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You may know her as Queen Bee, leader of the hive, but she is much more than that. Beyonce is known all around the world as the Queen. It all started on September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas. The parents of this star are Matthew Knowles and Tina Knowles. Beyonce's mother, Tina, is a fashion designer for House Of Dereon. Her father, Matthew, is a manger and businessman. He is best known for as the former manager of Destiny's Girls. Beyonce all started singing and performing in many different groups as a child and rose to a star when she became the lead singer of the girl group " Destiny's girls". In the meantime, Beyonce's husband (Jay Z) was releasing his first solo CD. Jay Z and Beyonce were just friends and talked for a year and a half before they ever even went on a date. Eventually, after a few years later, Beyonce and Jay Z got married in the year of 2008. 4 years later their daughter, Blue Ivy was born. Blue Ivy is now

Luckily, she landed success as a model where she became one of the first African American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen Magazine. Although being a model was a great experience for Houston, she still did not give up her dreams of becoming a famous musical artist. So by the time Whitney Houston was 19 years old, she was finally discovered while singing in a nightclub by music mogul of Arista Records, Clive Davis. As Houston’s manager, Clive immediately transformed her musical career where she moved from being a gospel artist to a major pop artist (Bio.com).

When Beyoncé was a little girl she loved to sing,dance,and having fun with her family. Beyoncé was little when she started her career. Her mom and dad notices she was always singing. So her mom found a good place for her to practice, Her school talent show. When her mom told Beyonce about it, she wanted to try it. She was singing on stage and dancing. Beyoncé was scared at first, but when it was all over she wanted to do it over and over again. This is when her mom saw that she was that good at singing. After all of that Beyoncé had a lot of fun and

Tina’s original name is Anna Mae Bullock and was born on November 26, 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee (THE IKE AND TINA TURNER REVUE ). Tina and her sister were abandoned by their parents at an early age and so they went on with their grandparents, who raised them (Tina Turner Biography). This shows that Tina starts off badly and like any other star, she started off with not much. TIna had moved to St. Louis and would go to the Club Manhattan and that is where her talent was noticed by a drummer of Kings of Rhythm when she was singing along to their song while she was in the audience (THE IKE AND TINA TURNER REVUE). She started off with singing duets with Ike Turner, who was at the moment in the Kings of Rhythm, and then got recognized in the music industry, but later on goes onto her own solo music career (Tina Turner Biography). While she did start off badly, Tina was still able to make choices in order to move on to a better place. This shows that Tina had the strength to go through tough problems and now she is a happy

Bessie Smith was born around 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a poverty stricken family. First orphaned at a young age then adopted by relatives, she took to singing on the streets as a way to make extra money. At nine years old, she made her first appearance on stage at the Ivory Theater.3 By her late teens, she was performing in Moses Stokes's traveling minstrel show; later, in 1912, she joined the famous Rabbit Foot Minstrels. It was here that she met Ma Rainey, who took Smith under her wing and became her

After listening to a few of Beyonce’s songs, it was quite difficult to pick just one song to do, since they’re all brilliant. In the end, I decided to do this song because it went along with a research paper that I just had to do (which was on feminism). Aside from that, Run the World (Girls) was one of my favorite songs to watch Beyonce perform at awards shows in the past.

To begin with, She was born in tennesse on November 26,1939, Tina Turner begin performing with musician Ike Turner in 1950s. They was known as the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, achieving popular acclaim for their live performances and recordings, until Tina left in the 1970s after years of abuse. Having a slow start to her single career, Turner achieved massive success with her 1984 album,”Private Dancer”. She went to deliver more chart topping albums, and was choosen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. The singer became involved in the spiritual “Beyond” project, and is now happily married.

Beyoncé Knowles is an American Singer, Dancer and Actress. She began her career in the R&B Girl group Destiny’s Child as the lead vocalist spanning over 11 years. They released songs such as ‘Say my Name’, ‘Independent woman part 1’ and ‘Lose my Breath’ in 2004 when they returned from their 2-year hiatus; to name just a few of the top 10 hits. Beyoncé went on to become a solo artist and released her debut ‘Dangerously in Love’ in 2003 which stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks. Since then Beyoncé has released five more albums, appeared in the eight movies one of which gave her an Oscar nomination; Dream girls. While being known for her vast accomplishments, Beyoncé has used her craft to highlight the achievements and struggles of the African- American Community.

Songs like “Ain’t no mountain high enough”, “My Girl”, and “ABC” have shaped American history in ways that people don’t even realize. We wouldn’t be listing to artist like Beyoncé, Drake, and John Legend if these former artists didn’t write and/or perform these songs. They have allowed African American music to blossom to what it is known for today. If these artists did not continue to write and produce music, they would have never gotten anywhere and we wouldn’t have the African American artist we love today. This paper will now go into more specific African American singer, songwriters, and composers.

Whitney Houston is the daughter of Cissy Houston and John Houston, sister to Gary Houston and Michael Houston. (Fischer 6). Houston was born in the year 1963 on the 9th of August. Her mother, cousin, and godmother are all well-known figures in gospel and soul music (“Whitney Houston” 3). Houston became a model around the age of fifteen and appeared on the cover of the Seventeen magazine (4). However when Houston was nineteen years old, she was discovered by Arista Records and began her singing career

Reba Mcentire was born on march 28, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Reba’s childhood was crazy.Reba Mcentire mom worked a day job,so Reba Mcentire childhood was a little ruff. Reba Mcentire grow up fifty-five miles outside of the Texas border. Reba Mcentire dad was a famous steer roper ,so as a child Reba travels a lot. On these trips Reba found her passion in singing. Reba and her and younger her siblings learn to sing and harmonize with each other ,so they started a band called the singing Mcentires. They performed at rodeos before her younger siblings quit. Reba went on as a soloist a performed several time.

Mary Wilson was born on March 6th, 1944 and has loved to sing. Her career had started during elementary school when they had performed for the school’s talent showcase. There she met Florence Ballard. They both promised to remember each other if they joined a singing group. Florence Ballard was asked if she had wanted to become a part of a singing group and she had followed through with her promise, inviting Mary Wilson with her.

In 21st century North America, there is a strange, seemingly-unanimous idea that, to fit the norm, one must be white, Christian and male. While, over the course of the latter 20th century and in the past decade, this has changed, the norm is very much still Christian and male; African-Americans now fit into the “All-American” stereotype, for the most part. However, there are, of course, outliers – deviants from the standard norm; these outliers make one wonder what the norm truly is, why it is so, how did it get to be that way, and what the norm will be in the future. Kanye West's 2004 single titled “Jesus Walks” is written as a ode to Jesus helping him and every other Christian through hard times in their life. Sampling

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in the town of St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents, who divorced when she was four, sent her and her brother off to stay with their grandma in the segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas. There she learned many life lessons she would later convey in her media. Then, at the age of 7 she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend, prompting her uncles to kill him. After that experience she became mute for many years, during which her love of poetry and poets like William Shakespeare was fostered. She later moved to San Francisco on a dance and acting scholarship. Then, in 1994 Maya Angelou gave birth to her child Guy and married Anastasios Angelopulos.

Beyonce Knowles and Christina Aguilera had similarities and differences expressing beauty and society’s take on it. Beyonce communicated in her video that women don’t need to conform to society to fit in and be like everyone else. If that were the case we would’ve all been created the same way. In Christina Aguilera’s video, she communicated that the opinions and words spoken about you or even said to you shouldn’t be the perception that you gain for yourself. The intended audience of the two videos were slightly different based on what you saw in the video.