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She won a Grammy Award for a duet with Luther Vandross for a remake of The Closer I Get to You.

Born in Houston, Texas, Her father Mathew Knowles is a record manager of some renown and her mother Tina Knowles is a hair stylist and costume designer, and older sister Solange is a singer-songwriter and actress.

In her youth, Beyonce was a soloist in the choir of her church, St.

Johns United Metodhist Church, but she was only a member of the choir for two years.

Marys Elementary School in Texas where she took and interest in dance (especially jazz and ballet) and her love of singing showcased her talent quickly.

She made her debute in the schools talent show, sinigng John Lennons imagine which won the competition.

The media started paying attention to her at the age of seven when the Houston Chronicle endorsed her for a local comunity performing art award: The Sammy.

Beyonce moved on to Parker Elementary School, a specialized music school in Houston in the fall of 1990, and joined their choir.

She attended Houstons High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and sometime later moved again to Aliefs Elsik High School.

Beyonce and childhood friend Kelly Rowland made the final cut in to a rap and dance group Girls Tyme,The six member group made their debute on Star Search, a nation wide talent show but failed to win.

Beyonce father stepped up to the plate, resigning from his job to setup a boot camp for the girls training and to manage their training.

It took then three years, and a failed deal with Elektra Records before the girls signed a contrac with Columbia Records.

Their intial success was followed in 1999 by a multi-platinum second album, The Writings on the Wall, which sold over 8 million copies.

The albums three singlesBills, Bills, Bills, Say My Name and Jumpin Jumpin were award winners at the 43rd Grammy Awards.

Say My Name won both Best RB Song and Best RB Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Franklin also left the group after five months citing poor relations with fellow group members.

On top of the media frenzy and attacks against Beyonce for instigating the breakup and the end of a long term relationship with her boyfriend of seven years plunged Beyonce in to depression.

In 2001, the group was completing the third album, Survivor that rose to number 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold 663,000 copies.

The album had other number one hits including, the title track Survivor and Bootylicious.

Survivor would win a the Grammy Award for Best RB Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Finally they release their holiday album, 8 Days of Christmas, and announced a hiatus to focus on their own solo careers.

She went on to star with Cuba Gooding Jr in the Fighting Temptations and recorded numerous songs for hte sountrack.

She was also featured on rapper Jay-Zs hit single 03 Bonnie Clyde.

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