Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is born September 4, 1981 and is often known simply as Beyoncé. She is an American R&B recording artist, actress and also she is a fashion designer. Beyoncé was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Beyoncé Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time and one of the best R&B, soul, hip hop, pop bands.