She is an international singing sensation, and she also has a very keen business sense.
Most of the world knows her by just her first name.
This week on Leading Women, we talk to Beyonce and those who watched her rise to super stardom.
She's one of the top-selling, most honored and most influential artists around.
I love art and I love to sing. I love to perform. It's what I was born to do.
But when an artist becomes known by only one name, you know she's a star.
Every time you see Beyonce, every time you hear Beyonce,
you're expecting to see or hear the best thing you've ever seen or heard, you know, from a female artist standpoint.
But Beyonce is also a business and a brand -- from music to film, fashion endorsements and more.
How a hairdresser's daughter from Houston, Texas became one of the most powerful and inspirational women in entertainment.
She had a dream. She envisioned it. Hard work, determination, and this is the result.
Beyonce Knowles began performing with a girl group at the age of eight.
About seven years later, the group, by then known as Destiny's Child, made its major record label debut.
As the breakout star, Beyonce eventually launched a solo career that has firmly established her as an icon.
Beyonce inspires others to dream, because she is always reminding us that she was just this young girl out of Houston, Texas who had a dream to be a performer.
And look at her now.
Where she is now is on the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women
with her own fashion line plus multimillion-dollar endorsement deals for everything from perfume to Pepsi.
Her influence spreads beyond her music.
Beyonce's impact in pop culture, you know, not just within the music industry but in...
I think in terms of the beauty industry, I think in terms of fashion, she's become really the poster child in terms of her brand being so well-rounded.
This is not a woman who just says she lends her name to it and then she's gone and off to St. Barts or off to her yacht.
No, she is there. She's in the meetings. She's doing concepts.
Her decisions are really entwined into what her businesses are that have her name, because she knows that it's a reflection of her.
It's a long way from a girl group in Houston to becoming one of the biggest brands in the business.
It's a story of success that inspires others to follow their own dreams.
I grew up with a family that was successful, but not born successful,
and I believe with hard work and with a goal and love and positivity, then eventually we're gonna be fine.