Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981 in
Houston, Texas, USA) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Knowles rose to stardom in the late 1990s as a founding member and the lead singer of
Destiny's Child. After a series of commercially successful records with the group, she released her debut solo album,
Dangerously in Love (2003), which spawned one of her biggest songs
Crazy in Love and topped both the R&B and Billboard 200 charts in the U.S. and the main album charts in Canada and the United Kingdom.