January 15, 2007
Irreplaceable Beyonce Holds Nationwide Talent SearchFormer Destiny's Child star, Beyonce Knowles, is in the middle of staging a nationwide talent search for backup dancers.
Hundreds of potential dancers showed up at auditions in Texas for the chance to join irreplacable Beyonce on her new tour.
To the left Beyonce hopes to hit the road in March 2007 with a 40-strong troupe of dancers. Past auditions have been held in Atlanta, Georgia and Los Angeles. The selected dancers will earn between $1,500 and $3,000 per week.
On the other hand, Beyonce will be re-releasing her latest album B'DAY after Spanish lyrics to irreplaceable by Beyonce became a surprise hit.
The Spanish version of Irreplaceable Beyonce to the left recently took the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart by storm, making the already huge English irreplacable Beyonce single a cross-over success. Beyonce tells Univision.com that she will re-release the album with four new tracks in Spanish.
For one of the new tunes, Beautiful Liar, the Ring The Alarm star will team up with Colombian pop sensation Shakira.
Before catapulting into a successful solo career, Beyonce Knowles rose to fame in 1998 as a member of Destiny's Child with the Billboard top ten hit and Billboard R&B number-one single "No, No, No Part 2".
Morphing into a trio, after a publicized squabble between former members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, the group became the most successful R&B/pop acts of the early 2000s, charting four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, several top ten hits, and two number-one albums.
Their 1998 Platinum-selling debut album was produced by Wyclef Jean and Jermaine Dupri and featured the 2x Platinum number-one single "No, No, No Part 2", which also has become the world's bestselling single of all time.
The group's second album, The Writing's on the Wall, released in 1999, featured two number-one hits: Beyonce Knowles bills bills bills and "Say My Name". "Bug a Boo" and "Jumpin' Jumpin'" were also popular singles from the album.
The Writings On the Wall went on to sell 13 million copies worldwide and 8 million in the U.S. Furthermore, "Say My Name" won two awards at the 2001 Grammy Awards: "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" and "Best R&B Song".
Their following album, Survivor, proved to be another big success, going to number one on both the U.S. Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, as well as the Canadian and the UK albums chart.
Two singles from the album went to the top of the Hot 100: "Independent Women Part I", "Bootylicious", and "Survivor", the album's title track reaching number two. In the United Kingdom, the first two tracks released reached number one consecutively. "Independent Women Part 2" had been the theme song for the film Charlie's Angels (2000), before the album's release. The title track, "Survivor", won the group their third Grammy for "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal".
After the three-year journey that involved concentration on individual solo projects, to the left Beyonce rejoined Rowland and Williams for Destiny's Child's final studio album, Destiny Fulfilled, released in November 2004. The album hit number two on the Billboard 200 and spawned the hits "Lose My Breath", "Soldier", "Girl", and "Cater 2 U". Destiny Fullfilled has sold 8 million copies worldwide.
After a series of commercially-successful releases with the group, Beyoncé released her debut solo album Dangerously in Love in 2003. The album became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the album charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom.
It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Beyoncé a record-tying five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004.
Beyoncé's sophomore album, B'Day, which was released on September 4, 2006 continued her success. The album set off the UK number-one single "Deja Vu", "Ring the Alarm", and the worldwide number-one hit to the left lyrics by Beyonce from "Irreplaceable". The album containing irreplacable lyrics by Beyonce is nominated for five 2007 Grammy Awards. |