Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian

Beyoncé Giselle

Beyoncé Giselle 

 Name : Beyoncé Giselle 

Other names : BThird Ward TrillSasha Fierce 

Born : September 4, 1981  

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Occupation : Singersongwriteractressrecord producerdancerbusinesswoman

Years active : 1993–present

Organization : Ivy Park 

Parkwood Entertainment

Net worth  : US$470 million[4] (2019)

Spouse(s) : Jay-Z (m. 2008)

Children  : 3

Parent(s) : Mathew Knowles, Tina Knowles

Relatives : Solange Knowles (sister)

Awards : Full list

Musical career : Genres, R&B pop hip hop, Instruments Vocals

Labels  : Music World Parkwood Columbia

Associated acts : Destiny's Child Jay-Z The Carters

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter  born September 4, 1981)  is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.

During Destiny's Child's hiatus, Beyoncé made her theatrical film debut with a role in the US box-office number-one Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and recorded her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also featured the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2006, Beyoncé  released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained the US number-one single "Irreplaceable", as well as the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé continued her acting career with starring roles in The Pink Panther (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), and Obsessed (2009). Her marriage to rapper Jay-Z and her portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), which earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010. It spawned the UK number-one single "If I Were a Boy" and the US number-one single "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)".

After splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, Beyoncé released 4 (2011), which was influenced by 1970s funk, 1980s pop, and 1990s soul. Beyoncé received widespread critical acclaim for her albums, Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016); the latter became the world's best-selling album of 2016. Beyoncé's became the first and only music act in Billboard 200 chart history to debut at number one with their first six solo studio albums. In 2018, she released Everything Is Love, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters.

Beyoncé is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. Beyoncé's success during the 2000s was recognized with the Recording Industry Association of America's Top Certified Artist of the Decade, as well as Billboard magazine's Top Radio Songs Artist and the Top Female Artist of the Decade. Beyoncé is the most nominated woman in the Grammy Award's history, with a total of 24 wins. Beyoncé is also the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 24 wins, including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.  In 2014, Beyoncé became the highest-paid black musician in history and was listed among Time's 100 most influential people in the world for a second year in a row. Forbes ranked her as the most powerful female in entertainment on their 2015 and 2017 lists. Beyoncé occupied the sixth place for Time's Person of the Year in 2016, and in 2020, was named one of the 100 women who defined the last century by the same publication. Beyoncé was also included on Encyclopædia Britannica's 100 Women list in 2019, for her contributions to the entertainment industry's history. 

Taylor Alison Swift

Taylor Alison Swift

 Name : Taylor Alison Swift

Born :  December 13, 1989 

Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Occupation :  Singer songwriter record producer music 

video director actress businesswoman

Years active : 2006 present

Net worth : $360 million (2019 estimate)

Relatives : Austin Swift (brother)

Awards :  Full list

Musical career : Genres

Pop country rock synth pop country pop

Instruments : Vocals guitar piano banjo ukulele

Labels : Big Machine Republic

Associated acts : Ed Sheeran

Taylor Alison Swift, born December 13, 1989, is an American singer-songwriter. Taylor is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at age 15, Taylor signed her first record deal. Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.

Taylor Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album Speak Now, which won two Grammy Awards and was her first to debut with over a million copies sold in the first week in the US. Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". For her fifth album and first all-pop project, 1989 (2014), Taylor won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and became the first woman to replace herself at number one on the Hot 100, with the singles "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space". Her sixth album, Reputation (2017), made Taylor's the only act to have four consecutive albums each sell one million copies in their first week in the US, while yielding her fifth Hot 100 number-one song, with "Look What You Made Me Do". With her seventh album, Lover (2019), Taylor became the first woman in US history to have six albums sell over 500,000 units in their first week.

Having sold more than 50 million albums including 37 million in the US, Swift is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the highest-earning female musician of the 2010s. Taylor has won 10 Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, six Guinness world records and is the most-awarded act and woman at the American Music Awards (29 wins) and Billboard Music Awards (23 wins), respectively. As a songwriter, Swift has been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time list in 2015. She appeared in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, 2015 and 2019, and was ranked first in the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2016 and 2019. She was honored with International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)'s Global Recording Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2019. In 2019, Swift placed at number eight on Billboard's list of greatest artists of all time and was named the Woman of the Decade by the magazine and the Artist of the Decade by the American Music Awards.