How Beyonce is priming daughter Rumi Carter, 7, to follow in 'nepo baby' Blue Ivy's footsteps as a child star

Daily Mail​

01-05-2025

At the tender age of 13, Beyonce 's first born Blue Ivy is already a Grammy-winning artist and performer.
And now it looks like the Single Ladies hitmaker is priming her youngest daughter Rumi, seven, to follow in Blue's footsteps.
Little Rumi made her stage debut on Monday at the opening night of mom Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
The youngster joined Bey on stage for a performance of the Cowboy Carter track Protector, which she's featured as a guest vocalist on.
Her twin brother Sir, whom Jay-Z and Beyoncé have kept out of the public eye, did not feature in the performance.
Protector peaked at No. 76 on the Hot 100 last year, making Rumi the youngest female artist to ever crack the Billboard singles chart at just six years old.
The previous record holder was her big sister Blue, who became the youngest female artist on the Hot 100 in 2019 when she appeared on her mother's song Brown Skin Girl at the age of seven.
Rumi is featured at the start of the song, which is the fourth track on Cowboy Carter.
The little girl left the singing and rapping to her mother, and she was instead featured in what sounds like a repurposed home recording.
'Mom, can I hear the lullaby please?' Rumi asks haltingly, pronouncing the last word more like 'wullaby.'
Rumi looked more than happy to be soaking up the spotlight on Monday.
She was spotted waving enthusiastically to the crowd of thousands, and even struck a confident pose at one point.
The seven-year-old is clearly being primed to follow big sister Blue, who is already one of the biggest child stars on the planet.
Blue, a two-time Guinness World Record holder, might only be 13, but she's already garnered a Grammy Award, MTV VMA Moon Man, NAACP Image Award, Voice Arts Award, and two BET Awards.
She previously danced back-up for Beyoncé's songs My Power and Black Parade during her $579.8M-grossing, 56-date Renaissance World Tour last year.
The talented teen has also collaborated with her famous parents on a number of hit songs.
She made her musical debut on dad Jay-Z's 2012 single Glory, which made Blue the youngest person in history to ever chart on Billboard.
In 2019, Blue featured on Beyonce's Lion King single Brown Skin Girl, which reached No. 76 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Last year, Blue made her big screen acting debut by voicing Kiara in Mufasa: The Lion King.
'If I told my younger self that I was in a movie, I'd never believe myself,' Blue said in an interview with Disney Studios.
'It's just a really amazing experience and I feel like everybody that's a part of this is so helpful and supportive,' she continued.
'I'm really happy for girls who look like me all around the world are able to watch this movie and hear and see themselves in it.'
She also joined Beyonce on stage at the Cowboy Carter tour on Monday to perform her mother's hit single Deja Vu.
The teenager looked like the spitting image of her mother as she strutted her stuff on stage and emulated Beyonce's most iconic moves and mannerisms.
The performance drew a strong reaction on social media, with fans gushing that Blue has become a positive example of nepotism in the music industry.
'If Blue Ivy can sing as well as she dances, I'm so sorry but imma have to support the hell out of that nepo baby,' wrote one on X formerly Twitter.
'Most nepo babies have absolutely no talent and no stage presence, but Blue Ivy is very much a star,' added a second.
'I'm so impressed by Blue Ivy. It's giving nepo baby but with talent,' wrote another, while a fourth said, 'Blue Ivy is going to be the most successful nepo baby of her generation i just know it.'
Another wrote, 'Blue Ivy, at just 13, is a Grammy award winner, performed at most Renaissance tour dates, the halftime show, and is now making another world tour debut with Cowboy Carter. She is continuing to prove that despite being a nepo baby she has genuine talent.'
Beyonce officially kicked off her Cowboy Carter tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday night.
From there, the pop superstar will perform across the US and Europe before closing out in Las Vegas on July 26.
But when it comes to shifting tickets Beyoncé is struggling compared to her previous stadium tours.
There were more than 3,000 seats available at SoFi Stadium last week, with huge numbers still available mere moments before she took the stage on Monday night, according to seat maps on Ticketmaster.
Shortly after the Single Ladies singer announced her tour in February, fans quickly complained about the jaw-dropping prices of tickets, which ranged from hundreds to even thousands of dollars.
But last week, one fan claimed to have found resale tickets in the nosebleed section of the star's SoFi Stadium show for as low as $20.
They then compared it to the cost of one of the limited edition Minecraft Movie Big Mac Meals from McDonald's, which was around the same price point.