Beyoncé Giselle Knowles is a pop artist and R & B, and also model and actress (born September 4, 1981), often called Beyoncé (bijɒnseɪ in English). Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and participates in competitions singing and dancing as a child. Beyoncé Knowles became famous in the late 1990s as leader of R & B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the women's groups who sold the most records in the world.