Beyoncé: The multi-talented star reveals what she is planning next
8/15/2010 05:57:00 PM
kenmouse
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She’s a pop princess, actress, fashion icon and all-round global superstar. So when Beyoncé Knowles announces she’s taking a few months off, it’s difficult to believe she’ll be kicking her heels
Beyoncé is so polite it is almost embarrassing. As soon as I am shown into the room where we are to talk, she pulls herself up off the ornate sofa on which she has been sitting (some feat in the vertiginous ankle-strap shoes she is wearing) and reaches out to shake my hand.
‘It is a real pleasure to meet you,’ she says, with such emphasis on the word pleasure that I can’t help feeling it should be the other way round – the pleasure, surely, is all mine.
Because Beyoncé is American royalty, and an audience with her is not just a pleasure, it’s a privilege. The 28-year-old is the most successful performer of the past ten years, with 64 gold and platinum certifications for sales, and 16 Grammys (13 as a solo artist and three with Destiny’s Child). With husband Jay-Z, she forms Forbes magazine’s top-earning Hollywood couple (between them they earned around £80 million from June 2008-2009), with impressive connections from Hollywood to the White House (Jay-Z is said to have Obama on speed dial, and Beyoncé was chosen to sing at the President’s Inaugural Ball). We meet for an exclusive YOU interview on the day of the US launch of her first signature perfume, Heat, which will be celebrated later that evening with a ‘private party’ (the guest list reads like a Who’s Who of popular music, with David Bowie and Usher among those expected to attend).
Beyoncé is so polite it is almost embarrassing. As soon as I am shown into the room where we are to talk, she pulls herself up off the ornate sofa on which she has been sitting (some feat in the vertiginous ankle-strap shoes she is wearing) and reaches out to shake my hand.
‘It is a real pleasure to meet you,’ she says, with such emphasis on the word pleasure that I can’t help feeling it should be the other way round – the pleasure, surely, is all mine.
Because Beyoncé is American royalty, and an audience with her is not just a pleasure, it’s a privilege. The 28-year-old is the most successful performer of the past ten years, with 64 gold and platinum certifications for sales, and 16 Grammys (13 as a solo artist and three with Destiny’s Child). With husband Jay-Z, she forms Forbes magazine’s top-earning Hollywood couple (between them they earned around £80 million from June 2008-2009), with impressive connections from Hollywood to the White House (Jay-Z is said to have Obama on speed dial, and Beyoncé was chosen to sing at the President’s Inaugural Ball). We meet for an exclusive YOU interview on the day of the US launch of her first signature perfume, Heat, which will be celebrated later that evening with a ‘private party’ (the guest list reads like a Who’s Who of popular music, with David Bowie and Usher among those expected to attend).
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