I had to have stage presence, wit, and charm if I wanted to win. I was often the only Black girl, and it was then that I started to realize I had to dance and sing twice as hard. I was competing in dance and singing competitions at age seven. I’m no longer shy, but I’m not sure I would dream as big as I dream today if it were not for those awkward years in my head. Being shy taught me empathy and gave me the ability to connect and relate to people. I am now grateful for those shy years of silence. I spent a lot of time in my head building my imagination. Because I was an introvert, I didn’t speak very much as a child. The first decade of my life was dedicated to dreaming. Reflecting on your life so far, what has each decade taught you? Now, at 40, Beyoncé listens to her voice alone. Is that what I sound like? Is that what I want to send into the world? These are questions she answers anew, each decade of her life. And she is working on new music along with an array of other projects that promise to obliterate old boundaries and vault her further into uncharted territory. The iconic couple has just been named the new faces of Tiffany & Co., which was acquired earlier this year by LVMH and is relaunching under its auspices. She is now a mother of three, to nine-year-old Blue Ivy and four-year-old twins Rumi and Sir, with husband JAY-Z. She has built her company, Parkwood Entertainment, into a media conglomerate that includes a fashion line, IVY PARK. It could be a destabilizing force there’s your voice as you think it sounds, and then your voice when it comes back to you, after you’ve hit Record.īeyoncé Knowles-Carter came of age during that digital revolution, and knowing how to navigate that dissonance is part of her artistic superpower. Her generation was the first to regularly experience the dizzying accuracy of playback. The girls before her had mirrors and the echoes of the trees and magazines with cartoon approximations to reflect themselves. Beyoncé’s childhood coincided with the rise of home-recording equipment-video cameras, stereo systems that let you record your own voice, keyboards that let you find whatever sound you wanted, personal computers to synthesize it all. Women born at the dawn of the 1980s were among the last generation to live an analog life and the first to see themselves reimagined in digital.

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