Fsuperlatives are slowly running out for them. On Sunday night, Beyoncé, just 41, broke another record by becoming the number one Grammy winner. She has now received the world’s most important music award 32 times (in comparison, the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson, “only” received twelve of the golden gramophones during his lifetime). The fact that Beyoncé only won in “secondary categories” this year will be something she can get over with this number. But she will be annoyed that she has never been able to win the most important award: Album of the Year. She was also nominated this year, for the fourth time. But Britain’s Harry Styles went home with the trophy.
The Texan, Beyoncé Knowles was born in Houston, stands like no other for the supposed American dream. Her mother was a hairdresser and her father a salesman. Through him, she descends from a slave owner and his slave, through her, Beyoncé and her sister Solange, who is also successful in singing, also have Creole roots. At the age of seven, the older woman won her first song competition, at nine she was a member of a moderately successful girl group, and at 16 she signed her first record deal as part of a quartet. It was also the hour of birth of Destiny’s Child, the later R&B trio with above all Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams is one of the most successful music groups of all time.