Beyoncé Knowles

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is a popular American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and fashion designer. She sometimes performs under the stage name Beyoncé. Knowles rose to stardom as the founding member and lead singer of Destiny's Child, the most-successful all-female group in history. After a series of commercially successful records with the group, she released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which spawned the highly successful song "Crazy in Love", and topped both the R&B and Billboard 200 charts in the U.S., and the main album charts in Canada and the United Kingdom.