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Solange Knowles
Solange Piaget Knowles, also known mononymously as Solange, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She expressed an interest in music from an early age and had temporary stints as a backup dancer for Destiny's Child, which featured her older sister Beyoncé among its members, before signing with their father Mathew Knowles's label, Music World Entertainment. At 16, Knowles released her…
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business · American singer and songwriter (born 1986) · singer-songwriter · actor · model · composer · dancer · choreographer · singer · songwriter · blogger · entrepreneur · also Solange Knowles, Solange, Solange Piaget Knowles Ferguson, Solange Piaget Knowles, Solange Knowles Ferguson, Knowles
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s Child when the group reunited in 2004, thus turning them into a quartet for the first time since short-lived member Farrah Franklin left in 2000. Mathew Knowles said he was testing the reactions, and, judging by what he had heard,
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2027· 1 entry
2026· 1 entry
“When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”
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2025· 1 entry
Knowles remixed Mariah Carey's 2006 song "Say Somethin'" for The Emancipation of Mimi's 20th anniversary reissue
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2024· 1 entry
Knowles appeared alongside her mother in a Gucci Gift campaign
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2023· 1 entry
Knowles designed a glassware collection, in collaboration with glassblower Jason McDonald
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “Solange Knowles - T.O.N.Y. Remix (Grown & Sexy)”.
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Became the third woman and first African American to compose a score for the New York City Ballet
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Knowles was the star of LOUIS XIII's "Believe in Time" campaign
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Solange Knowles with her hair clips in: Carlota Guerrero’s best photograph
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: Grace Jones' Meltdown: Solange, Skunk Anansie and Lee Fields to play
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Knowles was the recipient of the inaugural Lena Horne Prize
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Knowles publicly acknowledged the relationship on Instagram in November 2020.
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2019· 13 entries
The Guardian: My changemaker of the decade, by Amal Clooney, Solange Knowles, Caitlyn Jenner and more
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Published video “Solange - Things I Imagined / Down with the Clique (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Solange - Beltway (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Solange - Way to the Show (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Solange - Binz (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Solange - Almeda (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Solange - Things I Imagined (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Solange - S McGregor (interlude) (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Solange - Down With the Clique (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Solange - Can I Hold the Mic (interlude) (Official Audio)”.
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Released her fourth studio album, When I Get Home
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The Guardian: Parklife festival to be headlined by Cardi B, George Ezra and Solange
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Knowles performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, the Parklife festival, the Lovebox Festival, and the Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival
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2018· 1 entry
Knowles received the Artist of the Year award from the Harvard Foundation
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2017· 3 entries
Also won a Glamour Award for Woman of the Year, and became the first winner of the Billboard Women in Music Impact Award
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Was honored with the "Impact Award" at the Billboard Women in Music event
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Knowles became the face of a Calvin Klein campaign
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2016· 1 entry
Knowles released music videos for the songs "Don't Touch My Hair" and "Cranes in the Sky", both co-directed by herself and Alan Ferguson
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2015· 2 entries
Knowles performed "Rise" for the first time at an HBO-sponsored event, which was inspired by police killings of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, and the subsequent protests in Ferguson and Baltimore
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After the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, Knowles released a statement posing the following questions: "Where can we be safe?
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2014· 2 entries
TMZ released security video footage of Knowles appearing to physically attack her brother-in-law Jay-Z and being restrained by a security guard in an elevator at The Standard, High Line in Manhattan
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Knowles married music video director Alan Ferguson at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans on November 16, 2014.
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2013· 4 entries
Knowles's record label released its first compilation album, Saint Heron
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Knowles announced that she had launched her own record label named Saint Records, which she would be using to release her third full-length album and future music projects distributed through Sony
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Knowles launched the digital platform Saint Heron as a music and cultural hub to amplify Black artistry
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Knowles was named art director and creative consultant at Puma
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2012· 1 entry
Knowles held a listening party in New York City for her EP True, released for digital download on iTunes on November 27, 2012
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2011· 1 entry
Knowles, Alejandra Ramos Munoz and Zooey Deschanel were announced as the new faces of Rimmel London
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2010· 4 entries
Knowles said she suffered "a little bit of a breakdown" while recording her new album: "I literally gave up my sanity for a while to do this record
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Knowles made a guest appearance on the popular children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba
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Knowles traveled to Australia to work with Australian rock band Midnight Juggernauts on her third studio album
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Knowles worked on the award-winning children's television series Yo Gabba Gabba
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2009· 2 entries
Knowles was featured in Ocean Pacific's "Summer of Music" and "OPen Campus" ad campaigns
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Knowles revealed that she was determining the type of sound for the follow-up to Sol-Angel and the Hadley St
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2008· 2 entries
Knowles was named as ambassador for Giorgio Armani's younger diffusion line, Armani Jeans
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And titled the project Sol-Angel and the Hadley St
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2007· 4 entries
After which Knowles split her time between her residences in Los Angeles and Houston, Texas
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Knowles began to record music again
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Knowles began promoting Baby Jamz, a hip hop-styled toy line for pre-schoolers
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Knowles renewed her management, signing a record deal with Geffen and a publishing deal with EMI
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2006· 1 entry
Starred as a cheerleading captain in the film Bring It On: All or Nothing, the third installment of the Bring It On series, alongside American actress and singer Hayden Panettiere
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2004· 4 entries
Knowles gave birth to a son
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While pregnant with her son, she made a cameo appearance in Destiny's Child's music video for "Soldier"
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Guest-starred in an episode titled "The Catch" on the sitcom One on One
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Thus turning them into a quartet for the first time since short-lived member Farrah Franklin left in 2000
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2003· 2 entries
In the United States, where it debuted at number 49 on the Billboard 200 and reached number 23 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart
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“s Child when the group reunited in 2004, thus turning them into a quartet for the first time since short-lived member Farrah Franklin left in 2000. Mathew Knowles said he was testing the reactions, and, judging by what he had heard,”
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2002· 2 entries
Lent her voice to the character Chanel, the cousin of the protagonist Penny Proud, in an episode of the animated television series The Proud Family
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Was featured on Lil' Romeo's second studio album Game Time, singing portions of Luther Vandross-penned "So Amazing" on the single "True Love", and on Kelly Rowland's debut solo album Simply Deep, for which she also w
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2001· 2 entries
Appeared as Lil' Bow Wow's date in the music video for his single "Puppy Love"
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As the lead singer, backed by Destiny's Child, on the title theme song for the animated television series The Proud Family
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1986· 2 entries
In Houston, Texas, to Tina and Mathew Knowles
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Born 1986-06-24.
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