Editing Beyoncé (section)

=== Early life ===
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born at the Park Plaza Hospital in the [[Houston Museum District|Museum Park]] neighborhood of [[Houston]], Texas, on September 4, 1981.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taraborrelli |first=J. Randy |author-link=J. Randy Taraborrelli |title=Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story |date=October 27, 2015 |publisher=[[Grand Central Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-4555-9034-6 |page=28}}</ref><ref name="s658">{{cite web | last=Garcia | first=Patricia | title=Bow Down: In Honor of Beyoncé's 33rd Birthday, 33 of Her Most Memorable Moments | website=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] | date=September 4, 2014 | url=https://www.vogue.com/article/beyonce-birthday-33-best-moments | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 23, 2009 |title=Beyoncé Knowles' name change |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2009/12/23/beyonce_knowles_name_change/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321085731/http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2009/12/23/beyonce_knowles_name_change/ |archive-date=March 21, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2013 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> Her mother, [[Tina Knowles]] ([[née]] Beyoncé; {{abbr|b.|born}} 1954), was a hairdresser and salon owner;<ref name="o613">{{cite web | last=Knowles | first=Tina | title='You Make Clothes for Them? They Will Do Anything For You': Tina Knowles Remembers Beyoncé and Solange’s Beloved Uncle Johnny | website=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] | date=April 21, 2025 | url=https://www.vogue.com/article/tina-knowles-uncle-johnny | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="x268">{{cite web | last=Lee | first=Michelle | title=Beyoncé’s Mom, Tina Knowles, Treats the Singer's Dance Captain to a Cécred Hair Transformation | website=[[People (magazine)|People]] | date=February 20, 2025 | url=https://people.com/beyonces-dance-captain-gets-cecred-hair-makeover-from-tina-knowles-video-11683489 | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> her father, [[Mathew Knowles]] (b. 1952), was a sales manager at [[Xerox]].<ref name="m347">{{cite web | last=Gabbatt | first=Adam | title=Can Beyoncé's dad make me a star? Inside a one-day fame 'bootcamp' | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=October 30, 2015 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/30/can-beyonce-mathew-knowles-make-me-a-star | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="t636">{{cite web | last=Andrews | first=Travis M. | last2=Ferguson | first2=Amber | title=Beyoncé's father takes on 'colorism': He dated her mother because he thought she was white | website=[[The Washington Post]] | url-access=subscription | date=February 5, 2018 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/05/beyonces-father-airs-colorism-he-dated-her-mother-because-he-thought-she-was-white/ | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> Mathew is African-American,<ref name="c134">{{cite web | last=Armstrong | first=Jenice | title=Beyonce's father talks about racism, colorism and rumors about who bit his daughter's face | website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] | date=March 30, 2018 | url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/columnists/jenice_armstrong/who-bit-beyonce-mathew-knowles-racism-music-industry-jenice-armstrong-20180330.html | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> while Tina—an [[African-American]] [[Louisiana Creole]]—has African, French, Irish, and Native American ancestry.<ref name="t444">{{cite web | last=Hawgood | first=Alex | title=In Beyoncé’s Country, All Are Welcome | website=[[W (magazine)|W]] | date=March 29, 2024 | url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/beyonce-cowboy-carter-cover-story-photos | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="d979">{{cite web | last=Mata | first=William | title=Tina Knowles and all her children, including Beyoncé and Solange | website=[[London Evening Standard]] | date=April 25, 2025 | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/who-knowles-family-beyonce-tina-solange-kelly-rowland-b1224215.html | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="m552">{{cite web | last=Beresford | first=Jack | title=Beyoncé's little-known Irish heritage revealed | website=[[The Irish Post]] | date=September 4, 2018 | url=https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/beyonce-irish-159300 | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> Beyoncé researched her ancestry and discovered that she is descended from [[History of slavery in Louisiana|a slave]] owner who married his slave.<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Beyoncé in Her Own Words: Her Life, Her Body, Her Heritage|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/beyonce-september-issue-2018| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211027/https://www.vogue.com/article/beyonce-september-issue-2018| archive-date=October 27, 2021|magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|date=August 6, 2018|quote=I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave.}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Her name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name.<ref name="c464">{{cite web | last=Rosario | first=Alexandra Del | title=Beyoncé's 'Beyincé' sash is no mere typo: Tina Knowles offered an explanation years ago | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | url-access=subscription | date=March 22, 2024 | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-22/beyonce-beyince-tina-knowles-last-name-cowboy-carter | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> Beyoncé's younger sister, [[Solange Knowles|Solange]] (b. 1986), is also a singer and actress.<ref name="g024">{{cite web | last=Knoop | first=Iris | last2=Gall | first2=Nicholas | title=Solange Knowles revealed she suffers with Pots – a condition she called 'debilitating, confusing and lonely' | website=[[The Conversation]] | date=March 31, 2025 | url=https://theconversation.com/solange-knowles-revealed-she-suffers-with-pots-a-condition-she-called-debilitating-confusing-and-lonely-243878 | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="c938">{{cite web | last=Aizin | first=Rebecca | title=Beyoncé and Solange Knowles: Inside Their Sibling Relationship Over the Years | website=[[People (magazine)|People]] | date=September 3, 2023 | url=https://people.com/all-about-beyonce-solange-knowles-sister-relationship-7568318 | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> 

Beyoncé was raised within multiple religious traditions, attending both St. John's United Methodist Church and St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church in Houston.<ref name="a802">{{cite web | title=Beyoncé teams up with Houston pastor to help Harvey survivors | publisher=[[NBC News]] | date=September 10, 2017 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/houston-pastor-beyonc-team-help-harvey-survivors-n799006 | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="p361">{{cite web | last=Sewing | first=Joy | title=Sewing: Beyoncé's homecoming is symbol of pride for Third Ward community | website=[[Houston Chronicle]] | date=September 28, 2023 | url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/beyonce-third-ward-pride-18392518.php | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> She received her early education at St. Mary's Catholic Montessori School in Houston, where she also enrolled in dance classes.<ref>{{cite news|last=Laird|first=Cheryl|date=November 11, 1990|title=A Knowles family Christmas|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/A-Knowles-family-Christmas-5475839.php| url-status=live | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211027/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/A-Knowles-family-Christmas-5475839.php| archive-date=October 27, 2021|access-date=March 15, 2021|newspaper=Houston Chronicle}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Her vocal talent was discovered when her dance instructor, Darlette Johnson, began humming a song and Beyoncé completed it, showing her ability to reach high-pitched notes.<ref name="k125">{{cite web | last=Devaney | first=Susan | first2=Radhika | last2=Seth | title=9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Beyoncé | website=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] | date=July 27, 2022 | url=https://www.vogue.com/article/beyonce-things-you-didnt-know | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> Her passion for music and performance deepened after she won a school talent show at the age of seven by singing [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]", outperforming competitors aged fifteen and sixteen.<ref name="Biography Today">{{cite book|title=Biography Today|year=2010|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographytodayge0000unse_h7i3/page/10 10]|publisher=Omnigraphics|isbn=978-0-7808-1058-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographytodayge0000unse_h7i3/page/10}}</ref><ref name="People">{{cite magazine|title=Beyoncé Knowles: Biography – Part 1|url=http://www.people.com/people/beyonce_knowles/biography|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426055053/http://www.people.com/people/beyonce_knowles/biography|archive-date=April 26, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1990, a nine-year-old Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music [[magnet school]] in Houston, where she performed with the school's choir.<ref name="k837">{{cite web | last=Ellen | first=Barbara | title=Beyoncé: the superstar who brought black power to the Super Bowl | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=February 14, 2016 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/beyonce-profile-black-power-super-bowl-civil-rights | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref><ref name="r633">{{cite book | last=Pointer | first=Anna | title=Beyoncé: Running the World | publisher=[[Hodder & Stoughton]] | date=2014 | isbn=978-1-4736-0732-3 | oclc=893327856 | url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/893327856 | access-date=May 17, 2025 | page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pLcWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26 26]}}</ref> She later attended the [[Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts]] and subsequently [[Alief Elsik High School]].<ref name="l182">{{cite web | last=Simmerman | first=Alexis | title=Happy birthday Beyoncé! Houston native turns 43 amid busy year | website=[[Austin American-Statesman]] | date=September 4, 2024 | url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/09/04/beyonce-birthday-texas-houston-native-43-sir-davis-whiskey-cowboy-carter/75069068007/ | access-date=May 17, 2025}}</ref> Beyoncé was also a member of the choir at St. John's United Methodist Church where she sang her first [[Solo (music)|solo]] and was a [[solo (music)|soloist]] for two years.<ref name="a802"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Cameo: Fat Joe Interviews Beyoncé and Mike Epps|url=http://www.mtv.com/onair/moviehouse/cameo/16/index.jhtml|publisher=MTV News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224081629/http://www.mtv.com/onair/moviehouse/cameo/16/index.jhtml|archive-date=February 24, 2008}}</ref>