early life of, ref1
father Christopher and, ref1
in Girls Tyme, ref1, ref2, ref3 ref4; Ashley’s departure, ref1; California bound, ref1; first recording session, ref1; Star Search, ref1
Knowles household and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Lyndall and, ref1
personality of, ref1, ref2
recording sessions, ref1, ref2, ref3
solo career of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
in Somethin’ Fresh, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tillman estate battle and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; deposition, ref1; settlements, ref1
Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Run the World (Girls)”, ref1
St. James the Apostle School, ref1
St. John’s United Methodist Church, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
St. Martin de Porres School, ref1
St. Mary of the Purification School, ref1
Saint Records, ref1
Sammy Awards, ref1
Sandusky, Kim Wood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Santana, Carlos, ref1
“Sasha Fierce” persona, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Saturday Night Live (TV show), ref1n, ref1
Savvy Records, ref1
“Say It Ain’t So,” ref1
“Say My Name,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
video, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Say Yes,” ref1
Scott, A. O., ref1
Scott, Shennelle, ref1
Seals, Chad, ref1
Seals, Denise
Andretta enters picture, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
contentious parents’ meeting, ref1
crossroads for parents, ref1
discovery of Beyoncé, ref1, ref2, ref3
family first for, ref1
first recording session, ref1
formation of groups, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mathew makes his move, ref1, ref2, ref3
Tillman estate battle and, ref1, ref2
Segura, Junella, ref1, ref2, ref3
September 11 attacks (2001), ref1, ref2
702 (group), ref1
Shakur, Tupac, ref1
Silent Partner Productions, ref1, ref2, ref3
Simmons, Daryl
background of, ref1
Beyoncé’s documentary and, ref1
Destiny’s Child and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
the Dolls and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Elektra deal and Mathew, ref1, ref2, ref3
Somethin’ Fresh and, ref1, ref2, ref3
Simply Deep, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Simpson, Valerie, ref1
“Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”, ref1, ref2, ref3
“632-5792,” ref1
Skeleton Crew, ref1
Skidmore, Scot, ref1
Smith, Daniel, ref1
Smith, Daniel Julez J., Jr., ref1, ref2
Smith, Muriel, ref1
Smith, Will, ref1, ref2
Snoop Dogg, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Sol-Angel, ref1, ref2
“Soldier,” ref1
Solo Star, ref1
Somethin’ Fresh, ref1, ref2
Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, ref1
Spears, Britney, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Speer, James R., ref1
Stamps & Co., ref1
Stanley, Alessandra, ref1
Staples Center, ref1, ref2
Stargate, ref1, ref2
Star Search (TV show), ref1, ref2
“Stay,” ref1
Stewart, Christopher “Tricky,” ref1
Stewart, Destiny, ref1
Stewart, Kimberly, ref1
Stewart-Langley, Jan, ref1
Stinson, Taura, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n, ref10, ref11
“Stole,” ref1
Storch, Scott, ref1
Streisand, Barbra, ref1, ref2
“Stroke You Up,” ref1
Sugar Bar, ref1
SugarHill Recording Studios, ref1, ref2, ref3
Summer, Donna, ref1
“Sunshine,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Super Bowl, ref1, ref2
Supremes, the, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Survivor, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
“Survivor,” ref1, ref2
Swan Isle house, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Sweet Dreams,” ref1
“Sweet Sixteen,” ref1
Swift, Taylor, ref1
“Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” ref1
taxes, ref1, ref2, ref3
Taylor, Cholotte, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Taylor, Nicki
in Destiny, ref1, ref2
in the Dolls, ref1; Elektra deal, ref1; removal from group, ref1
in Girls Tyme, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; Ashley’s departure, ref1; Star Search, ref1
update on, ref1
Taylor, Nina
in Destiny, ref1, ref2
in the Dolls, ref1; Elektra deal, ref1; removal from group, ref1
in Girls Tyme, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Ashley leaves, ref1; Star Search, ref1
update on, ref1
Taylor, Shea, ref1
Tayste, ref1, ref2, ref3
Tedder, Ryan, ref1, ref2, ref3
“Telephone,” ref1
Texas Monthly, ref1
Texas Southern University, ref1
Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation, ref1
“That’s How You Like It,” ref1
“That’s the Way It Is in My City,” ref1, ref2, ref3
This Is It (Houston), ref1, ref2
Thomas, Bea, ref1
Thomas, Linda, ref1
Thomas, Ronald, ref1
Thomas, Rozonda “Chilli,” ref1
3121, ref1
Tillman, Andretta Brown “Ann,” ref1
Ashley’s departure from Girls Tyme, ref1
in Atlanta, ref1
background of, ref1
Beyoncé’s hurt feelings, ref1
Beyoncé’s star is born, ref1
Columbia/Sony deal, ref1, ref2
co-management, ref1; California bound, ref1; dissension in the ranks, ref1; first recording session, ref1; Mathew’s co-management proposal, ref1; Mathew’s decision to manage full-time, ref1; Mathew takes over, ref1; Nicki and Nina’s removal from the Dolls, ref1; parents’ meeting, ref1, ref2; partnership deal with Mathew, ref1; record deals, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
contracts, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; deathbed signing, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
death of, ref1, ref2
estate battle, ref1, ref2; Beyoncé’s deposition, ref1; Kelly’s deposition, ref1; Mathew’s deposition, ref1; settlements, ref1, ref2; Tina’s deposition, ref1
financial struggles of, ref1, ref2, ref3
first meeting with Denise and Deborah, ref1
illness of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; girls’ jokes about, ref1, ref2
LeToya enters group, ref1
LeToya’s potential expulsion, ref1
Star Search, ref1
Tillman, Armon Roshaud
early life and mother’s business, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
estate battle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; settlement, ref1, ref2
illness and death of mother, ref1, ref2, ref3
update on, ref1, ref2
Tillman, Christopher Raynard “Chris” early life and mother’s business, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
estate battle, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; settlement, ref1, ref2
illness and death of mother, ref1, ref2, ref3
Tillman, Dwight Ray, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tillman, Shawna Marie, ref1, ref2, ref3
Tillman Management, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Timbaland, ref1, ref2
Timberlake, Justin, ref1
TLC, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref
7, ref8
TMZ, ref1, ref2
Tokyo Dome, ref1
Tony! Toni! Toné!, ref1, ref2
Touré, ref1
Tourso, Todd, ref1
Townsend, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3
Treme (TV show), ref1
Truth or Dare game, ref1, ref2
Turner, Tina, ref1
Ty Girlz, ref1
Ultimate Sound, ref1
University of Tennessee, ref1
University of Washington, ref1
“Upgrade You,” ref1
Usher, ref1, ref2, ref3
Van Halen, Eddie, ref1
Vargas, Melissa, ref1
Vibe (magazine), ref1, ref2, ref3
“Video Phone,” ref1
Vineyard, Jennifer, ref1
Vogue (magazine), ref1, ref2, ref3
Vol. 2 . . . Hard Knock Life, ref1
Vol. 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter, ref1
Vongpitaka, Amy, ref1
Walden, Harvey, ref1
Walters, Barbara, ref1
Warren, Diane, ref1
Washington Post, ref1, ref2
Watkins, Denise, ref1
Watkins, Tionne “T-Boz,” ref1
“Way We Were, The,” ref1
Weatherspoon, Tim, ref1
Weatherspoon, Titan Jewell, ref1
Weir, Dwane “Key Wane,” ref1
Welch Middle School, ref1, ref2
Wells, Reggie, ref1, ref2
West, Kanye, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
White, Hattie, ref1
Whitley, Jerome, ref1
Wiggins, D’Wayne, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Williams, Pharrell, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Williams, Tenitra Michelle, ref1
background of, ref1
in Destiny’s Child: Destiny Fulfilled, ref1, ref2, ref3; Farrah’s departure from group, ref1, ref2; joining the group, ref1, ref2; potential reunion, ref1; tours, ref1, ref2, ref3
solo career of, ref1, ref2
Wilson, Chenise, ref1
Winfrey, Oprah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wintour, Anna, ref1
Wonder, Stevie, ref1
“Work It Out,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Workman, Dan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
World Tour 2002, ref1
World Wide Health Studios, ref1
Wright, AlexSandra “Alex,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
background of, ref1
birth of Nixon, ref1
first meeting of Mathew, ref1
Mathew and Beyoncé, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mathew’s childhood, ref1
paternity suit of, ref1, ref2
pregnancy of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
update on, ref1
Wright, Benjamin, ref1
Wright, Jonathan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wright, Nixon Alexander Knowles, ref1, ref2
Wright, Virgil, ref1
Writing’s on the Wall, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Wyatt, Keke, ref1
Wynn, Steve, ref1
Xerox Medical Systems, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
X Factor, The (TV show), ref1
“XO,” ref1, ref2
Yale Street Baptist Church, ref1
“You Belong with Me,” ref1
Young, Jennifer, ref1, ref2
Yours and Mine (movie), ref1
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. A Knowles family portrait taken in December 1990: Beyoncé, 9; Mathew, 37; Solange 4; and Tina Knowles, 35. By this time, Beyoncé was already winning first-place trophies in talent shows and beauty pageants. (Paul S. Howell/© Houston Chronicle. Used with permission.)
2. Beyoncé, age 10. (© The Tillman Estate. Used by permission.)
3. An early photo session of some of the many girls who auditioned for Beyoncé’s first group, Girls Tyme: (Bottom tier, l-r): unidentified girl; LaTavia Roberson; Angie Beyincé (Beyoncé’s cousin); Nicki Taylor. (Middle tier, l-r): (unidentified girl); Ashley Davis; Millicent Laday; (unidentified girl). (Top tier, l-r): Beyoncé Knowles; Denise Seals; (unidentified girl); Cheryl Roberson, LaTavia’s mom; Deborah Laday; Carolyn Davis, Ashley’s mom. (© Deborah Jackson Laday. Used by Permission.)
4. Very early Girls Tyme photo in Houston (left to right): Staci LaToisen; LaTavia Roberson; (unidentified girl); Nina Taylor; (unidentified girl); Nicki Taylor; Millicent Laday; Beyoncé Knowles (in background). (© LaTavia Roberson. Used by Permission.)
5. Girls Tyme (from top middle clockwise): Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles, LaTavia Roberson, Nicki Taylor, Nina Taylor, and Ashley Davis. (Howard Castleberry/ © Houston Chronicle. Used With Permission
6. Andretta Tillman was Beyoncé’s and Girl Tyme’s first official manager. Gone largely unacknowledged, she was the woman most responsible for the girls’ early success. (© The Tillman Estate. Used by Permission.)
7. Denise Seals and Deborah Laday are the two women who discovered Beyoncé and managed her and her group before Andretta Tillman. (Photo of Deborah Laday, © Deborah Laday. Used by Permission/Photo of Denise Seals © Denise Seals. Used by Permission.)
8. There was interest in making Beyoncé and LaTavia—both ten years old—a duo act. Here they are in the fall of 1991 on their way from Houston to Sausalito, California, to film the video for their song, “S.Y.T.” (© LaTavia Roberson. Used by Permission.)
9. . . . and then, in 1993, they were known as Somethin’ Fresh. (l-r) LaTavia, Nicki, Nina, Beyoncé, LeToya, and Kelly. (© The Tillman Estate. Used by Permission.)
10. The girls are growing up. This photo was autographed by the four of them for “Ms. Ann”—Andretta Tillman. (© The Tillman Estate. Used by Permission.)
11. By 1995, the girls were a quartet known simply as Destiny. (l-r) Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles, LaTavia Roberson, and LeToya Luckett (© The Tillman Estate. Used by Permission.)
12. Beyoncé, Kelly, and LaTavia relax in Jamaica after performing two shows there with the reggae artist, Beenie Man. (© LaTavia Roberson. Used by Permission.)
13. Kelly, LeToya, Beyoncé, and LaTavia during a shoot for 17 magazine. (© LaTavia Roberson. Used by Permission.)
14. Mathew Knowles, Kim Burse (Mathew’s A&R Director), producer, D’Wayne Wiggins, and Andretta Tillman pose in the Columbia/ Sony headquarters in New York just after the girls signed their record company contracts. The photo behind them bears the group’s name, Destiny, before it was changed to Destiny’s Child. (© The Tillman Estate. Used by Permission)
15. In 1997, Beyoncé, 16, and her boyfriend Lyndall Locke, 18, attended his senior prom at Lee High School in Houston. The happy-go-lucky Lyndall was a breath of fresh air to the always-working Beyoncé. The two were together, on and off, for almost ten years. (© Lydia Locke. Used by Permission.)
16. Beyoncé presented Lyndall with a chocolate cake on his nineteenth birthday, December 3, 1998. Also in the photo: Lyndall’s cousin, Dallas Gillespie, and sister, Laura (seated); Kelly Rowland (in cap, next to Beyoncé) and Beyoncé’s cousin, Angie Beyince (to Beyoncé’s left). (© Lydia Locke. Used by Permission.)
17. Teen cut-ups, Lyndall and Beyoncé. (© Lydia Locke. Used by Permission.)
18. In 1997, Destiny was renamed Destiny’s Child. Here, the girls pose in front of the Sony building in Manhattan just before performing at an intimate showcase for record company executives. (l-r) Beyoncé, LeToya, LaTavia, and Kelly. (© LaTavia Roberson. Used by Permission.)
19. Beyoncé’s aspiration to be a star was one thing Mathew and Tina Knowles had in common in an otherwise often-troubled marriage. They made many sacrifices to see to it that their daughter’s dream came true. (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)
20. In 2000, LaTavia and LeToya attempted to disaffirm their management contracts with Mathew. To their extreme disappointment, they were replaced. Here’s the new Destiny’s Child—Michelle Williams, Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Farrah Franklin at the CFDA American Fashion Awards on June 18, 200
0. (REX/Araldo DiCrollalanza)
21. In the summer of 2000, when Farrah chose not to accompany the girls to Australia for a tour, she was axed from the act leaving just Beyoncé, Kelly and Michelle, posing here with Mathew Knowles. (Pam Francis/Getty Images)
22. An incredible father-daughter team, Mathew and Beyoncé at the premiere of Beyoncé’s first major film, Austin Powers in Goldmember, at the Universal Amphitheater on July 22, 2002. (Clinton Wallace/Globe Photos, Inc.)
23. By 2002, Beyoncé and her longtime boyfriend, Lyndall Locke, had broken up and she was now dating Sean Carter—Jay Z. Here they are on MTV’s “TRL” program, November 21, 2002. (KMazur/WireImage)
24. Mathew Knowles and Jay Z on February 7, 2004, at Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy party in the Beverly Hills Hotel. (KMazur/WireImage)
25. Beyoncé and Jay Z on February 27, 2005, at the Vanity Fair party after the 2005 Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (REX/Richard Young)
26. As she thanked her parents during her speech at the “Billboard Woman of the Year” awards on October 2, 2009, only a few people knew of the family’s turmoil behind the scenes. (Jemai Countess/Getty Images)
27. AlexSandra Wright and little Nixon, Mathew Knowles’s only son. Alex’s relationship with Mathew and subsequent pregnancy would be the catalyst for great change in the Knowles family. (© AlexSandra Wright. Used by Permission.)
28. Beyoncé performing the National Anthem at the Inauguration Ceremony of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2013. (REX)
29. Beyoncé and Jay Z arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the Costume Institute Gala Benefit celebrating Charles James: Beyond Fashion, on May 5, 2014. Never could they have imagined the scene that would take place later in an elevator between Jay and Beyoncé’s sister, Solange. (George Pimentel/WireImage)
30. After the startling brawl in an elevator between Jay Z and Solange, the two emerge with Beyoncé—Jay holding his chin, apparently smarting from the fight. (© Splash News/Corbis Rights Managed [RM])
31. On May 17, 2014, Tina Knowles arranged a family outing in New Orleans to clear the air. Here, Solange and Jay leave the gathering. (© INFphoto.com/INFphoto.com/Corbis Rights Managed [RM])
32. When she was expecting, Beyoncé faced rumors that she was faking the pregnancy! Because she’d previously had a miscarriage, the false stories were all the more hurtful. Here she is arriving at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on August 28, 2011. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic)