfilled included the singles “Lose My Breath” and “Soldier,” which reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Destiny’s Child embarked on a worldwide concert tour, Destiny Fulfilled… and Lovin’ It, sponsored by McDonald’s Corporation, and performed hits such as “No, No, No,” “Survivor,” “Say My Name,” “Independent Women,” and “Lose My Breath.

” In addition to renditions of the group’s recorded material, they also performed songs from each singer’s solo career, most notably numbers from Dangerously in Love. And during the last stop of their European tour, in Barcelona on June 11, 2005, Rowland announced that Destiny’s Child would disband following the North American leg of the tour.

The group released their first compilation album, Number 1’s, on October 25, 2005, in the U.S. [and accepted a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2006. The group has sold 60 million records worldwide.

Beyoncé’s second solo album, B’Day, was released on September 4, 2006, in the U.S., to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday. It sold 541,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming Beyoncé’s second consecutive number-one album in the United States.

The album’s lead single, “Déjà Vu,” featuring Jay-Z, reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The second international single, “Irreplaceable,” was a commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States.

 B’Day also produced three other singles: “Ring the Alarm,” “Get Me Bodied,” and “Green Light” (released in the United Kingdom only).

At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (2007), B’Day was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Ring the Alarm” and Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration” for “Déjà Vu”; the Freemasons club mix of “Déjà Vu” without the rap was put forward in the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical category.

 B’Day won the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album. The following year, B’Day received two nominations – for Record of the Year for “Irreplaceable” and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for “Beautiful Liar” (with Shakira), also receiving a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media for her appearance on Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture (2006).

Her first acting role in 2006 was in the comedy film The Pink Panther, starring opposite Steve Martin, grossing $158.8 million at the box office worldwide.

Her second film, Dreamgirls, the film version of the 1981 Broadway musical loosely based on The Supremes, received acclaim from critics and grossed $154 million internationally. In it, she starred opposite Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy, playing a pop singer based on Diana Ross.

 To promote the film, Beyoncé released “Listen” as the lead single from the soundtrack album. In April 2007, Beyoncé embarked on The Beyoncé Experience, her first worldwide concert tour, visiting 97 venues and grossing over $24 million.

Beyoncé conducted pre-concert food donation drives during six major stops with her pastor at St. John’s and America’s Second Harvest. At the same time, B’Day was re-released with five additional songs, including her duet with Shakira, “Beautiful Liar.

I Am… Sasha Fierce was released in the United States on November 18, 2008. The album formally introduces Beyoncé’s alter ego Sasha Fierce, conceived during the making of her 2003 single “Crazy in Love.

It was met with generally mediocre reviews from critics. Still, it sold 482,000 copies in its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200 and giving Beyoncé her third consecutive number-one album in the U.S.

The album featured the number-one song “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and the top-five songs “If I Were a Boy” and “Halo.” Achieving the accomplishment of becoming her longest-running Hot 100 single in her career,

“Halo”‘s success in the U.S. helped Beyoncé attain more top-ten singles on the list than any other woman during the 2000s. It also included the successful “Sweet Dreams” and singles “Diva,” “Ego,” “Broken-Hearted Girl,” and “Video Phone.

” According to the Toronto Star, the music video for “Single Ladies” has been parodied and imitated worldwide, spawning the “first major dance craze” of the Internet age.

The video has won several awards, including Best Video at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards, the 2009 Scottish MOBO Awards, and the 2009 BET Awards.

At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the video was nominated for nine awards, ultimately winning three, including Video of the Year. Its failure to win the Best Female Video category, which went to American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me,” led to Kanye West interrupting the ceremony and Beyoncé improvising a re-presentation of Swift’s award during her own acceptance speech.

In March 2009, Beyoncé embarked on the I Am… World Tour, her second headlining worldwide concert tour, comprised 108 shows, grossing $119.5 million.

Beyoncé further expanded her acting career, starring as blues singer Etta James in the 2008 musical biopic Cadillac Records. Her performance in the film received praise from critics.

She garnered several nominations for her portrayal of James, including a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress.

Beyoncé donated her entire salary from the film to Phoenix House, an organization of rehabilitation centers for heroin addicts nationwide. On January 20, 2009, Beyoncé performed James’ “At Last” at First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama’s inaugural ball.

Beyoncé starred opposite Ali Larter and Idris Elba in the thriller, Obsessed. She played Sharon Charles, a mother and wife whose family is threatened by her husband’s stalker.

Although the film received negative reviews from critics, the movie did well at the U.S. box office, grossing $68 million – $60 million more than Cadillac Records – on a budget of $20 million.

The fight scene finale between Sharon and the character played by Ali Larter also won the 2010 MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé received ten nominations, including Album of the Year for I Am… Sasha Fierce, Record of the Year for “Halo,” and Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” among others.

She tied with Lauryn Hill for most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female artist. Beyoncé won six of those nominations, breaking a record she previously tied in 2004 for the most Grammy awards won in a single night by a female artist with six. In 2010, Beyoncé was featured in Lady Gaga’s single “Telephone” and appeared in its music video.

The song topped the U.S. Pop Songs chart, becoming the sixth number-one for both Beyoncé and Gaga, tying them with Mariah Carey for most number-ones since the Nielsen Top 40 airplay chart launched in 1992. “Telephone” received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

Beyoncé announced a hiatus from her music career in January 2010, heeding her mother’s advice “to live life, to be inspired by things again. During the break, she and her father parted ways as business partners. Beyoncé’s musical break lasted nine months. She visited multiple European cities, the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids, Australia, English music festivals, museums, and ballet performances.

On June 26, 2011, she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years.

Her fourth studio album, 4, was released two days later in the U.S. 4 sold 310,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fourth consecutive number-one album in the U.S.

The album was preceded by two of its singles, “Run the World (Girls)” and “Best Thing I Never Had .”The fourth single, “Love on Top,” spent seven consecutive weeks at number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart while peaking at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest peak from the album.

 4 produced four other singles: “Party,” “Countdown,” “I Care,” and “End of Time .””Eat, Play, Love,” a cover story written by Beyoncé for Essence that detailed her 2010 career break, won her a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists.

In late 2011, she took the stage at New York’s Roseland Ballroom for four nights of special performances: the 4 Intimate Nights with Beyoncé concerts saw the performance of her 4 albums to a standing room only.

On August 1, 2011, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having shipped 1 million copies to retail stores. By December 2015, it reached sales of 1.5 million copies in the U.S.

The album reached one billion Spotify streams on February 5, 2018, making Beyoncé the first female artist to have three of their albums surpass one billion streams on the platform. In June 2012, she performed four nights at Revel Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall to celebrate the resort’s opening, her first performance since giving birth to her daughter.

In January 2013, Destiny’s Child released Love Songs, a compilation album of romance-themed songs from their previous albums and a newly recorded track, “Nuclear.

” Beyoncé performed the American national anthem, singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama’s second inauguration in Washington, D.C. Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans the following month.

The performance is the second most-tweeted-about moment in history at 268,000 tweets per minute. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Love on Top.” Her feature-length documentary film, Life Is But a Dream, first aired on HBO on February 16, 2013. The film was co-directed by Beyoncé herself.

Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates from March 2014. It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most successful tours of all time.

Beyoncé’s cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” with André 3000 on The Great Gatsby soundtrack was released in May. Beyoncé voiced Queen Tara in the 3D CGI animated film Epic, released by 20th Century Fox on May 24, and recorded an original song for “Rise Up,” co-written with Sia.

On December 13, 2013, Beyoncé unexpectedly released her eponymous fifth studio album on the iTunes Store without any prior announcement or promotion.

The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fifth consecutive number-one album in the U.S. This made her the first woman in the chart’s history to have her first five studio albums debut at number one.

 Beyoncé received critical acclaim and commercial success, selling one million digital copies worldwide in six days. Musically an electro-R&B album, it concerns darker themes previously unexplored in her work, such as “bulimia, postnatal depression [and] the fears and insecurities of marriage and motherhood.” The single “Drunk in Love,” featuring Jay-Z, peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In April 2014, Beyoncé and Jay-Z officially announced they’re On the Run Tour. It served as the couple’s first co-headlining stadium tour together. On August 24, 2014, she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.

Beyoncé also won three competitive awards: Best Video with a Social Message, Best Cinematography for Pretty Hurts, and Best Collaboration for “Drunk in Love.” In November, Forbes reported that Beyoncé was the top-earning woman in music for the second year – earning $115 million, more than double her earnings in 2013.

Beyoncé was reissued with new material as part of a platinum edition box set. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), in the last 19 days of 2013, the album sold 2.3 million units worldwide, becoming the tenth best-selling album of 2013.

The album also went on to become the twentieth best-selling album of 2014. As of November 2014, Beyoncé has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and has generated over 1 billion streams as of March 2015.

At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015, Beyoncé was nominated for six awards, ultimately winning three: Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for “Drunk in Love” and Best Surround Sound Album for Beyoncé. She was nominated for Album of the Year, but the award went to Beck for his album Morning Phase.

On February 6, 2016, Beyoncé released “Formation” and its accompanying music video exclusively on the music streaming platform Tidal; the song was made available to download for free. She performed “Formation” live for the first time during the NFL Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

The appearance was considered controversial as it appeared to reference the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, and the NFL forbids political statements in its performances.

Immediately following the performance, Beyoncé announced The Formation World Tour, highlighting North American and European stops. It ended on October 7, with Beyoncé bringing out her husband, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Serena Williams for the last show. The tour went on to win Tour of the Year at the 44th American Music Awards.

In April 2016, Beyoncé released a teaser clip for a project called Lemonade. A one-hour film aired on HBO on April 23, and a corresponding album with the same title was released on the same day exclusively on Tidal.

 Lemonade debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making Beyoncé the first act in Billboard history to have their first six studio albums debut atop the chart; she broke a record previously tied with DMX in 2013.

With all 12 tracks of Lemonade debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Beyoncé also became the first female act to chart 12 or more songs simultaneously.

Lemonade was streamed 115 million times through Tidal, setting a record for the most-streamed album in a single week by a female artist in history. It was 2016’s third highest-selling album in the U.S., with 1.554 million copies sold within the country, and the best-selling album worldwide, with global sales of 2.5 million throughout the year.

In June 2019, Lemonade was certified 3× Platinum, selling up to 3 million album-equivalent units in the United States alone. Lemonade became her most critically acclaimed work, receiving universal acclaim according to Metacritic, a website collecting reviews from professional music critics.

Several music publications included the album among the best of 2016, including Rolling Stone, which listed Lemonade as number one. The album’s visuals were nominated in 11 categories at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, the most ever received by Beyoncé in a single year, and won 8 awards, including Video of the Year for “Formation.

The eight wins made Beyoncé the most-awarded artist in the history of the VMAs (24), surpassing Madonna (20). Beyoncé occupied sixth place for Time magazine’s 2016 Person of the Year.

In January 2017, it was announced that Beyoncé would headline the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. This would make Beyoncé only the second female headliner of the festival since it was founded in 1999.

It was later announced on February 23, 2017, that Beyoncé would no longer be able to perform at the festival due to doctor’s concerns regarding her pregnancy. The festival owners announced that she would instead headline the 2018 festival.

Upon the announcement of Beyoncé’s departure from the festival lineup, ticket prices dropped by 12%. At the 59th Grammy Awards in February 2017, Lemonade led the nominations with nine, including Album, Record, and Song of the Year for Lemonade and “Formation,” respectively.

He ultimately won Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade and Best Music Video for “Formation.” Upon winning her Grammy for Album of the Year, Adele stated Lemonade was monumental and more deserving.

In September 2017, Beyoncé collaborated with J Balvin and Willy William to release a remix of the song “Mi Gente.” Beyoncé donated all proceeds from the song to hurricane charities for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean Islands.

On November 10, Eminem released “Walk on Water,” featuring Beyoncé as the lead single from his album Revival. On November 30, Ed Sheeran announced that Beyoncé would feature on the remix of his song “Perfect .””Perfect Duet” was released on December 1, 2017. The song reached number one in the United States, becoming Beyoncé’s sixth song of her solo career to do so.

On January 4, 2018, the music video of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 4:44 collaboration, “Family Feud,” was released. It was directed by Ava DuVernay.

On March 1, 2018, DJ Khaled released Top Off as the first single from his forthcoming album Father of Asahd, featuring Beyoncé, his husband Jay-Z, and Future. On March 5, 2018, a joint tour with Knowles’s husband, Jay-Z, was leaked on Facebook.

Information about the tour was later taken down. The couple officially announced the joint tour as On the Run II Tour on March 12 and released a YouTube tour trailer.

On April 14, 2018, Beyoncé played the first of two weekends as the headlining act of the Coachella Music Festival. Her performance on April 14, attended by 125,000 festival-goers, was immediately praised, with multiple media outlets describing it as historic.

The performance became the most-tweeted-about of weekend one, the most-watched live Coachella performance, and the most-watched live performance on YouTube.

The show paid tribute to black culture, specifically historically black colleges and universities, and featured a live band with over 100 dancers. Destiny’s Child also reunited during the show.

On June 6, 2018, Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, kicked off the On the Run II Tour in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Ten days later, at their final London performance, the pair unveiled Everything Is Love, their joint studio album, credited under The Carters and initially available exclusively on Tidal.

The pair also released the video for the album’s lead single, “Apeshit,” on Beyoncé’s official YouTube channel. Everything Is Love received generally positive reviews and debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, with 123,000 album-equivalent units, of which 70,000 were pure album sales.

On December 2, 2018, Beyoncé, alongside Jay-Z, headlined the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, held at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their 2-hour performance had concepts similar to the On the Run II Tour, and Beyoncé was praised for her outfits, which paid tribute to Africa’s diversity.

Homecoming, a documentary and concert film focusing on Beyoncé’s historic 2018 Coachella performances, was released by Netflix on April 17, 2019. The film was accompanied by the surprise live album Homecoming: The Live Album.

It was later reported that Beyoncé and Netflix had signed a $60 million deal to produce three projects, one of which is Homecoming. Homecoming received six nominations at the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Beyoncé starred as the voice of Nala in the remake The Lion King, released in July 2019. Beyoncé is featured on the film’s soundtrack, released on July 11, 2019, with a remake of the song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” alongside Donald Glover, Billy Eichner, and Seth Rogen, initially composed by Elton John.

An original song from Beyoncé, “Spirit,” was released as the lead single from both the soundtrack and The Lion King: The Gift – a companion album released alongside the film, produced and curated by Beyoncé.

Beyoncé called The Lion King: The Gift a “sonic cinema.” She stated that the album is influenced by everything from R&B, pop, hip-hop, and Afrobeat. The songs were produced by African producers, which Beyoncé said was because “authenticity and heart were important to [her]” since the film is set in Africa.

In September of the same year, a documentary chronicling the development, production, and early music video filming of The Lion King: The Gift entitled “Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift” was aired on ABC.

In April 2020, Beyoncé was featured on the remix of Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Savage,” marking her first music material for the year. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Beyoncé’s eleventh song to do so across all acts. On June 19, 2020, Beyoncé released the nonprofit charity single “Black Parade.

On June 23, she followed up the release of its studio version with a cappella version exclusively on Tidal. Black Is King, a visual album based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift, premiered globally on Disney+ on July 31, 2020.

Produced by Disney and Parkwood Entertainment, the film was written, directed, and executive produced by Beyoncé. The film was described by Disney as “a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience.” Beyoncé received the most nominations (9) at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards and the most awards (4), which made her the most-awarded singer, most-awarded female artist, and second-most-awarded artist in Grammy history.

Beyoncé wrote and recorded a song titled “Be Alive” for the biographical drama film King Richard. She received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards for the song, alongside co-writer DIXSON.

On June 9, 2022, Beyoncé removed her profile pictures across various social media platforms, causing speculation that she would be releasing new music. Days later, Beyoncé caused further speculation via her nonprofit BeyGood’s Twitter account, hinting at her upcoming seventh studio album. On June 15, 2022, Beyoncé officially announced her seventh studio album, Renaissance. The album was released on July 29, 2022. The first single from Renaissance, “Break My Soul,” was released on June 20, 2022. The song became Beyoncé’s 20th top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, and in doing so, Beyoncé joined Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson as the only artists in Hot 100 history to achieve at least twenty top tens as a solo artist and ten as a member of a group.

Upon release, Renaissance received universal acclaim from critics. Renaissance debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and in doing so, Beyoncé became the first female artist to have her first seven studio albums debut at number one in the United States. “Break My Soul” concurrently rose to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the twelfth song to do so across her career discography.

The song “Heated,” which was co-written with Canadian rapper Drake, originally included the lyrics Spazzin’ on that ass/spazz on that ass.” Critics, including several disability charities and activists, argued that the word “spaz” represented a derogatory term for spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. In response, in August 2022, a representative for Beyoncé issued a statement and explained that “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.”

On January 21, 2023, Beyoncé performed at a private show in Dubai. The performance, her first full concert in more than four years, was delivered to an audience of influencers and journalists. Beyoncé was reportedly paid $24 million to perform. Beyoncé faced criticism for her decision to perform in the United Arab Emirates, where homosexuality is illegal. On February 1, Beyoncé announced the Renaissance World Tour with dates in North America and Europe.

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