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All About Beyoncé's Parents, Tina Knowles-Lawson and Mathew Knowles

Proud parents Tina Knowles-Lawson and Mathew Knowles have always stood beside their superstar daughter Beyoncé.

The two have been heavily involved in the Grammy-winning artist's career since her Destiny's Child days, with Mathew serving as the co-founder of the group and Beyoncé's manager for over a decade. While the pair are no longer married, they remain co-parents to Beyoncé and her younger sister, Solange, as well as grandparents to their grandchildren.

At the 2023 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé broke the record for the most wins ever by a single artist. During her acceptance speech, she gave her parents a sweet shout-out. "I’d like to thank my parents, my father, my mother for loving me and pushing me," she said.

Tina showed her support to her younger daughter when Solange performed a multi-medium, four-act show called "In Service to Whom" at Art Gallery of New South Wales. In a comment on the singer's Instagram post about the show, Tina wrote, "Truly artful and Always so Beautiful and thought pro

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There would be no Beyoncé without Tina Knowles-Lawson, the superstar's mother. Even Beyoncé's name pays tribute to her mother, and her New Orleans roots. During an appearance on the In My Head With Heather Thomson podcast, Knowles-Lawson revealed that her maiden name is actually–wait for it!—Beyoncé.

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“A lot of people don’t know that Beyoncé is my last name. It’s my maiden name," she said. "My name was Celestine Beyoncé, which at that time was not a cool thing to have that weird name. I wanted my name to be Linda Smith because those were the cool names."

The 66-year-old is the mother to two of the most prominent visionaries in the entertainment industry today, Beyoncé

Knowles, Tina

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Fashion designer, hair stylist, celebrity mom

Tina Knowles, mother of megastar vocalist Beyoncé Knowles, has been much more than a stereotypical stage mom cheering from the sidelines. Tina and her husband, Mathew Knowles, were the primary shapers of Beyoncé's early career in the group Destiny's Child, and for several years Tina supported the family during the early stages of the Destiny's Child phenomenon with the proceeds from her Houston, Texas hair salon, Headliners. Tina and her daughter remained business partners, as well as a close mother-and-daughter pair, as Beyoncé moved into young adulthood and a solo career. In 2005 they jointly launched the fashion line House of Deréon, named after Tina Knowles's mother, Agnéz Deréon. "All of my life I've been transferring people, always fixing them up—their makeup, their hair, their clothes," Tina Knowles told Joy Sewing of the Houston Chronicle. "Now, this a dream come true, and we want to do it right."

Knowles was born Celestine Ann Beyincé on January 4, 1954, and grew up in Galveston, Texas. Some o

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