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Now highly acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the woman behind the star. He takes us from a childhood spent performing in talent shows to finding worldwide success with her group, Destiny's Child, managed by her father Matthew. Show full review. Udhara De Silva. Isabella isabunchofbooks. Read this for a class - not rating it.

I wish I didn't have to read pages of this. Priscilla Heard. Okay book, but I feel that I learned more about everyone in her life except for Beyonce. She's had a closely guarded life and while that's commendable, it still doesn't make for a great biography. The author had to guess at the reasoning or outcomes for a lot of subjects in Beyonce's life, simply because he didn't have the whole story to tell.

I walked away from this book feeling more confused about who Beyonce is than I did before and suggest that others not expect any juicy details because they simply aren't included in this biography! I think it was an awesome book to read. I couldn't put it down! The huge amount of information that the author could collect and put in one book is fascinating!

I went deep into her life. Thank you very much for writing this book and putting so much effort into gathering all these details! I hope the author will write a book based on Meryl Streep or Lady Gaga's life! I picked up this book thinking that I would read some juicy gossip about Beyonce. And she is so private, I wanted to find out more about who she really is.

There are no big surprises in this book, and I don't think that author really captured who she is. Having said that, it was well written and researched, and it was easy to read. I found out that I wouldn't really want to be Beyonce, and I kind of feel sorry for her. This was an interesting book and told the story of the life of the singer from a child.

It showed the influence that her parents had in her life. It makes you understand her work ethic. It also shows you different aspects of her personality. She is a very private person but the book gives you an insight into the singer and her family. Something has to seriously be wrong for me not to devour this book. Returned it to library when it was due instead of renewing it - even though I wasn't even close to done.

Also too heavy for one handed reading while breastfeeding. Malika Lipscomb. This was relatively insightful, even if long-winded at some points, especially of pre-Destiny's Child days and just how ruthless Mathew was. Taraborrelli's writing is also admirable. Tiffany Spencer. I had NO idea about Gyrl Time until recently. And I was a fan! I thought she was pretty, but then I thought they ALL were.

The second was probably my favorite. Along the changes with the new members my interest was fading a little when the 3rd album Survivor came out, but I did like the songs that came off it Perfect Man and Independent Woman. And the last produced two good songs Soldier, and Lose My Breath. I sort of remember when she came out with her first solo album and check up on it.

But I think a little of my respect for her came back after watching Beychella. And I did learn some things about her from this book. I learned about Gyrl Time. I had to You Tube their Star Search performance. You Tube even had some of her earlier performances. That was probably my most constant thought. This guy. He has a sex addiction and cheats on his wife.

He tries to biography beyonce book a sick woman out of her job, discredit her, then short-change her sons. He basically just ghosts the mistress. And he steals from his daughter! Do you really want your unborn son and husband to be like this guy? Lemonade does a good enough job of telling that story. I learned about the biography beyonce book behind Lativia and Letoya leaving.

And I had no idea Lativia started off as a rapper. They wanted their own management. A more than understandable request. But it seems like the two went on to live happy, fulfilled lives. Which where in the hell did this guy come from? He just pops up out of no where showing again how strong her privacy game is. And I admired that she only had 1 guy before Jay Z and it lasted as long as it did.

Thinking of all the revolving doors in my own life, I admired that she was selective who she choose to give herself too. YET I did at times want more personal. I wanted more about the elevator incident. But even without that it was a satisfying enough read. A chapter would have been sufficient. But other than that, for what it was, it was good.

It was worth the read! Lemonade, her joint album with Jay-Z, etc. As an unauthorized biography, the book is largely made up of quotes from news articles, anonymous quotes, interviews with certain players in the Beyonce story like her childhood boyfriend Lyndall Locke, the only guy she really dated before Jayand a lot of legal documentation. It paints Beyonce as something of a cipher; emotionless and driven only by her own standards for perfection.

As an unofficial book, it also tells the only story it can tell, one that becomes increasingly fragmented as the book carries on. That being said, it is full of little tidbits and interesting insights, like the long road to stardom Beyonce had to walk and continues to carve out in her own unique fashion. The longtime struggle between her and Mathew and how everything kind of blew up toward the end was particularly interesting and a strong undercurrent in the book and also really explains the song 'Daddy Lessons' on Lemonade.

I don't know that a BIG Beyonce fan would glean too many new insights but I certainly did, and again, found this particularly interesting to read a few years after publication, as it's almost quite prescient in a lot of ways about how much more firmly Beyonce would take stead of her career and music. Stuff that's not so great?

Biography beyonce book

There's way too many sidebars based on the interviews the author IS able to get. Lyndall Locke is featured extensively, as is one of the women who Mathew fathered a child with. There's also some weirdly salacious writing in here when describing Beyonce's physical appearance, particularly at notable events. I get it, this is a woman who is sexy and gives off that impression by design, but I suspect it would have been written a little differently had a female authored this book.

In all, this isn't a must-read - I've literally been picking away at it for years - but it reads well enough and definitely gives you the inside scoop on what went down throughout large swaths of Bey's career the breakup of Destiny's Child in its various formats is definitely a highlight. The Bottom Line: About as good as you'd expect from an unauthorized Beyonce biography that manages to carry through an interesting throughline about becoming Beyonce that we know and worship today.

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