From her start in Destiny's Child to solo domination, Queen Bey has had an incredibly successful career. In addition to her musical prowess, she has evolved into a trendsetter.
The singer has dabbled in the fashion industry, introducing a fashion line in 2005 with her mother and a junior line in 2009. Her most recent venture was her activewear line, Ivy Park.
She's slayed with her Met Gala appearances and was given the fashion icon award at the 2016 CFDA Awards.
Here are 36 photos that show Beyoncé's fashion evolution over the past 15 years:
In 2001, Destiny's Child (Michelle Williams, Beyoncé Knowles, and Kelly Rowland) posed in sparkly blue outfits resembling the ones worn by the Destiny's Child dolls they were holding up.
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The girls from Destiny's Child wore midriff Girl Scout uniforms to the 2001 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards.
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Beyoncé showed her support for the Lakers during a halftime show with Destiny's Child in 2001.
The biggest honor in entertainment isn't TV's Emmy, or Broadway's Tony, music's Grammy, or even film's Oscar. It's all four together: the EGOT.
That grand combination of Hollywood's greatest performance prizes is called the EGOT as an acronym representing all four of the above awards. It's a rare and amazing feat. Arguably, it's the only actual measurement of an all-around performer. It's also referred to as "the Grand Slam" of American entertainment.
The feat is so difficult to achieve that only 12 people are on the list of EGOT winners, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Mike Nichols, and Rita Moreno.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.About five others may also claim to be unofficial EGOT winners, because one or more of their wins were honorary awards rather than given in a competition against others. Those five are Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, and Harry Belafonte.
According to Vanity Fair, "Miami Vice" actor Philip Michael Thomas coined "EGOT" and popularized it by wearing a gold medallion around his neck with the acronym emblazoned onto the medallion in the mid-'80s.
"Hopefully in the next five years, I will win all of those awards," an overconfident Thomas reportedly told an interviewer in 1984.
That's as close as Thomas would ever get to the phrase, as he hasn't won even one of the awards represented on his medallion. But thanks for naming the achievement, Philip!
He isn't alone is having EGOT ambition, of course. Currently, there are about 70 performers who are or had been (in the case of the deceased) one award away from achieving EGOT status, including Julie Andrews, Cher, Kate Winslet, Al Pacino, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, and Lily Tomlin.
Kanye West is speaking his mind on his current tour, and he's not too pleased with the Grammys.
The rapper announced at a show in Oakland, California, on Saturday night, that he'll boycott the Grammy Awards if they fail to nominate R&B singer Frank Ocean and his 2016 album "Blonde" at next year's awards.
"The album I listened to the most this year is Frank Ocean’s album," West said in video captured by a fan. "I’ll tell you this right now: if his album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showing up to the Grammys. As artists, we gotta come together to fight the bulls--t they been throwing us with."
The problem here is that Frank Ocean is almost definitely not going to be nominated, and that's at least partly on Ocean. Billboard reports that Ocean's team did not submit either "Blonde" (a digital-only release through Apple Music) or his "visual album""Endless" for Grammy consideration, despite being reportedly aware of the deadlines.
Though the Grammy eligibility of "Endless" is unclear, "Blonde" presumably would have had a good shot, especially given that it hit No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, and the Grammys have altered rules to allow streaming-only releases.
West pointed to Lady Gaga as an example of why Ocean should be nominated during his Saturday comments, E! reports.
"So, I don't know if any of y'all remember: I was supposed to go on a tour with Gaga, like about six, seven years ago—a while back," West said. "I remember, that it was something... She wasn't nominated for best new artist, right? But they wanted her to perform at the show; they wanted her to open, right? So, the Grammys secretly changed something about the nominations in order to nominate her — in order for her to perform in the show."
Indeed, Gaga's ineligibility for the best new artist category in 2010 did spur the Grammys to change the rules, but she was still excluded from that category in 2010 (though she won in others), and the change in rules was not done secretly.
Nominees for the 2017 Grammys will be announced on December 6.
"Blonde," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart upon its release in August, would have likely been up for several Grammy nominations. (His 2012 album "Channel Orange" earned four nominations and one win for best urban contemporary album at the Grammys in 2013.)
Ocean told the Times that his decision to perform at award shows like the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards in the past came from a certain "nostalgic" affinity for the shows.
He ultimately decided to withold "Blonde" from Grammy consideration in 2017 to protest what he sees as a "dated" and unbalanced award system.
"That institution certainly has nostalgic importance," Ocean said of the Grammys. "It just doesn't seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down.
"I think the infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated," he continued. "I'd rather this be my Colin Kaepernick moment for the Grammys than sit there in the audience."
Ostensibly, Ocean's move to protest the Grammys for its representation bias has racial discrimination at its core, just as Colin Kaepernick's protest of the National Anthem was meant as a criticism of the US's treatment of African-American citizens.
In the Times interview, Ocean mentioned that since his birth, few black artists have won album of the year, including Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Ray Charles. Meanwhile, acclaimed black artists like Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Beyoncé, and Ocean have consistently been overlooked for the Grammys' top award.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.In a year when everything seemed to go right for Beyoncé, the artist has nabbed the most nominations in the 2017 Grammy nominations that came out Tuesday morning. She leads with nine nominations while Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West each have eight.
The album of the year category is crowded with the biggest pop stars of the moment: In addition to Beyoncé, there's Adele, Justin Bieber, and Drake, plus the country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson, looking a little out of his element.
Rihanna and Drake share a nomination for record of the year, meanwhile, for their No. 1 hit collaboration "Work."
Chance the Rapper, who released his album via streaming only, got seven Grammy nominations in his first time on the list, including rap performance and best new artist, after the voting body behind the Grammys changed the rules to allow for streaming works. It's being seen as a move to embrace how people consume music today in awards that are often criticized for being antiquated.
In case you're wondering why Frank Ocean is absent for his own streaming album "Blonde," the singer refused to submit it for consideration. He's calling it "my Colin Kaepernick moment."
CBS unveiled the 2017 Grammy nominations on Tuesday, and Chance the Rapper earned seven nominations in a historic first appearance.
Chance's acclaimed streaming-only 2016 album "Coloring Book" is the first such project to be nominated for a Grammy, and he's up for best rap album and best new artist, among other awards.
Earlier this year, Chance, who's only 23 despite a significant body of work, led a successful petition to get the Recording Academy (the voting body that awards the Grammys) to recognize streaming-only albums at the Grammy awards for the first time. Chance's two albums before "Coloring Book" were released as free downloads.
In the best rap album category, Chance will face off against Drake, Kanye West, DJ Khaled, De La Soul, and ScHoolboy Q.
The 59th Grammy Awards will take place on February 12, 2017.
Check out the full list of nominees here, and listen below to Chance's "No Problem," which is up for best rap song and best rap performance.
Chance the Rapper is the most talented rapper of his generation and a pioneer in the music industry. His latest album, "Coloring Book," released in May, is one of the the year's best-reviewed albums. It's the first streaming-only album to chart on Billboard's ranking.
This year, the Grammys made streaming-only albums available for awards consideration for the first time. Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, made history again as "Coloring Book" received several nominations, including one for best rap album. It's the first streaming-only album to be nominated in any category.
Miraculously, Chance has done all of this without a label supporting him. He has turned down record deals from numerous labels, depending on word-of-mouth and his Soundcloud account for distribution.
Meet the most successful fully independent musician of his era:
Chance the Rapper calls his albums "mixtapes." He recorded his first one in his senior year of high school.
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He formally kicked off his career with the song "Windows." It got him some attention in Chicago's hip-hop scene, and Chance spent another eight months tinkering with the rest of the album.
His first album — "10 Day"— gave Chance a cult following.
From her start in Destiny's Child to solo domination, Queen Bey has had an incredibly successful career. In addition to her musical prowess, she has evolved into a trendsetter. The singer has dabbled in the fashion industry, introducing a fashion line in 2005 with her mother and a junior line in 2009. Her most recent venture was her activewear line, Ivy Park.
She also nailed her pregnancy style when she was pregnant with her daugther Blue Ivy in 2011, and the world can't wait to see how Beyoncé will dress now that she's pregnant with twins.
Here are 37 photos that show Beyoncé's fashion evolution over the past 15 years:
In 2001, Destiny's Child (Michelle Williams, Beyoncé Knowles, and Kelly Rowland) posed in sparkly blue outfits resembling the ones worn by the Destiny's Child dolls they were holding up.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
The girls from Destiny's Child wore midriff Girl Scout uniforms to the 2001 Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
Beyoncé showed her support for the Lakers during a halftime show with Destiny's Child in 2001.
Johnny Depp's former business managers have alleged that the actor is living an extravagant $2-million-a-month lifestyle, complete with 14 houses, 70 guitars, and an enormous appetite for wine.
It comes after Depp launched a $25 million lawsuit last month against his business managers, The Mandel Company, claiming "gross mismanagement" of his affairs.
He said the company failed to properly pay taxes on his behalf, made unauthorized loans, and overpaid for "security and other services," costing him "tens of millions of dollars" and leading to financial trouble, which he claims to have become aware of only in March.
The cross-complaint, filed this week, stated that TMG "did everything within its power over the last 17 years to protect Depp from himself and to keep Depp financially solvent" but that TMG "did not have the power or ability to control Depp's spending or his numerous other vices, or to force Depp to make wiser financial decisions."
The lawsuit lifts the lid, in extraordinary detail, on Depp's alleged "extravagant and extreme" $2-million-a-month spending habit. All of our figures are quoted in the TMG lawsuit, which is available in full here.
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Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.While 2016 was a bummer of a year for a whole host of reasons, no on can deny it was a banner year for music.
With blockbuster album from established artists like Beyonce, Rihanna, Drake, and Kanye to the coming out party of Chance the Rapper, the Grammy's (airing on CBS this Sunday), is going to be incredibly competitive.
Performances are expected by artists across the board, including A Tribe Called Quest and Anderson .Paak, Lady Gaga and Metallica, Adele, Beyonce (and her unborn children), and the glorious return of Daft Punk backing The Weeknd.
If you’re looking to get a head start on the musical festivities, or are looking to stock your record collection with some of the best albums from 2016, we’ve collected some of the Grammy nominated albums that you can find on vinyl.
Unfortunately, not every artist's work is available (if anyone finds “The Life of Pablo” on vinyl please contact me directly), but there are still a ton of amazing artists well worthy of joining your favorite records on your shelf.
Take a look at what you may have missed, and get ready for what’s sure to be an impressive show on Sunday.
What it’s nominated for: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album
Why you should check it out: All Adele does is put out hits; she has not one, but two albums in the top 100 right now because people never stop buying her hits. Anyone that’s good enough to sell out six nights at Madison Square Garden deserves a spot in your record collection.
What it’s nominated for: Record Of The Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, Best Song Written For Visual Media
Why you should check it out: I was pretty cold on Twenty One Pilots until I saw them live. While I am still not crazy about the whole rap-singing thing, Blurryface has some undeniable radio hits.
What it’s nominated for: Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album
Why you should check it out: Have you seen the video for Sorry? Or the video for What Do U Mean? They’re nuts. Absolutely insane. One even features a cameo from John Leguizamo.
The songs are pretty good too, as "The Biebs" is probably the closest thing we have to a true pop star right now.
The term apparently came from "Miami Vice" actor Philip Michael Thomas, who used to wear a gold medallion bearing all four letters. He often publicly professed his desire to win the four awards, but hasn't been nominated for a single one, according to the New York Post.
But 12 other actors, producers, directors, and composers have achieved the feat. Here's a complete list of every EGOT winner so far.
Mel Brooks got his EGOT by acting, writing for TV, and writing a musical.
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Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety, "The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special" (1967) Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, "Mad About You"(1997) Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, "Mad About You"(1998) Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, "Mad About You"(1999)
Grammy Awards Best Spoken Comedy Album, "The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000" (1998) Best Long Form Music Video, "Recording The Producers – A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks" (2001) Best Musical Show Album, "The Producers" (2001)
Academy Award Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen, "The Producers" (1969)
Tony Awards Best Book of a Musical, "The Producers" (2001) Best Musical, "The Producers" (2001) Best Original Score, "The Producers" (2001)
Whoopi Goldberg secured her EGOT with a comedy recording, a movie role, her hosting gig on the View, and a producer credit on Broadway.
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Emmy Awards Outstanding Special Class Special, "Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel" (2002) Outstanding Talk Show Host, "The View" (2009)
Grammy Award Best Comedy Recording, "Whoopi Goldberg – Original Broadway Show Recording" (1985)
Academy Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role, "Ghost" (1991)
Tony Award Best Musical, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (2002)
Composer Richard Rodgers (of the famed Rodgers and Hammerstein duo) was the first person to complete the EGOT. He did it in 1962.
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Emmy Award Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed for Television, "Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years"(1962)
Grammy Awards Best Show Album, "The Sound of Music" (1960) Best Show Album, "No Strings" (1962)
Academy Award Best Original Song, "State Fair"(1945)
Tony Awards Best Musical, "South Pacific" (1950) Best Producers, "South Pacific" (1950) Best Original Score, "South Pacific" (1950) Best Musical, "The King and I" (1952) Best Musical, "The Sound of Music," (1960) Best Original Score, "No Strings" (1962) Special Award (1962) Special Award (1972) Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre (1979)
The biggest honor in entertainment isn't TV's Emmy, or Broadway's Tony, music's Grammy, or even film's Oscar. It's all four together: the EGOT.
That grand combination of Hollywood's greatest performance prizes is called the EGOT as an acronym representing all four of the above awards. It's a rare and amazing feat. Arguably, it's the only actual measurement of an all-around performer. It's also referred to as "the Grand Slam" of American entertainment.
It's also a milestone that could be reached again this year by Lin-Manuel Miranda if he wins for his Oscar-nominated "Moana" song. The "Hamilton" creator would be the youngest person ever to get the EGOT.
The feat is so difficult to achieve that only 12 people are on the list of EGOT winners, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Mike Nichols, and Rita Moreno.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.About five others may also claim to be unofficial EGOT winners, because one or more of their wins were honorary awards rather than given in a competition against others. Those five are Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, and Harry Belafonte.
According to Vanity Fair, "Miami Vice" actor Philip Michael Thomas coined "EGOT" and popularized it by wearing a gold medallion around his neck with the acronym emblazoned onto the medallion in the mid-'80s.
"Hopefully in the next five years, I will win all of those awards," an overconfident Thomas reportedly told an interviewer in 1984.
That's as close as Thomas would ever get to the phrase, as he hasn't won even one of the awards represented on his medallion. But thanks for naming the achievement, Philip!
He isn't alone is having EGOT ambition, of course. Currently, there are about 70 performers who are or had been (in the case of the deceased) one award away from achieving EGOT status, including Julie Andrews, Cher, Kate Winslet, Al Pacino, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, and Lily Tomlin.
• Academy members vote on Grammy nominations. • Members must be "professionals with creative or technical credits on at least six commercially released tracks." • Members can include vocalists, songwriters, engineers, composers, art directors, and more. • Voting members can only nominate within a category of their expertise. • However, members can vote in a variety of categories.
The Grammy Awards are February 12. You're probably up-to-date on the nominees and have engaged in a few healthy debates over who will come away with the most coveted hardware. As for how the winner get that coveted hardware, who chooses Grammy winners is actually really interesting, though not as interested as how. The choice comes down to a vote by members of The Recording Academy, and it has multiple steps.
So how does this go down? We're jumping into the process after all the nominations have already taken place, but just for your own knowledge, Grammy nominations are voted on by Academy members in good standing. That means they're all paid up on their dues and whatnot, and that they fit the following description from the Grammys' official website.
Only those members who have expertise in any given category are allowed to vote for nominations within that category, but, when it comes to voting for winners, the field is opened up. Final round ballots get sent out, once again to the Academy members in good standing. This time, members are invited to vote in 15 of the 30 "genre categories" plus the headliner awards in the General category: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist.
Once the votes are in, they're tabulated by the accounting firm Deloitte, which is intentionally independent from the Academy or the Grammys, so that there's no temptation to fudge the results or leak the names of the winners. The envelopes containing the winner's names are kept sealed until the night of the ceremony itself, and then opened live on television. That way, it's as much a surprise for the presenter and the winner as it is for the audience.
And there you have it, that's the process that goes into choosing a Grammy winner.
The 59th annual Grammy Awards kicked off on February 12 — and music's biggest stars came out in their finest gowns and tuxes to dazzle on the red carpet.
Read on to see your favorite celebrities' looks from the event.
Singer-songwriter Joy Villa made a political statement on the 2017 Grammys red carpet Sunday night with a President Donald Trump-supporting dress, and it got a lot of reaction from all sides online.
She took off a white wrap on the red carpet to reveal a red, blue, and white (and bedazzled) dress with Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" running down it.
Villa herself went on social media to explain the fashion choice, saying her platform is about "LOVE."
RETWEET if you now support Joy Villa for being proud enough to wear a Make America Great Again dress to the #GRAMMYs tonight! I know I do! pic.twitter.com/SqUBE7mSjy
The stars are rolling out for the 59th annual Grammys. It's usually a night for scene-stealing, wild looks and Cee-Lo Green arrived in one of the most talked about looks of the night.
Take a look:
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The performer and "The Voice" host showed up wearing a head-to-toe golden, metallic outfit that has people on social media comparing the look to everything from a Marvel character to a "Power Rangers" villain.
Chance the Rapper has just made history at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
With the 23-year-old rapper's win for best new artist on Sunday night, the Chicago native became the first artist to win a Grammy for a streaming-only album.
Before this year's Grammys nominations were announced, the rules were changed to allow artists who were unsigned or released streaming-only albums to be eligible. Many saw the move from The Recording Academy, which gives out the Grammy Awards, as an endorsement of Chance specifically and his acclaimed album "Coloring Book."
Chance is also not signed to a label, another first at the Grammys.
In all, he's nominated for seven awards. Before the show, he won best rap performance for "No Problem."
While onstage to accept the Grammy for best new artist, Chance thanked God and "all of Chicago."
Frank Ocean tore into the Grammys in a passionate post on his Tumblr account.
The musician released "Blonde" and visual album "Endless," his highly-anticipated followups to his 2012 debut, in 2016, but he didn't submit either for Grammy consideration in 2017 and called the awards show "dated."
In response to Ocean's criticism, Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich and writer David Wild told Rolling Stone that Ocean's 2013 performance of "Forrest Gump" was "faulty" and "not great TV."
Ocean took to his own Tumblr page in response and slammed the Grammys for giving Taylor Swift album of the year in 2016 over Kendrick Lamar.
He argued that if he felt a need to "redeem" himself for his past performance, he would have made a return to the Grammy stage rather than stay away.
"Ok Ken (and David). As much as I hate to make you guys famous or even respond to you directly. We all die one day and you're old so f--- it," he wrote. "Yea yea my 2013 performance at the Grammys was absolute s--t. Technical difficulties, blah blah. Thanks for the reminder. Very much appreciated. F--- that performance though. You think that's why I kept my work out of the Grammy process this year? Don't you think I would've wanted to play the show to 'redeem' myself if I felt that way?"
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Ocean said he wanted to make an appearance to honor Prince, "but then I figured my best tribute to that man's legacy would be to continue to be myself out here and to be successful...I am young, black, gifted, and independent. That's my tribute," he wrote.
He then explained that he has watched the Grammys before and said that Swift's "1989" winning album of the year over Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" was not "great TV" and, to use Ehrlich and Wild's words, described it as "hands down one of the most 'faulty' TV moments [he's] seen."
The crooner added that the awards system is flawed and biased.
"Believe the people. Believe the ones who'd rather watch select performances from your program on YouTube the day after because your show puts them to sleep," he continued. "Use the old gramophone to actually listen bro, I'm one of the best alive. And if you're up for a discussion about the cultural bias and general nerve damage the show you produce suffers from then I'm all for it. Have a good night."
